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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering light boxes spelling out ASTER/SK over two lines. She’s what I would term a “designer’s artist.” This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. Tania Mourand, MDQRPV?,

Art 96
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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The teams worked with Japanese artist and designer Fantasista Utamaro on the television spot, mixing animation and illustration to bring a world of arcade games, a sports fanatic’s bedroom and a J-Pop (Japanese pop) music video to life. The video was directed by Factory Fifteen.

Sports 101
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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. “And what’s happening now is that people are starting to sit in the little boxes that people outside of India have created for us.”

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. If you are an artist you have to create your tools. While clearly a successful business venture, fonts.gr So what is your tool? A library, a type library.”

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Throughout the 20th century, logo design evolved alongside artistic movements and the rise of mass media. Artistic styles influenced logo design, while the advent of mass media provided a platform for increased brand exposure. In the digital age, logos have had to adapt to the ever-changing digital landscape.

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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes

Colossal

In Keita Morimoto ’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. Working in acrylic and oil, the Japanese artist explores the scenes of daily commutes, walks with friends, and trips to a vending machine.

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

Having worked with The Guardian, Man Repeller, Teen Vogue and many more, Mexican illustrator and artist Ana Leovy creates colorful compositions using acrylics, gouache and watercolors. Encouraging website visitors to purchase her work, Johanna places a small icon of a shop sign, paired with a colloquial call-to-action “Buy Some Art”.