Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
South Carolina-based studios SDCO and Basic Projects have overhauled a seaside restaurant in Charleston with a nostalgic design that extends across everything from interiors to memorabilia. Contemporary details feature throughout the redesigned Sullivan’s Fish Camp, but are interwoven with retro elements to create an aesthetic that respects the restaurant’s long history. Sullivan’s Fish Camp is a family-owned diner that first...
UK LGBTQ+ media brand Gay Times is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Here, senior art director Jack Rowe shares five key magazine covers with progressive design language. Rowe selected the covers from the 540 magazine covers included in Gay Times: The Exhibition, an audiovisual decade-by-decade timeline displaying the brand’s journey over the past 40 years. «It’s about making a bold...
Type foundry British Standard Type has developed a custom typeface for British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori that blends rounded and square shapes to reflect his dual heritage. Ilori, who is known for his vibrant and playful designs, previously used a generic typeface across his different multidisciplinary projects but wanted something bespoke to embody his distinctive style. The result of the collaboration...
French post office La Poste has introduced a stamp designed by Stéphane Humbert-Basset that gives off the scent of bread when scratched to celebrate the baguette. The stamp has a «bakery scent», which was achieved through the use of microcapsules that are embedded within the ink of the stamps to provide the bread-like fragrance, reported French newspaper Le Monde. The stamp...
The New York Jets NFL team has brought back a jet aircraft to its logo as part of its latest rebrand, which is a nod to its 1980s Sack Exchange era. Designed to combine «coolness and nostalgia, the rebrand reintroduces a jet – the American football team’s namesake – to the logo for the first time since 1997. The design is a...
Graphic designer Ian Cartlidge has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here he selects five projects that best reflect his studio’s work. Cartlidge is the co-founder of London design studio Cartlidge Levene and considers the core ethos of his work to «produce design that makes a meaningful and positive contribution to the world». The British designer told Dezeen that...
Italian automaker Lamborghini has unveiled a rebrand featuring a flat, simplified logo as part of a broader «transformation process» aimed at sustainability and decarbonization. The logo has the same set-up – a bull placed at the centre of a shield, but the detailing has been pared down into a silhouette, while a broader, thinner typeface was introduced. «The new logo...
Dezeen Showroom: produced by Faina, the decor brand of Ukrainian architect Victoria Yakusha, the Soniah floor lamp is a dramatic piece that appears to grow from the ground. Yakusha referenced Ukraine’s national flower – the sunflower – in both the name and the form of the Soniah floor lamp. The Soniah floor lamps are inspired by Ukrainian cultural heritage and sunflowers Available...
Methane data and dishonest oil company advertising are juxtaposed in Smoke and Mirrors, a new visualisation produced by artist and musician Beatie Wolfe in collaboration with visual effects studio Parliament. Debuting last week at South by Southwest, Smoke and Mirrors doubles as a video clip for Wolfe’s song Oh My Heart, which was released in 2022 on the world’s first...
French artist Ugo Gattoni has created a duo of intricately hand-drawn posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which can function independently or combine seamlessly to create a single composition. It marks the first time that posters for both summer games were designed together as a diptych, according to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. Ugo Gattoni has designed the...
British company Tate & Lyle Sugars has unveiled a rebrand of its Lyle’s Golden Syrup for the first time since the inception of the sugar syrup brand in the late 19th century. The branding – confirmed by Guinness World Records as the oldest unchanged brand packaging – was updated to remove the illustration of a dead lion surrounded by bees...
Danish architecture firm BIG has designed the 3D graphics that define the identity of this year’s 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen under the slogan Dare to Dream. The theme for this year’s festival, Dare to Dream, aims to explore how good design can serve an emotional function as much as a practical one. Copenhagen-based BIG – which is...
