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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

Belgian designer Olivier Debie claimed that the identity shared similarities to his 2011 design for the Théâtre de Liège. These were designed by Ryo Taniguchi and chosen from a public competition voted on by the Mascot Selection Panel and Japanese elementary schoolchildren. It weighs around 200kg.

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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

Many of the UK’s nimbler small presses, well-used to shifting books online, have continued to do so but often alongside new initiatives such as book subscription services in order to maintain those close and intimate relationships with their reading public. Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch, Riverhead.