Graphic Design News
Moleskine Unveils Limited Edition Notebook Collection Celebrating 100th Anniversary of Coca-Cola Bottle
Moleskine has today unveiled a Limited Edition Notebook Collection celebrating the 100th anniversary of the iconic Coca-Cola glass bottle.
thirty: Exhibition Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
thirty, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of one of the first archives devoted to graphic design, opens at the 41 Cooper Gallery on September 10.
Behind Collections: Graphic Design and Promotion for Fashion Brands.
The fashion industry has always been a co-existing world for influential figures and fresh young talent, where these two sides relentlessly run into each other with their vision and talent.
Casa Rex Creates Identity and Packaging for CbyB
Casa Rex has created the visual identity and packaging for CbyB, the first range of chocolates by Brigaderia, the Brazilian confectionery boutique specializing in brigadeiro sweets.
Making Policy Public: Call for Designers
The Center for Urban Pedagogy's (CUP) is calling for applications for its Making Policy Public program.
6th Annual Typography Competition: Call for Entries
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 6th Annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
Design to Touch: Engraving History, Process, Concepts and Creativity
Design to Touch is a beautifully produced, comprehensive visual and technical guide to engraved printing, written for students of graphic arts as well as curious professionals.
Nescafé Azera and Tesco Embrace New Creative Talent with Psona 12's Help
PSONA 12 has developed a multichannel campaign to create impactful limited edition designed tins for Nescafé Azera by working with emerging design talent.
SEGD Xlab 2015
The 2015 SEGD Xlab, a design + technology conference focused on the future of user/customer experience, will be held November 5-6 in NYC.
Graphis Annual Reports 2014/2015: Call for Entries
Graphis is calling for entries for its Annual Reports 2014/2015 competition. The competition will feature the top annual reports submitted from some of the best international design firms.
Moleskine Batman Limited Edition Notebook Collection
Moleskine has today unveiled the Batman Limited Edition Notebook Collection.
Lead Belly Box Set by Visual Dialogue
From his discovery in prison to his genre-defying repertoire to his influence on musicians that continues to this day, Huddie Ledbetter - better known as Lead Belly - is one of the most fascinating characters in American music.
Adobe Comp CC for iPad
Adobe has just released Comp CC, a free iPad app that allows users to quickly layout design concepts for mobile, Web and print.
Ten Images for Ithaca 2015
This year, the annual Ten Images for Ithaca will be held July 13-17 in the island of Ithaca, Greece.
Graphis Design Annual 2016: Call for Entries
Graphis is currently accepting entries for its 2016 Design Annual. The largest and most anticipated competition, Design Annual 2016 will feature the most visually compelling design work of the year from the world's most renowned in the industry, across forty (40) different categories.
Creative For A Cause
Fiverr and Ad Age have launched a design competition that challenges designers and copywriters to create an NYC subway ad for C/I, a non-profit that helps underserved communities thrive in the Tech industry.
2015 SEGD Conference: Experience Chicago
Chicago has long been considered a hub for architecture, design, and innovation, and the 2015 SEGD Conference: Experience Chicago will gather experiential graphic design community together June 4-6 to focus on the future of experiential design and its impacts on the city and those who shape it.
HOW Design Live 2015
HOW Design Live will be held May 4 - 8 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, bringing together the top minds in graphic design, branding and marketing from around the globe.
Posterheroes 5: Food in the Loop
Posterheroes, an annual social comunication contest that aims to promote and to diffuse, in an international level, issues related to ecologic and social sustainability, is still accepting entries for its fifth edition.
Applied Arts 2015 Design Awards
The 2015 Applied Arts Design Awards is open for submissions. Launched more than 20 years ago, the competition celebrates the very best work produced throughout North America and abroad.
Kemistry Gallery: 100 Years of Graphic Design
100 Years of Graphic Design is a pop-up exhibition that will feature outstanding work from some of the finest young designers and classic masters who have shown at the Kemistry Gallery since its inaugural exhibition in September 2004.
Graphis Poster Annual 2016: Call for Entries
The 2016 Graphis Poster Annual is now open for entries. The competition showcases the top designs from the world's most renowned in the industry.
ED Awards 2015
The 2015 European Design Awards are open for entries through February 20th. The competition celebrates creative brilliance and offers a chance to promote your talent and establish yourself in the design market.
FilmDoo Film Poster Creativity Competition
FilmDoo, the new online film discovery platform for international and independent films, has launched a global design competition whereby three lucky winners will be given the paid opportunity to create artwork for an upcoming film release this year.
