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AIGA Research Explores Evolving Design Profession
AIGA has released the executive summary of its 2021 Design Point of View (POV) research, an in-depth analysis of the design profession, with the goal of creating a better community.
Birk Creative: ‘We Got You’
Birk Creative partnered with Advocate Health Care and the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to create a custom public outreach campaign that promotes COVID-19 informational and virtual health care options.
Big Win For 49ers Inhouse Team
The NFL San Francisco 49ers celebrate their 75th anniversary with a commemorative logo and patch by Art Director Aaron Llavore and his inhouse creative team.
TGG Balances Compliance With Beauty In Rx-to-OTC Switch
The Goldstein Group created a balancing act for Poland’s Aleric Spray as it moves from Rx to OTC, i.e, compliance with EU regulations and a consumer-centric design strategy.
Retaining Your Top Creatives In Uncertain Times
At this challenging moment, Diane Domeyer of The Creative Group suggests 8 ways that companies can support top performers and keep top talent from jumping ship.
Integrating A ‘PHD’ Strategy Across Brand Channels
Ryan Schmidt of Landor & Fitch contends that now is the time for brand leaders to reconsider how brand experiences truly integrate the physical, human, and digital to deliver authenticity and truth.
ThoughtMatter Envisions Equitable Coffee Future
ThoughtMatter creates a new identity for Coffee Coalition for Racial Equity that is rooted in America’s long tradition of social and protest movements.
Landscape Develops Identity For Disability-Inclusive Housing Group
Creative agency Landscape develops an identity and website for disability-inclusive housing organization The Kelsey. The identity focuses on inclusion through whimsical illustrations, bold type, and a color palette based on skin tones.
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.
Swarovski Logo Crystalizes New Era
Swarovski has unveiled a new logo and visual identity, to be revealed across all touch-points including packaging, retail and digital. Credits go to General Idea, a New York-based branding agency that is a favorite of many luxury and lifestyle brands.
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.
MullenLowe Design Helps Light FUSE
MullenLowe has created FUSE Group’s new name and brand identity, with the aim of expanding the group’s reputation for bold, smart building.
Designing For The [Uncertain] Future
Thanks to q30, while it waits for the day for the museum doors to reopen, the Ontario Science Centre is ready to welcome online visitors with a flexible, accessible, and engaging website.
Clarke Returns To Siegel+Gale As Digital CD
Clinton Clarke has joined Siegel+Gale as Digital Creative Director. In this role, he focuses on the intersection of brand and digital, creating digital engagements to bring brands and experiences to life for global businesses.
Jimmy John’s Brand Gets A ChangeUp
Feeling the need to evolve its ‘freaky fast’ reputation, Jimmy John’s and design firm ChangeUp sought to focus on quality – while simplifying the logo and amplifying other familiar elements such as color palette and illustrations.
2021 GDUSA People to Watch
Our 2021 / 58th anniversary GDUSA People To Watch spotlight on designers who embody the spirit of the creative community.
Pearlfisher Solution For McDonald’s Playful and Pragmatic
Pearlfisher has unveiled its update of the McDonald’s global package design system. The renewed design evolves the system away from prominent on-pack messaging for the brand, focusing more deeply on the ‘joy’ of each menu item.
LIFEWTR Features Black Art Rising
In celebration of Black History Month, LIFEWTR has released the Black Art Rising Series, a limited time bottle collection featuring the artistic expressions of three Black purpose-led artists.
COLLINS Composes Interactive Symphony
COLLINS launches a new vision for the 108-year-old San Francisco Symphony that seeks to redefine classical music for modern audiences. Responsive and variable fonts are a key element.
Moynihan Train Hall Branded As Gateway
W&CO brands the Moynihan Train Hall, New York’s most significant infrastructure project in decades, as a warm and welcoming gateway with a strong sense of place.
New MGD Identity Has Nothing To Hide
A new brand identity for ’90s beer icon, Miller Genuine Draft, developed by creative agency BrandOpus, embraces a more authentic ‘nothing-to-hide’ aesthetic with bolder colors, simpler type, and more distinctive eagle and sun icons.
Affinity Creative’s Sweet Wine Labels
Cynthia Sterling, Creative Director at Affinity Creative Group, recently led a brand redesign program for Oliver Winery and Vineyards that proudly embraces its sweet wine nature.
Sustainable Form Follows Sustainable Function
Tadd Myer’s book project unites printer, merchant, and papermaker to tell the story of ‘The Lobstermen of Little Cranberry Island’
Dove Creates Refillable Deodorant Package
Dove, one of the largest beauty brands in the world, has launched its latest innovation that is set to transform daily deodorant use: refillable deodorant.
HUSH Welcomes Michael Burkin
Experiential design firm HUSH is strengthening its leadership team with the addition of Michael Burkin as Director of Growth. He believes there are areas for the design firm to open up the conversation and talk about experience in a broader way.
Yuthas To Leadership Role At SpeedPro
SpeedPro, a large-format printing franchisor with 126 locations throughout the United States, has promoted Danielle Yuthas to Vice President of Marketing.
Logo Design Reveals Pfizer’s DNA
With the help of strategic design firm Team, Pfizer has introduced a new logo, dropping its traditional blue-pill symbol in favor of a double helix DNA spiral that is said to represent a new focus on ‘breakthrough science.’
Sales Guys Bragging About New Cars …
DJ Haddad, graphic designer and successful entrepreneur two-times over, recounts the story about what motivated him to start his own agency.
SECU Maryland: Seek and Ye Shall Find
Ad agency Planit launches a campaign and brand refresh for SECU Maryland, Maryland’s largest chartered credit union, to challenge the financial status quo and inspire those seeking financial wellness.
Standard Chartered Banks On Lippincott Rebrand
Lippincott has unveiled a refreshed visual identity for global banking brand Standard Chartered that is both digital first and unifies across diverse markets.
A Piercing Moment of Clarity
Gordon Kaye, editor and publisher, with thoughts on the 2021 GDUSA People To Watch and Students To Watch special edition.
FunctionFox Free For Small Teams
FunctionFox, a leading provider of timesheet and project management software, has released a new FunctionFox Free platform for freelancers, contract workers, or small teams getting started.
Pepsi Global Design’s New Rockstar
A new global visual identity refresh for Rockstar Energy Drink was created completely inhouse by PepsiCo’s Global Design team.
Shale Brewing Logo Redesigned By Site 14
Proactively designed by Joe Rosza of Site 14 with expansion in mind, Shale Brewing Company has a new logo that is modern but retains the brand’s signature orange color.
Shutterstock Trends: Individuality, Imperfection, Authenticity, Escapism
Shutterstock has released the 10th anniversary edition of its annual Creative Trends Report, highlighting both global and local trends that will impact creative expression and ingenuity in 2021.
10 Tips For Success In Your Creative Career
Where do you want to be in five years? Professional advice for young graphic designers as they start their “career journey” from Diane Domeyer, Executive Director, The Creative Group.
GM Logo Accelerates Electric Future
General Motors Co. debuts a new marketing campaign as part of the company’s drive to accelerate the mass adoption of electric vehicles. The “Everybody In” campaign also debuts a new GM logo which has been hailed as strong branding and critiqued as blanding.
JKR’s Tasty Burger King Rebrand
Burger King is on a mission to raise the standards for quality, sustainability and experiences in the fast food industry. To make their visual identity reflect this aspiration, they tapped JKR to create a brand world that modern consumers can feel good about.
Free 2021 Trend Report Visualizes ‘The New Normal’
The free Westend61 2021 Trend Report captures the mega-trends that will shape the post-coronavirus “New Normal” and shows how these trends can be expressed visually.