Graphic designer Allan Peters, of Peters Design Company, knows logos. Here’s 60 he’s designed over the years:
Now Peters is putting his decades of experience into a book:
Learn how to create iconic visual branding that stands the test of time with the innovative tools and inspiration in Logos That Last. Award-winning graphic designer Allan Peters has distilled the knowledge and experience of a 20-year career into this landmark guide for designers and brand strategists of any level.
Through the years, Peters has designed hundreds of logos for top brands as well as personal passion projects, and has developed a unique creative process he shares in Logos that Last for the very first time. Learn how to build great relationships with clients, while cultivating consistency and productivity.
Logos that Last also includes:
– Detailed case studies that follow designs from concept to completion
– Tips for turning a good idea into a great logo
– Strategies for extending a great logo into a dynamic brand system
– Advice for turning your passion into your profession
With Logos that Last, discover how to create inventive, thoughtful, and enduring logos with Peters’s own hands-on, step-by-step process.
The book is available for pre-order here and will be released on October 31st.
Graphic designer Allan Peters, of Peters Design Company, knows logos. Here’s 60 he’s designed over the years:
Now Peters is putting his decades of experience into a book:
Learn how to create iconic visual branding that stands the test of time with the innovative tools and inspiration in Logos That Last. Award-winning graphic designer Allan Peters has distilled the knowledge and experience of a 20-year career into this landmark guide for designers and brand strategists of any level.
Through the years, Peters has designed hundreds of logos for top brands as well as personal passion projects, and has developed a unique creative process he shares in Logos that Last for the very first time. Learn how to build great relationships with clients, while cultivating consistency and productivity.
Logos that Last also includes:
– Detailed case studies that follow designs from concept to completion
– Tips for turning a good idea into a great logo
– Strategies for extending a great logo into a dynamic brand system
– Advice for turning your passion into your profession
With Logos that Last, discover how to create inventive, thoughtful, and enduring logos with Peters’s own hands-on, step-by-step process.
The book is available for pre-order here and will be released on October 31st.
It’s a bold move to tap into the iconography of the late artist Basquiat—and yet, for Great Jones Distilling Co (the first whiskey distillery to open in Manhattan since Prohibition) it feels natural. Located at 686 Broadway, the 28,000-square-foot distillery—with its own food-and-beverage ecosystem—is mere steps from Basquiat’s former home and art studio at 57 Great Jones. For the partnership, Great Jones Distilling Co parsed through Basquiat’s archives to select three works—the “Pez Dispenser” dinosaur graphic and two untitled works from 1982, known as “Skull” and “Crown”—to incorporate into two limited edition bottles for their classic 4-year Straight Bourbon, as well as a third for one brand new distillery-exclusive release.
Courtesy of Great Jones Distilling Co
As fans of the Great Jones Distilling Co spirits since in 2021, the latest distillery exclusive is quite appealing. “To honor the legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat, we are proud to release a whiskey that matches his tremendous talent—and we feel that we’ve done that with our new expression, a seven-year-old NY-distilled bourbon, aged in Pineau de Charentes casks,” Celina Perez, head distiller at Great Jones Distilling Co, tells COOL HUNTING. “Basquiat, a lifelong New Yorker, created some of his most recognizable art just down the street from our distillery in NoHo and we will forever pay homage to such an influential New Yorker.”
In addition to the limited edition bottles, Great Jones Distilling Co will host a distillery experience for visitors through 1 October. Named “Basquiat’s New York,” the immersive tasting and tour will incorporate a dram of the distillery exclusive Pineau de Charentes cask-finished whiskey—set to 1980s ephemera. Further, the venue debuted a detailed pop-up Basquiat Bar, as well.
YouTube channel DIY Perks is no stranger to the world of amazing builds that are practical and aesthetically stunning. For his latest creation Matthew Perks, pushes the envelope of artistry and engineering, making a submersible PC that’s loaded with the latest and greatest PC components.
