Microsoft redesigns more than 100 of its app icons
As part of the tech giant’s drive to modernise in step with its Fluent Design principles, changes to Windows’ icons like calculator, email inbox and file explorer will soon be
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Pentagram’s Harry Pearce designs new identity for international human rights organisation
Witness, the charity that places importance on the use of video 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”.
True North designs Royal Mail Yearbook 2019
The Manchester-based design studio used a “versatile line motif” to link this year’s 14 special stamp issues, whose themes include Star Wars, the Gruffalo, D-Day and Elton John.
From Bauhaus to Berlin’s poster culture: a German design guide
In the first of a new series spotlighting design in different countries, we look at Germany’s diverse creative culture, from industrial to graphic design, which is both forward-thinking and respectful
Matt Willey: “A lot of rules about how a magazine looks and behaves are up for grabs”
The British graphic designer talks to Design Week about becoming a Pentagram partner, creating Killing Eve’s credits and magazines’ “very difficult” few years.
Design Week’s Christmas gift guide for designers
From books and stationary, to tech and experiences, here’s a selection of everything the design enthusiast in your life could possibly want for Christmas.
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
Pantone chooses Classic Blue for its colour of the year 2020
The “timeless and enduring hue” is a reaction to the fast-moving society and also the company’s first “multi-sensory colour of the year”.
Pink Floyd box set design: “A surreal metaphor for the band’s legacy”
Johnson Banks has designed the front and back cover for the band’s latest box set, The Later Years, in collaboration with Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell.
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.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in December
Christmas may be upon us, but designers haven’t shut up shop just yet – alongside some more festive offerings this month the Design Museum will be discussing diversity, George H.
This dating app for queer people is an antidote to “social media burnout”
Lex, an app inspired by traditional newspaper personal adverts, mixes “old technology with the new” in an attempt to create a “gentle” user experience.
“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
Royal Designers for Industry award recipients unveiled for 2019
Among the six designers who have been recognised are the lighting designer for War Horse, head of fabrics at Alexander McQueen and a newspaper cartoonist.
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.
Paula Scher: “It took me 20 years to realise I was good at my job”
After her highly anticipated talk at this year’s Design Manchester, Design Week caught up with the veteran designer to talk about everything from being a woman in the business, failures,
“Side hustles” can help stop the “homogenisation of design” – Daljit Singh
The designer took to the stage at Design Manchester’s DM19 conference to warn against the “sans serification” of digital design and to champion the side hustle.
Will variable fonts be the big type trend for 2020?
Monotype’s trend report identifies variable fonts, fonts which work across different alphabets and the death of the “monolithic brand” as the things to look out for in 2020.
Map showing damage caused by Amazon Echo scoops Designs of the Year 2019 prize
This year’s winners also include a low-cost self-testing HIV kit, multi-lingual graphic system and self-driving shuttle bus.
Designers mobilise public to vote on climate change
The poster database is a partnership between Glug and It’s Our Time, targeted at people who have not voted before.
This installation seeks to improve nightshift workers’ health
Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, The Liminal Space has created a travelling installation to help some of the 3.2 million UK workers who regularly contribute to the nightshift economy.
Terence Conran-founded restaurant gets a new visual identity
Dutchscot designs wordmark inspired by planetary orbits while branding uses marbling to replicate look and feel of food
Design Week picks: 5 speakers to see at Offset 2020
Our guide of what to catch at the Offset Dublin conference, which has just announced a line up including illustrator Laura Callaghan, Pentagram’s Rory Simms and Lego’s Jen Kronvold Frederiksen.