The first MIT Media Lab Summit devoted to design, Knotty Objects brought together designers, scientists, engineers, curators and scholars to explore the “chimeric nature” of contemporary design and how it is said to defy a discipline-specific approach. Organised by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA, and Neri Oxman and Kevin Slavin, […]
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The Roald Dahl Literary Estate has appointed creative agency Sunshine to develop and evolve its proposition and branding. This is the first time a unifying identity has been developed to live across the estate’s multiple properties and activities. The agency has subsequently defined the three guiding principles for the estate to uphold as: ‘masters of […]
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Leeds-based brand design agency CHILLI UK has created the new identity for West Yorkshire Playhouse that includes a new logo and full range of marketing collateral. CHILLI was appointed in May following a four-way pitch, and was tasked with capturing the “spirit” of the Playhouse as one of the UK’s main producing theatres. The designers […]
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An East London outdoor contemporary art walk linking the O2 and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has launched with an identity created by The Beautiful Meme. The walk includes sculptures from artists such as Damien Hirst, Martin Creed, Gary Hume and Eduardo Paolozzi, and has publically been backed by Boris Johnson, Jon Snow and Mark […]
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Silk Pearce has designed a new website for Independent Opera (IO) to help promote the company’s programme of support for young artists in the field of opera, as well as their productions at the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells, London. The IO site (www.independentopera.com) has been completely redesigned and restructured with larger imagery and […]
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Pentagram’s Paula Scher and her team have designed the identity and event graphics for Choice Works, a party and art auction to benefit Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood of New York City. Support from the event, which will be held at Sotheby’s in New York this Friday, May 15, will aim to […]
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Edinburgh based agency The Union has rebranded The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, in the lead up to the concert group’s upcoming 125th anniversary in 2016. The agency says the new identity was developed following an extensive research process involving stakeholders, patrons and orchestra members. According to David Huckell, senior designer at The Union: “The identity […]
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