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POV: Is it the designer’s responsibility if an app is addictive?

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?

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Unearthing the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans

We delve into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.

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Art direction vs artificial intelligence: A helpful tool or an added hassle?

AI-powered text-to-image tools are presenting a moral quandary in terms of creative ethics.

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Pentagram’s glossy Liberty Beauty logo draws from typographic history

After helming the 2020 Liberty rebrand, Harry Pearce returns to the store’s main logotype.

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Tokyo Dome City transformed with variable typographic identity

Tokyo design studio &Form developed a font that varies dramatically in thickness and motion behaviour with type designer Toshi Omagari.

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Are rebrands starting to look the same?

Graphic designer and writer Elizabeth Goodspeed looks at the current trends in designing for the commercial world.

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I’m a fake brand, in a fake world

The secrets behind designing a great fictional brand for TV and film.

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Koto rebrands Glassdoor

In an all encompassing visual and verbal rebrand of the job searching site, Koto aims to enhance the company’s dedication to workplace transparency.

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Take a look at the very first long-term brand for Sundance Film Festival

Porto Rocha pays homage to the institution debuting indie titles like Get Out and Little Miss Sunshine with a 16:9-aspect-ratio logo.

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Five typography trends set to make waves in 2023

From code and generative typography to type as a political tool, how and why we create type will be driving what’s coming next.

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The Instagram rebrand embraces the “squircle”

We speak to the design team about how the biggest challenges came typographically.

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Five logos worth revisiting from 130 years of branding history

Jens Müller gives us a lesson in logo history, unpacking five favourites spanning two centuries, from the niche to the revered.

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33 Letters for Ukraine expresses solidarity through language and design

33 Letters for Ukraine is an ongoing initiative to express solidarity with Ukraine.

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Pentagram’s Michael Bierut designs The FBI Guide to Internet Slang

Also featuring two custom typefaces from Matt Willey, the project is based on an official 83-page glossary put together by the FBI.

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The Egyptian Cassette Archive documents thousands of tape cover artworks

Curator Amr Hamid discusses how his rare archive of cassette covers traces the evolution of Egyptian design, and preserves it.

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Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design

In conversation with Abdo Mohamad of Boharat Cairo, we find out how the Egyptian capital is full of typographic inspiration.

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Form follows feeling: How Google is making digital experiences personal

Google’s new design system update Material Design 3 puts control in users’ hands, allowing them to design their experiences.

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Five design trends set to visually shape 2022

From gooey blobs in 3D art to posters and album covers drenched in intense, eye-searing colours, some trends had a big 2021.

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The French Dispatch

12 new posters for The French Dispatch feature each of its characters within the wonderful world of print journalism.

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Mark Bloom on his latest release and launching CoType Foundry

Since launching his foundry in 2019, Mark has released eight new typefaces including Betatron – his latest – which is inspired by sci-fi films.