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Pentagram Recalibrates Warner Bros. Identity
Pentagram and Emily Oberman have recalibrated the Warner Bros. logo for a new generation.
Turner Duckworth Honors The Happy Meal
The Happy Meal box is front and center in a new visual campaign by Turner Duckworth for McDonalds.
Trollbäck Breaks Down FOX Logo
Trollbäck+Company broke down the FOX Entertainment brand and logo in order to reimagine it.
Women Design Directors Expand ThoughtMatter Leadership Team
New York-based brand design studio ThoughtMatter has named Wednesday Krus and newcomer Samantha Barbagiovanni as Design Directors to help lead an already predominantly female team.
Colle McVoy’s Interactive Holiday Mailer
A holiday card and mailer for Colle McVoy encourages giving to the WWF by bringing animals to life with augmented reality. The festive interactive experience is designed by 10 Thousand Design.
C&G Partners Depict Hunt For Bin Laden
C&G Partners designed the Hunt for Bin Laden exhibit at the September 11 National Museum; it unfolds as a (horrific) crime story.
The Atlantic Earns An ‘A’ For Design
The Atlantic has unveiled the cover for its December 2019 issue signaling the magazine’s first substantial redesign since 2008. Most notable: the name is now a simple “A”.
New Chicago Fire Logo Ignited
The new logo for the Chicago Fire Football Club was designed by Doubleday & Cartwright. It features a mirrored icon in which flames are inverted to become a crown.
Siegel+Gale Travels With Hudson
Pioneer travel retailer Hudson is now much more. A new logo and brand from Siegel + Gale captures the journey.
Substantial Rebrand Reflects Digital Optimism
Substantial embraces digital optimism in studio rebrand.
In Memoriam: Lifelong Bostonian Gill Fishman
Gill Fishman, a talented, successful, smart and empathetic graphic designer, fought a valiant, three-year battle with cancer that ended peacefully this week.
APTech Quarterly To School Higher Education Marketers
The Association for Print Technologies (APTech) has launched a quarterly magazine launches to empower higher education marketers.
Wolff Olins Presents The Complete View
Wolf Olins created the branding and identity for Breast Cancer Now as a complete charity that focuses on both research and care.
Johnston Is Creative Director At HUSH
Experience design agency HUSH adds multidisciplinary visual storyteller Garrett Johnston as a Creative Director.
Tobias Frere-Jones Is MICA Designer-In-Residence
Tobias Frere-Jones has been named this year’s Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence at MICA. It features a public lecture October 29 at 7 pm on campus.
Volkswagen Logo Drives New Direction
Volkswagen has a new logo was designed with the digital world in mind, hence a two-dimensional appearance; it is part of a forward-looking corporate facelift aprés scandal.
Website Design Captures Spirit of Collaboration
Level Group has designed a website for Express Newark that invites and promotes collaboration between the Newark and Rutgers University communities.
Sappi Ideas That Matter Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Sappi North America, Inc. has named 2019 recipients of its annual Ideas that Matter grant program. Celebrating its 20th year, the program provides funding to support the production and distribution of social impact print projects with integrated campaigns.
Spotify Ads Evoke Nostalgia For Classics
Created by Who Wot Why, a UK Spotify campaign features a series of quirky ads that target an audience of listeners who grew up from 1979 to 1999.
Murals Help Restaurant Claw Its Way To Top
Burger & Lobster reveals a series of murals created by brand design agency Vault49 to help the New York restaurant stand out in the Flatiron District.
Pentagram Brings Netflix To Print
Pentagram has named, designed, branded and set the tone for a new print journal that seeks to bring the Netflix experience to readers.
Paris Presents 2024 Olympics Logo
The Paris Olympics has a logo. The design is said to bring together three symbols connected to sport, the Games and France: the gold medal, the Olympic and Paralympic flames, and Marianne.
New Yahoo Logo Angles For Change
Pentagram has worked with Yahoo on a refresh of its visual identity that emphasizes the exclamation point to embody the platform’s amplification strategy.
Bonfire Labs AirDrops Forgotten Suffragettes
Bonfire Labs is behind a guerrilla-style activation where baseball card-like images of forgotten suffragettes were AirDropped to random people’s mobile phones in San Francisco.
Engaging Palettes From WeddingWire x Pantone
The Pantone Color Institute has partnered with WeddingWire to deliver inspirational palettes for wedding planning.
Frank Collective Campaign Just Works
Justworks and Frank Collective have developed a campaign that emphasizes the importance of workplace happiness for the HR tech company.
Jan Šabach Brings Father’s Moments to Life
Jan Šabach honors the works of his father Petr Šabach (1951–2017), a well-known Czech writer, with a series of colorful, optimistic, and dynamic book covers.
yU+co and Getty Celebrate Bauhaus 100th Anniversary
Digital innovation studio yU+co and the Getty Research Institute have joined forces in a new digital initiative that celebrates the 100th anniversary of The Bauhaus.
Pantone Fashion Trends Favor The Familiar
The Pantone® Fashion Color Trend Report Spring/Summer 2020 features the top 12 stand out colors, as well as current takes on the four classic neutrals you can expect to see on the runway.
Our 33rd Annual Stock Visual Survey
GDUSA 33rd Annual Stock Visual Reader Survey continues our documentation of this important and evolving designer resource
Karolak Is Gender Equality Manager At One Club
The One Club has named Kasia Karolak the Gender Equality Program Manager, a new role at the non-profit.
Johansen To Head Of Strategy At Pearlfisher NYC
Pearlfisher appoints Emily Johansen as the Head of Strategy at Pearlfisher New York.
Jessica Walsh Founds New Agency
Jessica Walsh, of Sagmeister & Walsh fame, has launched her own creative agency &Walsh. She joins a handful of female agency heads and hopes to help open the door for others.
Publicis Takes Café Bustelo Nationwide
A new national campaign for Café Bustelo from Publicis Groupe boasts bold, minimalist illustration-style visuals, with a retro poster feel and a nod to brand authenticity.
10 UX Designers to Watch
Adobe’s new UX Designers to Watch program, in its inaugural list, is spotlighting ten UX designers who are still relatively early in their careers, but already pushing the profession’s boundaries.
Energizer Bunny A Hero To DDW
DDW has helped reinvent the Energizer brand with a lighthearted Energizer Bunny and a highly strategic new packaging system.
Goodby Silverstein Crunches Doritos Name
Doritos is featuring the triangle shape of its chips in new advertising and design by Goody Silverstein & Partners that does not mention the brand name.
Huge Mobile-First Rebrand for Android
The Android operating system now runs 2.5 billion devices; a brand refresh from Huge and Google focuses on a mobile-first digital experience.
Special Olympics Athletes Craft 2022 USA Games Logo
In collaboration with Publicis Seattle, nine Special Olympics athletes developed the logo for the 2022 USA Games. ‘We felt it was never our logo to create’ says Executive Creative Director Pete Kearney.