Dezeen promotion: a vibrant rainforest, a personalised flower made by an algorithm and a screen that changes in social situations are among the finalists in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category, revealed today. Five designs have been selected as finalists in the competition’s Next Mobile Wallpaper Paradigm category, which sought new wallpaper designs for The post Top five wallpaper...
Ben Ditto creates «dystopian» campaign to launch People by The 1975
Surveillance culture and climate change are the focus of the campaign for band The 1975’s latest release, which features augmented reality, neural networks and glitchy graphics. Creative director Ben Ditto worked with a group of designers and coders to create the campaign, which aims to investigate «environmental collapse, surveillance culture and the contemporary nihilism that The post Ben Ditto creates...
TBWA creates «soothing and hypnotising» animations of McDonald’s Egg McMuffins
To celebrate the Egg McMuffin being available all day in McDonald’s restaurants in France, TBWA has created 15 satisfying animations of the deconstructed breakfast item coming together. Advertising agency TBWA created the looping animations to promote the Egg McMuffin in an alternative way to standard food advertising that would appeal to millennials. Each of the The post TBWA creates «soothing...
Qatar unveils emblem for 2022 World Cup
The emblem for the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be a figure-of-eight-shaped white band based on the form of shawls often worn in the gulf region. Officially unveiled this week, the white continuous band will be the emblem for the 22nd World Cup, which takes place in Qatar in 2022. The emblem The post Qatar unveils emblem...
Welsh FA unveils simplified dragon as new visual identity
London design agency Bulletproof has developed a new visual identity for the Football Association of Wales, featuring a modernised version of its red dragon badge. Bulletproof was tasked with overseeing the first major refresh of the association’s branding in a decade. The brief called for a new identity that would encompass all football in Wales The post Welsh FA unveils...
Colourful circles denote contact-lens prescriptions in Dimple design by Universal Favourite
Australian studio Universal Favourite has designed the packaging for contact lens subscription service Dimple, which makes use of boldly patterned circles that correspond with prescriptions. Dimple is a direct-to-consumer service that targets the millennial market. As such, the company needed branding that would stand out on social media and attract new customers — without losing The post Colourful circles denote...
SomeOne rebrands the House of Commons for the digital age
Design agency SomeOne has updated the visual identity of the UK’s House of Commons to make it perform better across different platforms including apps and social media. London firm SomeOne was tasked with a holistic rebranding project to improve consistency across all touch points, including procedural documents, signage and digital applications. The existing core green The post SomeOne rebrands the...
Visual identity for Re:publica rebels against digital culture with reams of text
Fertig Design has created a visual identity for the Re:publica conference that uses lengthy passages of text and typography instead of conventional graphics to pay «homage to the written word». The annual conference is the largest aimed at the digital and internet society, and saw its thirteenth edition this year in Berlin. This year’s theme The post Visual identity for...
Strange furry creature stars in ad campaign for The Cunning Little Vixen opera
A furry, fox-like creature moves frantically in this ad, created by branding agency Superunion and animation designer Esteban Diacono for a performance of opera The Cunning Little Vixen. The designers tried to visualise a struggle between man and nature in the motion graphics. Their aim was to capture the emotionally charged spirit of the classic The post Strange furry creature...
Comic strip on Harry’s packaging foreshadows mystery item inside
Customers of male grooming brand Harry’s are taken back to 1950s confectionary advertising, through the comic strip packaging of their Mystery Item product. Harry’s looked to the aesthetics of Bazooka Joe – a comic strip character that was introduced on confectionary industry wrappings in the 1950s – for the packaging of its Mystery Items. The The post Comic strip on...
OMSE uses augmented reality to create moving 3D typography for Printworks
London design agency OMSE has created an augmented reality campaign for cultural venue Printworks London that transforms static typography into immersive three-dimensional animations. The new creative campaign was developed by OMSE to promote the launch of Printworks’ autumn-winter season of events across a variety of platforms. The existing graphic identity is based on the venue’s heritage The post OMSE uses augmented...
Jessica Walsh splits from Stefan Sagmeister to launch creative agency &Walsh
Graphic designer Jessica Walsh has started her own company after nearly a decade working alongside fellow designer Stefan Sagmeister at New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh. Walsh, who is partner and art director at Sagmeister & Walsh, announced today on her Instagram account that she has launched her own creative agency called &Walsh. Walsh has The post Jessica Walsh splits...