Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Royal College of Art graduate Marcel/a Baltarete has created a series of short animations depicting themselves as otherworldly beings to alleviate and interrogate their feelings of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria describes the distress that can be experienced by people, whose biological sex and gender identity do not match – a feeling Baltarete describes as «grief, discomfort and inadequacy all at...
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has created cartoons lampooning president Donald Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee after he lost the 2020 US election to Joe Biden. On Saturday, Rodriguez posted an illustration of Trump standing on a crumbling clifftop with bold black text reading «You’re Fired» in reference to Trump’s catchphrase when he hosted television reality show...
Norway‘s new passports by design studio Neue, which feature illustrations of the country’s landscape that change from day to night under UV light, have been realised after six years of development. Oslo-based studio Neue won a competition to overhaul the country’s passports and ID cards in 2014 with its design. The new design is harder to forge Entrants were asked to...
As the US presidential election on 3 November approaches, we’ve rounded up six designs that aim to motivate people to vote, including Instagram gifs, brass pins, billboards and magazine covers. Postcards for Democracy by Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh Singer-songwriter Beatie Wolfe teamed up with artist Mark Mothersbaugh to launch Postcards for Democracy in support of the USPS amid a...
Graphic designer Margaret Calvert has created a customised typeface named Rail Alphabet 2, which will be used for station signage across the UK. Designed for Network Rail, the typeface is an update of Calvert’s original Rail Alphabet typeface from the 1960s and was designed together with Henrik Kubel of A2-TYPE. It will be used by Network Rail in The post Margaret Calvert designs...
Shanghai-based graphic design studio Lin Shaobin has created packaging for tea that uses burnt paper to emulate traditional Chinese ink paintings of misty mountains. The Mountain Tea Song packaging project was commissioned by Guangzhou Zifang enterprise for a restaurant in the Chinese city of Guangzhou called Song’s Chinese Cuisine. Lin Shaobin took design cues from The post Lin Shaobin emulates...
Christopher Patten has redesigned the mail-in envelopes for North Carolina ahead this year’s US presidential election to make them clearer so the chance of votes not counting is reduced. Patten simplified the absentee application and certificate form on the back of the North Carolina mail-in voting envelope, which will be used for the US election The post Good design can...
Plastic makes way for moulded paper in this chocolate packaging designed by Norwegian practice OlssønBarbieri to inspire a more mindful approach to materials. The packaging forms part of a wider visual identity created for local confectionary business CF18 Chocolatier, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Dezeen Award in the graphic design category. In a The post OlssønBarbieri makes minimalist...
The envelope stamped with the red letter M, which has featured in every Gmail logo since its launch in 2004, has been abandoned as part of a new simplified, multi-coloured brand identity for Google’s G Suite tools. While the M remains, set on a transparent backdrop, the letter itself is chubbier with only the central The post Google ditches signature...
Colour company Pantone and health brand Intimina have collaborated to create an «active and adventurous» red colour to start a positive conversation around periods. The blood-red hue is presented on a Pantone-branded card with an outline of a womb and ovary with a menstrual cup inside. Intimina makes several different models of these reusable cups, which The post Pantone releases taboo-breaking...
Graphic designer Alexandros Kosmidis has created UNbuffer, a series of postcards that explore the United Nations’ line between the Greek and Turkish sides of Cyprus. Kosmidis created the graphic design project as a petition for peace and the end of Turkish occupation of the island. The project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 graphic The post UNbuffer postcards explore...
These stamps by Finnish studio Berry Creative feature images of birds and snow clouds that turn into skeletons and thunderstorms when heated to send a message about the consequences of climate change. Commissioned by the Finnish Post, the Climate Change stamps aim to offer an innovative way of communicating the negative effects that rising temperatures The post Berry Creative designs...
