ABOUT KOBOSE
Independent design studio based in Milano whose multidisciplinary skills come together, to create a more in-depth experience of creative strategy and digital communication culture. Our flow is providing ideas from meeting paper to prompt solutions, with a focus on branding, creative direction in beauty luxury, concept & capsule design.
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ABOUT S/B FOUNDER & LEAD CREATIVE
Sebastiano Branca — designer, creative director, photographer, musician, after a degree in product design at Politecnico di Milano, began his career, starting immediately the discovery and various explorations of creative disciplines. Captivated for hidden connections and apophenic intuitions between topics and things, on these binary of interdisciplinary research he has traveled in the following years, expanding his professional knowledge until foundation in 2010 of Kobose, a design studio, a lab ( kobo, 工房), a playground thanks to which he has continuously fed his “project thirst” to date.
S/B promotes the application of creative thinking, methodical approach, wide curious research, daily life exploration, listening, sharing knowledge and music, moving on roller skates, object upcycling, free kindness and looking up more often eyes to the sky for appreciating life in its own form, a fantastic universe.
SERVICES
Logotypes - Marks
Visual Identity
Brand Manual
Strategy - Positioning
Naming - Copy
Packaging Design
Digital Design
3D Illustration
Printed Materials
Retail - Exhibitions
Environment - Space Design
Photography - Image/video recovery
Video editing - Motion graphic
Sound Design - Digital Distribution
Talks - Outreach
EXPERTISE
BRAND GOVERNANCE
Designing and guiding brands with regard to their tangible aspects in the areas of corporate, editorial, space, display and packaging design, with flexibility of application and consistency of a brand’s symbolic, emotional and rational content as guidelines.
CORPORATE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
Defining guidelines, rules and standards to coordinate the various aspects of a brand in communication materials: from internal to external manifestations of the brand, from stationery to signs, from physical to digital support.
PACKAGING AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Communicating the values and the distinctive features of the product through a combination of design, functionality, protection, conservation and transport. The aim is to present the brand, the product and its packaging as a uniquely identifiable whole.
EDITORIAL DESIGN
Presenting the brand within the publishing world and continuing a strong relationship with the readers, who ensure the publication’s success. Showing, through both paper and multimedia channels, that the brand’s values are consistent with the guidelines set out in the design strategy.
EXHIBIT AND SPACE DESIGN
Bringing the brand into environments and spaces where it has a tangible physical presence. Creating temporary or permanent displays such as stands, shop windows and exhibitions with the aim of giving the target market a memorable, distinctive and multi sensory experience.
WEB DESIGN
Planning and creating the design, layout and user interface of a website or web pages. It can mean working on a brand new site or updating an existing site.
Trying to perfect the smallest details of a website: colour palettes, font combinations, images, forms, menus, hover animations, buttons and more.
We draw on research and design trends, industry analysis and web design principles to create an interface and interactions that users are comfortable and confident using, all while working closely with UX specialists and code designers.
3D MODELING, RENDERING, ANIMATION AND MOTION GRAPHIC
Advanced 3D modeling applied to computer graphics, with development of primary and secondary geometric technical 3D modeling. Photorealistic image production defining the essential steps for the realization with surfacing [creation of surface materials], mapping [definition of projection coordinates], texture application, stage set-up, scene lighting, definition of cameras, rendering of the scene and/or setting action steps for creating an animation video.
SOUND DESIGN AND DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION
Describe an idea with sounds and share it with world. Soundtrack design for events and installations, managing audio post-production for use on the media and commercials, and also developing corporate sound identities.
You are an artist? Kobose can provide consultancy or even build your brand and manage the publication of music tracks, both audio and video, from concept to production and digital distribution.
You are an artist? Kobose can provide consultancy or even build your brand and manage the publication of music tracks, both audio and video, from concept to production and digital distribution.
“Be amazed by the obvious.”
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