Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Martin Lambie-Nairn, the British graphic designer who created the seminal «Blocks» logo for UK television station Channel 4, passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 75. He was also co-creator of the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image. Lambie-Nairn was best known for his branding design for TV, which included creating the famous «Blocks» logo for Britain’s Channel...
A skateboarding Santa Claus, a festive snow globe and MVRDV’s mirrored art depot in Rotterdam feature in our selection of the best Christmas cards sent by architects, designers and brands this year. Alongside these joyous cards, was a more apocalyptic take on Christmas from British architect Piers Taylor tiled The Raft of Plague Island (below). «As the rest of the world...
DAD Agency has eschewed the pared-back palette of traditional perfumeries in favour of kaleidoscopic colours and 3D graphics for its rebrand of independent fragrance start-up Sillages Paris. The French perfume brand is based entirely online and matches customers with their fragrance based on a questionnaire about their favourite ingredients and scents. The Sillages Paris rebrand features glitchy imagery of different...
London charity Accumulate has released an «honest, painful and revelatory» book telling the stories of 18 different people and their experiences of homelessness. Over 160 pages, The Book of Homelessness incorporates collages, illustrations, comics, poems and prose, all created as part of a three-month course organised by the charity. Through workshops in everything from creative writing to drawing and sequencing,...
Naked bodies pretzeled together into different sex positions form the letters of the alphabet in the Kama Sutra A-Z coffee table book by French illustrator Malika Favre. Couples are pictured in ecstatically contorted constellations, each drawn in Favre‘s characteristic, minimal style using only four colours. Above: the letter A is depicted as a sexual position. Top image: the Kama Sutra...
People in Mississippi have voted to replace the state’s official flag, which incorporated the Confederate battle emblem, with a design that has a magnolia blossom in its centre. Designed by Rocky Vaughan, with support from Sue Anna Joe, Kara Giles and Dominique Pugh, the new flag is called In God We Trust. Flag chosen from 3,000 submissions It replaces the state’s...
Lekker Architects and Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed an IKEA-inspired manual filled with tips and tricks on how to hack the Swedish company’s products to better serve people living with dementia. Commissioned by Singapore-based organisation Lien Foundation, the 240-page Hack Care book contains over 50 DIY projects. These alterations can be made to various IKEA furniture and homeware items to...
Royal College of Art graduate Marcel/a Baltarete has created a series of short animations depicting themselves as otherworldly beings to alleviate and interrogate their feelings of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria describes the distress that can be experienced by people, whose biological sex and gender identity do not match – a feeling Baltarete describes as «grief, discomfort and inadequacy all at...
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has created cartoons lampooning president Donald Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee after he lost the 2020 US election to Joe Biden. On Saturday, Rodriguez posted an illustration of Trump standing on a crumbling clifftop with bold black text reading «You’re Fired» in reference to Trump’s catchphrase when he hosted television reality show...
Norway‘s new passports by design studio Neue, which feature illustrations of the country’s landscape that change from day to night under UV light, have been realised after six years of development. Oslo-based studio Neue won a competition to overhaul the country’s passports and ID cards in 2014 with its design. The new design is harder to forge Entrants were asked to...
As the US presidential election on 3 November approaches, we’ve rounded up six designs that aim to motivate people to vote, including Instagram gifs, brass pins, billboards and magazine covers. Postcards for Democracy by Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh Singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe teamed up with artist Mark Mothersbaugh to launch Postcards for Democracy in support of the USPS amid a...
Graphic designer Margaret Calvert has created a customised typeface named Rail Alphabet 2, which will be used for station signage across the UK. Designed for Network Rail, the typeface is an update of Calvert’s original Rail Alphabet typeface from the 1960s and was designed together with Henrik Kubel of A2-TYPE. It will be used by Network Rail in The post Margaret Calvert designs...
