Games publisher Capcom has been roasted for its minimal new Street Fighter 6 logo. Perhaps instead it needs to embrace the kind of bold, maximalist design people crave?...
Street Fighter’s logo debacle shows people want design at its messy best
Games publisher Capcom has been roasted for its minimal new Street Fighter 6 logo. Perhaps instead it needs to embrace the kind of bold, maximalist design people crave?...
How to shake off the demon of convention
What sound does a dog make? If, like me, English is your first language, then your answer is probably ‘woof-woof’. But if you’re Albanian, you’d say ‘ham-ham’; or Balinese, ‘kongkong’; or Greek, ‘ghav-ghav’; or Thai, ‘hong-hong’; or Welsh, ‘wff-wff’. There are almost as many different ways for describing the bark of a dog as there are languages in the world....
Rebranding health and fitness for a new generation
As brands adopt new ways of representing health and fitness, semiotics specialist Julius Colwyn reflects on how health and hedonism converged, and why Gen Z is partly – but not wholly – responsible...
Covid, Brexit and the great resignation
The events of the past few years have had a significant impact on the creative talent pool and led to much movement in agencies and studios – but what does the future hold?...
Does the NHS need a rebrand?
The blue-and-white ‘lozenge’ is an iconic symbol in the UK and beyond, but is it time for an update, or is the logo still in rude health? Design critic Alice Rawsthorn, St Luke’s ECD Richard Denney, and Nalla Design owner Vicki Young take its pulse...
Max Cooper transcends language in abstract AI music video
For the best part of the last decade, London-based producer and DJ Max Cooper has been merging music, science and visual art in his highly collaborative practice. The rate and volume of his output in that time has exceeded many of his contemporaries – and his description of his forthcoming sixth studio album, Unspoken Words, goes some way in explaining...
Imagining our future bodies
How will new ways of designing our bodies and our health, including gene editing, affect our future selves? Lucy McRae explores these concepts in her art, presenting radical sci-fi ideas that are rooted in science fact...
Imagining our future bodies
How will new ways of designing our bodies and our health, including gene editing, affect our future selves? Lucy McRae explores these concepts in her art, presenting radical sci-fi ideas that are rooted in science fact...
Imagining our future bodies
How will new ways of designing our bodies and our health, including gene editing, affect our future selves? Lucy McRae explores these concepts in her art, presenting radical sci-fi ideas that are rooted in science fact...
Imagining our future bodies
How will new ways of designing our bodies and our health, including gene editing, affect our future selves? Lucy McRae explores these concepts in her art, presenting radical sci-fi ideas that are rooted in science fact...
Imagining our future bodies
How will new ways of designing our bodies and our health, including gene editing, affect our future selves? Lucy McRae explores these concepts in her art, presenting radical sci-fi ideas that are rooted in science fact...