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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The Olympics is a major television event – the 2016 Rio Olympics drew in 3.6 The teams worked with Japanese artist and designer Fantasista Utamaro on the television spot, mixing animation and illustration to bring a world of arcade games, a sports fanatic’s bedroom and a J-Pop (Japanese pop) music video to life.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering light boxes spelling out ASTER/SK over two lines. She’s what I would term a “designer’s artist.” This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. Tania Mourand, MDQRPV?,

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