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In memoriam: Milton Glaser (1929-2020)
Remembering the American design icon who gave us the ‘I ❤️ NY’ logo and championed better citizenship through visual communication
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A century of all-American toy advertising in pictures
A new Taschen book chronicles the 20th-century toy advertising boom in America, recounting how compelling visual storytelling sparked a consumer revolution
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Dn&co graphically rethinks the Museum of the Home’s visual identity
London’s Museum of the Home gets a visual redesign by local design consultancy dn&co
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Above the fold: a visual history of the internet
Take your browsing low-fi with Taschen’s fascinating – and very physical volume – on the history of web design
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Sharjah gains a new graphic design biennial set inside a former 1970s abandoned bank
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Graphic tributes celebrate the Design Museum’s 30th anniversary
Paul Smith, Nathalie du Pasquier, John Pawson and more have riffed on the number 30 in punchy new logos
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Doctor’s orders: graphic design is good for you, reflects a new London show
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The finest Google Doodles of all time
On 20 August 1998, a week before a two-year-old Google become an incorporated company, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were heading to Burning Man festival. To mark themselves ‘out of office’ on their email signatures, they decided to overlay the famous Burning Man stick-figure on the Google logo (which then came with a Yahoo-style exclamation mark, as if it needed to announce itself). The idea lay dormant until 2010, when then-intern Dennis Hwang (who went onto become Google webmaster, amongst other more recent titles) was tasked with decorating the logo for Bastille Day, sparking eight years of marking important moments in history with a graphic, digital ephitaph. What started as an ‘out of office’ scribble has become an artform, celebrating Calder to Kadinsky; Zaha Hadid to Mies van der Rohe.
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Musical notes: an exhibition of rhythmic lettering design at Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings
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Shiseido looks to the future of beauty marketing
Neville Brody's creative agency Brody Associates translates the Japanese brand's 150-year history into a modern philosophy – from Ginza pharmacy to global brand
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A Practice for Everyday Life gives 59th Venice Biennale a richly surreal graphic identity
London-based graphic design studio A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) gives an otherworldly identity to the surrealism-infused 59th Venice Biennale theme ‘The Milk of Dreams’
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Artists square up to racial injustice via Instagram
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Tom Hingston talks 20 years of cover design and upping the ante on artist ‘merch’
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Rimowa celebrates its 120th anniversary with a new visual identity
Wallpaper* takes an exclusive look with CEO Alexandre Arnault and chief brand officer Hector Muelas
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Man of letters: Anthony Burrill’s guide to creative inspiration packs a punch
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A la carte: Paula Scher’s American maps chart more than just territory
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Rich reward
A recent show of graphic German works is right on the money at Trondheim Kunstmuseum
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Master class: School of Visual Arts presents the first retrospective for graphic designer Michael Bierut
