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Posts tagged 'Graphic design'

Brands give us something to believe in

Perhaps we should be happy to live in the age of branding? After all, it is the brands that are in thrall to us, not

Opinion

Patternalia by Jude Stewart

From William Morris’s floral wallpaper to the polka dot bikini, this book explores the historical, cultural and political associations of the patterns that pervade our

Opinion

Five typefaces you need to know

For our 150th issue, available until next week, experts from some of our favourite graphic design studios and magazines told us about the fonts that

Opinion

Food packaging: You are what you eat

Over-indulging on food has always been a symbol of wealth and status. But today, it’s not the produce that counts – it’s the packaging Of

Design

The Penguin Composition Rules

Swedish graphic-design studio Bedow says it’s time to rewrite the book on blank space In the late 1940s, the German typographer Jan Tschichold devised a

Opinion

Type and paper samples

It can be hard for clients to visualise the different effects created by fonts and the paper they’re printed on, says Fontarte. Enter Type&Paper: a

Opinion

Warsaw Metro

The city’s long-awaited second underground line is a riot of colour, with psychedelic signage by the father of Polish abstract art, Wojciech Fangor There’s nothing

Design

Money and Tough Love: On Tour with the IMF

Liaquat Ahamed’s journey to the heart of contemporary finance finds that, ultimately, there is nothing much to see. By Sukhdev Sandhu Finance can often seem

Opinion

Wikipedia

The oracle is beginning to look as jaded as a stack of encyclopaedias. It’s time to dust it off with improvements to readability and navigation,

Opinion

The Type Taster

In graphic designer Sarah Hyndman’s book, a series of games reveals the complex way in which we interact with everyday typography, says Icon art director

Design

Editor's choice

‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Vea by Villeroy & Boch: precision, elegance and the architecture of detail

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign

Tarkett presents Beginnings & Endings exhibition at 3daysofdesign

Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company




Architects

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

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


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‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign

Tarkett presents Beginnings & Endings exhibition at 3daysofdesign

Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company

Carl Hansen & Søn partners with colour consultancy Etté to reimagine its Clerkenwell showroom

Ferm Living debuts newly refurbished London showroom

Noelani Rutz discusses the subtle intricacies of her cultural design crossover between Japan and Switzerland



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‘We need to talk more about trees’: David Venables of AHEC continues his quest for the preservation of forests and the people behind them

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Finn Juhl and Sea New York’s collaboration finds a common thread

Vea by Villeroy & Boch: precision, elegance and the architecture of detail

Normann Copenhagen reissues Niels Bendtsen’s Limit Lounge Chair

‘Why not think of success as making people feel good?’: Signe Byrdal Terenziani on creating a more purposeful 3daysofdesign

Tarkett presents Beginnings & Endings exhibition at 3daysofdesign

Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company