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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...
From a zine profiling Yorkshire’s best designers to a bike share branded in local dialect, this VDF school show features projects created by York St John University students to celebrate the UK’s northern region. The 18 projects presented here were created by graduates from the university’s BA graphic design course, based at the School of The post Graphic designs by...
Designer Yinka Ilori has created a colourful artwork that states «Better days are coming I promise» in support of the work the UK’s National Health Service is doing to fight coronavirus. Installed on a street in Blackfriars, London, the artwork was commissioned by Kensington + Chelsea Art Week and CW+, the official charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital The post Yinka Ilori creates...
The founders of Japanese creative studio Spread reveal how they use colour as the primary medium in their work and explain how their Life Stripe project seeks to find pattern in the everyday in this interview as part of our VDF x Alcova collaboration. Spread was founded in 2004 by Haruna Yamada and Hirokazu Kobayashi, The post Life Stripe by...
Design graduates from Boston’s Northeastern University present thesis projects including visualisations of traditional Indian dance moves and augmented-reality representations of taste in this Virtual Design Festival school show. The nine students hail from Northeastern’s MFA Experience Design and MFA Information Design and Visualisation programmes, based at the university’s College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD). The post Northeastern University showcases...
Graphic designers are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and current protests, sharing illustrations and links to resources that people can use to help others and educate themselves. We’ve rounded up just a few of the many artworks created to spread the message. Worldwide, people are joining marches in solidarity with protestors in America condemning The post Graphic designers share...
Daily data visualisations created by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times have provided one of the most reliable pictures of the global coronavirus pandemic. He spoke to Dezeen about how his charts allow people to independently informed. First started «as a fairly scrappy rough chart» tracking coronavirus cases and deaths, the project has expanded to The post FT coronavirus updates...
A medical illustrator behind the first 3D images of the coronavirus particle has spoken to Dezeen about how his team branded an invisible disease that «needed an identity». The team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia was aware they were creating a visual identity Covid-19 by creating the now-iconic The post Iconic Covid-19 images...
