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Pentagram has redesigned Rolls-Royce’s visual identity, updating the iconic Spirit of Ecstasy emblem to become the car brand’s main logo. One year in the making, the new branding aims to modernise the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars company and differentiate it from the Rolls-Royce Holdings aerospace division, which owns the RR monogram. Although the well-known double-R monogram The post Rolls-Royce unveils "confident...
Design studio House of van Schneider has created a visual identity for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which condenses the red planet, the Earth and the rover into three simple, flat shapes. Designed to capture «the energy and legacy of space travel», the logo and branding was created to mark the launch of NASA’s Perseverance robotic The post House of van...
London illustrator Vic Lee has documented his experience of the coronavirus pandemic in a graphic diary, which ended up selling thousands of copies after he shared it online. Lee’s self-published Corona Diary illustrates his lockdown experience, and documents global and national events during the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic. While the illustrator’s recent The post Illustrator Vic Lee...
British set designer Es Devlin has created a digital artwork titled I Saw The World End to mark 75 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Created with design associate Machiko Weston, Devlin’s I Saw The World End display was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum The post Digital artwork by...
After rebranding with three-dimensional, chrome-effect logos in the 80s and 90s, carmakers from Nissan to BMW are reverting back to flat designs to keep pace with the digitally led world. We’ve rounded up seven examples. Simplified, flat logos replicate better on screens and in miniature as app icons, prompting designers to ditch the three-dimensional (3D) The post Seven car brands...
Toyota Motor Europe has joined numerous other car brands by opting for a flat redesign of its logo with a revised visual identity created by The&Partnership that includes removing its wordmark. The new logo and branding was created by agency The&Partnership for Toyota’s Europe division and sees the automaker’s name removed and its old, 3D design flattened, leaving The post Toyota rebrands with...
New York’s High Line park has reopened to the public following coronavirus lockdown with 1,000 painted green dots graphic designer Paula Scher created as markers for social distancing. The High Line reopened on Thursday 19 July over four months after it closed due to the pandemic with a one-way system starting at Gansevoort Street. Scher, The post Paula Scher covers...
Japanese car brand Nissan has joined BMW, MINI and Volkswagen in officially replacing its three-dimensional emblem with a flat, two-dimensional logo. The company name has been kept at the centre of the logo, but is no longer raised and has been simplified into basic, block lines. The font has also been refined and the lettering stretched The post Nissan latest car...
Mississippi has voted to redesign its flag to remove the Confederate battle emblem, making it the last US state to remove the controversial symbol that was used by southern states during the American Civil War. Mississippi legislature passed a bill on Sunday 28 June to remove the blue saltire cross with white stars from its state The post Mississippi to redesign...
To mark the passing of Milton Glaser, we’ve rounded up 11 of the New Yorker’s most interesting graphic designs from the past six decades, including a previously unreleased symbol of togetherness that he was working on up until his death. Born on 26 June 1929, Glaser died exactly 91 years later on his birthday in New York, The post 11 memorable graphic...
Tributes have poured in for Milton Glaser, the influential American graphic designer who has died in New York on his 91st birthday. The designer is best known for the iconic «I ♥ New York» logo, which he created in 1977 and which helped give the crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city a new sense of pride. During a The post Milton Glaser, designer...
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has made an illustrated online book starring its Gherkin skyscraper as part of an initiative to entertain children during the coronavirus pandemic. Named The Flying Gherkin, the book gives the Foster + Partners-designed office human features, arms and a rocket-like body, and follows it on its journey as it takes The post Flying Gherkin stars...
