Fortnight Collective develops packaging and brand identity for Allkind hard kombucha that speaks to the core of the product – uplifting, healthy and organic.
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Conran Design Group Adds Ankur Naik
Conran Design Group has brought on brand storyteller Ankur Naik as Senior Strategist. Naik has worked with leading brands including Burton, Target, BarkBox, Google, Spotify, Showtime and AES.
25 Logos In 25 Weeks
Up and coming design studio Kalakatta takes on an ambitious project at the height of the pandemic: 25 logos in 25 weeks.
Sunday Afternoon Brings Gaming Vibe To Rebrand
Hybrid creative studio and artist rep agency Sunday Afternoon has helped rebrand the former Liquid Advertising, a leading ad agency serving the gaming and entertainment industries.
Hilo Life Declares ‘No More Snackrifice’
PepsiCo’s in-house design team has launched an extension to keto-friendly brand, Hilo Life. Hilo Life Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips are the first keto-friendly chip made with almond flour.
Match.com Brand Communicates Trust
Match.com has a complete brand relaunch led by COLLINS. With its new creative direction and approach, the 25 year old online dating giant is encouraging what it hopes will be a more powerful conversation about intimacy and love.
Richard Poulin Shines Light On Rudolph de Harak
Richard Poulin has written a major monograph of an unsung hero of mid-century modernist graphic design. A trailblazing American graphic designer, Rudolph de Harak worked across multiple media in a career spanning five decades of the 20th century.
SCS Helps Discovery Move Massive Content Online
Independent agency SCS supported the Discovery product creative team’s challenge of preparing the user experience design for streaming app, Discovery+ and over 1,000 show titles for the Discovery+ platform.
Phenomenon Branding Tackles Fatty Stigma
Fatty15, a health supplement, was named to prompt conversation about the importance of healthy fat as part of an expansive branding program by Los Angeles agency, Phenomenon.
2020 GDUSA Design Annual
Our 57th anniversary winners’ showcase, the 2020 GDUSA Design Annual reflects the increasingly expansive ways in which graphic design shapes business and society.
Taamrat Amaize Joins COLLINS
Taamrat Amaize joins COLLINS as Head of Strategy. She will help the branding and design agency confront a growing skepticism of brands, and was integral to their recent work reimaging Robinhood.
2020 Responsible Designers to Watch
Exclusively sponsored by Domtar, GDUSA presents it annual selection of leading creatives who exemplify the ‘designing for good’ movement.
Gus Granger
Gus Granger is a Dallas-based brand design and strategy consultant.
Dio Jensen
Dio Jensen is a designer, educator, and illustrator.
Cornell Beard
Cornell Beard is an associate designer at Minneapolis design firm 10 Thousand Design.
Kelli Miller
Kelli Miller is the co-founder of creative studio And/Or, a creative production studio known for intelligent humor and bold, systematic design in motion.
Arturo Martinez
Arturo Martinez is a culturally connected strategist who brings a rich and diverse experience to conceptualize creative ideas through a passion for design thinking, visual design, and understanding.
Kacy Lamb
Kacy Lamb is the Art Director for Children’s Hospital of Colorado.
David Langton + Jim Keller
Langton Creative Group is a digital branding firm that designs visual and messaging solutions that start with a strategy.
Sarah E. Rutherford
Sarah E. Rutherford is an Associate Professor of Design at Cleveland State University.
Andrew Brynjulson
Andrew Brynjulson is an award-winning designer, art director, and brand strategist who has spent over 10 years in the marketing world.
Leslie Greenly Smith
Leslie Greenly is the Smith Marketing and Communications Director for Harford County Public Library, a recognized innovator and leader among the nation’s public libraries.
Sam Aquillano
Sam Aquillano is the Founder and Executive Director of Design Museum Everywhere.
Rinat Aruh
Rinat Aruh is Co-Founder and CEO of Aruliden, an award-winning design agency that specializes in purpose-driven product design, branding, and creative strategy from zero to launch.
Nancy Abbott
Nancy Abbott is the Senior Graphic Designer at the DuPage Children’s Museum (DCM).
Heather Barbis
A creative problem-solver, Heather Barbis is the founder and lead creative of HB Design, a design studio based in Morro Bay CA.
Gianmaria Schonlieb
Gianmaria Schonlieb is a Creative Director at Lyft.
Pam Tremble
Pam Tremble is the lead graphic designer for executive administration at Oakland County, Michigan.
Valerie Aurilio
As General Manager for Landor Chicago, Valerie Aurilio drives collaboration, consensus, and innovation in service of big – and meaningfully different – ideas.
Annabel Mangold
Mangold Design is an award-winning boutique design and brand strategy studio located in Napa, California led by Annabel Mangold.
Jennifer Bergamini
Jennifer Bergamini founded Alamini Creative Group (ACG), an integrated creative agency specializing in branding, website development, and marketing communications, in 1997.
Kelly O’Halloran
Kelly O’Halloran is a Minneapolis-based graphic designer and artist.
Designers Resilient In Adversity
A GDUSA reader poll sponsored by Verso Corporation, papermakers extraordinaire, reveals a surprisingly positive can-do attitude among graphic designers in the face of adversity.
Carsation Becomes Skedaddle
Carsation becomes Skedaddle with rebranding from The Gate NY. Graphics support the value proposition of fast-turnaround, online used-car sales.
LogoLounge 2020 Trend Report
The LogoLounge 2020 trend report is an observation on the logo industry: the ideas here can push your design skills to the next level and keep the trajectory moving to the next iteration.
Counters
There are more than enough idioms in our language that lambast the individual that can’t spot the obvious: They can’t see the forest for the trees; Couldn’t see it if it hit you; Hidden in plain sight; or a personal favorite, Can’t see a hole in a ladder. Though questioning a designer’s perspective can be […]
Mazes
Mazes and their inception have always puzzled me. In classical times, I can imagine them being laid out and pruned within an inch of their life to amuse the owner of some well-healed estate. On the other hand, I can see that they could have been a way for the elite to dispose of boorish […]
Sisters
Humans have a desire to achieve a level of balance and harmony. We like to create order. As a rule, order can give us a sense of wellbeing. This is all part of a much bigger psychological conversation associated with the Gestalt theory, but for the purpose of this trend it’s driven by our comfort […]
Chexmelt
Sometimes an aesthetic meets it demise and no one remembered to tell it. A bit like my feelings for designs that trod out the old circuit board solder pathways careening around like a pair of Tron cycles abruptly flaring out to terminate in a silver dot cul-de-sac. That technology probably took us to the moon […]
Bevel Tips
Each trend report manages to identify a shape or two that rapidly populate every designer’s kit of parts like words that enter the news cycle based on a sheet of talking points. Every pundit uses the phrase like it spontaneously leapt to their lips, and every designer uses the shape of the hour with the […]