AIGA Celebrates 100 Years of Design with Limited Edition Collection by Moo
To commemorate the 100th year of AIGA, 100 designers from across the US were asked to select a year from 1914-2014 and design a social, political or cultural statement about that year.
ADC 2015 Awards
ADC announced its awards for 2015, including the ADC 94th Annual Awards, the ADC Tomorrow Awards and the ADC Young Guns 13.
Pantone Color of the Year for 2015: Marsala
Pantone has announced Marsala, a naturally robust and earthy wine red, as the Color of the Year for 2015.
2015 SEGD Global Design Awards
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design has launched its 2015 Global Design Awards, including new Interactive Experience and Digital Experience Content categories that reflect the shifts that digital technology is creating in design for public spaces.
City of Sydney Christmas Campaign & Branding by Holt
The City of Sydney has begun rolling out this year's Christmas branding, in a six-week campaign that will cover the CBD and surrounds in festive spirit across the spectrum of outdoor, digital and print media.
Life Agency Redesigns Monotype Recorder
Life Agency designer Luke Tonge has revived The Monotype Recorder, an influential typography magazine which relaunches this month as a biannual publication.
Type Directors Club 2014 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club's 61st Communication Design Competition and 18th Typeface Design Competition are now open for entries.
booksXdesign Exhibition
booksXdesign is a week-long exhibition celebrating the best in book and cover design from prominent Bay Area publishers.
Michael Doret to Speak at Typography Meetup in LA
Michael Doret, the designer known for his logos, album covers, and magazine covers and art for major brands such as Wreck-It Ralph, the New York Knicks, MLB, Time Magazine, Playboy, Wired, TV Guide, Kiss, Capitol Records and Universal Studios will be the speaker at the next Los Angeles Is Just My Type Meetup Group event.
Unilever's Wall's Lipton Collaboration Brought to Life by Bluemarlin
Unilever has united the forces of two of its biggest brands to offer a fresh new treat for ice tea lovers.
Graphis New Talent Annual 2015
Graphis is calling for entries for its 2015 New Talent Annual. The Annual provides a forum to feature the best internationally produced student work of the past year.
The Best-designed Books and Book Covers of 2013
AIGA has announced the results of its 50 Books/50 Covers 2013 competition.
2014 D&AD Annual
D&AD has unveiled the 2014 edition of its famous Annual, the indispensable guide to the celebrated work from the D&AD Awards 2014.
Graphic Digits: New Typographic Approach to Numerals
Viction:ary has released Graphic Digits, a groundbreaking review focusing on numeral designs and applications.
Communication Arts 5th Annual Typography Competition
Communication Arts' 5th annual Typography Competition is open for entries.
Spark Design Awards 2014
The Spark Design Awards are now open for entries. Now in its 8th year, the competition calls for entries in eight categories, including Experience, Product, Transport, Graphic, Spaces, Health, Screen and Concept & Student Design.
SEGD Xlab 2014
Xlab, SEGD's annual technology event on the future of immersive experiences, the collaborative process, and emerging platforms that can be used to activate your projects, will be held on November 6, 2014 at SVA Theatre, Manhattan.
DesignThinkers 2014
Organized by Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD), the 2014 DesignThinkers conference will take place November 6 and 7 at Toronto's Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
SEGD Launches Xplore
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) has launched Xplore, a new content portal that spotlights projects, practitioners, and award-winning work in this emerging design discipline.
Peter Mendelsund's Cover
As the associate art director of Alfred A. Knopf Books, Peter Mendelsund has designed the jackets for hundreds of books ranging from best sellers such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to works by Joyce, Kafka, Dostoevsky, de Beauvoir, and Foucault to contemporary novels by Martin Amis, Tom McCarthy, Ben Marcus, Jo Nesbø, and James Gleick.
SEGD Recognized Douglas Morris as 2014 Fellow
Douglas Morris, Principal of Poulin + Morris, has been named this year's recipient of the SEGD Fellow Award.
FloWater: Reimagining the Water Cooler
24 billion 'single use' plastic water bottles, in the United States, pollute our landfills, rivers, lakes and oceans every year.
Identity Colour Codes: A Visual Guide for Creative and Anthropologist Minds
Identity Colour Codes is the 100% visual result of a thorough study into corporate and social identity.
Graphic Design: History and Practice
Graphic Design: History and Practice is a one-day conference organised at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano that will focus on the relationship of graphic design history and practice, their convergences and tensions.
