Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
From influencing voters to making veganism mainstream, graphic design can change people’s behaviour. We’ve rounded up seven projects for our review of 2019 that demonstrate the persuasive power of good graphic design. Useless is a digital directory for London’s zero-waste shops Ethical creative agency Nice and Serious developed Useless, an online platform that directs Londoners The post Seven graphic design...
British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has replaced the well-known blue, red and white design of London Underground’s roundel with colours and patterns from the pan-African flag. Achiampong has reimagined the famous tri-coloured tube signage symbol for Westminster’s Underground station to spotlight those who have been «erased from history». The design was a public commission for Transport for The post Larry Achiampong overhauls...
Design agency Clever°Franke has created a logo for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 that combines the flag and year that each of the 41 participating countries first competed. The logo comprises a series of brightly coloured vectors emanating from the central point of a circle, like a sunburst. It will be used during the televised The post Eurovision 2020 visual...
In this Dezeen movie, jury members discuss the winners of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category, which were revealed last month at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Finnish designer Kalle Järvenpää was awarded first place for his Garden of Galaxy design, a personalised flower generated by an algorithm that enables every The post Competition-winning mobile wallpaper...
Dutch branding agency Studio Dumbar has designed a new visual identity for the Netherlands featuring a logo that combines the letters NL with a stylised tulip. The Dutch government asked the Rotterdam-based studio to develop a new identity that will be used to help enhance the nation’s image on the global stage. The project was The post Netherlands replaces «tulip...
Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. The typeface forms part of a project titled If Walls Could Talk, which Heimat’s Berlin office developed for non-profit street art association, The The post Heimat creates typeface...
Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze and writer Zurab Jishkariani have produced animated videos to accompany nine music tracks by KayaKata, the hip-hop band they lead. The videos accompany the tracks on the hip-hop duo’s latest album, which they compare to audiobooks or graphic novels. Each animated video has a similar format. A figure with its face obscured The post KayaKata creates «audiobook»...
Dezeen promotion: a personalised flower generated by an algorithm has won the wallpaper category in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. Created by Finnish designer Kalle Järvenpää and titled Garden of Galaxy, the work would give every Samsung Galaxy user the chance to grow a virtual flower, unique to their device, on their screen. The look The post Garden of Galaxy...
Indian graphic designer Shiva Nallaperumal has developed a versatile neo-grotesque typeface family that includes nine Indic scripts alongside Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin versions. Oli Grotesk is intended as a warm, detailed and characterful alternative to the typically neutral neo-grotesque typefaces, which include familiar sans-serif fonts such as Arial, Helvetica and Univers. Nallaperumal spoke about The post Oli Grotesk is...
Dezeen promotion: the top three wallpaper designs in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition have been revealed, and their designers have shared the thinking behind their work in interviews with Dezeen. From a longlist of five entries in the Next Mobile Wallpaper Paradigm category, the judges chose Kalle Järvenpää’s Garden of Galaxy, Guan Hong Yeoh’s Blossom The post Top three wallpaper...
Keeping a record of LGBT+ design makes political change increasingly possible says Andrew Campbell, the author of Queer x Design. He has picked five examples of LGBT+ graphic design from the past 50 years for Dezeen. Written by Los Angeles-based art historian Andrew Campbell, Queer x Design is a collection of graphic design documenting the The post Queer x Design...
Paris has unveiled a gold-medal-shaped emblem for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games that incorporates the Olympic flame and the lips of Marianne. The logo has been created as a combination of three symbols connected to the Olympics and France. It takes its shape and colour from a gold medal – awarded to the winners The post Emblem for Paris...
