Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
The International Olympic Committee has unveiled its brand identity for the Olympic Games, which includes custom typefaces, illustrations and graphics that aim to bring the legacy of the games into the modern world. Canadian creative agency Hulse & Durrell partnered with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to develop three custom typefaces, a series of graphics, 17 illustrations and a set...
UK monarch King Charles III has unveiled his royal cypher, which was designed by the College of Arms and will appear on the country’s official buildings, postboxes and passports. Charles’ royal monogram consists of the letters C and R interlinked – the C representing his first name and R for Rex, which is the word king in Latin. The number...
To reflect the restrictive winemaking regulations in the French region of Bordeaux, Norwegian studio OlssønBarbieri set itself constraints when coming up with a playful brand identity and packaging design for the winery Château Picoron. Established in 1570, Château Picoron was recently bought by an Australian family who wanted to change everything about the brand identity but the name. They wanted...
Japanese studio Motive Inc has created a highly tailored wayfinding design for the training institute of railway maintenance company Totetsu Kogyo, using stylised floor markings to guide visitors through the building. Located in the city of Tsukubamirai in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Totetsu Training Institute features flowing lines reminiscent of railway tracks embedded into its floors, leading the way to various rooms....
Type foundry Typotheque has created a series of new typefaces and proposed changes to the way that digital characters are encoded to make it easier for Canadian Indigenous communities to write digitally in their own languages. The North American Syllabics project saw the Dutch studio work in close collaboration with groups that use Canadian Aboriginal syllabics – a family of...
Non-profit organisation Road Research Society has digitalised the text from old road signs in Hong Kong to create a font called Prison Gothic as part of its effort to preserve «visual cultural memories of the city». The font, which so far includes 8,000 commonly used Chinese characters, is modelled on 600 characters collected from road signs on the city’s streets....
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has revealed an update to its winged logo created by legendary designer Peter Saville. The redesigned logo remains very similar to the previous one, with the most noticeable change the removal of a semi-circular line running through the wings. «The Aston Martin wings update is a classic example of the necessary evolution of logotypes of provenance,» said Saville....
Subtle references to the experience of taking magic mushrooms are incorporated into the branding and packaging that Brooklyn studio Dark Igloo has designed for psilocybin dispensary PLANT. The secretive shop is set in an undisclosed location and has no online presence, but was in need of distinctive packaging for its tinctures, capsules and chocolates containing psilocybin – the active compound found...
The rarely seen graphic and furniture designs of Lucia Eames, daughter of midcentury icons Charles and Ray Eames, have been unveiled in an exhibition during Milan design week. The late Lucia Eames produced creative work throughout her life. But her career was primarily focused on protecting the legacy of her father and stepmother, so her own designs took a backseat. Lucia...
Design studios MA-MA and Pràctica have collaborated on the rebranding of Canadian cannabis company Houseplant to create stackable containers that resemble Lego bricks. The redesign of Houseplant‘s cannabis product packaging marks the launch of the brand, which was founded by actor Seth Rogen, in the US. Along with the lego-like cannabis containers, MA-MA and Pràctica designed a custom typeface and...
UK delivery company Hermes has been given a new name, Evri, and a multi-font logo with thousands of variations in a sweeping rebrand devised by the creative agency Superunion in collaboration with type foundry Monotype. Superunion created the name, brand strategy, visual identity and logo for Evri, which wanted a rebrand to signal that its business was transforming and to...
The Smoothies, Museums and Airports exhibition, which showcases graphic design studio Stockholm Design Lab’s contribution to everyday design, from IKEA typefaces to airport wayfinding, has opened at architecture museum ArkDes. The exhibition about the Stockholm-based design studio, whose work includes the visual identity for the Nobel Prize and the redesigned Ericsson logo, focuses on how graphic design can become a...
