This olive oil brand identity “celebrates feminine individuality”
Superunion has created a visual identity as well as bottle design for the Puglia-based farm to mark the appointment of its first female CEO.
Packaging
The biggest packaging design stories, from food and drink packaging to new trends in environmental sustainability and the latest debates around unbranded cigarette packets.
Letterbox deliveries are booming. How are designers meeting these new demands?
You can get wine, laundry capsules and deodorant posted through your letterbox now, and it’s testing traditional ideas of product and packaging design.
The world’s first plastic-free deodorant refill is made of bamboo pulp
Designed by Morrama studio, Wild is a compostable refill deodorant that takes aim at the cosmetic industry’s waste problem.
Design Week Awards extended until 27 March
As Coronavirus disrupted working patterns so much last week we’re giving you a few more days to get your entries together.
How could the coronavirus affect design-led companies?
Economic repercussions of the global virus outbreak on companies are likely to be “severe”. Could “agile” supply chains be the answer?
Holly Kielty: "Brands need to stop ignoring women over 50"
Design Bridge director of storytelling Holly Kielty says that women over 50 have become a “forgotten audience” who they can no longer afford to ignore.
O Street celebrates “spirit of lore and legend” in Denver Distillery rebrand
With a focus on handcraft, the Glasgow-based design studio has reinvented the distillery-pub’s brand through a new logo, labelling system and artwork.
How do you brand glasses for the visually impaired?
Design studio Reggie London has created new branding for Oxsight, a technology company that creates glasses which aims to help those with sight loss.
Durex’s “sex positive” rebrand introduces One Night Sans typeface
The British condom manufacturer’s new brand positioning supposedly takes a stand against “sexual taboos, stigmas and outdated, non-inclusive attitudes”.
Campari Soda redesign points to drink’s Milanese beginnings
The Italian aperitif has been given a new look and feel, including packaging design and wordmark, by Milan-based studio Robilant Associati.
The new BrewDog identity – who designed it and how it was done
The independent brewer’s new look has been created with Made Thought and marks a change in the company’s positioning as it looks to embrace a more sustainable future.
Callaly is a femcare brand that resists “traditional girly” design cues
Design Bridge has branded Callaly, a tampon subscription service, with an identity that’s “graphical” and retains a “woman’s touch”.
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.
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 ceremony.
Design in 2020 – what will packaging design look like?
As part of our series of design in 2020, Claudia Morris, creative director at B&B studio, looks at what will happen in packaging design in 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.
Vocation Brewery refreshes brand for year of special edition beers
The project was led by Leeds-based branding consultancy Robot Food, who came up with the brewery’s original identity back in 2015.
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
“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.
Plastic alternative from fish waste wins International Dyson Award
University of Sussex student Lucy Hughes had previously won the national UK prize, and has now been awarded £30,000 to develop the invention.
Sarah Hyndman: “Typography can be a tool for positive change”
With the upcoming release of her two new books, Design Week speaks to the graphic designer about our annotated world, crossing over into science and why she wants everyone to
Design inspiration: the best projects from October
From a law firm rebrand based on “murmurations” to an inventive use of drowned bicycles, these are some of our favourite projects from the last month.
Designers on representation in branding and packaging: “Inclusivity is not a quick fix”
Always has removed the Venus symbol from its sanitary products in a bid to be more inclusive to transgender customers. While this has been welcomed by the trans community and