What's new in Visual Communication?
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What's new in Visual Communication?
Selected news about graphic design, photography, film studies and media & interaction design for CV students at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Flyers, magazines and counterculture: How Phase Zero captures New York’s creative scene

The target audience for this letter-sized magazine is “anyone who stops and reads things on the street”.
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Carly Jean Andrews’ collage self-portraits are like an archive of 80s magazine covers

Carly Jean Andrews’ collage self-portraits are like an archive of 80s magazine covers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The Los Angeles-based artist does self-portraiture on her own terms and in her own name.
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Kartik Tuli is dismantling graphic design perfection, one project at a time

Kartik Tuli is dismantling graphic design perfection, one project at a time | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Sculpture, web design, typography – whatever Kartik turns his hand to, there is an urge to let real world influences mess with standardisation.
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PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding

PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
“We needed to radiate mass appeal,” says Porto Rocha, the graphic design studio tasked with encouraging visitors to the World Trade Centre site.
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Elizabeth Goodspeed on how signs remind us of design beyond the screen

On a recent trip to Italy, our US editor-at-large became fascinated by the myriad forms of “folk” signage on display. Here, she asks why designers find it so easy to fall in love with mundane design abroad, but not closer to home.
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“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys

“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
A new publication looks into the impact and legacy of Admiral, the brand that pioneered fan football shirts in the UK.
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Proto-typography: how type is dictated by the surface it’s written on

Proto-typography: how type is dictated by the surface it’s written on | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Be it historical writing systems inscribed on leaves or entirely new mediums all together, we explore how, in typographic design, the medium has always shaped the message.
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This football-inspired tool allows you to create interactive illustrations like a variable font

The creative duo Rob & Robin have transitioned from graphic design to illustration; though they’re still borrowing a few tips and tricks from their old trade.
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Sweaty Betty ditches boutique branding to keep up with modern attitudes

Sweaty Betty ditches boutique branding to keep up with modern attitudes | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Gone are the days of the sleek thin sans; activewear brand Sweaty Betty debuts an identity system from Fluoro that stresses new brand message, “don’t sweat it”.
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Natasha Lucas’ harmonious typeface family is launched by her old university tutors

Natasha Lucas’ harmonious typeface family is launched by her old university tutors | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The graphic designer tells us that she sees “design from a designer’s perspective”, so how will her discarded logo sketch turned family of typefaces go down with others?
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Dad Agency blends typefaces and leans into monochrome to build and brand its high-tech sports bag

Dad Agency blends typefaces and leans into monochrome to build and brand its high-tech sports bag | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
This product and campaign was created entirely in-house, proving why small budgets and limited tools can spark inventiveness.
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Requena Office’s rebrand for Fonda Europa brings its art deco spirit into a new era

Requena Office’s rebrand for Fonda Europa brings its art deco spirit into a new era | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
With a flexible typeface, bold yellow colours and high-exposure flash photography, the Barcelona-based studio breathes new life into the eatery.
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Filatelia Grafica’s archive of sports stamps is a treasure trove of design history

The platform is run and expertly curated by London-based graphic designer and archivist Diego Bucciero, who has brought the collection out of an old shoebox for everyone to enjoy.
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The marble patterns and bubble type of this menstruation campaign website are inspired by period blood

The marble patterns and bubble type of this menstruation campaign website are inspired by period blood | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
From Nice and Serious and in collaboration with Bloody Good Period, the website aims to make conversations about periods “flow” in workplaces.
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The View From Mumbai: Indian packaging design fusing heritage and contemporary culture

The View From Mumbai: Indian packaging design fusing heritage and contemporary culture | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
In her first column, our Mumbai correspondent Payal Khandelwal cherry picks some standout Indian food and drink packaging designs that craft modern stories with cultural nuance.
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Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers

Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
An old project on soccer fan scarves opened Rüdiger’s eyes to the possibilities of textiles. Now he prototypes typefaces on screen and fabric.
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“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers

Leo Burnett Dubai agency has partnered with Omantel telecom network to create the Maqroo font, which translates to “readable”.
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Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper

Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Grids and tight graphic systems provide comfort and safety to this artist working in Berlin.
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The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility

The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The branding for the State of the Times event, created by CC Studio in London, aims to celebrate the breadth of content and media that the newspaper produces.
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Polytechnic’s publication design for Hospital Rooms amplifies its impact on mental healthcare through art

Polytechnic’s publication design for Hospital Rooms amplifies its impact on mental healthcare through art | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The book explores the charity’s diverse artist commissions (such as Hurvin Anderson, Yinka Ilori and Shepherd Manyika) and celebrates its important work.
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POV: Using the human body to create type taps into our deepest desires

POV: Using the human body to create type taps into our deepest desires | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
In this week’s POV, design director Jakob Weinzettel traces the growing trend of “the human alphabet” and how this visual language speaks volumes about designers’ collective obsession with the human form.
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Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design?

Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design? | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Art of the Title’s Lola Landekic speaks to the graphic designers behind titles and posters for some of this year’s biggest films, exploring the process and changing landscape for these creatives setting the tone of films through typography.
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Studio Lob’s branding for Nonna’s pizza restaurant celebrates grandma’s tomatoes… and her dentures

Studio Lob’s branding for Nonna’s pizza restaurant celebrates grandma’s tomatoes… and her dentures | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
This fun-filled branding from the Berlin-based studio features tomato mascots, dental drawings, a typewriter font and even a scratch card.
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Lauren Graycar’s elegant typeface is made by layering squares, circles and triangles

Lauren Graycar’s elegant typeface is made by layering squares, circles and triangles | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The LA-based designer shares how the K.73r typeface was made within such strict rules, and why it’s named after one of Mozart’s canons.
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Designer Sun Young Oh focuses on words, through fonts or cat flow charts

What happens when a typographic and fine art practice collide? Highly logical images that crumble under scrutiny.
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