Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Musician Imogen Heap has created a collection of six audiovisual NFTs that are carbon negative and hope to «set the bar for what digital art can and should be». The Firsts Collection is Heap’s first foray into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and features short, improvised audio clips called Rifffs, which she created during live, collaborative jam sessions with users of the music...
Here are six examples of typography informed by or made using the human body, including a sex-position typeface, wispy letters formed from strands of hair and letters traced from urine. Body Type by Julius Raymund Advincula Filipino graphic designer Julius Raymund Advincula used the folds of his skin to create Body Type, an alphabet that finds hidden letterforms in unlikely...
A total of 140 designers from around the world including Pentagram‘s Giorgia Lupi have collaborated to produce a blood-red typeface made out of punctuation to highlight period poverty in American schools. Called Periods for Periods, the typeface is a group of loosely circular, playful shapes that are «periods» – a play on the common American word for full stops. Periods...
American journalist Evan Townsend has designed the True South flag for Antarctica to create a distinctive identity for the continent and encourage its protection by the rest of the Earth’s inhabitants. Designed while working as a steward at a polar research station, the True South flag features an icy white peak mirrored by a south-facing compass arrow. According to Townsend, it is...
Bristol design office Taxi Studio has designed the branding of a bowel cancer charity for young people, featuring a twisty colon-shaped typeface. Never Too Young is a project group that is part of the charity Bowel Cancer UK. Led by a team of young people with bowel cancer, it raises awareness of the risk of developing the disease at any...
Architect Michele De Lucchi has redesigned the Italian covers of the Harry Potter books, shifting focus away from the characters and towards the fantastical buildings of the wizarding world. Commissioned by publishing house Salani, De Lucchi and his studio AMDL CIRCLE veered away from replicating the numerous existing depictions of the iconic Hogwarts castle and other buildings in the books...
An angular line drawing of the number 26 has been revealed as the logo for the Milano Cortina Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Named Futura, the emblem for the event, which will be hosted in the Italian city of Milan and the Cortina d’Ampezzo ski resort in 2026, was designed by branding agency Landor Associates to reflect the Games’ ideals. «Influenced by the themes...
An angular line drawing of the number 26 has been revealed as the logo for the Milano Cortina Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Named Futura, the emblem for the event, which will be hosted in the Italian city of Milan and the Cortina d’Ampezzo ski resort in 2026, was designed by branding agency Landor Associates to reflect the Games’ ideals. «Influenced by the themes...
Italian football club Inter Milan has revealed a minimal logo created by graphic design studio Bureau Borsche as part of an effort to promote itself beyond sports. Football Club Internazionale Milano, which is widely known as Inter Milan, revealed a simplified crest designed by Bureau Borsche containing an update to the original logo designed by painter Giorgio Muggiani in 1908....
Alexis Christodoulou has become the latest 3D artist with a cult social media following to sell his renderings online as part of an NFT auction. Under the title Homesick, the sale encompassed nine looped, animated videos of different dreamscapes that merge the built and natural environment. Each was linked to a non-fungible token (NFT) to verify its authenticity using blockchain...
The Royal Shakespeare Company is set to put on a virtual play called Dream that will be performed by actors in motion capture suits and animated in real-time. The digital world, which is revealed above in an exclusive video shared with Dezeen, was designed by London creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast using the same game engine as popular online game Fortnite Dream...
Designer Alex Proba hand-paints swimming pools with graphic murals, including the pools of two Palm Springs houses and a mural on the deck of a public pool on Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island. These three designs showcase Proba‘s signature shapes and playful use of colour. One painted pool belongs to Marrow House, a private residence in Rancho Mirage in California. Top and above:...
