The Rockefeller University has a new iridescent display by C&G Partners for its annual award honoring women scientists. The design features a floating hexagonal lattice of lightweight aluminum and changeable translucent panels.
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KCRW Radio: Always On LA
work x work shares their rebrand of KCRW. The tagline is “Always On LA,” representing commitment to being LA’s connection to music, news, culture and community. The brand extends from web to merchandise, social to print.
Frontier Logo Promises Connection
A new visual identity reinforces Frontier’s positioning as a leading communications provider offering gigabit speeds to connect consumers and businesses in 25 states.
New Podcast Helps Navigate The Grind
The Creative Shit Show podcast, hosted by creative entrepreneurs, Von Glitschka, Justin Ahrens, Karen Larson, and Jamie Saunders, is intended to help designers, marketers and creatives navigate the daily grind.
Guest Artists Splash Color On Skittles® Pride Packs
Mars Wrigley brand Skittles teams up with GLAAD for the third year on the brand’s annual Pride packs. While they have historically been gray, this year’s packs get a splash of color from six artists of the LGBTQ+ community.
Adidas Bare Breast Ads Banned In Britain
The UK has banned a series of advertisements for Adidas sports bras that featured bare breasts. The campaign included social media posts and posters featuring images that intended to explain why the company makes 72 different sizes.
ADC Pioneers To Be Honored
The One Club will present the Manship Medallion to a select group creative leaders who have played a significant role in ADC history. Gail Anderson, Brian Collins, Paula Scher, Richard Wilde, George Lois, Eileen Hedy Schultz are among those recognized.
2022 GDUSA Top Design Schools
A list of our favorite institutions that prepare students to work in professional graphic design, based on a mix of objective and subjective factors, including our own decades long relationships. The list is alphabetical and the reach is national.
Jiménez Redesigns Batman Logo
The iconic Batman logo has been redesigned for the first time since 2011. The latest design, debuting in the 125th issue of the Batman comic book series this coming July, has been developed by new head artist Jorge Jiménez.
Lippincott Weaves Bonterra Logo
Bonterra, a merger of four technology companies who support organizations that do social good, has an overarching brand developed by Lippincott. The logo is inspired by the woven qualities of a quilt to suggest interconnectedness.
Practice Donates Guerrilla Print Piece For Outer Work
Practice shows what can happen when a studio donates time to a grassroots initiative. The Outer Work Newspaper raises awareness of the online anti-racism community’s work and ideology of change through joy.
Cutwater Floats Next Generation of Boaters Campaign
Cutwater’s campaign celebrates boaters from all backgrounds in an open invitation to explore life in, on, and under water. It includes an original content library anchored by a brand anthem film and stories of passionate boaters turned brand ambassadors.
Crunch Time For Tropicana and Cramer-Krasselt
Data indicates that America is ready for a new breakfast pairing. For increased efficiency in one’s morning routine, Tropicana, with help from advertising agency Cramer-Krasselt Chicago, has concocted Tropicana Crunch.
Häagen-Dazs Serves New Shop Design
Häagen-Dazs extends its ‘That’s Dazs’ initiative with a new design for shops, providing ’luxury where your are’ that can be enjoyed by all. The new design features a bright, bold color scheme, themed murals, updated uniforms, and modernized lighting and seating.
Rizco Rebrand Highlights Evolution
Rizco’s new brand highlights their marketing evolution from a graphic design firm to a full-service marketing agency positioned for greater growth.
World’s First NFT Museum Opens In Seattle
The world’s first permanent NFT art museum has opened in Seattle, aiming to “pull back the curtain” on blockchain-based digital art.
Kevin Hall Brands Milford Senior Center
Kevin Hall Design recently completed an identity program for the City of Milford’s Senior Center in Connecticut.
Sibling Rivalry Identity Is Classic
Sibling Rivalry conceptualized and designed the logo, trailer, screen passes, and animated elements for Turner Classic Movies 13th annual Classic Film Festival. The “C” is a nod to the iconic film reel that made up the TCM Film Festival logo in the past.
Unilever Food and Beverage Brands To Halt Kids Advertising
Unilever will no longer be marketing its substantial portfolio of food and beverage brands to children. Citing new global principles for responsible marketing, the conglomerate has decided to raise the age limit from 13 to 16.
Welcome to the Idea Shop, by Neenah
In partnership with Design Army, Neenah introduces the Idea Shop; a program of ideas and inspiration aimed to convey the power of paper and print design, to support the creative process on or offline, and to help modernize the paper specification.
