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.
Anna Sing Creates A Bouquet Of Typefaces
Anna Sing, a multi-disciplinary designer based in New York City, went on a frenetic 15-week effort to create four fonts inspired by the history of houseplants.
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.
LBB Helps Halo Lead The Pack
Little Big Brands has collaborated with Halo to rebrand its Holistic pet food line as well as to introduce Elevate that is positioned as nutritious, clean and premium. To own the shelf, Halo and LBB doubled down on purple.
Vault49 Hires Susan Levy To Head Client Management
Susan Levy joins the team with a wealth of experience from the likes of JKR and Pearlfisher. She will be based in the New York Studio, but will be heading up the department across Vault49’s London Studio, too.
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.
Counterprint Book: Big Type Can Cut Through Clutter
A collection of work published by Counterprint focuses on how designers can be heard above the noise with an emphasis on typography.
Graeme Williams To Equator As Creative Director
Equator has appointed Graeme Williams as Creative Director. He has more than 20 years experience in brand and retail strategy, visual storytelling, art direction and packaging creation.
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.
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.
Seventh Generation’s Overlapping Leaves
Seventh Generation has unveiled the biggest brand evolution in its 30+ year history including a new logo incorporating seven overlapping leaves and a molecular-inspired packaging visual identity.
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.
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.
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.
Tweaking A Milton Glaser Logo
Brooklyn Brewery has launched its global design refresh by Robot Food. Building carefully and respectfully on a logo created by design legend Milton Glaser, the design firm notes that “It’s all too easy to f*** up an icon.”
Pentagram, NYT Top Type Directors Club Competition
The winners of the Type Directors Club TDC68 Communication Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions have been announced. Pentagram and The New York Times Magazine were the most honored.
Dirt Matters To Affinity Creative Group
Raventós Codorníu engaged Affinity Creative Group for an eyebrow-raising and differentiating branding for their latest California grown wine. The solution: a play on the double meaning of dirt.
Phil Hamlett: Alexa Show Changes The Conversation
As a former AIGA national board member and co-author of The Living Principles for Design, Phil Hamlett discusses how designers must stretch and grow as design breaks free from print and even screens.
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.
Orgain HydroBoost Separates From Pack
Launch Innovation recently completed a branding and design project for client, Orgain, a nutritional supplement company. Packaging and labeling sends a clean and healthy message.
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.
Baskin-Robbins Says ‘Seize The Yay’
Baskin-Robbins’ new logo and identity system were designed by experience agency ChangeUp to celebrate the heritage but modernize the brand. Leaning into the long time use of circus imagery, the look is meant to be fun and bold.
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.
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.
Jones Soda Adds AR Labels
Jones Soda releases a new collection of augmented reality (AR) labels that turn into short action videos of daredevil athletes, edgy artists and other masters of their preferred crafts. This marks the brand’s third AR series.
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.
Chelsea Conrad Joins WaPo Design Department
Chelsea Conrad is joining the Design Department of The Washington Post as a news designer. She comes over from NPR and is a graduate of MICA and the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.