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Posts tagged 'Graphic design'

Beazley Designs of the Year nominees go on show at the Design Museum

MK Gallery by 6a Architects. Photo by Johan Dehlin The list showcases technological innovation, clever use of materials, inclusive and accessible design and wry looks

Design

Yarza Twins: Solving everyday problems with graphic design

  The graphic designers tell us what Japanese animation has to do with getting sunburnt “Recognising the need is the primary condition for design.” Among

Design

Chinese Propaganda Posters: how design won the revolution

Propaganda Posters were a vital way of instilling the values of the new order after the Civil War in China, but they quickly diverged from

Design

The proliferation of infographics reveals a deep crisis in news journalism

Intended to shed light on a story, these turds of lurid colour now curse all of our newspapers, says Tim Abrahams In April 2016, the

Design

Ink and acid: The psychedelic design revolution

The youthful creators of psychedelic graphics transformed visual communication in the late 1960s. Rejecting the cold precision of modernism, they set off a riotous explosion

Design

Icon 161: Architects vs housing – out now

In our latest issue, Edwin Heathcote asks whether even the best architects have become too ineffective to solve the UK’s housing crisis. We also recall how 1960s

Opinion

Here 2016

Satire, human rights and the Wu-Tang Clan were just some of the subjects touched upon at the Here 2016 conference last week The fifth edition

Opinion

Red Africa: “The purpose of these posters was propaganda and education”

A series of artworks that shed light on the Soviet Union’s relationship with Africa until the 1980s is on display at an exhibition in London.

Design

ISIS magazine: ‘Dabiq is not only news – it is public relations’

As Islamic State releases another issue of its radical publication, counter-terrorism analyst Artur Beifuss takes an expert look at how the group has designed the

Opinion

Criminals worry about retirement – just like you!

The problem with living outside the law is the inherent lack of security. If crime can contribute to a nation’s GDP, isn’t it time that

Opinion

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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future




Architects

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO


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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition



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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future