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Infini typeface designed by Sandrine Nugue

As part of the Graphisme en France 2014 program, the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP, National Center of Visual Arts) has commissioned a new typeface to be freely downloadable by the public at large. The Infini typeface conceived by _ Sandrine Nugue is a decidedly contemporary design. Infini also admits of a creative and… Continue reading Infini typeface designed by Sandrine Nugue

MegaFaces Pavilion: Kinetic Facade Shows Giant 3D ‘Selfies’

MegaFaces Pavilion is a structure incorporating the world’s first large scale actuated LED screen / kinetic facade conceived by Asif Khan and engineered by iart at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for MegaFon. The project was recently awarded the 2014 Cannes Lion “Grand Prix” for Innovation, the Golden Award of Montreaux for spatial communication, and… Continue reading MegaFaces Pavilion: Kinetic Facade Shows Giant 3D ‘Selfies’

Spector, capture any typeface and color from the real world

Place Spector on a typeface you like and see it change to exact typeface on screen. It’s a handheld tool that captures typefaces and colors from printed materials and transfers them straight to InDesign. Now as a functional prototype designed by _ Fiona O’Leary.
Good luck!

David Carson quotes

I’m not gonna show his work cos it is pointless, anyone know his work or at least should be. Till now I’ve no read his quotes but since I found some, I said to myself that would be fine to design some posters for _ dsgn.news. So, here they are.

Dala Prisma typeface

Dala Prisma is a development of the stencil typeface Dala Floda, replacing the solid forms with a series of stripes which vary in width, offering a wonderful optical effect. The family was conceived by Paul Barnes and drawn by Ben Kiel of Typefounding, using a purpose-built tool by the brilliant Frederik Berlaen, the creator of… Continue reading Dala Prisma typeface

Bely Typeface designed by Roxane Gataud

“Bely typeface was designed by Roxane Gataud during the post-graduation “Typography & Language” at ESAD Amiens in 2014. Bely is a type family which is perfectly suited to text setting and includes a roman and an italic body type, a Cyrillic extension, a bold and a titling version. The roman is a radical text type… Continue reading Bely Typeface designed by Roxane Gataud

Interactive Paper City by Snask

“The city was photographed with a street-view camera and programmed so visitors to the website could virtually walk around in it. Lots of quotes about the housing situation was collected from real people on social media and presented in the city. Visitors could make their voice heard by sharing their point of view and together… Continue reading Interactive Paper City by Snask

Ray Tomlinson inventor of the email

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent… Continue reading Ray Tomlinson inventor of the email

ECAL Graphic Design exhibition and book

On the occasion of the release of the “ECAL Graphic Design” book published by JRP|Ringier, ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne presents from 4th March to 8th April at the Gallery l’elac an exhibition of projects realised by students of the Bachelor Graphic Design and the Master Art Direction.

Armenian Alphabet Monument

The Armenian Alphabet Monument is located in the village of Artashavan, at the east side bottom of Mt. Aragats. It was erected in 2005 to the 1600 anniversary of creation of the Armenian alphabet by the design of the famous Armenian architect Jim Torosyan. The monument is an interesting demonstration of the stone carvings of… Continue reading Armenian Alphabet Monument

Museum – A House for Learning by Péter György

György Péter: Múzeum, a tanuló-ház book for Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. This is the first volume of a museum theory book series. In each book we present different young hungarian type designers. Designer: Viktor Suszter Colors: Black, Pantone Cool Grey 8U, Pantone 805 U Paper: Munken Polar Fonts: Chronicle – Hoefler and Freere Jones,… Continue reading Museum – A House for Learning by Péter György

Wie sagt man doch so schoen

How do you say so beautiful? ISBN: 978-3-945772-02-7 /80 pages /hardcover Publisher: Gudberg Nerger /Illustrator: Veronika Kieneke, a freelance illustrator and designer based in Hamburg.

Visual identity for the city of Porto

Visual identity for the city of Porto designed by White Studio (based in Porto) Client: Câmara Municipal do Porto. Art Direction: Eduardo Aires. Design project: Ana Simões, Raquel Rei. Designers: Ana Simões, Raquel Rei, Lucille Queriaud, Joana Mendes, Maria Sousa, Dário Cannatà. Motion: Tiago Campeã Photography: Alexandre Delmar Year: 2014

Design of Ditop cement sacks packaging design

Rubio & del Amo is a design studio based in Murcia, Spain specialised in editorial design, brand identity and packaging.

12th Book Fair of Thessaloniki visual identity

Marios Georntamilis is a designer currently working at Beetroot (a great design studio based in Thessaloniki – Greece) who nicely designed the visual identity of 12th Book Fair of Thessaloniki.

Lotta by Ichiro Iwasaki for iida

Lotta was designed by Ichiro Iwasaki for iida mobile in 2009. Still great today. “Born in Tokyo in 1965, from 1986 to 1991, Ichiro Iwasaki worked for Sony Design Center. In 1991 moved to Italy and started design activities in Milan. Established Iwasaki Design Studio in Tokyo in 1995. Discover more projects of this studio.