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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

I write this when I find a typewriter,” explains the influential Greek graphic designer, standing in his basement studio in the central Athens neighborhood of Petralona. Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging.

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Call for Entries: Finding Forte

Fonts in Use

Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Reißberger’s typeface consequently appeared on shop signs in Mumbai, food packaging from Singapore, and manhole covers in Palermo. Like Mistral , it’s a brilliant design that has fallen into disregard after years of amateur use.

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

Design Week

It was a combination of “fear and frustration” at just this issue that prompted Indian graphic designer Kawal Oberoi into launching his online Swatch Bharat platform. “I saw a beautifully hand-painted sign for Pepsi, but the next time I was there it had been replaced with just a typical Pepsi advert instead.”

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

Eye on Design

I came to Ebner’s work through her book The Sun as Error , a collaboration with Dexter Sinister , which can also be found on the shelves of more than a few designers I know. She’s what I would term a “designer’s artist.” My work interrogates systems of power and critiques the middle ground of socio-economic structuring.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

In continuing this series of Creative Monologue , I’ll be talking about how we designers and businesses brand or rebrand ourselves, and the related pitfalls we should avoid. “It In a world where corporate identities run rampant, it is nice to sometimes see subversion going on with design. Could that have been the case?

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

Some of her commissioned client work – such as that for Marie Claire or graphic design magazine Wrap – is highlighted using individual project pages. He’s also illustrated many book covers, and is the author of a children’s seek-and-find book series. Brian Cronin. Naomi Wilkinson. Nathalie Lété.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

The birth of modern logos can be attributed to pioneers like Paul Rand , who emphasised the need for simplicity and symbolic resonance in logo design. Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. Emerging trends and innovations in logo design are constantly reshaping how brands present themselves to the world.

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