Graphic Design News
C-IDEA Design Award 2020
The 2020 C-IDEA Design Award is now open for submissions. The annual juried design competition aims to recognize and promote visionary talents in a wide array of categories ranging from communication design, industrial design, architecture, interior design, fashion design and new media.
International Design Awards 2020
The International Design Awards (IDA) is calling established & student designers from around the world to submit their most innovative designs to its 14th annual design competition.
Gretel Designs First Annual Knoll Works Publication
Gretel has designed a new annual publication to replace Knoll's previous catalog series. The result fuses high-end editorial design, strategic branding acumen, and technical detail, striking the right balance between inspiration and information to highlight Knoll's wide range of offerings and design-focused ethos.
Pentagram Designs New Brand Identity for Rolls-Royce
Pentagram has designed the new brand identity of Rolls-Royce, to be rolled out from September. The new visual language is aimed to resonate with the younger demographic of clients.
Cuttin It up with Broobs: A Collage Workshop
Letterform Archive has announced a four day workshop with artist and activist Broobs on cut-and-paste methods for making fresh and powerful imagery.
Monotype Announces 'Brand Talks Connected' Virtual Event
Monotype's 'Brand Talks Connected' live & interactive event will be held on August 27. The event will focus on the future, and how brands can rise to the challenges posed by an unsettled world.
Communication Arts 2021 Typography Competition
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 11th annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy, and hand-lettering.
PRINT Awards 2020: Call for Entries
PRINT has announced its call for entries for the PRINT Awards 2020. Formerly known as the Regional Design Awards, the PRINT Awards has a fresh focus on global inclusion, new exclusive categories spotlighting design activism and the latest creative technology, and it continues to highlight talented student work.
Sunhouse Gives Twister a Positively Different Spin
Sunhouse Creative, working with the Wall's team at Unilever, has designed a new identity for popular ice cream lolly brand Twister, bringing out its intrinsically playful personality.
Whatabout: Future of Brands Online Conference
'Whatabout: Future of Brands' is an online conference about the new digital reality in design, visual and brand communications. Speakers will talk, discuss, and discover the good and the bad side of today's and tomorrow's digital world.
2022 World Design Capital Valencia Visual Identity Receives Two Red Dot Design Awards
The visual identity of Valencia as 2022 World Design Capital and its graphic application on posters, created by Ibán Ramón, have been awarded with two Red Dot Design Awards.
Jing Shan Classic 2020: Call for Applications
The Xia Jing Shan Arts and Culture Foundation is calling for applications for its 2020 competition.
Good Design Show Europe 2020
Good Design annually awards distinguishing designers through for excellence, creativity, and novelty; talented creators who promote the design as the art of evolution, the art of a better future.
The Text Block as Building Block with Angie Wang
The text block is fundamental to creating any typographic system - whether on the page or on-screen. But what typeface to use, and at what size? How do we determine line length and leading? And what about readability?
B&B Studio Designs New Packaging and Identity for Natural Condiments Brand Dr Will's
B&B studio has redesigned Dr Will's brand identity and packaging. Launched in 2017, with a mission to make healthier versions of ketchup, mayonnaise and BBQ sauce, the brand relies on natural sugars and healthy fats to create products with zero compromise on taste - the raison d'etre of the condiments category.
FutureBrand Partners with Nestlé to Create New Customizable Superfood Drinks Brand: nesQino
FutureBrand has been working with Nestlé to create the entire brand identity for innovative new superfood drinks brand 'nesQino.'
Trollbäck+Company Delivers a Fresh Brand Evolution for TBS
Trollbäck+Company has delivered a fresh brand evolution for TBS, elevating the network from one of TV's top comedy brands to a genre-fluid, taste-driven entertainment destination.
Still & Motion: Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2020
Submissions are now open for the 2020 Hong Kong International Poster Triennial: Still & Motion. Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Hong Kong Designers Association, and organized by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, this international poster design competition is open to designers and creative minds from all over the world.
FutureBrand Creates Pioneering Global Mental Healthcare Brand Launching in China
FutureBrand has created a new global mental healthcare brand 'Mindfront' for Luye Medical Group.
SEGD Academic Summit 2020
Each year the Society for Experiential Design (SEGD) holds an academic summit in conjunction with the annual conference. The 2020 Academic Summit will be held online, via Zoom, on the afternoons of June 11 and 12 as a forum for current thinking in design education research, projects, and curriculum innovation.
Fake Graphics for Real Movies: Graphic Design in Animated Film
In animated movies, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pieces of illustrative and typographic design are generated to create a believable and rich world. The graphic designers' main role is to support and advance the storytelling while adding beauty, humor, texture, and a sense of time and place.
Lantern Designs Branding for Zero Gravity
Lantern has designed branding for a tech-for-good organization, that's helping students from low-income backgrounds get great advice and support from university undergrads through a digital mentoring platform.
PB Creative Designs Visual Identity and Packaging for Kraft Heinz's New Karvan Cévitam Range
PB Creative has partnered with Kraft Heinz to develop a new premium tier for drinks cordial brand Karvan Cévitam.
Young Guns 18: Call for Entries
The One Club for Creativity has opened the call for entries for Young Guns 18, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger. Young Guns is the industry's only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today's vanguard of young creatives.
FutureBrand Refreshes Coutts' Brand Positioning and Visual Identity
FutureBrand has designed a new brand positioning and visual identity for private bank Coutts.
RGD Virtual In-House Design Conference 2020
During the week of June 22, The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) will host a virtual conference created specifically for in-house designers.
GDUSA American Inhouse Design Awards 2020
Submissions are now open for the 57th GDUSA American Inhouse Design Awards. The Awards program presents a unique opportunity for in-house creatives and their departments to be recognized for the exceptional value they bring to the table on behalf of their organizations, brands, causes.
Spark Design Awards 2020
Submissions are open for the 2020 Spark Design Awards. The competition encourages fresh thinking and innovation across all design disciplines and levels of expertise.
100 Archive Launches 'Map Irish Design'
100 Archive has launched Map Irish Design, which features 2,300 communication design projects collected since 2010. Funded by the Creative Ireland Programme, Map Irish Design sought to look more closely at these projects and their associated data to build a comprehensive picture of contemporary communications design in Ireland.
Posterheroes Unveils Selected Posters for 9th Edition
Posterheroes has revealed the selected posters for its ninth edition, 'Humans at Work.' This year's competition asked entrants to design a poster about future work scenarios and the role of dignified employment in the lives of individuals and in the sustainable development of society.