Symbiosis by Jelte van Abbema

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Dutch Design Week: Dutch designer Jelte van Abbema won the €10,000 Rado Prize at the Dutch Design Awards last week for a body of work including Symbiosis, an experimental project that involved printing with bacteria. (more…)

Karamel Sans CE by Marta Maštálková

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Czech graphic design student Marta Maštálková has designed a typeface by pouring liquid caramel onto glass. (more…)

Arena Homme + by Neville Brody

London graphic designer Neville Brody has art directed the latest issue of Arena Homme + magazine. (more…)

Competition: five copies of Peter Blake’s ABC to be won

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Dezeen and Tate Publishing have got together to give readers the chance to win one of five copies of artist Peter Blake’s ABC. (more…)

The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Verdana – Time magazine

Dezeenwire: Time magazine reports on the backlash following IKEA’s decision to drop its customised version of Futura for all its print and online collateral in favour of Verdana. Time

PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma

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Another Index Award winner: PIG 05049 by Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma, a book documenting the products made from a pig, won the Play category of the awards, which were announced yesterday. (more…)

Frank, Ettore and Toyo by Chris Labrooy

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Graphic artist Chris Labrooy has designed a series of type faces based on the work of famous architects and designers. (more…)

Dezeen Podcast: Colin Forbes remembering Alan Fletcher at the Design Museum

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Dezeen podcast: in our latest podcast for the Design Museum in London, graphic designer Colin Forbes reminisces about his design partner and friend Alan Fletcher, with whom he co-founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in the 1960s and subsequently Pentagram in the 1970s. (more…)

Competition: limited-edition t-shirts by graniph to be won

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Dezeen have got together with Japanese T-shirt store graniph to give away limited-edition T-shirts inspired by Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. (more…)

Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz

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Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. (more…)