Holley & Gill | Montreal-based designer with a passion for interior design

It’s all about the branding

April 10, 2012

As a designer, I cannot help but fall for any business or product with strong and powerful branding. This weekend, I found a few impressive examples of this. One was a food market in Montreal which we had only just discovered, and the other two came from wine labels. It’s pretty amazing when you think about how each logo design is highly focused on the use of typography despite the scale of their message.

Fou D’Ici - 360 De Maisonneuve Ouest in Montreal

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Postcards from London

April 8, 2012

People watching - Brick Lane.

Tower Bridge

View from the Thames

London Eye

The Thames

Spitalfields Market

Mr. B. - Big Ben

Houses of Parliament

These are my tourist shots while on walks during Blog Tour 2011. This type of experience only happens once in a lifetime and I wanted to thank Veronika Miller and Tim Brogan of Modenus for such a design-centric adventure I will never forget. They also recently brought some incredible UK bloggers to New York for a second round of touring here. Such a fab bunch!

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Blogtour photos resurface

April 7, 2012

I had thought that these were gone. I had left you with about a third of what I had seen during Blog Tour last Fall. Thankfully, my last photos taken have resurfaced!

I start you off with a stop at 100% Design at Earls Court.

The variety of design under one roof was astounding! Unfortunately, several exhibitor’s weren’t too keen on the idea of photography, but some did allow us to take a few shots.

Lu-Murano from Italy

Right up my alley for the graphic designer and lover of interiors in me, typographic lounge furniture from Tabisso.

Urban London by Adrienne Chinn

Fun display at the Doopo Doopo booth

Tubing it with fellow Blog Tour bloggers Jonathan Legate, Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo from ABCD Design, Bob Borson from Life of an Architect, and Elise Jones from Here in this House.

We spent some time at the London Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour and had some fantastic presentations and meet and greets with Samuel Heath and Victoria + Albert Baths and even had a seminar hosted by none other than Holly Becker herself from Decor8.

A gorgeous fixture at the Design Centre.

We were lucky enough to attend Decorex International. Having no expectations, this show was definitely a chic and sophisticated affair where people watching was just as entertaining and inspiring as the actual booths were.

We started off our tour with a champagne toast as you do.

We also met up with Nicky Haslam, an infamous British interior designer and socialite who has designed for the likes of Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr.