Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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...
Filipino graphic designer Julius Raymund Advincula sat half-naked in front of a mirror looking for letters and numbers in the folds of his skin and limbs to make up this Body Type typeface. Advincula, who works under the name Subhelic, created Body Type as an exploration of the various characters and figures that are hidden The post Julius Raymund Advincula...
British architect and illustrator Anna Gibb has combined buildings by architects including Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe to create an architectural montage of places people would like to be quarantined in during the coronavirus pandemic. London-based Gibb made the pen drawing on watercolour paper over the past month while in lockdown by combining suggestions of The post Illustrator Anna Gibb...
Graphic designer Nynke Tynagel has launched her own practice after working alongside Job Smeets as joint owner of art and design collective Studio Job for over 20 years. Tynagel co-founded Studio Job with Smeets – who she was formerly in a relationship with – in 1998. She has now left the company and announced today The post Nynke Tynagel splits...
Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has unveiled a series of limited-edition prints and shared a selection of her illustrations visualising information about coronavirus as part of The World Around’s takeover of Virtual Design Festival for Earth Day. The three new prints, which Chalabi produced in collaboration with online art gallery Absolut Art for Earth The post Mona Chalabi creates...
Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. As part of its #AloneTogether campaign, Dazed Media asked creatives to design posters that respond to the changes brought about by the pandemic and call for a better future. Graffiti artist 3D, fashion designer Katharine The post Vivviane Westwood and...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues its spread across the globe, art directors and artists are using magazine covers as a visual commentary on the crisis. Covers range from sombre imagery, such as the biweekly cultural publication New York Magazine’s lonely double bass player, to defiant statements like men’s fashion and style magazine GQ Portugal’s «F*ck The post 10 magazine covers...
A crosswalk sign with the people standing apart and warnings not to shake hands are among the series of conceptual signs designer Dylan Coonrad reinterpreted to fit with the coronavirus’ social distancing guidelines. Cannon Design creative director Coonrad has reimagined 10 street signs, road markings and building notices found around New York City to advise The post Dylan Coonrad reimagines...
