Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
French car brand Peugeot has unveiled a redesigned logo, featuring a lion’s head that recalls its 1960s emblem, as part of a rebrand to mark a new era of electric car manufacturing. The carmaker, which describes itself as the world’s oldest surviving automotive brand, updated its logo for the first time in 10 years. It is the 11th logo update in...
Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger has sold ten pieces of virtual furniture in an online auction, with the most expensive non-existent item fetching $67,777. Reisinger, who rose to prominence on Instagram for his renderings of surreal furniture pieces, sold the items in an online auction under the title The Shipping. Each of the virtual items can be placed in any shared 3D...
Software and gaming company Epic Games has created an app that can build lifelike virtual humans for games and movies. The MetaHuman Creator has an interface similar to that of The Sims video game that allows users to select from a variety of preset faces. They can then customise everything from lip protrusion to eye distance, skin complexion and teeth,...
Branding agency Pearlfisher has redesigned the packaging at fast-food chain McDonald’s to incorporate illustrations of the restaurant’s classic menu items. Set to be introduced across all of its global restaurants, the revamped packaging was designed to reflect the «innate joy of the McDonald’s». Each item will now be served in packaging that contains a bright and simple graphic design representing the food...
Creative consultancy The Liminal Space has designed Life Support, a mobile-first website designed to help people deal with death using their smartphones. The Liminal Space designed the website in collaboration with The Academy of Medical Sciences. Graphics begin in grey and progress into colour as users grow in their understanding Life Support takes users on a visual journey from greyed-out...
Creative agency Wide Eye has redesigned the White House logo to symbolise US president Joe Biden’s «desire to bring the country together» after Donald Trump. The updated design is a slightly more detailed and architectural version of the flat logo introduced during the Trump administration. «Following the tradition and the legacy of past White House brands, we depicted the north...
The non-profit Vilcek Foundation has created a manga comic starring Zambia-born South African architect Denise Scott Brown as part of its mission to raise awareness of immigrants’ contribution to the US. Scott Brown is the subject of the first in a series of manga comics that will be made about the lives of the non-profit organisation’s Vilcek Prize winners. The pioneer of postmodern...
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font that hopes to make the urgency of climate change tangible by mirroring the declining amount of Arctic sea ice in its disappearing letterforms. While a regular typeface has certain pre-determined styles like bold or italic, the Climate Crisis Font allows users to adjust its font weight with the help of a...
Micha Weidmann Studio has created a playful graphic identity for fashion designer Alber Elbaz’s new venture, AZ Factory, based on the designer’s signature style. The London-based studio designed the visual and brand identity, which uses the Shard Sans Thin font and includes a round face with large eyes, to represent the AZ Factory brand. It also created a custom AZ logo...
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans. The Focus Ex...
