Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. Oliver was best known for the numerous covers he designed for independent British record label 4AD, where he created the majority of its album artwork between 1982 and 1998 via the The post British album cover...
Adidas has partnered with designer Fabio Novembre to create patches for its VRCT jacket — a customisable and adaptive take on the American college classic. Novembre Studio designed the font for the varsity – or VRCT – jacket, a style that has been associated with college sports since the Harvard University baseball team debuted their The post Adidas and Fabio...
In this movie, we look back at this year’s Samsung Mobile Design Competition, a collaboration between Samsung and Dezeen, which challenged designers to come up with innovative new mobile accessory and wallpaper designs for Galaxy devices. Launched in June 2019, the Samsung Mobile Design Competition was a global contest that sought ideas for how Galaxy mobile The post The Samsung Mobile...
Puppetry and a live action ocean made from cling film are combined with 2D animation in the music video for British band Coldplay’s single Daddy. Directed by Bristol-based animation studio Aardman’s Åsa Lucander, the video tells the story of a girl longing for her father whilst lost at sea. Lucander used the stylised movements of The post Aardman blends puppetry...
From influencing voters to making veganism mainstream, graphic design can change people’s behaviour. We’ve rounded up seven projects for our review of 2019 that demonstrate the persuasive power of good graphic design. Useless is a digital directory for London’s zero-waste shops Ethical creative agency Nice and Serious developed Useless, an online platform that directs Londoners The post Seven graphic design...
British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has replaced the well-known blue, red and white design of London Underground’s roundel with colours and patterns from the pan-African flag. Achiampong has reimagined the famous tri-coloured tube signage symbol for Westminster’s Underground station to spotlight those who have been «erased from history». The design was a public commission for Transport for The post Larry Achiampong overhauls...
Design agency Clever°Franke has created a logo for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 that combines the flag and year that each of the 41 participating countries first competed. The logo comprises a series of brightly coloured vectors emanating from the central point of a circle, like a sunburst. It will be used during the televised The post Eurovision 2020 visual...
In this Dezeen movie, jury members discuss the winners of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category, which were revealed last month at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Finnish designer Kalle Järvenpää was awarded first place for his Garden of Galaxy design, a personalised flower generated by an algorithm that enables every The post Competition-winning mobile wallpaper...
Dutch branding agency Studio Dumbar has designed a new visual identity for the Netherlands featuring a logo that combines the letters NL with a stylised tulip. The Dutch government asked the Rotterdam-based studio to develop a new identity that will be used to help enhance the nation’s image on the global stage. The project was The post Netherlands replaces «tulip...
Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. The typeface forms part of a project titled If Walls Could Talk, which Heimat’s Berlin office developed for non-profit street art association, The The post Heimat creates typeface...
Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze and writer Zurab Jishkariani have produced animated videos to accompany nine music tracks by KayaKata, the hip-hop band they lead. The videos accompany the tracks on the hip-hop duo’s latest album, which they compare to audiobooks or graphic novels. Each animated video has a similar format. A figure with its face obscured The post KayaKata creates «audiobook»...
Dezeen promotion: a personalised flower generated by an algorithm has won the wallpaper category in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. Created by Finnish designer Kalle Järvenpää and titled Garden of Galaxy, the work would give every Samsung Galaxy user the chance to grow a virtual flower, unique to their device, on their screen. The look The post Garden of Galaxy...
