The week in design
Our most-read stories of the week
1. Coca-Cola is launching a new milk brand Fairlife, which will cost twice the amount of standard milk.
2. What does it take to be a successful freelance designer? We talk to UK Freelancer of the Year Rebecca Shipham to find out.
3. Colgate is launching a new identity developed by The Partners, which features a new typeface created by Fontsmith.
Our most popular Tweet of the week
Here are the mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympics (as yet unnamed…): http://t.co/Q7JgdaJF3O pic.twitter.com/d1wMVWvB97
— Design Week (@Design_Week) November 24, 2014
Our favourite Tweets of the week
Modern University Buildings: beautiful set of stamps from 1971 http://t.co/kieRx3Lx4f pic.twitter.com/EP2nW9tJEF
— John Grindrod (@Grindrod) November 28, 2014
#SaveKemistryGallery has been FUN(ded)! Please share our #SaveKemistryGallery @kickstarter gif! pic.twitter.com/9tBDw8lIDu
— Kemistry Gallery (@KemistryGallery) November 27, 2014
Graphic design in Clerkenwell pic.twitter.com/OFtxjc4Qfj
— Tim Rich (@66000mph) November 25, 2014
Image of the week
We love these moving gif images from photographer Chris O’Donovan.
Quote of the week
“When I was in Italy before we even put pen to paper we were sitting down in front of the guy with the machine being lectured. And there were no inhibitions from him about who was the boss – he was telling us how our designs were going to be.” Former Habitat and John Lewis design chief Theo Williams offers his perspective on the design process.
Our favourite website
This interactive Hobbit film website, developed with Google, is pretty epic.
Design stories in the national press
Spanish football club Valencia has ditched a new version of its bat logo following opposition from Batman publisher DC Comics. The Guardian has more.
A New York design business called Uber is being inundated with angry phone calls about the taxi app of the same name, according to the New York Post.
The Great Interior Design Challenge, hosted by Tom Dyckhoff is back for a second series on the BBC.
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