The steampunk influence of the build not only keeps the innards at optimum temperature but also looks stunning. Of course, the whole thing needs to be waterproof to the last drop to keep water from getting inside the housing, and damaging the thousands of dollars’ worth of computer equipment!
This is not an average DIY that anyone can think of making over the weekend. In fact, it required a lot of skill and know-how about putting metal components together, calculating the waterproofing capabilities of the rig, and experience handling electric hardware in close proximity to water. Matthew knows what’s he doing in this demanding DIY, and in the end, he manages to create a stunning submersible PC that’s capable of running any complex 3D renders or gaming titles at it!
It all starts with building the watertight acrylic cylinder that creates a see-through shield for the mounted hardware and then goes on to creating the cooling frame. The latter is filled with distilled water since Matthew doesn’t want any chemical coolants to accidentally seep into the delicate aquatic ecosystem of the pond he’ll test this machine in.
Once both are done, the next step is to install the PC hardware into the space-constricted vertical frame and sort out the cooling frame assembly. To keep the inside waterproof from the water pressure, the seasoned DIYer opts for custom gaskets, rather than going for the regular ones. The most important step is to reinforce the top cap section with watertight components.
Finally, the DIY is complete and it’s time to test the underwater PC submerged in the backyard pond. A 50-meter optical thunderbolt cable is connected to the Asus Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED at the other end on dry land. As soon as the power button is pressed, the PC comes to life, lighting up the steampunk machine underwater. The surrounding water helps in keeping the hardware cool and during the one-hour testing phase, Matthew is surprised by the efficacy of the cooling system (maximum recorded temperature 20.8 degree Celsius) even when the system churns out over 800 Watts!
Dozens of AI tools are emerging that could dramatically alter how architects and designers work. As part of our AItopia series, Dezeen rounds up 10 of the most significant.
Architects and designers are used to working with new technologies, but the rapid progress of artificial intelligence promises to usher in a wave of products that could shake-up the creative industries.
Founded in Shenzhen in 2016, Xkool was among the first AI tools trained specifically for architects, with the English-language version of the platform, LookX, based in Los Angeles.
With the help of deep learning, LookX’s tools enable users to generate visualisations of projects with fine-tuned parameters that take account of style, requirements, cost and regulations.
Currently still in the pilot phase, San Francisco startup 3DGuru describes its tool as an “AI interior designer”.
It operates as a chatbot that can suggest a floorplan for an interior space based on a photo, present a visualisation of a design, and recommend specific furniture and finish products based on taste and budget.
Among the so-called diffusion models capable of generating high-quality images from user prompts, Midjourney has emerged as the most impressive, with multiple instances of its outputs being mistaken for genuine photographs.
Although not specific to architecture or design, it is capable of producing convincing renderings of imaginary projects, with the most recent version able to fabricate building plans and sections.
Another leading, more recently launched text-to-image model is Adobe Firefly, pitched as an essential companion for graphic designers.
As well as being integrated into the company’s other products such as Photoshop, Firefly is trained on Adobe‘s own library of stock images. This means it should be less susceptible to claims of intellectual property infringement, something that has been an issue for other AI art tools.
Los Angeles-based Hypar is one of a handful of AI tools focused heavily on using data analysis to speed up the early concept design stages of a project, and has been described as “text-to-BIM” [building information management].
Designed to work alongside other popular architecture software such as Revit, Rhino and Grasshopper, Hypar allows users to describe project parameters and constraints as prompts and then generates geometry and metadata accordingly.
Launched in 2020 by Google’s Sidewalk Labs, Delve (pictured top) is another tool focused on using machine learning to speed up early concept design.
Having been trained on data about city neighbourhoods, it generates millions of options for developments based on user criteria including budget, size and site constraints, and ranks them on how well they meet the priorities. It also provides information on how much daylight each individual apartment would receive in a residential building.
Tel Aviv-founded firm Swapp claims to be an AI-powered construction document creator – automating one of the most fiddly and technically difficult aspects of an architect’s job.