Pearlfisher Serves Beanless Coffee
Pearlfisher has partnered with Compound Foods in their mission to brew a new beanless coffee that is eco-friendly and lab-grown. The branding focuses on the emotional and inviting appeal of coffee rather than the product’s scientific or futuristic nature.
ECP Designs For EARTHDAY.ORG
Extra Credit Projects is helping to bring national awareness and creativity to Earth Day through its partnership with EARTHDAY.ORG and the Out of Home Advertising Association of America. The theme: Invest In Our Planet.
Lippincott Plugs Hydrogen Revolution
Plug Power Inc., a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, reveals a new brand, purpose, and an optimistic logo with the help of venerable brand design firm Lippincott.
Warner Bros. Discovery Embraces Shield
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv have designed the identity for the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery to form Warner Bros. Discovery. The WB shield has been retained but updated.
‘Cash Is Best’ In USAID Student Design Competition
College students from all over the US created public service announcements about why monetary donations are the best way to help communities after international disasters.
Infinitely Generative ‘Unbiased’ Logo
Talia Cotton is a designer and coder at Pentagram, and a 2018 GDUSA Student to Watch. Her logo for GBA, a new arts organization, is infinitely generative, computer-generated but human-driven and, thus, the inherent design bias is reduced or removed.
Design Museum Everywhere Sets Week Of Programming
Design Museum Week will feature five days of virtual and in-person programs in cities nationwide from April 25-29. The organizer is Design Museum Everywhere; workshops, presentations and lightning talks are included.
Extra Breaks With Dental Hygiene Codes
Mars Wrigley approached Elmwood to rebrand Extra, creating a new brand expression to unify global markets, appeal to younger consumers, and transform it into a lifestyle brand that shifts from hygiene to flavor.
Barcelona Campaign Encourages A Greener City
Cuidem Barcelona is a new brand for Barcelona’s maintenance and cleaning service created by the agency Folch. The branding appeals to concepts including inclusiveness, empathy and citizen responsibility for a greener city.
Landscape Radiates Warmth For Cookma
Startup Cookma, a postpartum wellness meal delivery service, launches with an identity that focuses on warmth, tactility and motherhood by San Francisco design studio Landscape.
Rule29 Urges Stand With Ukraine
Rule29 has put together a campaign to raise money and awareness for Ukraine. This includes a website with multiple resources and, perhaps most important, a limited edition poster with funds going to help Ukrainian refugees.
Shakeel Makes Evian NFT’s Sparkle
Water brand evian has launched its first-ever NFT, making its move into the emerging digital art space. For the launch, 20 NFT artworks were done in collaboration with artist Sara Shakeel.
1883 Title Brings Tintype To Life
For the opening titles of the period tv series 1883 set in the Wild West, Elastic produced a series title that draws inspiration from tintype photography and its development process. 1883 is a prequel to the popular Yellowstone.
Sand Creates Stickers For Peace
Independent Nantucket ad agency SAND has created a Stickers For Peace campaign that raises funds for Ukranian refugees. Founder and Creative Director Grant Sanders prints the most popular sticker at the end of each month.
Foodbank Branding Freshens Mission
After over 35 years, Second Harvest has a new logo and branding by Planet Propaganda. The goal is to stand out in the modern food support landscape, promoting fresh foods, accessibility and optimism.
Instacart Logo Points To Future
As pickup and delivery service Instacart continues to grow, the brand is updating its look. Rather than focus on its familiar orange carrot, the emphasis has shifted to the green stem, which doubles as an arrow.
Wolff Olins Identity Flips The System
Wolff Olins has launched a new brand for DailyPay, which integrates with company payroll systems to enable real-time access to earnings, enabling workers to access pay on demand.
72andSunny Takes On Period Poverty
72andSunny has partnered with PERIOD. and other non-profits to raise awareness around period poverty. The design team highlights fact that sanitary products are not eligible for SNAP with a ‘loophole’ that delivers tampons with cereal.
San Diego Museum Identity Is Happening
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) unveils a brand identity ahead of reopening the La Jolla flagship in April. Happening Studios, the creative agency, describes the system as fluid.
Ogilvy Squares Away NY Phil Logo
Ogilvy launches a full rebrand of the New York Philharmonic as the NY Phil prepares to return to David Geffen Hall this coming fall. The identity features the square within Lincoln Center that lives within the grid that is New York City.