Pentagram celebrates the work of Muriel Cooper
To mark the 50th anniversary of designer Muriel Cooper joining the MIT Press, Michael Bierut and his team at Pentagram NY have created a series of animations celebrating her hugely influential work
Patrick Burgoyne
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For Black History Month, The Dots presents ‘100 creatives inspiring change’
The creative network invited 11 leading figures to each nominate ‘black change makers and creators’
Hummingbird: How the ‘world’s lightest folding bike’ went from idea to reality
Created by a team led by a modelmaker, a graphic designer and a commercials producer, working with a firm of leading motorsport engineers, the bike went into full production last month, with an electric version promised for 2018
NABS unveils new identity as it asks ‘How’s Work?’
The support organisation for the media and advertising industry is searching for the next generation of leaders to help tackle mental health issues
How Greenwich Peninsula Design District hopes to create a home for creatives
The new development promises ‘affordable’ space for 1,800 creatives in a huge new project by the Thames
St Paul skyways become galleries to tell refugee stories
Nancy Ann Coyne’s public artwork displays family photographs of immigrants and refugees across St Paul’s skyways
Typefaces for London
New type foundry launches with twelve fonts inspired by the capital, its buildings, language and traditions
UEFA Nations League identity from Y&R Branding
UEFA’s new international football tournament is represented by a vibrant system referencing the flags of all 55 competing countries
David Byrne In The Round
David Byrne is wearing white. White tracksuit top, white jeans, white socks, white trainers. He is sitting on a sofa in a hotel room and the sofa (can this be a coincidence?) is also white. His shirt bucks the trend by being black; rimless glasses hang from the top buttonhole. His silvery hair isn’t white […]
3D and the Art of Massive Attack
As a graffiti artist and painter, Robert Del Naja was the obvious choice to handle the visual direction of the band he co-founded, Massive Attack. As the band’s popularity grew, so did the scale and ambition of their sleeve artwork and live shows, both conceptually and in terms of process and presentation. This month sees […]
Be careful George!
Art director, graphic designer, and all-round advertising legend George Lois comes with his own slogan. Well, it’s more of an anti-slogan really, yet it has followed him around his entire life. “I kid around that when I was a baby in a crib, God or Michelangelo’s hand came through the ceiling on a dark and […]
Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel
In its meticulous creation of the State of Zubrowka, Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a typographic treat. The film’s lead graphic designer Annie Atkins was responsible for every graphic prop in the movie. We spoke to her about her work CR: How did you get into working in film? I worked […]