Spotify and Talenthouse Issue Open Brief to Creatives
Spotify has teamed up with Talenthouse to issue an open brief, inviting artists, filmmakers, designers and animators to create a piece of work that conveys how music makes them feel.
Troika Hires Seton Kim
Troika has hired its fifth Creative Director, Seton Kim, a two-time Emmy winner and the designer behind the original XBOX UI.
FiberMark Specifier Awards 2014: Call for Entries
FiberMark has launched its 21st Specifier Awards, presenting designers around the world with a unique opportunity for wide exposure and acknowledgement of their talents and ideas.
Aesop Serves Up a Tasty Identity for New Street-food Brand
Aesop Agency have created the identity for Toastits - a new London-based street-food outlet.
Innovation By Design Awards 2014
The Fast Company's 3rd Annual Innovation By Design Awards are now open for entires.
Moleskine Art Plus: A New Collection of Art Materials for Creatives
Moleskine has unveiled its latest collection, Art Plus, featuring 25 specially designed notebooks to choose from, categorized according to paper weight and absorbency as well as dimensions, cover material, and paper layout.
European Design Awards 2014
The 2014 European Design Awards, an annual prize celebrating the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe, is open for entries.
SVA Summer Masters Workshop 2014 in Rome
The 2014 SVA Summer Masters Workshop in Rome will offer a two-week intensive hands-on workshop in typography and graphic design in the city where Western type traditions were born.
Center for Architecture Issues RFQ for Graphic Designer for 2014
The Center for Architecture is calling for expressions of interest for its 2014 Graphic Designer Shortlist.
Masterclass: Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion & Textiles
Aimed at current students, recent graduates and professionals looking for a specialisation, Frame's Masterclass books provide an in-depth overview of the world's leading graduate schools that offer a master's degree in architecture, fashion & textiles and/or graphic design.
Shadow Type: Classic Three-Dimensional Lettering
Designers often look to the past for ways to enliven their projects. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words.
You Are Here: A New Approach to Signage and Wayfinding
Signage plays a critical and ubiquitous role in how we orient ourselves within our built environment.
64GB: 64 Eminent Creatives from Great Britain
Great Britain has been home to generations of creative talents. Where the world of design is a melting pot of cultures and functions beyond geographical boundaries, British graphics still stand at the forefront, breaking new ground with new perspectives, improvised skills and global vision.
Philographics: Big Ideas in Simple Shapes
Philographics is all about explaining big ideas in simple shapes, merging the world of philosophy and graphic design.
SEGD 2014 Global Design Awards
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design has launched its 27th annual SEGD Global Design Awards.
Pearlfisher Redesigns Cadbury Dairy Milk
Pearlfisher has created the new experiential brand identity and design for Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Sagmeister & Walsh Designs New Identity for Function
Function, the firm that specializes in mechanical design and engineering for product development, is rolling out a new company identity, designed by Sagmeister & Walsh.
Holt Creates Christmas Identity for City of Sydney
Holt has created a graphic emblem for the City of Sydney, to represent the commercial activations and community celebrations of the 2013 festive season.
Checkland Kindleysides Designs and Produces Dreaming with Alice Songbook
Checkland Kindleysides has recently designed and produced the limited edition songbook Dreaming with Alice.
Meet My Project 2014 Paris
The 13th edition of Meet My Project will be held January 24-28 at Le Lieu du Design in Paris, with a special scenography signed by Bina Baitel.
InsideOut SF
Featuring over 100 leading designers from all over the world, InsideOut SF is a gallery display of original posters highlighting their personal impressions of San Francisco.
American Package Design Awards 2014
The 2014 American Package Design Awards are open for entries. Organized by Graphic Design USA, this annual competition celebrates well-designed graphics, of course, but more importantly the power of design to advance the brand promise and to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth.
Call for Entries for 2014 D&AD Awards
The 52nd D&AD Awards are now open for entries. This year, the not-for-profit awards scheme introduces 12 new categories to reflect changing landscape in creativity, advertising and design.
Wayshowing > Wayfinding
Wayshowing > Wayfinding is the completely renewed edition of the standard reference book Wayshowing, which was published in 2005.
Anatomy of Ideas: The Life's Work of an Infographics Pioneer
Fritz Kahn was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer whose brilliant work has all but fallen into oblivion.
Vibe Studio Designs Packaging for Lansinoh mOmma
Vibe Studio has created product visualisations and a new packaging design system for Lansinoh mOmma Europe, a modern, innovative, design oriented, colourful and functional line of baby products.
