HEY DAYS BRANDING + TAPE

Heydays is an Oslo-based design studio specialized in printed media, creative direction and graphic design. Works include corporate identities, books, magazines, interactive websites, packaging and more. I REALLY luuuuve their tape (of course) as its bold and typographic.



I love that this tape is photographed on a industrial strength tape dispenser. It looks like you can write additional info on it. Most of the company's stuff is really cool and scando in style. Those scandos have great style huh.




Sometimes less is more and the Scandanavians really understand the art of restraint.

HAPPY TAPE

HAPPY TAPE is from Japan, its mini rolls of masking tape that comes in a huge range of colours and patterns. I have to say that i have quite a few rolls of this tape myself which i picked up when i was in tokyo not too long ago. I LOVE IT. i have used it to wrap up presents a few times.


The blog http://happytape.blogspot.com/ is dedicated to this tape exclusively and all the cool things you can do with it.


The coolest thing is this new tape dispense launched on the website which can hold multiple rolls of the tape. I could really do with one of these, what an amazing accessory to go with this ultra cute tape.



The tape comes in a range of different widths also - from ultra narrow 5mm to 10mm. The tape is made from thin paper like a kind of luxury, designer masking tape.



Its all about happy tape!
happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy tape!.

TAPE SCAPES BY PABLO MANGA

Pablo Manga is an artist based Oakland, Califoria who uses what he strangely calls "mexican" tape to create colourscapes by laying tape. his work has a strong sense of colour and layers and it looks like he exclusively uses tape in his pieces.


I came across a reference to him on designsponge (which is one of my favourite sites) - you can check out his site here: http://pablo-manga.com


I like how his pieces look on raw concrete walls and the image above showing some of his process is really nice.


I do like this one above which has alot of contraint in the minimal use of tape on a largely white background.




These three as a set also look really nice. The pieces have a bit of an early 90s feel about them and on one hand i can see them on a motel wall, but on the other, i would love to see these images blown up massive covering whole walls in a warehouse space or something like that.


I must say, i love the juxtaposition on red and pink. These colours are rocking at the moment.