Desigual flips logo to show that Forwards is Boring
Stepping away from a sea of uniform brand logos, Desigual literally does a 180 as part of a new rebrand in collaboration with We Are Pi
Alex Trochut’s new project explores the unreliability of truth
The New York-based designer has launched a new platform that uses animated audiovisual shorts to represent the manipulation of truth in the modern world
Design studio OMSE on the future of type and AR graphics
London design studio OMSE was awarded Best in Book in our Annual this year for Agenda 2020 – an interactive exhibition exploring the graphic potential of AR. As part of our 2019 Annual coverage, we talk to co-founder James Kape about the show
Birmingham Design Festival returns for its second year
Full speaker line-up is revealed ahead of the event in June, and includes Framestore founder Mike McGee, Edenspiekermann LA CCO Paul Woods and Jennifer Daniel, who heads up Google’s emoji design team
How I Work: Vintage Creative Director Suzanne Dean
Suzanne Dean heads up the design team at Vintage, working on cover designs for contemporary and classic novels by Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf and Haruki Murakami. Here, we talk to her about her creative process, working with authors and the key to a good book jacket
Meet Visions: the mag that’s redefining sci-fi
Print mag Visions explores the many ways we’ve imagined the future, with an anthology of science fiction stories drawn from writers new and old. CR finds out how a revival typeface brought it to life
Monotype redesigns Helvetica “for the 21st century”
After almost four years of painstaking work, Monotype has created a new version of Helvetica – the ubiquitous typeface used by everyone from Apple to Nestlé and Lufthansa. We talk to Type Director Charles Nix about the challenges of updating a much-loved design
Richie Hawtin marks 25 years of his F.U.S.E alias with new boxset
The boxset from the electronic artist also marks 25 years since the release of his debut album Dimension Intrusion, and features original artwork by his brother (and long-term collaborator), Matthew Hawtin
