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Rosie Street is managing director at D8 in Amsterdam. The studio, which also has offices in Glasgow and Queensland, Australia, creates brand, design and campaigns for clients like Hayu, Spotify and Walker’s Shortbread. Design What would your monograph be called? Why Crémant is better than Champagne or Tiramisu: Still not perfected but close. They are […]

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You don’t have to be “anti-technology” to long for a tech “off-switch.” Many of us love technology, are innovation-forward, responsibly utilise AI, and still we want easy control over when, where, and how it’s active. After years of corporate leadership racing to integrate AI and new tech everywhere, designers now face the opposite problem. In […]

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I borrowed a car recently that had banished almost all of its climate buttons, amongst many others, to the digital realm. Trying to adjust the temperature whilst bouncing along a rutted road became a game of chance. My hand hovered, jabbed, missed and jabbed again. I had to take my eyes off the road to […]

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A few weeks ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered his diplomats to ditch Calibri and return to Times New Roman. Rubio said the unusual directive was to, “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Lucas de Groot, who designed Calibri for Microsoft in 2006, described the move as “sad and hilarious.” […]

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I’ve wanted to write this article for three years. What stopped me wasn’t a lack of conviction, but fear of being misunderstood. Fear of being wilfully misquoted, or that something said in good faith could be hijacked by people I want nothing to do with. But I’ve come to realise that staying quiet allows fear […]

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Younger people are still hacking their creative lives at home with remarkable ingenuity. This is a resourceful generation, raised on change and uncertainty, constantly reinventing themselves and finding joy in the process. For them, home is not a fixed address but a fluid backdrop, assembled to tell a current story. It is a place to […]

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AI is changing the design world. For many creatives, its most useful, interesting and exciting role will be as a tool, to help them with difficult and time-consuming processes. Image-upscaling is a perfect example of this kind of process. By using AI to make it better and faster, designers can open up new creative possibilities. […]

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All Purpose Studio and James Rogers have designed a striking new brand and packaging for Korontini olive oil. The extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) has been made by the same family on Crete for five generations, and has been sold by Georgia Spanos’ dad for the past 40 years. Now Spanos, a London-based food writer, […]

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The second iteration of the Northern Design Festival (NDF) took place in Lancaster in May. This year’s theme was transparency, as its organisers Niamh Cartwright and Antonia Arbova, wanted to encourage the real conversations the industry so often avoids. Having only graduated in 2024, they bring a youthful perspective which is worlds away from many […]

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10. Bulletproof on “simplifying and amplifying” Liverpool FC’s brand When we wrote about Bulletproof’s new look for Liverpool back in April, the club had just clinched a glorious Premier League title. It’s fair to say the team’s fortunes have dipped since then, but the design work still looks terrific. A lot of the work was […]

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