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Studiographica, a digital archive of work by design studios that sadly no longer exist

Creative Boom

Paul Bailey and Mike Sullivan explain how and why they're archiving the work of some of our most-missed graphic design agencies. The inspiration for Studiographica came from an afternoon in the Halo studio, talking to the designers here about an old agency called Attik," Paul explains. None of them had heard of Attik.

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Mucho rebrand breathes new life into 92-year-old free festival in San Francisco

Creative Boom

So the organisers approached global design agency Mucho for a brand refresh that would help appeal to a younger audience, be flexible enough to work with any genre of music, and establish the festival as a world-class event. But it needed to bring its image into line with the modern day. But there was a danger of becoming dated.

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Burger King Rebrand — Unused Burger King Logo Ideas

Logo Smith

A series of less successful advertising campaigns created by a procession of advertising agencies continued for the next two decades. In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake in the company, in a deal valued at US$3.26 The new owners promptly initiated a restructuring of the company to reverse its fortunes.

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Playtype resurrects Publish Gothic, a custom typeface for a Danish newspaper that survived just 41 days

Creative Boom

Within its first month of production in 2002, it amassed 13,000 subscribers and 20,000 buyers, who were all happily paying to access the publication that broke existing norms of style, form and journalism. "I We were inspired by old newspapers, which were set with wood types," says Jonas, reminiscing the process.

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Amazing Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Spanish Harlem in the Mid-1980s

Design You Trust

Rodriguez went on to work for Black Star photo agency, and print and online news organizations like National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Esquire, Stern, and New America Media. In 1985 he graduated with a Photojournalism and Documentary diploma from the International Center of Photography in New York.

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Wavemaker’s rebrand is designed to “provoke positively”

Design Week

NB Studio has rebranded media agency Wavemaker in a move that aims to create greater consistency across the company and embody its brand position of “positive provocation” The design work includes a new logo, animations and brand strategy, as well as a range of collateral with the updated branding. Designing disruption.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

The persona representation for Beans the possum based on secondary data collated from reports / Photo via Wikimedia Throughout the design process, the personas then served as a representation to amplify the agency of the non-human stakeholders, who would not be able to make themselves heard in the participatory design process [11].