In an opinion piece for Architizer, Swapp founder and CEO Eitan Tsarfati suggested the tool could stop architects from becoming discontented and leaving the profession.
Still in beta phase, Spacio calls itself an “all-in-one tool for designing buildings” that can be used in a web browser.
With an emphasis on being easy to use, it promises to “democratise the access to design intelligence”, allowing users to produce floorplans and digital sketches as well as running simulations on daylight, noise, wind and stormwater in a matter of clicks.
This article is part of Dezeen’s AItopia series, which explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on design, architecture and humanity, both now and in the future.
British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has announced its plans for Daxia Tower, a 210-metre-tall skyscraper in China‘s Xi’an business district with a curved form and planted terraces.
The mixed-use building is set to be located on a 16,700-square-metre site and will encompass 127,220 square metres of office and retail facilities linked to the metro system.
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for Daxia Tower
Renders of Daxia Tower depict the tower with a loose rectangular form that is slightly tapered at its base and peak. Its corners will have sweeping fillet edges.
Each of the building’s elevations will be animated by glazed keyhole-shaped openings, framing internal atriums with planted terraces that look out over the city.
The north and south-facing facades will see the keyhole-shaped glazing extend up from the base of the building. On its east and west-facing facades, this detail will be inversed, stretching over the top of the building and downwards.
It will have glazed keyhole-shaped openings
“Daxia Tower’s gently curving silhouette is accentuated by layers of patterned glazing and dramatic atriums that bring natural light deep into its floorplates,” said Zaha Hadid Architects.
“Creating a cascade of planted interior terraces that echo mountainside waterfalls, each atrium gives panoramic views over the historic city to the north and east, or the growing high-tech zone to the south and west.”
According to Zaha Hadid Architects, Daxia Tower will be designed in line with LEED Gold certifications and will also achieve a three-star rating from China’s Green Building Program in order to comfortably exist within Xi’an’s monsoon climate.
Natural daylight and ventilation will be optimised throughout the building, while glazing will be treated with a thermal coating to help reduce energy consumption and photovoltaic systems on the facade will generate renewable energy.
Zaha Hadid Architects explained that the building’s atriums will allow fresh air to circulate while planting around the atriums will help to purify the air.
“Planting on the many layers of terraces overlooking the atriums helps purify the air, reduce indoor pollutants, and foster a healthier indoor environment,” said this studio.
It will be located in Xi’an
The proposal is complete with a rainwater harvesting system and a recycling system that will treat and reuse greywater.
Elsewhere in Xi’an, Zaha Hadid Architects recently announced its plans to build the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre that will cover an eight-lane motorway in the city.
The studio is also designing a giant sports venue in Hangzhou that was modelled on local tea farms.
The renders are courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects.
British studio Apollodorus Architecture has designed a Colosseum-like stadium in Bath, UK, as a response to a proposed redevelopment put forward by Bath Rugby.
Apollodorus Architecture proposed the redesign of the Recreation ground site in the centre of Bath, which is currently being redeveloped.
Apollodorus Architecture‘s alternative scheme, which was designed by the studio’s director Mark Wilson Jones with Jakub Ryng, would feature an oval shape that references Roman amphitheaters.
The studio believes this would merge more organically with the context of the surrounding city than the proposed stadium.
“Architecturally, there is actually very little to speak of,” Wilson Jones said of the official Stadium for Bath proposal. “The new design put forward by Bath Rugby is clearly an expedient budget solution.”
“In some respects, this actually makes it more successful and more likely to secure planning than the club’s previous proposals for the site,” he told Dezeen.
“But putting the architecture aside, our main issue with the current scheme is that by not engaging with the site in its entirety – that is, including the leisure centre – it would torpedo any possibility of a happier long-term future for the area.”
Apollodorus Architecture designed new buildings that would relate to their surroundings
His studio, whose work is “rooted in research, scholarship and the experience of historic architecture”, has instead visualised an oval design that would have a capacity of around 18,000 – the same as the official proposal.