How to Create a Brand From a Tea Bag
In a bid to make Britain's favourite drink cool again, Echo Brand Design teamed up with east London based tea man, Joe Kinch.
Mohawk Maker Campaign by Hybrid Design
Hybrid Design conceptualized and designed a new 2013 creative campaign for Mohawk.
Image of the Studio: A Portrait of Graphic Design in New York
Image of the Studio exhibition at the 41 Cooper Gallery will feature over 75 current New York graphic design studios.
Slice Design Redesigns Activia Pouring Yoghurt
Slice has recently re-designed the Activia Pouring Yoghurt to highlighting both the versatility, and new, thicker texture of the product.
Communication Arts Typography Competition 2014
Communication Arts magazine is calling for submissions for its 4th annual Typography Competition.
Frost* Creates Graphics for CBA Melbourne Office
The Frost* Environments team recently completed a new project for employees at Commonwealth Bank's Melbourne call centre.
MOO Launches Luxe Family
MOO recently launched its new Luxe Family range of products, including Luxe MiniCards, Luxe Postcards and Luxe Notecards.
2013 AIGA Design Conference: Head, Heart and Hand
The 2013 AIGA Design Conference, with a theme of "Head, Heart, Hand," will celebrate the best in design and explore three interrelated aspects of the profession: design strategy, social impact and craft.
MCA Summer Cutaway Map
ODLCO has recently created an illustrated cutaway map for visitors of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
GDC Releases Internship Reference Guide
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) has released a new reference guide developed to help guide design students, studios and agencies.
The Greek Gods Appear on New Kefir Drinks
Biondo Group has designed the packaging for the Greek Gods Kefir Low Fat Cultured Milk line, giving it a dynamic, modern look.
Meet My Project 2013 Paris
The 2013 Meet My Project Paris will be held between September 10 and 14, at Espace Commines. The event will explore the link between graphics and object.
Colourful Designs Dynamic Modern Visual Identity for Family and Childcare Trust
Colourful Design Strategy has created the visual identity for Family and Childcare Trust, a new charity created from a merger of the Family and Parenting Institute and the Daycare Trust.
Cooper-Hewitt Announces New Acquisitions to the Collection
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced several acquisitions, including a key early example of bentwood furniture by Marcel Breuer and Alexander Girard's armchair for Braniff International Airways.
Whisky Type Workshop: The Art and Science of Label Typography
Type Ed, the Los Angeles-based program of typography and typesetting courses for the creative community, is equipping designers with the skills to create effective visual communications.
Graphics Interface 2014: Call for Posters
The 40th Graphics Interface conference, the Canadian annual event devoted to computer graphics, interactive systems, and human-computer interaction, is calling for posters and demos.
Creative Anarchy: Call for Submissions
HOW Books is calling for submissions to be featured in a new book due for release in late 2014.
RGD Launches Bureau to Offer Insights on Design-Related Topics
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has launched an Expert Bureau to provide press with an easily-accessible resource to identify potential columnists, speakers and interviewees on issues surrounding communications, design and innovation.
Xlab 2013: Experience + Interaction in Public Space
Xlab, SEGD's premier innovation event connecting design, technology, and communication in the built environment, returns to New York on October 23 & 24.
Bluemarlin Creates Identity for Forces Sauces
Bluemarlin has recently created a new identity for Forces Sauces condiment brand to support Stoll and The Royal British Legion.
Collateral for After the Jump
On June 7, 2013, Sullivan and the Type Directors Club of New York, presented "After the Jump." A one-day symposium that brought together some of today's most inspiring industry leaders to discuss how technology affects human behavior and how those effects impact design and typography.
Pigeons and Pretzels: MoMA Challenges Branding Students
MoMA has recently collaborated with the School of Visual Arts to offer design students in Debbie Millman's MPS Branding Department the opportunity to develop, prototype and present a high-stakes international branding campaign for the MoMA Design Store's "Destination: NYC" collection.
Adobe CC Desktop Applications Now Available
Adobe CC desktop applications, including Adobe Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC, Premiere Pro CC, is now available.
RGD Social Good Design Awards 2013
The 2013 Social Good Design Awards is calling for submissions of graphic design projects with the power to incite meaningful change in the way we live our lives.
Aesop Tells a Sweet Story
Aesop has come up with a playful, 'cheeky' design and campaign for Bristows Traditional Bonbons which includes: new packaging, POS and print.
Top 25 Magazine Designs of the Past 50 Years
As part of GDUSA's year long 50th Anniversary celebration, the magazine has conducted a series of surveys within the design community.