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

Eye on Design

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. The typeface’s name—Omonoia—refers to a prominent and historic square at the center of Athens, itself a reference to concord or agreement. “It

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The chequered designs had several references to Japanese culture, according to the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee. These were designed by Ryo Taniguchi and chosen from a public competition voted on by the Mascot Selection Panel and Japanese elementary schoolchildren.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 The rise of mass media, including television, radio, and print publications, has profoundly impacted how brands reach and engage with consumers.

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

UX Collective

*The term branding used over here mainly refers to the visual outputs that a company/individual would publish. But for the lack of a better word, I will refer to this slew of aforementioned items as ‘branding.’ Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint.

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

Eye on Design

In her work Here on Future Earth , she employs her Cree Comic Sans in a series of photographs that show everyday scenes in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, replacing the English on shop signs and town wayfinding with Cree syllabics. How much of life is coping?” and “How much of love is attention?”—in

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