Chic and Basic Hotel product packaging
|The beautiful, minimalist and slightly irreverent design aesthetic that Barcelona’s Chic & Basic Born Hotel sets up with its stunning interior layout is carried through perfectly into its product packaging, which features cheeky, bold messaging in large, unadorned fonts.
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hector said | 29 June, 2009
The design of chic&basic´s amenities, guides and stuff is made by the Barcelona based studio espluga+associates.
Check out: http://www.espluga.net
for more of their work.