Blue Harbour is a mixed-use development in upscale Ta’Xbiex, Malta. The owners required a set of signs to project both the property brand image and to provide wayfinding information. Modulex was selected for the project as it provided the perfect balance of flexibility and cost in a modular system. The results have been very well received by the owners and tenants alike. Mr Fenech, who commissioned the project, commented “We are delighted with them and they have gone down really well with our clientele” in an email to us on project completion. An additional consideration for the project was the proximity to the sea. Malta has a very harsh environment with a combination of salty air plus alkaline limestone dust that can act like sandpaper, so choosing Modulex products just makes so much sense. With sector-leading industrial design and production the vast range of sign systems can support the myriad combinations that we require to help clients solve brand implementation and wayfinding issues. Modulex is distributed in Malta exclusively by Mangion & Lightfoot through their association with Cicrespi S.p.A., Italy’s leading brand implementation company.
Demicoli & Associates are the architects for the project. (We designed their website, which you can read about here)
I must admit, it’s been a struggle trying to get site developers to mirror a site design created on fireworks. We spend hours moving things around, a pixel here and a pixel there and most of the time, developers can’t seem to see the difference between type sizes or leading which can literally make or break a design. So I would like to thank Keen, our Gozitan friends who developed the WordPress site for us. At last, somebody who can actually say ‘yes, we can do that’ without adding zeros to the bottom line.
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Ceramika Maltija is Malta’s oldest working pottery and it traces its roots back to Contino Catelletti’s pottery which started in Ta’ Qali in the 1920s. It was moved to Villa Bologna from Ta’Qali during the war. It was first located in Lord Strickland’s old workshop and then it moved to Lady Strickland’s stables.
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In 2007 we created the Pash identity and a range of packaging solutions for their fruit juices and fresh herbs range. Buoyed by the success, Jimmy Vella asked us to turn a hand to nuts and dried fruit.
The solution to this project was again to take the simple approach. That and a healthy dose of humor. A quick bit of market research and a few bags of pistachios later it was clear that most of the competing packages in this food category looked dated and lacked shelf presence. We wanted to create a design that had standout and wasn’t afraid to be different.
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Charles Grech, importers of fine wines, beer and tobacco since 1881 have extended their range of upmarket products to include perfumes and cosmetics. With this product diversification and extensive refurbishment programme at their flagship store in Valletta, Mangion and Lightfoot were brought in to create an image that reflected this diversification on a retail level. The challenge was to create an image that would cover the whole range of products without looking out of place if simply applied to one particular range, say cigars. Ultimately the brand had to look comfortable if you walked out of the store carrying a CG bag with a box of cigars or just a perfume or both. The inspiration behind the logo itself came from the name Grech which from research we carried out was derived from a Greek family who settled on the island of Malta in the 17th century. Further research into Greek keys, designs and motifs inspired us to construct a ‘C’ and a ‘G’ in a continuos line that became the logo. But this wasn’t enough, we also created a separate graphic ‘device’ to suggest the product type as upmarket and established that would provide extensibility and could be easily applied across their diverse range of products.
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Mangion & Lightfoot’s Granfarina package design was recently featured in The Dieline a highly regarded website dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field. The Dieline has quickly grown into the most visited website on package design in the world, and has become the voice of the industry. It is an active sponsor of the Pentawards, the first and only professional design competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging, further promoting the field.
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Mangion & Lightfoot were approached by Magro Brothers to design a package solution for the brand name ‘Occasions’. Specifically produced for the UK market, the product required a logo and a series of three labels aimed for the middle to upper market sector.
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