Paris has unveiled a gold-medal-shaped emblem for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games that incorporates the Olympic flame and the lips of Marianne. The logo has been created as a combination of three symbols connected to the Olympics and France. It takes its shape and colour from a gold medal – awarded to the winners The post Emblem for Paris...
OlssønBarbieri designs Snåsa water bottle and visual identity
Oslo-based design studio OlssønBarbieri has created the visual identity and bottle for water brand Snåsa, which is made from materials that are easy to recycle. The Norwegian mineral water company asked the studio to «reflect a new idea of luxury» in both the bottle and visual identity. In response, OlssønBarbieri has designed a glass water bottle The post OlssønBarbieri designs Snåsa...
Re-public designs visual identity for restored Hafnia-Hallen sports centre
Local design agency Re-public used the lines that mark out various sports pitches as the basis for a visual identity and wayfinding at Denmark’s largest sports centre – the Hafnia-Hallen in Copenhagen. Re-public was asked to come up with a new name and visual identity for the Hafnia-Hallen sports facility, which was built in 1996 The post Re-public designs visual...
ArtCenter Viewbook features 40,500 unique modernist-inspired covers
US designer Brad Bartlett used an algorithm to give each copy of design school the ArtCenter’s prospectus a different cover, playing on the modernist graphics of alumnus Alvin Lustig. The Viewbook is a publication that the ArtCenter College of Design puts out every two years for the benefit of prospective students. It profiles the work The post ArtCenter Viewbook features...
Britain’s new £20 note features David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary
The Bank of England has revealed its «most secure» banknote to date – a £20 polymer note featuring David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary gallery, and a portrait of the artist it’s named after. A large see-through window with a blue and gold foil is printed on the front of the note, depicting the Turner Contemporary gallery The post Britain’s new £20...
Emerging London studio Gruff Architects wins award for best architect’s website
UNStudio, Zaha Hadid Architects, White Arkitekter and Gruff Architects, were named among the winners of the Archiboo Web Awards 2019, which spotlight the best websites belonging to architects and architecture companies. Gruff Architects picked up the award for best overall website, with judges praising the emerging studio «for using the website to make the practice The post Emerging London studio...
Pentagram creates «21st-century identity» for Yahoo
Pentagram has redesigned Yahoo’s logo and branding to give the search engine a «bold and confident» identity for the 21st century. The logo has been designed to be more simple and flexible than the previous design, but also look back to the fun of the brand’s «Looney Toons-style» logo from 1996. «Yahoo is one of the The post Pentagram creates «21st-century...
Simone Post combines hypnotic patterns with bubbles in wax-printed fabric
Dutch textile designer Simone Post has adapted a traditional wax printing technique to create a colourful fabric that combines 3D geometries with bubble patterns. Post, who is also a founder of design studio Envisions, designed the Bubble Block Wax for Vlisco, a Dutch fabric manufacturer that produces textiles for the African market. The brand, which has The post Simone Post combines...
Dutch typographer and graphic designer Wim Crouwel dies at 90
Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer responsible for the identity of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum for more than two decades and founder of Total Design, has died aged 90. Dutch typographer and graphic designer Crouwel, nicknamed Mr Gridnik, died last week in his hometown of Amsterdam at the age of 90. Tributes from around the The post Dutch typographer and...
Make Bank’s Print Project sees 20 designers create prints to fund arts education
Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. The 24 print designs were commissioned by Make Bank, a social enterprise instigated by Kirsty Thomas, a designer and co-founder of Tom Pigeon, The post Make Bank’s Print...
Glug creates digital database of protest posters for today’s climate strikes
Creative networking organiser Glug has launched its #ProtestByDesign campaign that aims to create the world’s biggest database of protest posters in support of the global climate strike today. Glug tasked a group of creatives from the design and advertising industry to submit their posters to a large digital archive, which currently contains 150 designs. Protesters The post Glug creates digital...
Top five wallpaper designs revealed in Samsung and Dezeen’s mobile design competition
Dezeen promotion: a vibrant rainforest, a personalised flower made by an algorithm and a screen that changes in social situations are among the finalists in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category, revealed today. Five designs have been selected as finalists in the competition’s Next Mobile Wallpaper Paradigm category, which sought new wallpaper designs for The post Top five wallpaper...