Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Charlene Prempeh’s Now You See Me book celebrates the work of Black designers during the past century – from the lauded to the chronically overlooked. Here, she selects nine that have had a particularly significant impact. Titled Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design, the book features architects, fashion designers and graphic artists and was launched...
A group of Rhode Island School of Design graduate students have created design projects and a research database examining a majority Black neighbourhood that was destroyed in the 19th century. Students spent a semester in dedication to establishing modes of permanence for forgotten architectures by establishing this archive using traces of life such as newspaper articles and other found materials...
San Francisco-based design agency Manual has created colourful branding for the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity centred around a shape-shifting, «curious» lowercase «e». The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is a newly launched non-profit dedicated to preserving the legacy of Charles and Ray Eames through physical and digital public programming that showcases a vast archive. Manual has created a graphic...
Design studio Little Troop has developed a limited-edition board game that explores the contradictory expectations and demands placed on women in a patriarchal society. Designed for American beauty brand Billie, No Worries If Not mixes elements of popular board games like The Game of Life and Snakes and Ladders with a hyper-vivid colour scheme to reflect the satirical tone of the...
Dessert brand Jell-O has received its first makeover in ten years courtesy of branding agency BrandOpus, featuring a bolder, blockier logo and hyperreal renders of pudding swirls and jelly fruits. The aim of the rebrand was to attract both parents and kids through «imaginative and playful» imagery, BrandOpus creative director Rebecca Williams explained. BrandOpus has updated Jell-O’s logo for the...
Canadian dog brand Earth Rated has received a holistic overhaul from design agency Layer, encompassing new canine-friendly branding and a range of toys designed for more «stimulating, long-lasting and enjoyable play». The extensive two-year project saw Layer, led by designer Benjamin Hubert, expand the brand’s product portfolio beyond commercially compostable poo bags to include a range of other dog-walk supplies...
The shift from printed media to digital has led to the death of editorial expression in graphic design, according to British designer Neville Brody. Brody, a leading figure in graphic design and typography, told Dezeen that digital media has created a fundamental shift «from expressing content to just delivering content». «When we shifted from print to digital, I think people...
The director of CY École de Design in France has criticised Dezeen over our reader competition to design artwork for a new editorial series using generative AI. Dominique Sciamma said the initiative risked «people thinking that anyone able to type some prompts could take the place of skilled professionals». Dezeen recently ran a competition calling for readers to create the...
Following the conclusion of Dezeen’s reader competition to design the artwork for the AItopia series using text-to-image tools, here we publish the 10 shortlisted entries. To help introduce AItopia, our new editorial series exploring the short-term and future implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for design and architecture, we asked readers to come up with visual branding using generative AI programs...
British architect and designer Selina Yau has won Dezeen’s competition to produce the artwork for our new AItopia editorial series using text-to-image software. Announced by AI designer Tilly Talbot, Yau’s haunting illustration was created using Midjourney. It shows a future with two hooded figures moving through a field of flowers facing a cluster of strange, cloud-like objects that contrast with...
Thanks to everyone who has already taken part in our competition to use AI image generators to design the artwork for Dezeen‘s next editorial series. If you haven’t yet, enter for the chance to win £1,000! Our next editorial series, named AItopia, will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact design and architecture. The winning design will form the artwork...
This week on Dezeen, we launched a contest to design the artwork for our upcoming series focused on how artificial intelligence will impact architecture and design. To mark the start of the series we are inviting our readers to create an artwork using artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-image generators, with the winner receiving £1,000. Along with the winner, 10 shortlisted designs will be featured...
