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Branding
The latest news, analysis and opinion on visual identities, rebrands and logo design, from sports brands to start-up tech companies.
Pentagram has designed a screen-free audio platform which puts kids in control
The Yoto Player — a connected speaker with a light-up smiley face — can play stories, music, radio and podcasts for children.
How to build a streetwear brand and influence people
It’s one of the biggest fashion trends of the last 30 years, but despite sharper styling and direction than ever, brand leaders tell Design Week the key to authentic streetwear
DixonBaxi develops “intuitive” Premier League experience for Amazon
The partnership between the shopping giant’s streaming service and the world’s most-watched sports championship saw the first match streamed last year.
Rebranding a children’s football charity with “vibrancy and punch”
Alphabet has updated the identity of Football Beyond Borders with the aim of engaging the charity’s younger demographic.
Design Week Awards 2020 opens for entries
Entries are open for the Design Week Awards. We’re building on the success of last year’s new look awards by overhauling our digital categories and bringing you another accessible
The UAE reveals new logo but will it work?
The national branding identity — the country’s first – aims to drive development in various sectors, from tourism to business across the regions.
Flying the flag: the growing design trend across regional Scotland
As more Scottish communities opt to design their own regional flags, Design Week explores where the trend comes from, and how the practice has been modernised.
Showtown: Blackpool’s first museum inspired by “joy and whimsy” of town
The branding has been led by Manchester-based True North and positions the new museum with “all the charm, appeal and entertainment value of a top-bill seaside attraction”.
Designers share their resolutions: It’s a year for “direct action”
We asked designers what they are resolving to do differently this year and they showed us how the political disorder and climate crisis of 2019 will inform their work in
National Children’s Bureau gets a “child friendly but not childish” rebrand
Brand consultancy Lantern has updated the children’s charity’s identity, including a new logo, bespoke typeface and an added digital focus.
Design in 2020 — what will branding look like?
As part of our series about design in 2020, Emma Barratt, creative director at Wolff Olins, looks at what brand design will look like over the next 12 months.
Our favourite festive design projects of the year
From a Santa lifestyle brand, to a brain-teasingly festive mobile app, these are our favourite projects this Christmas season.
Take Design Week's quiz of the year 2019
Think you know what happened in design this year? Test yourself with our quiz.
From Extinction Rebellion to Virgin's Varga girl: designers' biggest moments of 2019
It’s been a year marked by protest and politics, which has in turn given way to a host of memorable design moments – as it wraps up, we ask designers
This humanitarian rebrand “avoids the usual charity tropes”
Design studio Nice and Serious has given humanitarian organisation Start Network a new visual identity, based on the group’s “disruptive” thinking.
Pentagram’s Harry Pearce designs new identity for international human rights organisation
Witness, the charity that places importance on the use of video and technology to highlight human rights issues, has been rebranded to “encourage collaboration and participation”.
This landscape architecture firm’s rebrand looks to “reconnect people and nature”
Grant Associates has been given a new identity by design studio Supple, which looks to put people “in mind of nature”.
The 10 biggest rebrands and logo designs of 2019
We look back at our most popular stories across branding and logos from the last year, from a sustainable (and undeniably French) identity for the Paris Olympics to BT’s 50th
Design inspiration: the best projects from November
From an immersive rendering of King Kong to a map that breaks down the UK into 1400 songs, these are some of our favourite studio projects from November.
Mooncup packaging redesign: “It’s time the product shouted proudly from the shelf”
Established in 2002, the Mooncup was the first menstrual cup on the market – a brand overhaul from Bluemarlin looks to strengthen its position as an “ethical pioneer”.
“Trust, transparency, and no cannabis leaves” – designing for the UK’s CBD market
Market value is set to reach almost £1 billion in the next five years, but experts say careful design is needed to ensure products don’t suffer from preconceived negative associations
Eurovision’s 2020 identity combines all 41 competing countries’ flags
Dutch design studio Clever Franke developed the “data-driven” identity for the singing competition’s 65th anniversary.
Byron overhauls image in attempt to usher in a “new era”
A restaurant redesign, visual update and revamped menu is being rolled out with the aim of reversing the burger chain’s fortunes.