Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Buckingham Palace has recruited former Apple designer Jony Ive to create the logo for the coronation of King Charles III, depicting a crown formed from the national flowers of the United Kingdom’s four nations. Created by Ive and his design studio LoveFrom, the official emblem is set to feature across banners, bunting and merchandise during the coronation service at London’s...
An anthropologist and an architect from University College London have collaborated on a unique way to preserve endangered languages – by capturing their character in the form of 3D-printed objects. Alex Pillen from the university’s anthropology department and Emma-Kate Matthews from the Bartlett School of Architecture made use of parametric design software to visualise the sound and grammatical patterns of...
British heritage brand Burberry has unveiled a logo that uses an equestrian knight motif that was created for the brand over 100 years ago along with a serif typeface. Campaign imagery adorned with the new logo, which was posted to Instagram earlier this week, announced the redesign as «the first creative expression» under the direction of new chief creative officer Daniel Lee. It...
Illustrator Peter Horridge has created a logo for The National Portrait Gallery in London based on a sketch by the gallery’s first director. Created ahead of The National Portrait Gallery‘s planned reopening later this year, following refurbishment, the logo was informed by Sir George Scharf’s sketch from 1893, which was discovered in the archive. The logo (right) is based on an 1893 sketch by the...
London design studio Special Projects has worked with clinical psychologists to develop SlowMo, a mental health app for people experiencing psychosis that will be trialled by the UK’s National Health Service. Designed to work alongside in-person therapy, the SlowMo app allows users to identify and record unhelpful «fast-thinking» patterns and slow them down through the use of animated bubbles. The SlowMo...
Festive snow scenes and shining stars are the most popular motifs in the Christmas cards that Dezeen received from architects and designers this year. After two years of festive holidays disrupted by coronavirus, 2022 sees a return to more classic Christmas imagery and symbolism, and simple messages of peace and joy. Among the best Christmas scenes are Gort Scott‘s festive banquet...
From German car manufacturer Audi adopting a flat logo to the unveiling of King Charles III’s royal monogram, Dezeen selects 10 rebrands from the year as part of our review of 2022. Custom typefaces and modernised symbols feature in this year’s roundup of rebrands and logo designs, which also includes a brand font informed by classical stone inscriptions and an...
IKEA‘s research lab Space10 has developed a concept for connecting a physical furniture piece to an ever-evolving NFT tree, which «grows» through acts of care to incentivise people to keep, repair and recycle their belongings. In Space10‘s speculative design project Carbon Banks, the furniture in question is IKEA‘s wooden Froset chair, while the non-fungible token (NFT) is an augmented reality...
In time for the COP27 climate summit, a team of researchers led by architect Adrian Lahoud has developed an app that calculates how much coastal cities are owed in climate reparations to make up for the destruction wrought by rising sea levels. The Second Sea calculator makes use of real-world data from 136 cities from Athens to Zhanjiang, charting what...
German auto manufacturer Audi has unveiled a flat, simplified version of its distinctive four-ringed logo, making it the latest in a line of car brands to simplify their logos. Audi‘s four rings have been kept in the same formation, but they are no longer raised and have been stripped of their glossy chrome colour. Now, the rings are either white and...
Amsterdam studio Thonik took cues from the typography of graphic design legend Wim Crouwel to create a fresh identity for Dutch Design Week, marking two decades since the inception of northern Europe’s largest design festival in Eindhoven. The branding takes cues from a seminal poster designed by Crouwel for an exhibition on Dutch painter Edgar Fernhout, which was held at the...
Microsoft has created a kaleidoscopic new version of the Pride flag that represents 40 different LGBTQIA+ communities and can evolve to include even more. Microsoft, which says the project was created by its LGBTQIA+ staff, released an earlier version of the flag during Pride month in June and has now updated the design and made it open source. Images of...
