In-house teams: Penguin Creative on building "design legacy" into its future
As part of our series looking at in-house design teams, we speak to Penguin Creative creative director Tim Lane about keeping the publisher looking and feeling relevant.
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The latest graphics projects spanning logo design, animation and print, along with interviews with up-and-coming and established graphic designers.
From branding to Bake Off: inside the delicious world of food illustration
We ask three food illustrators working in editorial, branding and television about their inspirations, styles and the recipe for good work.
Penguin reveals shortlist of Student Design Award 2020
A total of 30 book cover designs for The Night Manager, A Short History of Nearly Everything and Goodnight Mister Tom have been unveiled.
Royal Mail’s Sherlock Holmes stamps contain “secret messages”
To celebrate ten years since the blockbuster BBC adaptation of the fictional detective, Royal Mail has released a range of Sherlock-themed stamps.
Design Week’s favourite projects from graduate season so far – part two
Graduate season is in full swing now, so we’ve rounded up our favourite projects from the most recently opened online showcases.
In-house design teams: how does the Royal Mint design new coins?
As part of our series looking at in-house design teams, we talk to a graphic designer at the Royal Mint about designing new coins, Paddington Bear and the value of
Standards Manual wants to change how brand guidelines are designed
Hamish Smyth and Jesse Reed are developing a new online platform that will help designers to create guidelines and clients to follow them properly.
Uniform designs Mitre football for 2020-21 English Football League season
The ball design looks to tell a positive mental health narrative through its “fluid, organic graphic” which represents the “flow state”.
This identity for an arts start-up aims to “empower” young voices
The branding for Critics’ Club – which places students from underrepresented backgrounds on art criticism courses – looks to appeal to this younger audience.
Designers are helping the fashion industry spark a digital fashion revolution
The pandemic has forced fashion off catwalks and out of stores – this is how designers are helping move something famously tactile into the virtual world.
Can “visceral” graphic design bring the plastic crisis to life?
Plastic Free July aims to draw awareness to the plastic crisis and one studio project focuses on a hard-to-swallow element of the problem.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in August
While lockdown continues to ease, we’ve rounded up the best design activities for August – both indoors and outside – including a newly-opened exhibition.
First look: Inside the Design Museum's electronic music blockbuster
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers investigates the “futuristic dreams” of the music genre and its impact on design, art and society.
Design inspiration: the best projects from July
This month we were enamoured with offerings from across the design spectrum, from minimalist signage and intricate book illustrations, to sleek lighting and bold large-scale installations.
Coventry’s City of Culture 2021 branding is a “Brutalist blue tribute” to the city
Design studio Uncommon is behind the identity for the city, which will take up the City of Culture mantle in May 2021.
Using a zine to capture the “coronavirus zeitgeist” of creatives in lockdown
Bleached sees more than 40 designers and artists muse on their lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States Space Force rebrands less than a year after launch
While the latest branch of the American military revealed a logo earlier this year, it already has an update (and new motto).
The Prince’s Trust’s redesign looks to create a “brand of positivity”
SomeOne’s identity for the charity has been designed with the youthful target audience in mind, with a refreshed tone of voice and visuals.
Sunhouse puts a “new spin” on Twister ice lolly identity
The new look for the brand aims to reposition it as “permissible treat”, and comes with a redrawn wordmark, rethought imagery and updated packaging.
Toyota reveals new logo and visual identity for Europe
The “forward-facing” brand identity for the Japanese car company includes an on-trend flat logo in an attempt to create a more “premium” appearance.
Behind the Royal Academy of Music’s “gritty” rebrand
Johnson Banks has created the new identity for the music conservatoire, which takes a more “forward-thinking” approach to its competitors.
This “darkly poetic” identity for a data rights agency is inspired by Orwell
Design studio Accept & Proceed and poet Tom Sharp have created the branding for a newly-established data consultancy group.
Currys PC World’s visual refresh aims to create a “bright world” of branding
The new appearance looks to give the retail brand a more consistent and “ownable” identity across both physical and digital spaces.
DixonBaxi gives Regent’s Place a brand to celebrate “radical softness”
The identity for the neighbourhood centres around a graphic “R” logo, which the studio says is designed to “almost disappear” when applied.