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Caspar Lam & YuJune Park
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park are the founders of Synoptic Office, a New York City and Hong Kong-based design consultancy.
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Renée Walker
Renée is Associate Professor of Visual Communication Design at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
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2022 GDUSA Package Awards Showcase
The 2022 showcase stands among our largest ever and against the backdrop of accelerating packaging industry growth. More than 330 winning projects and campaigns from talented design firms, agencies, inhouse departments and more.
Cooper Hewitt Explores ‘Designing Peace’
Commencing June 10, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Designing Peace,” an exhibition exploring the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
Parsons’ Core Creative Agency At 50
Parsons’ Core Creative Agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This in-house design department looks back and looks forward as it continues to express and protect the essence of the brand, product, and mission.
Grady: Motion Is Branding’s Future
Kevin Grady is a Senior Partner in design at Lippincott, a global creative consultancy, where he spearheads programs out of the San Francisco office. He contends that motion design is the future of branding.
Univenture Invites General Public To Invest
Investors have the ability to join growing Biotech & Eco Packaging sectors with the announcement of Univenture’s funding round on investment platform WeFunder.
Gwen O’Brien: Crypto, NFTs and Design
An interview with Gwen O’Brien, an award-winning designer, currently working on her latest project, Design X Collective, a decentralized design studio in the metaverse. She specializes in NFTs, the blockchain, and the future of graphic design.
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.
How Modern Tools Are Reshaping Creative Workflows
Alan Reuter of MCD Partners on three ways the creative workflow is making the design and development process more team-oriented and collaborative.
Dockendorf: Ego Has No Seat At Table
Taja Dockendorf of Pulp+Wire on why ego has no place at the table when you aim to empower those around you.
Lippincott Unfurls NYC Pride Brand
Heritage of Pride, a nonprofit that plans and produces NYC’s official LGBTQIA+ Pride events, reveals a new brand identity by Lippincott that reinforces a commitment to uplift the community.
Maria Nicanor To Lead Cooper Hewitt
Maria Nicanor, executive director of the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) at Rice University’s School of Architecture, has been named the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, effective March 21.
AIGA Scholarship Now Accepting Applications
AIGA has announced that applications are now being accepted for the 2022/2023 academic year for the AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships program.
Comment: It’s OK To ‘Sell Out’
Why is there still a certain snobbishness about ‘commercial work’ and a squeamishness about the business side of the industry?
Debbie Millman’s Love Letter To Creativity
Debbie Millman has written a new book based on her award-winning podcast. ‘WHY DESIGN MATTERS: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People’ is available for pre-order now.
Colossus Cultivates Feel Good Greens
Boston design and creative agency Colossus has created its first campaign and branding exercise for Bowery Farming, the largest indoor, vertical farming company in the United States.
Jeff Hale Is First Head of Design for Walrus
Independent creative agency Walrus has named Jeff Hale its first Head of Design. In his new role, Hale will oversee Walrus’s design output across both the agency’s full-service and design-only clients.
Prophet Brews Purpose-Driven Identity
Anheuser-Busch recently introduced a new global company purpose and, with it, a new visual identity developed by Prophet.
Making Crypto Human
Blond has created a brand identity and strategy for cryptocurrency funding platform Vent. It seeks to simplify and humanize the concept of cryptocurrency for a broad audience.
Coca-Cola Rolls Out New Cans
Natalie Suarez, senior brand manager, Coke Choice Portfolio: ‘We wanted to modernize and simplify the look of our packaging to help consumers find the flavor they’re looking for on the shelf through a colorful but clean packaging design.’
2021 GDUSA Annual Awards Showcase
Our 58th annual showcase – sponsored by Verso Corporation – presents 700+ projects that reflect the many ways in which graphic design and visual communication shapes commerce and culture.
Gordon Kaye: Our 58th GDUSA Design Annual
We present our 58th American Graphic Design Awards Annual. The 700+ pieces showcased — and their creators — are among the best and brightest – and most resilient – of our community.
Mucho Rebrands VISA Two-Bar Symbol
Global design studio Mucho launched a new brand identity for VISA. Aiming to shift perceptions of the company as all about credit cards, the designers position the brand as “infrastructure that moves a payment from point A to point B.”
Using Code To Empower
Elephant, an IPG creative agency, has produced a new brand identity and website for All-Star Code, an organization that empowers young men of color to achieve financial independence and social mobility via the power of code.
Ksenya Samarskaya Is TDC Managing Director
The Type Directors Club appoints designer, strategist, and educator Ksenya Samarskaya to serve as the first managing director in the club’s 75-year history. Her vision runs from branding and vision to diversity and inclusion.
Rachel Zorel: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!
Thoughts from Rachel Zorel of 7 Layer Studio on how business leaders must redefine the ‘Work/Life Balance’ in the pandemic landscape. ‘Have your cake and eat it too!’ is about taking control of your schedules and respecting the precious resource of time.
Zero Launches Cannabis Company
Zero has partnered with two of the cannabis industry’s founders, Dosist’s Matt Seashols and Sunday Goods’ Randy Smith, to launch cannabis company Studio. After years of serving cannabis companies, Studio marks Zero’s transition to becoming equity partners in a cannabis venture – offering a family of creative cannabis brands that prioritize education, accessibility and reliability. […]