BMW has a new logo, marking the biggest change to the company’s branding since the iconic emblem was introduced in 1917. As with many modern redesigns of logos made to chase today’s trendy aesthetic of a super flat ultra-minimalist style,… Read More ›
Design
The ugliest colour in the world
Pantone 448 C, also known as the “The ugliest colour in the world”, is a colour in the Pantone colour system. Described as a “drab dark brown”, it was selected in 2016 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette… Read More ›
The Worst Designed Products of 2019
Heinz and Cadbury weren’t the only ones to launch a highly mockable product. For your reading pleasure, we’ve rounded up a shortlist of this year’s worst design fails. In no particular order, here are the products that most invite the… Read More ›
The New York subway map
This is a perfect example of how you can display a topic on the web. Brilliant.
Isabella Conticello’ Stunning illustrations
It is not the first time we are covering the great work of Italian illustrator Isabella Conticello from her ‘One poster a day project’ to the superb editorial layouts she’s done! Today it her latest collaboration with Pirelli World and… Read More ›
The Evolution of Kitchen Appliances
Today’s kitchens have changed from even just 20 years ago. It seems like now we have an appliance for everything – from deshelling hard-boiled eggs to mincing garlic. Kitchens are pretty high tech in the 21st century… More here. This… Read More ›
The Pen Fan
Created as a cross between a Pantone shade card and a stationery set, the Pen Fan fits 8 different flat-head sketch pens in a small, easy-to-carry set. The flat pens are connected to each other, forming a neat Japanese-fan style… Read More ›
Restoring Apple’s iconic design language
Despite the undeniably powerful photographic capabilities that the newly released family of iPhones has brought with them, we can’t help but miss the iconically minimal and design that its ancestors were famed for carrying! This case aims to restore some… Read More ›
Jony Ive’s Mistakes
Yet what’s almost universally overlooked in the paeans to Ive’s design legacy is that the fabulous iMac design also included one of his worst mistakes: the “hockey puck” mouse, whose round shape was so unfriendly to the human hand that… Read More ›
If corporate logos were a little more honest
These reinterpretations of corporate logos are to the point and on the whole spot on. The full set is here. And on the subject of logo design, how impressive is the one below for Tokyo 2020?