It believes this better adheres to Bath’s historical origins while being more fitting for the site itself, which has an existing leisure centre from the 1970s that is set to be refurbished and improved as part of the new plan.
“The key to unlocking the site’s potential is planning the stadium in conjunction with the leisure centre,” Wilson Jones said. “Once we realised this, we settled on using an oval and not a rectangle for the stadium.”
It chose an elliptical shape in nod to Roman amphitheatres
This shape would also have the benefit of not creating any hard corners, he added.
“The Romans invented the ellipse or oval for spectacles, so the choice seems apt given the city’s Romano-British origins,” Wilson Jones said.
“An oval has less bulk than a rectangle serving the same capacity and no hard corners. The curving structure of the proposed amphitheatre can merge organically with its context, as do Bath’s Georgian crescents, softening the impact on critical views to and from the enclosing hills.”
A leisure centre would be divided into two blocks
As well as the stadium itself, Apollodorus Architecture’s counter-proposal – which it sees as both a theoretical exercise and a “provocation” – features a new leisure centre divided into two blocks.
It also envisions a new terraced riverfront and a collection of bars and restaurants, which would be located in the arena and the leisure centre. The new stadium and the surrounding buildings would be made from stone.
“In the ideal world, we would minimise the use of concrete and rely on locally-sourced Bath stone,” Wilson Jones said.
“Contrary to what some people think, there is actually still enough of it in the ground for decades if not centuries.”
The stadium and surrounding buildings would feature classical detailing
Wilson Jones, who is an architecture and historian teaching 18th to 20th-century architectural history and theory, said that Apollodorus Architecture is not dogmatic about the classical language and “can appreciate good contemporary buildings in the modernist idiom”.
He argues, however, that Bath is a “slightly special case”.
“The city as we know it was built in a relatively short period of time, out of a uniform building material, following a particular strand of classicism,” Wilson Jones.
“It has survived more or less intact despite various post-war attempts to bring it up-to-date with the so-called ‘Zeitgeist’ – a very illusory and largely propagandistic concept,” he added.
“It is therefore in the spirit of continuity and respect for Bath’s enduring built heritage that we have chosen to work with the classical language – while being quite aware that it would stir up debate!”
The proposal is in response to a design put forward by Bath Rugby
The public response to the proposal has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Wilson Jones said. However, he conceded a “very small number of architects” had reacted less favourably.
“What will be interesting is to see how younger architectural professionals, and students, will react, for nowadays they tend to be much more open-minded than those over 35 or so – those who were taught, persuaded, and sometimes inculcated with the seductive mantras of the hard-line modernists who after world war two ran anyone sensitive to the lessons of history out of town,” Wilson Jones said.
“In a world that is rightfully becoming more broad-minded and tolerant of differences, the modernists’ puritanism when it comes to architecture often feels hypocritical and bigoted,” he added.
“However, to help those, for whom the classical detailing may be an intellectual obstacle, our website also features a ‘stripped-down’ version of the scheme.”
The studio has also designed a more stripped-down version
In an opinion reflecting on the continued debate between modernist and historical architecture Barnabas Calder wrote that “both sides in the style wars are equally wrong”. He argued that the squabble was an unhelpful distraction in the face of the climate emergency.
Irish studio Scullion Architects took visual cues from a nearby public square when designing a timber-clad extension for Vavasour House, a brick home in Dublin.
Located on the edge of the city’s Vavasour Square, the home comprises a renovated one-storey brick building as well as a rear extension clad in charred timber.
While the existing building now functions as a block of bedrooms, the addition contains the living areas of the home.
Scullion Architects has updated Vavasour House in Dublin
Another key part of Vavasour House’s transformation was the addition of more private and calming spaces, including a courtyard garden that is intended to reflect the quality of the adjacent square.
“This is a project that is, at its heart, about framing space, emphasis and exclusion,” studio director Declan Scullion told Dezeen.
