Design Week Awards 2021 – the shortlist in full
We’re excited to announce the full Awards shortlist below. Stay tuned later in the month for our Winners Showcase, which will be revealed on the site as part of a
Book cover designs, adult colouring books, poster designs and more – all the latest work from designers and studios specialising in print.
New Philip K. Dick book collection showcases author’s “paranoid but joyful” world
The collection uses Dick’s sci-fi worlds as inspiration and features illustrations by 24 different creatives from around the world.
This “truly limited edition” typeface will never be available for digital download
Boke has been designed by Skep Studio and aims to bring the “joy of limited edition, scarce products accessible to people who don’t have hundreds to spend”.
Exploring the history of the BFI Flare LGBTIQ+ film festival through posters
Ahead of its opening today, we ask BFI head of brand and creative Darren Wood to talk us through some of his favourite posters from the festival’s recent history.
Design Week Awards 2021 entry deadline extended
You now have an extra three weeks to get your entries over before the deadline on 1 April and find out everything you need to know here.
World Book Day: designers reveal their favourite children’s book designs
To mark this year’s World Book Day – which celebrates reading for pleasure among schoolkids – we asked designers to pick their favourite children’s books.
Design Week Awards 2021 opens for entries
This year winning work will be given a bigger platform than ever before, we are assembling our biggest ever judging panel and categories have been tweaked for maximum relevance.
Design inspiration: the best projects from November
Another month spent in lockdown had some designers yearning for nightclubs and events gone by, while others are revisiting old projects or pushing new boundaries.
BIPOC visual culture journal Seen launches with “irreverent” design
The new twice-annual journal of film and visual culture takes some aesthetic cues from academia, while flipping others completely, according to its designer.
Malika Favre “bends bodies” into an erotic alphabet in her new Kama Sutra A-Z
The illustrator has worked with Counter-Print on a new book which sees her turn the 26 letters of the alphabet into erotic art pieces.
How Javier Jaén plays with everyday objects in his “symbolic” editorial work
The Barcelona-born graphic designer and his “playful” editorial portfolio is the subject of a new Counter-Print book.
Ben Tallon’s new book shows the “underbelly” of British street-level culture
The illustrator-turned-writer is self-publishing his new book, which features 21 illustrated stories inspired by everyday objects found on British streets.
David Pearson: “We can be braver with book design in the UK”
The former Penguin in-house designer talks typographic tips, avoiding apologetic design and why authors care so much about how their books look today.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in October
Designers have a pop-up garden, a deep dive into British logos, the Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and more to see them into the autumn months.
Winners of Penguin Student Design Award 2020 revealed
The 14th edition of the competition saw more than 2,000 entries from students designing covers for The Night Manager, A Short History of Nearly Everything and Goodnight Mister Tom.
Getting to know Marylou Faure and the “strong and feminine” women she draws
The Parisian illustrator is well-known for her playfully proportioned women and colourful characters — but where does this style come from?
Why flowers have “seduced” artists and designers for millennia
A new book from Phaidon charts the history of flowers as a medium for creativity, from the frescoes of antiquity to the product designers of today.
Gay Times redesigned as it switches to quarterly publishing schedule
The “untraditional” new look, created by its in-house design team, includes bigger page dimensions, updated Pantones and “unapologetic” typography.
David Pearson revisits Penguin’s Great Ideas book series with 20 new covers
Some 25 years on from its first launch, the series dedicated to great thinkers and philosophers is being updated with 20 more titles.
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.
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.
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.
Redesigning surfaces for a COVID-proof future
These designers are rethinking the surfaces we touch and turning them into COVID-killing materials, which can be fabricated as familiar objects.
Design Week’s favourite projects from graduate season so far
The Class of 2020 has had an unprecedented end to their university careers but the work from this year’s grad shows impresses all the same – here’s our favourites so