Emily Gosling – Design Week

Design Week quiz: a look back through the ages

Emily Gosling — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:00:48 +0000

A little festive fluff here to take the edge off the news of Design Week’s closure, with a look back at the publication over the years. No prizes for doing well, except perhaps for a sense of achievement, or being able to look busy at work while you’re counting down the minutes until the Christmas holidays begin. Answers at the bottom of the page. Pen and paper at the ready! 1.

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Design Week: 1986-2023

Emily Gosling — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:59:09 +0000

It’s with a heavy heart that in lieu of our usual ‘breaking up for Christmas’ post, we bring you the news that Design Week is ceasing publication with immediate effect. Design Week’s parent company, Centaur, has made the decision to close the publication as its strategy shifts towards its “core audience of marketers, and focuses on training, information, and intelligence”. In the New Year…

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Why 2024 will be the “year of creative emergence” when it comes to AI

Emily Gosling — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:00:19 +0000

Next year, design is going to begin its largest transformation of our discipline. Artificial intelligence entered the world’s focus this year, but next year will bring integration. While we have a lot of concerns to work through (i.e. bias, deep fakes, etc.) as a society, there’s no way to ignore the power and possibilities that have been unleashed. AI is changing what we make and how we make it.

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Using VR to break outdated taboos around women’s health

Emily Gosling — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:00:01 +0000

For all the supposed leaps forward we’ve made in terms of gender equality, we’ve still got a long way to go when it comes to women’s healthcare: many conditions are woefully under- or mis-diagnosed, and there still remains a baffling sense of taboo in discussing things affecting around half the population, like periods. And in the UK, it’s only as of 2024 that key topics related to women’s health…

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The ten biggest branding stories of the year

Emily Gosling — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:37:21 +0000

Landor & Fitch (now just known as Landor) has overhauled the identity of Girlguiding, the UK’s largest youth organisation dedicated to empowering girls. Covering Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers, the new Girlguiding identity was launched to coincide with International Women’s Day 2023. According to Landor, it was designed to help the organisation reach the next generations of…

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The design business tips, thoughts and advice you needed this year

Emily Gosling — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:00:45 +0000

The PlasticFree directory was launched in January this year, with designs by Made Thought. The directory provides a list of more than 100 plastic-free materials and system solutions which can be categorised by their properties and used to inform design and business decisions. Following up the news of the directory, designers from Pearlfisher, SmilePlastics, the Helen Hamlyn Centre for…

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Five of our favourite fonts from 2023

Emily Gosling — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:25:23 +0000

From activism-led type foundries and fonts to make furniture with, to lettering inspired by bones and typography that nods to cult Italian horror movies, we round up a few of this year’s best type releases. We’re longtime fans of Tré Seals’ foundry Vocal Type, which was founded in 2016 alongside the Maryland-based designer’s eponymous studio to create fonts that are a form of activism…

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Design industry “dividing into winners and losers,” says new financial report

Emily Gosling — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:05:56 +0000

Accountancy firm Moore Kingston Smith has just published its Annual Survey 2023, revealing a “mixed bag” of results for the design industry. The survey analyses more than 250 companies, reviewing the performance of the top 30-50 companies across branding and design agencies, digital agencies, advertising agencies, independent and listed marketing services groups and more.

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Why the future of publishing hinges on bold creativity

Emily Gosling — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:33:55 +0000

For fans of 1960s counterculture-leaning print design, Emergence magazine’s logo and masthead will likely conjure up a couple of reference points. In the context of a publication that “explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality”, its use of typeface Windsor distinctly recalls the Whole Earth Catalog, a late 60s publication merging techie-style product reviews and utopian…

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Chermayeff&Geismar&Haviv creates red, white and blue identity for America250 semiquincentennial

Emily Gosling — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:11:42 +0000

Chermayeff&Geismar&Haviv has created the identity for America250, the nonpartisan organisation responsible for orchestrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the United States. According to C&G&H, America250 aims to “create the most inclusive commemoration in American history” when it takes place on 4 July 2026. Chermayeff&Geismar&

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