“AI revolution” means design studios could look very different in three years

If design consultancies are to adjust to the speed of change that AI is offering, they will need to learn to work with it to avoid being left behind and if they are to do that well they can learn from historic examples of tech-enabled transition. We’re in the midst of the AI revolution and as such, no one is 100% certain what will happen, but, like...

Feb 2023

NB invites local designers centre stage for Vineyard Theatre rebrand

NB Studio has rebranded the Vineyard Theatre in New York with a flexible typography-led identity that showcases independent designers and type foundries local to the city. The studio rebranded the Almeida Theatre in Islington, London a few years ago and was encouraged to submit its approach to Vineyard Theatre after being recommended by a connection...

Feb 2023

Rbl rebrands ZSL with ecosystem-inspired identity

Leamington Spa-based studio Rbl has repositioned The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to better represent the interconnected strands of its work with a new logo and graphic language inspired by ecosystems. After being recommended to ZSL, Rbl won the work through a competitive pitch process. Rbl creative director Adam Concar says that the brief was...

Feb 2023

Uncommon CX cooks up interactive cost-of-living cookbook

Uncommon CX has launched its self-funded project The Yellow Sticker Cookbook, seeking to provide a solution for the cost-of-living crisis by helping people put together meals from supermarkets’ reduced sections. After seeing that one in seven Brits were skipping meals to save money, the team at Uncommon started on the idea for The Yellow Sticker Cookbook...

Feb 2023

Jason Bruges Studio reveals installation inspired by “nature’s wayfinding”

Jason Bruges Studio has unveiled its latest public commission, an interactive artwork that takes cues from “nature’s colour-based wayfinding systems”. Located in an underpass between Brentford Stadium and Kew Bridge, the project is a commission for sustainability-focused developer EcoWorld London. Studio founder Jason Bruges explains that the work responds...

Feb 2023

AI and 3D-printed pills: Morrama’s new menopause concept

Morrama has devised a menopause management app concept called Luma as part of a self-initiated project, involving AI technology and 3D-printed pills. Research for the design began in October 2022 after launching the studio’s think-tank Morrama Lab. Morrama founder Jo Barnard says that although there has been more conversation around menopause in recent...

Feb 2023

Designing the UK’s first permanent gallery dedicated to South Asian culture

A landmark project sees the first permanent gallery in the UK dedicated to the experiences and histories of South Asian diaspora communities as part of Manchester Museum’s reopening after a £15 million transformation. Alongside a new exhibition hall and galleries on Chinese culture and ideas of “Belonging” in a new two-storey extension by architects...

Feb 2023

Design industry weighs in on GCSE design and technology proposals

We welcome a curriculum that will give young people valuable green design skills that they can carry into their future careers. The next generation of designers need to feel equipped and inspired to design for planet if the UK is to meet net zero and beyond to a more regenerative world. We need teaching and curriculum that is not just design thinking...

Feb 2023

F-Secure’s playful animated logo appears to “scan and protect”

Nomad Studio has rebranded Finnish cyber security company F-Secure, with a new logo that appears to be “scanning and protecting” when animated. F-Secure chose to work with Nomad for its rebrand because the studio had no experience with cyber security, meaning it could start with “a blank sheet of paper rather than a preconceived idea”, says Nomad creative...

Feb 2023

How Koto designed a suite of “immediately cinematic” graphics for Netflix

Koto has redeveloped Netflix’s approach to iconography, illustrations and typography, aiming to transform previously neglected touchpoints into “immediately cinematic” graphic assets. Working collaboratively with Netflix’s in-house team, Koto sought to build on, rather than reinvent its visual identity. Koto’s chief creative officer and co-founder Jowey...

Feb 2023