“The real inspiration is Vavasour Square itself, and how the marking of an open space with a square gives heightened presence to the space marked within that geometry. In short, we wanted to make the courtyard garden a sanctuary.”
The studio added a charred-timber extension
The home’s back garden was transformed from an overlooked space that lacked order into a more private area with details informed by Vavasour Square.
A winding path made from white stone wraps around curved areas of grass, while a timber fence sits atop a short brick wall, offering the space more privacy.
The extension frames a courtyard garden
“The tranquillity and order of the front square was very much absent from the rear garden when we found it,” said Scullion.
“The proportions of the courtyard garden are a kind of scaled-down version of the square at the front, and the new build elements are made from timber that fits with the garden setting,” said Scullion.
The addition has an L-shaped in plan
The L-shaped extension frames the new garden and is raised above the ground on ribbed concrete plinths informed by the granite kerbs of the square.
Made from timber, the facade of the extension is partly clad in charred timber and features decorative elements such as fins that project above the glass doors.
“On a practical level, the dark charred finish reduces maintenance for the owners, but it also imparts a strong material presence in the way brick does in the main square, but in a material tonally more at home in a small garden,” Scullion explained.
“Smaller details like the arched cladding fins you see outside are a simple and cost-effective method of adding a delicacy and playfulness much like the arched fanlights over doors in the square.”
A kitchen occupies the new volume
Inside Vavasour House’s extension, the studio created an open-plan kitchen, living, and dining space that stretches down one side of the back garden. Expansive glazing offers views into the garden.
A concrete fireplace that extends into a bench sits at the centre of the open space, while white-painted timber beams are left exposed overhead.
The kitchen forms part of an open-plan living space
The existing elements of Vavasour House are largely preserved, with the original rooms kept intact and converted into bedrooms with dark-coloured walls.
“The existing home had rooms that were calm, well proportioned and attractive,” said Scullion. “However in some respects they failed to answer the demands of modern family life.”
The original building has been updated with colour-blocked details
“The rooms of the existing house became bedrooms, painted in darker muted colours and with colour-blocked details and concealed en-suite doors so as to maintain the proportions of the original rooms but add a more introverted character,” added Scullion.
Owning great audio gadgets is always essential, not only to blast out some groovy music at your parties but also for those days when you want to sing along to your favorite tunes at the top of your lungs, in the privacy of your room! Whatever may be the requirement, having a clear, distortion-free, handy, and interactive set of audio devices is necessary. There are a lot of innovative designs out there in the market, so picking the right one that meets all your needs can be a task, especially since we all tend to have different audio requirements. Hence, we’ve curated a collection of functional, creative, and exciting audio devices for you! From an invisible turntable to headphones with a circular design – these modern audio devices are all you need for the ultimate immersive audio experience at home. Enjoy!
1. The Black Wheel
Vinyl and record players made a comeback a few years ago and completely took over the audio industry. Say hello to Black Wheel, the latest iteration of the Wheel design by Miniot. The Black Wheel artfully hides and conceals the electronic and mechanical parts under the record. The various parts sit inside a thin circular body that disappears the second you put a record on! It has an alluring minimalist charm to it.
2. Harmon Kardon Gramophone Mini Speaker Concept
Designed by Wagner Pozebon, this speaker design is the perfect epitome of minimalism, combined with the spirit of the good old gramophone, while also incorporating a modern and contemporary design aesthetic. The versatile wireless speaker features a translucent body that mimics the classic gramophone’s contours. The amplification of the speaker is right on point delivering encapsulating audio from the soundbox.
3. The Kibu Headphones
The Kibu Headphones are designed to be recyclable and repairable all through their lifespan. The headphones are 3D printed on demand and are available in a variety of custom colors using recycled PLA from packaging waste sourced from the agricultural industry, which is topped up with a cozy TPU headband and foam ear cups in a kid-friendly size.
