Graphic design

Cover to cover: weird and wonderful books come to light at Libri Belli

Installations by Everyday Workshop for Wolff Olins

By Ellen Himelfarb Last updated 21 August 22
Jonathan Ellery explores mass culture in a marvellously minimalist tome

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 21 August 22
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

By TF Chan Last updated 21 August 22
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

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 19 August 22
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

By Katie Meston Last updated 5 August 22
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

By Phoebe Gardner Last updated 4 August 22

Mario Pani’s 107th birthday. Google doodle.

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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Cover to cover: weird and wonderful books come to light at Libri Belli

Installations by Everyday Workshop for Wolff Olins

Jonathan Ellery explores mass culture in a marvellously minimalist tome

In memoriam: Milton Glaser (1929-2020)

A century of all-American toy advertising in pictures

Dn&co graphically rethinks the Museum of the Home’s visual identity

Above the fold: a visual history of the internet

Sharjah gains a new graphic design biennial set inside a former 1970s abandoned bank

Graphic tributes celebrate the Design Museum’s 30th anniversary

Doctor’s orders: graphic design is good for you, reflects a new London show

The finest Google Doodles of all time

Musical notes: an exhibition of rhythmic lettering design at Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings

Snøhetta designs ’Mapplethorpe + Munch’ show and book for Oslo’s Munch Museum

Shiseido looks to the future of beauty marketing

A Practice for Everyday Life gives 59th Venice Biennale a richly surreal graphic identity

Artists square up to racial injustice via Instagram

Tom Hingston talks 20 years of cover design and upping the ante on artist ‘merch’

Rimowa celebrates its 120th anniversary with a new visual identity

Man of letters: Anthony Burrill’s guide to creative inspiration packs a punch

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