Search Results for “four corners” – Design Week

Design across five decades: from the editors who brought you Design Week

Tom Banks — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:03:57 +0000

Design Week’s legacy is that it stands as a record of an industry which is constantly changing, an industry which makes a demonstrable social, cultural and economic contribution to the world. In this final editorial you’ll have to allow me the indulgence of both giving some insight into what the last 38 years have looked like in design and how Design Week brought it to you – with the help of its…

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Pentagram’s Reddit refresh aims to unite cohesion and “creative spirit”

Emily Gosling — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:23:01 +0000

Reddit’s brand refresh – one of the site’s most holistic and comprehensive overhauls in its history – saw Pentagram New York partner Natasha Jen’s team introduce a new custom font family, Reddit Sans; streamline its colour palette; and transform its central mascot, Snoo, into 3D for the first time. The online community forum behemoth approached Pentagram New York late last year with a clear…

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Picks of the month: design events in January

Sophie Tolhurst — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:08:31 +0000

Running for 32 years, the latest edition of the four-day furniture industry event brings together over 350 brands showcasing 50,000 products, with an increased presence of international pavilions. New for 2023 is a partnership with The Better Trends Company, providing advice as well as showcasing trends through a number of themed installations such as Permacrisis – “a defiant design response…

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Retail project by Mucca references the site’s fish market past

Abbey Bamford — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:24:38 +0000

Michelin Star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s food market Tin Building has opened in New York City with an identity and custom typeface by Mucca inspired by the site’s former tenant, Fulton Fish Market. The new 53,000 sq ft (4,900 sq m), two-story culinary marketplace houses four full-service restaurants, six fast-food counters, four bars and eight marketplace vendors, where Tin Building’s…

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The Broadcast magazine has been designed to recall ’70s print media

Henry Wong — Fri, 07 May 2021 14:54:36 +0000

The Broadcast, a digital magazine that covers culture, music and science, has launched with an identity inspired by print media from the 1970s. It has been set up by a creative team led by Daniel Kent at Pioneer Works (PW), an interdisciplinary non-profit in Brooklyn, New York, in collaboration with designer Andrew LeClair, also based in Brooklyn. PW “encourages radical thinking across…

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The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition looks to understand play

Molly Long — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:31:11 +0000

From toys and action figures, to ball games and playground rhymes, play defines an age of innocence. But beyond fond childhood memories, do many of us consider the importance play has in our lives and wider social context? A new exhibition from Wellcome Collection seeks to address this, pitching the idea of play as “not just inherent, but also a necessary element for culture.

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How Cuba’s Cold War graphic design found humour in propaganda

Henry Wong — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:32:26 +0000

When most people think of propaganda, they might think of strict state-guided aesthetic values with didactic messages. But a new exhibition at London’s House of Illustration, which presents a major collection of Cuban propaganda for the first time in the UK, shows a different side to the political medium. Olivia Ahmad, the exhibition’s curator, says that there’s “a lot of humour and levity” in…

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Universal Design Studio on creating Fortnum & Mason’s new London destination

Alina Polianskaya — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:13:00 +0000

Universal Design Studio has created a new Fortnum & Mason bar, restaurant and shop in the Royal Exchange courtyard in the City of London. The Royal Exchange dates back to the 16th century when it was founded as a dedicated place to trade stocks. The building has twice burned down and been rebuilt, with its current incarnation designed by Sir William Tite in the mid-1800s…

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5 exhibitions to catch at London Design Festival 2018

Sarah Dawood — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:21:07 +0000

What: The late Jon Daniel, who died last year, was not only a talented creative director, but also an advocate for black rights and designers from minority backgrounds. Before his death, he also ran a Design Week column called Four Corners, where he spotlighted numerous designers from the African diaspora, many of whom were previously little known. As a graphic designer, he created campaigns and…

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Design that fights sexism: from gender-neutral clothing to protest placards

Sarah Dawood — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:10:28 +0000

“It’s got to be the homemade placard made by an older lady at a recent women’s march that read ‘I can’t believe I still have to protest this shit’, and which went on to inspire many other iterations. Printed out on two A4 sheets of paper stuck onto a bent bit of cardboard, it is one of the strongest pro-feminist pieces of design I’ve seen. Donald Trump’s America, Weinstein, #MeToo…

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