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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. Copies of 01 magazine come out, a youth culture publication from the 1990s and one of Karlopoulos’ early projects using digital publishing techniques.

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

These were designed by Ryo Taniguchi and chosen from a public competition voted on by the Mascot Selection Panel and Japanese elementary schoolchildren. This year, following governmental requests for the torch not to pass through public roads, an alternative lighting ceremony will take place.

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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes

Colossal

In Keita Morimoto ’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. All images © Keita Morimoto, shared with permission.

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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.

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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

Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. We should learn here not to consider a rebrand to simply sanitise one’s company from a problematic past, especially if they’ve recently faced public backlash.

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Rebranding a Company: 7 Things Your Boss Wants to Know (Updated June 2021)

Canny

There’ll be questions from your boss, your company directors and even the general public. If you run a small cafe that understands its demographic, there’s a high chance that you might only need help creating a new logo, printed goods such as menus, and a shop sign. There are always going to be questions asked.

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