21/04/2024
Why innovation requires us to think differently In our increasingly AI–driven world, innovation is in short supply. We need a human-centric innovation culture: one that embraces neurodiversity
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21/04/2024
Why innovation requires us to think differently In our increasingly AI–driven world, innovation is in short supply. We need a human-centric innovation culture: one that embraces neurodiversity
28/12/2022
The power of punctuation: Michael Arndt on his new book Snails and Monkey Tails A new visual guide by graphic designer Michael Arndt explains the origin stories of punctuation and how designers and typographers can incorporate it into their work.
03/09/2022
Graphic designer Find out what a graphic designer does and the skills you need to do the job.
25/08/2022
“Their work was a feeling, not an instruction”: A visual history of tomato, the era-defining collective of the 1990s During the early ‘90s a group of artists, designers and musicians formed a collective studio, known only as tomato. In the years that followed, their experimental design approach led to era-defining work – always placing the process first.
02/08/2022
Are logos really all starting to look the same? A writer has asked the question on Twitter, and it's opened a whole can of worms.
20/07/2022
Peter Saville has redrawn the Aston Martin wings The car manufacturer has updated its branding, adapting the 95-year-old wing logo with what Saville describes as “subtle but necessary enhancements”
27/04/2022
Jens Müller picks five logos worth revisiting from 130 years of branding history To mark the release of Logo Beginnings, author Jens Müller gives us a lesson in logo history, unpacking five favourites spanning two centuries, from the niche to the revered.
20/04/2022
Morphy Richards rebrands to celebrate “the tension of form and function” Otherway’s new branding for Morphy Richards introduces two new fonts to reflect the founders’ personalities.
17/04/2022
Thin Lines, Dots, and Geometric Shapes Merge into a Minimal Typographic Collection Designer Adam G. is known for utilizing his signature black and red to define the minimal illustrations coming out of the Santa Monica-based studio TRÜF Creative (previously). He describes his style as messymod, or messy modernism, an aesthetic that manifests as an eclectic array of shapes rendered
25/03/2022
Brighter Later: Lettering and typography at the British seaside to be celebrated as the clocks spring forward Lettering and typography at the British seaside to be celebrated as the clocks spring forward.
03/03/2022
The delightful history of fruit stickers, the world’s tiniest canvases for graphic design A new exhibition celebrates the grocery-store gems, which have been around for almost a century.