Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Studios and designers including Olafur Eliasson and Pentagram are sharing illustrations to show support for Ukraine following the invasion by Russia. We’ve rounded up 10 of the most striking. Designers around the world have taken to social media to show their support and to publicly condemn Russia’s invasion of the country, which began on 24 February. As well as creating illustrations, many...
Dezeen promotion: metaverse platform Mona has launched Renaissance, a digital competition calling for designers, architects and artists to create new virtual worlds. The competition tasks entrants with building their own metaverse focused around one or more of three themes: spaces to gather, spaces to display and spaces to perform. Previous virtual worlds uploaded to Mona’s 3D NFT art gallery include...
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a vividly coloured illustration series called Postmodern Icons, which celebrates buildings such as London’s Isle of Dogs Pumping Station and Chicago’s James R Thompson Center. The series is a personal project that Furman started during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, when he decided to revisit an old hobby of sketching buildings that he liked and...
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a vividly coloured illustration series called Postmodern Icons, which celebrates buildings such as London’s Isle of Dogs Pumping Station and Chicago’s James R Thompson Center. The series is a personal project that Furman started during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, when he decided to revisit an old hobby of sketching buildings that he liked and...
Musicians «painted» with their instruments to create the enigmatic graphics in the centenary publication of the Latvian Academy of Music, designed by local studio Nord ID Riga. The publication, 100 Years of the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, features abstract scribbles and markings printed over whole pages. The Latvian Academy of Music’s centenary publication was designed by Nord ID...
Social media brand Facebook‘s parent company has changed its name to Meta and updated its logo to an infinity loop that resembles the letter M. At the latest annual Facebook connect event, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media company has changed its name to Meta. The CEO also shared how its logo has been updated to a looping letter...
Rich illustrations by 24 different artists combine with dayglo graphic design to make The Complete Short Stories: Philip K Dick, a limited-edition box set of books by The Folio Society and La Boca. The four-volume hardback set brings together all 118 of the revered science-fiction author’s short stories and features illustrations by 24 artists, as well as neon book bindings...
An animation where magical characters travel through valleys collecting treasure and a naturally-dyed kimono project are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Bath Spa University. Also included is a textile project based on the colours of India and a range of 100 per cent traceable knitwear accessories and garments. Bath Spa University School: Bath Spa University Courses:...
Dezeen readers have crowned projects by Ema Peter Photography, HGEsch Photography and three other studios winners of the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote in the media categories. Other winners include Mue Studio for its dreamlike render of a pool in an interior patio and Samuel Day for a website with an endless scroll full of animated characters. A total of...
Legendary designer Peter Saville has revealed the inspiration behind his early work for Factory Records, saying the influential covers featured «things that I saw and wished were part of my reality». Speaking at the launch of his fabric collection Technicolour for Danish brand Kvadrat at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, Saville talked to Dezeen about his design process and...
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has revealed a flat, less colourful version of its longstanding Iron Mark logo. According to Volvo, the redesign is a «modern» reinterpretation of the original logo that aims to maintain its essence. The new logo is an all-black, flat design that retains the same circular shape and upward-pointing arrow first used by the brand in 1927. Volvo is...
London-based designer Yinka Ilori is transforming 18 pedestrian crossings for this year’s London Design Festival, using vibrant bands of colour. Ilori has replaced the usual black and white stripes on 11 colourful crossings on Tottenham Court Road in central London with bold shades of blue, orange, pink, purple and green. The designer has also teamed up with students from University of...
