Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Methane data and dishonest oil company advertising are juxtaposed in Smoke and Mirrors, a new visualisation produced by artist and musician Beatie Wolfe in collaboration with visual effects studio Parliament. Debuting last week at South by Southwest, Smoke and Mirrors doubles as a video clip for Wolfe’s song Oh My Heart, which was released in 2022 on the world’s first...
French artist Ugo Gattoni has created a duo of intricately hand-drawn posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which can function independently or combine seamlessly to create a single composition. It marks the first time that posters for both summer games were designed together as a diptych, according to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. Ugo Gattoni has designed the...
British company Tate & Lyle Sugars has unveiled a rebrand of its Lyle’s Golden Syrup for the first time since the inception of the sugar syrup brand in the late 19th century. The branding – confirmed by Guinness World Records as the oldest unchanged brand packaging – was updated to remove the illustration of a dead lion surrounded by bees...
Danish architecture firm BIG has designed the 3D graphics that define the identity of this year’s 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen under the slogan Dare to Dream. The theme for this year’s festival, Dare to Dream, aims to explore how good design can serve an emotional function as much as a practical one. Copenhagen-based BIG – which is...
Afrosport is a new book by Peet Pienaar that explores the visual culture of African sports. Here, the designer selects five football logos from the book and explains their role in celebrating unity and independence. Unveiled alongside the 34th edition of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) football tournament, which is currently underway in Ivory Coast, Afrosport was created by...
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the reveal of Herman Miller’s new brand identity. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. New York design studio Order has conceived a new brand identity for furniture retailer Herman Miller that draws inspiration from the American brand’s history. The Herman Miller wordmark has been reimagined in the contemporary Söhne typeface from...
New York design studio Order has created a nostalgic new brand identity for Herman Miller that harkens back to the mid-century modern heritage of the American design brand. Last updated at the dawn of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, the branding previously featured the «computer-friendly» FF Meta font and the company’s enduring M logo from 1946, emblazoned...
Underwear brand Modibodi and illustrator Justyna Green have collaborated on the relaunched First Period Kit, which includes a comic that speaks to teenage girls’ first experience of getting their period. The kit includes a comic and sticker kit designed by Green and several Modibodi products, including a waterproof bag for changing, two pairs of Black Hipster Bikinis and a handheld mirror...
In this roundup, we continue our review of 2023 with a collection of notable rebrands and logo redesigns, including Twitter’s switch to «X» and a revamped look for the «I NY» logo. Other rebrands in this roundup include refreshed looks for drink brand Pepsi and fashion house Burberry, as well as a simplified brand identity for the US Army that...
Design studio Pentagram has rebranded social media platform Reddit, including rendering the brand’s alien mascot, Snoo, in 3D. Pentgram’s New York office sought to create brand materials that captured the website’s «utopian ethos», refreshing the logo, mascot and typefaces, as well as the presentation of conversation threads. Pentagram has refreshed Reddit’s visual identity One major goal of the rebrand was...
Chilean designer Juan Bruce has developed an expressive typographic family that supports both the Latin and the Bengali alphabet. It includes the Noort Latin typeface – originally developed by Bruce in 2017 – and its evolution Noort Bengali, with both sharing key characteristics so they can be used together as a family while also retaining Bengali’s unique character. Juan Bruce’s...
German branding and advertising agency Serviceplan has developed a skincare product made from textile-industry wastewater to promote Japanese startup Aizome’s chemical-free dyeing process. Aizome wanted to garner attention for its newly developed dyeing technique that uses high-frequency soundwaves to add plant-based colours to its textiles. Serviceplan bottled the Wastecare like a high-end skincare product in a glass vial To demonstrate...
