Emily Gosling

1 month ago | bpando.org | Emily Gosling

Berlin-based techno label Spellbound was founded last year by Shaleen, a DJ, producer, and the woman behind the SURD series of femme- and queer-centric events. Known for her 90’s-infused vinyl-only sets and her ethos of looking back at techno’s roots in order to move it forward, it makes sense that her own label is something of an ode to Berlin’s techno heritage.

2 months ago | bpando.org | Emily Gosling

I’d lazily assumed that, like jazz record sleeves and Dutch public transport, zoos were one of those sectors with a visual legacy that’s packed with game-changing brand design – the sort that fills the pages of graphic design histories, up there with the likes of Paul Rand’s ‘IBM’ and the FedEx arrow and Alan Fletcher’s gloriously clever ampersand trickery for the V&A.

2 months ago | bpando.org | Emily Gosling

What does Gen Z really want? It’s the question at the heart of a thousand nigh-on identical think pieces; and at the fulcrum, it seems, of endless board meetings chaired by Gen Xers, and populated by ‘geriatric Millennials’, like me. My generation was simple. We wanted avocados, didn’t we? We wanted everything to be in millennial pink and to have brunch every day (bottomless on weekends). But Gen Z, so we’re told, are different – they’re far more morally evolved types. Conscious consumers.

2 months ago | bpando.org | Emily Gosling

Hot sauce branding has long been dominated by certain overarching tropes: there’s the hyper-trad (Cholula, Tabasco, Sriracha et al); the twee of the kitchen-table-scale small-batch brigade; and the I WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF! camp where products have names like ‘death’. In the first and second of those camps in particular, there’s a lot of decent branding.

Feb 13, 2025 | bpando.org | Emily Gosling

The unity of coffee-boffins and great typographic choices seems to be having a moment right now on BP&O. Just the other week we covered the truly superb work for Dark Arts Coffee by Not Wieden + Kennedy. Now, though, we’re heading down under – specifically to the Sydney suburb of Lane Cove, home to Story Café. Story Café opened in 2021, bringing together that marriage of lattes and letterforms and introducing a third strand – an ethos focused squarely on, as the name suggests, storytelling.