Pantone reveals “youthful” but “timeless” 2024 colour of the year
In packaging and multimedia design, the colour of the year could be used to bring “a vintage vibe” to a project, according to Pantone.
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Design Week’s most popular long reads of 2023
From Twitter’s rebrand to X, to the collaborative process of designing the UK’s first gallery of South Asian culture, here are our top long reads of 2023.
Tracing the design legacy of Powell and Pressburger’s films
The design talents around the revered director duo are being celebrated alongside the creatives they influenced, such as iconoclastic director Derek Jarman.
Pentagram’s Reddit refresh aims to unite cohesion and “creative spirit”
Pentagram New York has refreshed the brand identity for Reddit, aiming to make its Snoo mascot “as iconic as Super Mario”.
Breast cancer detection and safety devices: the Prototypes of Humanity shortlist
The annual global competition for projects designed to help people and planet reveals its shortlist with categories reflecting the COP28 agenda.
A new identity for Resident Advisor’s creative studio by HelloMe
Berlin-based HelloMe has created a new identity and website for electronic music platform Resident Advisor’s creative studio, 23:59.
Paris maritime museum balances “emotional and sensory moments” with history
Casson Mann’s exhibition design for the renovated Musée national de la Marine looks to “bring the sea to Paris” and balances contemporary design, innovation and heritage.
How design helped OpenAI transition from niche to mainstream
Area 17 designed a new identity and site for OpenAI featuring “humanist ” design references and touches of “magic” as it moved from research-focused non-profit to a mainstream talking point.
Christmas window displays 2023: festive theatre and classic winter tales
Whether futuristic fashion modelled by Bauble-head mannequins or festive food with a mind of its own, this year’s Christmas windows displays will not disappoint.
Designing out racism is “work for everyone”
Design educators Lisa E. Mercer and Terresa Moses explain in their new book, Racism Untaught, how design can offer tools for anti-racism accessible to anyone.
New platform launches to help web designers navigate accessibility guidelines
The website is intended to offer web designers and developers clear instructions to make websites accessible for as many people as possible.
Koto overhauls music streaming service Deezer’s identity with pulsating logo
The heart logo has two “dynamic states” to mirror the experience of listening to music and is made up of rounded forms that inspired bespoke headline typeface Deezer Sans.
Soapbox refreshes brand and website for The National Centre for Social Research
The type-led identity and new website looks to foreground the organisation’s purpose as well as key findings from its published research.
“A discovery issue”: how creative careers app ERIC is increasing access to the industry
ERIC co-founder Samantha Hornby explains how the app is looking to make the creative industries more accessible to the next generation and how designers can help.
Things to do in November: the best design events happening this month
Our design recommendations this month include an interactive introduction to set design, in-person events from Glasgow to Brighton and design festivals in Ireland and Dubai.
Studio Elk devises modular closed-loop home-office furniture service
Designed to reduce the amount of office furniture waste in UK landfill, the Koru furniture system aims to position sustainability as “a strategic advantage rather than a corporate responsibility”.
Fairphone signals “cultural transition” in designing out e-waste
Speaking at Design for Planet festival, Fairphone founder Bas van Abel reflects on the origin story of Fairphone and how it is working to tackle e-waste and inequalities in the
How&How designs “out of sector” identity for energy services company Hometree
The studio looked to add “playfulness” and warmth to the brand with a leading yellow hue and a personified tree, which is the face of customer interaction.
Natural History Museum seeks designer for £300,000 installation project
Designers will work on two to three major installations for an exhibition centred around space exploration which will be aimed at 8-14-year-olds.
Design Bridge and Partners designs cancer guide for children and parents
The Oncology Guide takes cues from medical journals and doctors notes while a bespoke logotype has been designed to show the human touch.
Mather & Co designs interactive Belgian Beer World experience
A giant projection of a brewer’s head, an immersive 4D experience and hidden stories about historical brewers feature in the experience.
This platform uses island illustrations to show the climate impact of investments
Ustwo designed the platform using its “Play Thinking ethos”, incorporating baseball cards, illustrations and a vertical scale to make data more digestible for users.
Templo designs “Syrian-led” identity and website for Free Syria’s Disappeared
For the coalition of charities seeking freedom and accountability for Syria’s detainees, Templo crafted a flying bird logo made from the Arabic letterforms for Syria.
V&A launches interactive website in a bid to engage Generation Alpha
Designed with 10–14-year-olds in mind, V&A’s new website Mused looks to give young people “social currency” and the confidence to talk about culture on the playground.