Lisa Strausfield will be at MICA for two days in March as the Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence, starting with a public lecture on March 11 at 7 pm.
Category: News
Abstract Symbol Eyes Animal Suffering
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv has designed a new simplified and abstract logo for Mercy For Animals, a non-profit founded by Milo Runkle to protect the rights of animals.
C&G Partners Makes Cool Science Connection
RockEDU provides students and teachers with the opportunity to work side-by-side with Rockefeller University’s world-renowned scientists. The new RockEDU Online from C&G Partners extends the outreach.
Pentagram Rebrands The Knot Wedding Website
Pentagram has collaborated with The Knot to design a new visual identity that is more modern and inclusive. It is being implemented across digital platforms and a quarterly magazine.
Two Recognizable Symbols Combine For Medical Cannabis Mentor
Here Design creates a modern, intelligent and approachable look for medical cannabis online education platform, featuring a logo that combines the cannabis leaf with the medical cross.
Bay Area Brand Design Firms Merge
Two respected brand design services agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area have merged; Affinity Creative Group and Sterling Creativeworks are now one.
Retail Voodoo Names Kelly Frazier To New Creative Position
Retail Voodoo has expanded its team with Frazier’s new position. She will focus on uncovering opportunities for client growth in the food and beverage categories.
Jan Tschichold’s Influence Explored At Bard Graduate Center
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars is a Bard Graduate Center Focus Project on view now through July 7.
Britnell Anderson Joins Cogs & Marvel as Design Director
Former Landor creative Brittnell Anderson brings design and technology mastery to the San Francisco office of Cogs & Marvel.
Gordon Kaye: The More Things Change…
Publisher Gordon Kaye on GDUSA’s 2019 People To Watch. And why, in this dumb and divisive time, he is feeling a bit better about where we are and where we are going.
Gradient Merger Creates Bi-Coastal Experiential Agency
NY-based creative agency Gradient has expanded, merging with LA-based social and digital agency Little Arrows and adding Jennifer de Fouchier as Executive Creative Director & Partner.
Laundry Creates Turner Ignite Studio Design System
Design and animation company Laundry partnered with the new Turner Ignite Studios digital entertainment studio for brands to create a logo animation and brand design system.
Lippincott Launches New Rocket Mortgage Logo
Detroit-based Quicken Loans worked with Lippincott on a redesign for their Rocket Mortgage product and its affiliates.
Third Partner Joins Peopledesign
Peopledesign, a strategic design consultancy located in downtown Grand Rapids MI, has recently made Jake Himmelspach a partner.
Ueno Brands The ‘Untourist’ Travel App
Travel app Dorsia is the newest brand, website, and app to come out of creative agency Ueno’s design laboratories. The logo is tragically hip.
Throwback or Flashback? Ad Inserts Printed On LSD Blotter Paper
Throwback or flashback? Regional advertising inserts in San Francisco area issues of Rolling Stone magazine, for Revive Kombucha, are printed on LSD blotter paper.
Admore Folders Is PIM Corporation of Year
Printing Industries of Michigan (PIM) has named Admore Folders its Corporation of the Year.
Ned Ryerson Helps Woodstock (IL) Celebrate Groundhog Day
Woodstock IL is home to the Groundhog Day movie and One Zero Charlie branding and design firm makes sure that no forgets that fact.
Lippincott Pilots Aer Lingus Brand Refresh
Aer Lingus’ new brand livery reflects the airline’s position as a modern and contemporary Irish brand. The refresh comes more than 20 years after the previous brand change.
Mastercard Drops Name From Brand Mark
With help from Pentagram, Mastercard has dropped its name from the familiar interlocking circles brand mark. The goal is to become a symbol brand like the Nike swoosh, Target bullseye, and Apple apple.
New NEA Logo Exudes Pride and Confidence
The new logo for the National Endowment for the Arts reflects the importance of the agency in giving all Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts.
Sagmeister & Walsh Want To Bring Back Beauty
Acclaimed designers Sagmeister & Walsh explore the essence of beauty and the transformative power of beautiful design.
Burns Group Campaign Anything But Flat
Burns Group develops a witty “Anything But Flat” campaign for Pura Still, a still spiked water, that lauds the lack of bubbles.
Bicoastal Chase Design Appoints Dunphy As NYC ECD
Chase Design Group has tapped industry veteran Steven Dunphy as Executive Creative Director for the New York office.
Toth+Co Looks To Expand With New Creative Director
Boston-based Toth+Co has appointed Kimberlee Eten as Creative Director to lead its teams in Boston and in New York, where she is based.
Custom Typeface Drives Comedy Central Branding
To advance Comedy Central’s new branding mantra, Everything Is Content, loyalkaspar created simplified concise language tailored to platform and user, supported by the Comedy Sans custom typeface.
Squarespace Captures NYC’s Kinetic Vibe
Squarespace is one of just a few tech companies that truly calls NYC home and the city inspired the attitude and aesthetic of its new identity.
10 Thousand Design Rebrands Nonprofit Proof Alliance
The Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has been rebranded by 10 Thousand Design as the Proof Alliance so that it can better share its message with a broader audience.
Pentagram Celebrates Scholastic’s Iconic Characters
Pentagram’s environmental graphics for Scholastic’s corporate headquarters celebrate iconic children’s book characters in a series of artworks and installations.
Character Creates Identity For Minimalist Palm Device
Character helps electronics company Palm launch a new smart device that ditches the bells and whistles of smartphones in favor of a minimalist phone that encourages fewer distractions
Bank of America Flies New Flagscape
Bank of America’s Flagscape logo gets its first update since being introduced in 1998, reflecting a more modern brand that delivers both cutting-edge technology and high-touch solutions for clients.
Hitco Logo Promises Chart Topping Music
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv create the branding for Hitco, a new entertainment label dedicated to producing chart-topping music.
Soulsight Creates Intriguing Environment For Research
Branding agency Soulsight has created Soul-Lab, a non-traditional, lounge style, consumer qualitative research facility for focus-groups, collaborative brand workshops, brainstorms and break-out workspaces.
Emotional Kindertransport Exhibition By C&G Partners
C&G Partners designed this exhibit, which illuminates the story of the effort to bring thousands of Jewish children from Nazi Germany to Great Britain between 1938 and 1939.
Regenerative Farm Harvests Alexander Isley’s Experience
Alexander Isley helps Philo Ridge Farm, a diversified working farm that integrates livestock, orchards, gardens and community events, to develop a brand and identity system that spreads the word about their mission.
Next-Generation Identity for Miami Marlins
The refurbished Marlins identity is energetic and vibrant in ways that uniquely represent the Miami community, with a focus on looking forward toward the future.
Chipmunk Symbolizes Third Party Bid
loyalkaspar invents a political third party complete with logo, branding and a slogan.
Watson Elevates LGBTQ+ Magazine
For it’s third volume, DROME magazine worked with acclaimed creative director William Richmond-Watson on art direction, as well as creative development, strategy, positioning and identity.
Wired Anniversary Cover Bridges Print and Screen
Wired’s 25th anniversary cover balances the tension between past and present with a grid made from past magazine spines. Original designers Plunkett + Kuhr were brought in to create the celebratory one-off cover.
Moving Brands Creative Director Has AI Expertise
San Francisco-based global creative company Moving Brands appoints David Cameron as Creative Director. He is working with AI and mixed reality to enhance media engagement.