Monday, 26 October 2009

Putting the service back in service stations


Service stations are a miserable place where you are forced to part with large sums of money with little return. So we were pleased to spot this design for a Romanian petroleum company Vitro, recently given a brand make-over by Saffron. A collaboration between architecture and graphic design makes for a modern, striking environment and the colour gradient (or disco) lighting is a pleasant change from the glare of florescent tubes. The principle is to make the driver as welcome as the car, great idea but I wonder if you can still buy an over chilled Ginsters meat slice?  View the full brand story