4. The Yamaha L700A
The Yamaha L700A perfectly balances pro-gear and consumer-worthy stuff. The headphones feature a gray design, topped with fabric trims on the headband, as well as on the earpieces themselves, giving them the visuals of a condenser microphone. The headphones fold flat like the AirPods Max and support easy traveling.
5. Nothing The Ear (2) Black
Nothing recently unveiled a black variant for its flagship Ear (2) TWS earbuds, for those who love a touch of dark in their wearables. The Ear (2) Black is equipped with Hi-Res Audio certification and LHDC 5.0 technology. The earbuds feature an 11.6 mm custom driver, which produces deep, crystal clear, and powerful bass highs.
6. The TP-7
The TP-7 is styled like a hi-fi audio player but is actually a tiny recorder that you can record and playback audio with. It is great for making podcasts, sample recordings, music production, vlogging, and journalism. It combines nostalgia with clicky buttons, vintage details, and a lack of touchscreens, while also providing cutting-edge recording technology.
7. The Stingray Headphones
Designed by Junhyeok “Hugo” Oh, the Stingray Headphones have been created to adapt to the back of human heads, hence making them quite an ergonomic pair of headphones. They cover the back of our heads, preventing migraines and helping users to focus completely on the music. The headphones are designed to be portable, and they can be swiftly clipped onto or put into bags and pockets, making the headphones extremely easy to carry around with you.
8. OEPLAY MusicStar5
The OEPLAY MusicStar5 is a large audio unit that is shaped like a planet and is designed to provide an immersive soundscape, irrespective if you’re watching TV or listening to your favorite tunes. The audio unit is designed to help you hear music the way the artist really intended it! It is crafted with only the finest materials and has a frequency range going all the way to 33Hz and up to as 55kHz.
9. The Torso Speaker
Designed by Yang Dong Wook, the Torso speaker has been designed in the image of Michelangelo’s bust of David, combining nuanced and elegant classical qualities with product design. The speaker look’s like an abstract sculptural piece that you would place on your mantelpiece, allowing guests to compliment and appreciate the artlike speaker. It adopts the same shapes, contours, and tilts as the Bust of David, with slanted shoulders and a slightly angled head, resulting in an incredibly expressive form.
10. Pavy’s Earbuds Design
Designed by Simon Pavy, this innovative earbuds concept is a unique audio device that can be used while traveling, playing sports, or during any activity where we have limited or no access to our smartphones. The nifty device combines AirPods and an AirPods case with a new and improved iPod Nano screen, hence creating a hybrid of the AirPods and the iPod, resulting in a gadget that has no need for a smartphone, since it does it all!
CLB Architects is hiring a self-motivated interior designer with strong communication and organisation skills to join its team in Wyoming, USA.
The studio completed the refurbishment of the Paintbrush Residence, first designed by the studio 20 years ago. The refurbishment aims to enhance the original design and prioritise “durability and a play of textures”.
Pubblik & Vos is hiring an interior designer with more than five years of experience in designing high-quality interior projects to join its team in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Founded in 2014 by Marjolein Bangma and Tessa Vos, Pubblik & Vos is an Amsterdam-based studio working on the interior design of hospitality and office environments.
Studio Seilern Architects is looking for a highly organised admin/material library assistant to join the fast-expanding team in London.
The architects created Boksto 6, a revitalised hospitality and office complex transformed from a previously neglected walled site in the old town of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Studio MB is seeking a designer with two to five years of design experience in museums, heritage destinations or experiential environments to join its team in Edinburgh, UK.
Established in 2004, Studio MB designs exhibitions and delivers immersive visitor experience for museums, heritage attractions and brands in the UK and around the world.
Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG) is hiring a designer to provide design and technical support to its Wimberly interiors studio.
WATG is an architecture and interior design firm that has offices around the globe. In collaboration with Studio PCH, the firm designed the first Nobu hotel in Mexico, a high-end hotel featuring locally sourced stone, courtyards and swimming pools.
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