Time Stretched No. 54 🚦
Time Stretched No. 54 🚦
Lu Yan Crafts Dieter Rams Inspired System Icon Design
Rams System Icons launches a skeuomorphic icon suite with industrial design, combining Braun-inspired hardware by Lu Yan and Zhiyi Zhang. Designers Lu Yan and Zhiyi Zhang established a modular design system that grounds the icon set's visual tone. The color palette pairs warm light grey plastic…
Mari Kvel Crafts Playful Bakery Branding for Cake Social
Cake Social launches a sweet bakery identity with strategic branding, combining warm cream packaging designed by Mari Kvel. Designer Mari Kvel established a modular branding system that grounds the bakery's visual tone. The color palette pairs warm cream paper stocks with deep espresso brown…
haus der kunst traces a playful art history written with children
children leave their mark on haus der kunst Across the marble floor of Haus der Kunst’s central hall, wax-crayon scribbles spread over pale stone and slip through its grid of seams. Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Mega Please Draw Freely began with an invitation that sounds almost suspiciously simple inside a…
Has Redesign Hate Gone Too Far?
The growing trend of tearing down redesigns reveals a sad, toxic culture in the design industry We chat with folks from agencies with first-hand experience of this trend that’s hurting the industry far more than it’s helping it In 2026, everyone has an opinion. And not only do we all have opinions,…
The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Genesis Belanger's Uncanny Sculptures
How do we distinguish between the artificial and the real? And perhaps more importantly, why should we? Genesis Belanger makes the tension and anxiety that arise from these questions tangible as she lures viewers into an unsettling world. Known for her ceramic works depicting an uncanny vision of…
Brand New: The Odd Couple
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work
Generative Identity Name Constellation Design
Aishwarya Anand Singh presents a generative identity name constellation design system using interactive processing sketches. The project translates typographic letterforms into stellar coordinates. Using a custom Processing script, letters morph into celestial structures. Crisp white vectors…
Joy to the Wine World: Hey Studio Designs a Label You Can Draw On
Hey Studio has designed a wine label for Vi Negre made from wax-coated paper that you can scribble rainbow designs into The fun and participatory design allows for art and memory-making at the dinner table We all know the wine industry can come across a bit snobby, but some modern-day wine brands…
why does creativity need play? lidewij edelkoort & philip fimmano discuss their 'inner child'
curated by lidewij edelkoort and philip fimmano, INNER CHILD at artipelag examines why play, handcraft and imagination shape design trends.
Derek&Eric embraces the chaos with a joyfully bold brand for The Glorious Mess
Nobody can quite agree on how Eton Mess came about. One version has a meringue dropped at an Eton College picnic; another has a pudding accidentally squashed during a cricket match. Either way, a mess was made, someone ate it anyway, and a British classic was born. (Aren't the best puddings always…
Range Rover Previews All-Electric Range Rover GT Interior
Range Rover unveils fifth family member with reductive grand tourer design The auto company has offered a first look inside its upcoming GT model, a grand tourer built on the brand's new all-electric architecture featuring a reductive interior aesthetic and integrated technology. Design News 22…
20 winning projects spark submission for A’design award and competition 2027
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Koto helps restaurant-discovery app Franki make time dance
You know that hangry moment? When you're standing on a street corner, phone in hand, three chat threads open, everyone hungry and nobody willing to commit and pick the place? Deciding where to eat has somehow become a modern headache. That's the very dilemma that Franki, a social…
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word exhibition catalog
Published in 2022, the award-winning catalog From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word documents Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève’s 2017 exhibition exploring concrete poetry and the spoken word through essays, documentation of the exhibited works, and a calendar of performances and…
Show & Tell at Walker Art Center
Exhibition graphics for Show & Tell, an interactive family exhibition at the Walker Art Center. Built around five exploratory zones—Play, Make, Find, Read, and Watch—the visual identity uses vibrant colors, large-scale typography, and playful wayfinding to support a hands-on experience for visitors…
Hannah Motzel Brown’s shadowy mechanical pencil drawings expertly depict fingers, freckles and folds of skin
Hannah Motzel Brown wants more skin. Through her evocative graphite drawings on paper, she shows skin – her own, other’s, our’s – and finds a place for it in a space between fantasy and reality “to explore the feminine: the woman in her space, and the environment and objects that surround her,” the…
Kurt Bauer’s still life photographs reveal more about a place than a “postcard view” ever could
The title of Kurt Bauer’s self-published portfolio of works from the past six years is Turista per Sempre (Forever a Tourist) – a phrase that quite fittingly reflects the Austrian photographer’s approach: “looking at places with the mindset of a visitor, whether far from home or just around the…
Powerball campaign invites the UK to dream bigger than ever
The lottery game marks its arrival by exploring the silly and surreal things you could do with the prize money, from buying football clubs to founding music festivals The popular American lottery game Powerball has announced its highly-anticipated UK debut with a major new campaign, which launched…
Hinge’s Jackie Jantos on inclusive design, trust and the path from creative to CEO
In House is a new column from It’s Nice That where we go inside the workings of major brands, agencies and companies shaping the future of the creative industry. Almost every week, there’s a new headline about Gen Z’s attitudes towards dating. As CEO of Hinge, Jackie Jantos has to make sense of…
How&How Rebrands German AI Energy Supplier Zeus to Meteoric
How&How draws on silver age sci-fi for AI energy rebrand Meteoric London design studio How&How has overhauled German AI-powered energy supplier Zeus Energy, renaming it Meteoric and introducing a futuristic visual system built on generative imagery, modular sci-fi iconography and custom LLM…
GLAS OPTICIAN Brand identity | Mindsparkle Mag
Hugmun Studio Mindsparkle Mag GLAS OPTICIAN is a place defined by quiet confidence. Deeply rooted in the history of Copenhagen, it is know n for trust, knowledge, and a carefully built reputation. The store brings together some of the world’s most respected eyewear brands — thoughtfully curated…
Leaving a signature: Q&A with Greenspace and Vabel
Q&A: Greenspace and Vabel on leaving their design signature in the heart of London Design consultancy Greenspace has overhauled the brand identity for integrated London developer Vabel, establishing a long-term masterbrand system alongside a tailored narrative for its new Victorian-inspired…
Anthony Burrill brings Joy! Pure Joy! to Liverpool in new exhibition
Independent design studio Dorothy will host the graphic artist and print-maker’s first solo show in the city later this month Renowned graphic artist Anthony Burrill is bringing his distinctive brand of optimistic typography to Liverpool this summer with Joy! Pure Joy!, a new exhibition at…