The New York Public Library has introduced a new identity designed by the inhouse graphics team under the leadership of Marc Blaustein. The logo for the venerable institution is based on its famous lion statues, and is intended to emphasize openness, with flowing lines speaking to momentum and forward motion.
The Coca-Cola Company unveils a new visual identity for key brands in its extensive family of juice beverages. The uniform package design, to be implemented across multiple brands and products worldwide, is part of a strategic effort to expand the company's global leadership position in the category. Creation of the system was led by the inhouse design group at Coca-Cola.
The Society of News Design has named veteran board member and industry leader Stephen Komives as its executive director. Komives, Design Editor at the Orlando Sentinel in Florida for the past five years, has also directed the Society's quick course design workshops since 2007.
The Vancouver Police Department's Emergency Response Team is an elite force. When faced with a dated logo based on a firearms image, the ERT called upon Subplot Design. "This was a unique project for us," says Creative Director Matthew Clark.
Most businesses do not have a mobile management policy or infrastructure. A campaign by ad agency Young & Laramore, Indianapolis IN, for Mobi, a mobile management startup, offers to solve this management headache.
Seattle-based Cole & Weber United creates a digital campaign for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) called "The Best of Us Challenge." Aimed at young people, the effort is intended as a digital social experience that invites people around the world to challenge top Olympic athletes using sport and non-sport talents via an online competition.
The holidays are here, and that means it's gift-giving season. While you probably know what you want to bestow your best friend or big brother, you may be at a loss when it comes to your coworkers, boss or other business contacts. Following are five tips for gift giving in a professional setting...
Graphic Design Archive is a new website featuring 30 individual designer archives that have been steadily assembled at Rochester Institute of Technology for the past 25 years. The online portal documents important primary resource materials. RIT-ers involved include Roger Remington, Bruce Meader, Chandra McKenzie and Kari Horowicz.
C&G Partners designed the exhibits at the newly-renovated El Museo del Barrio, New York's leading cultural institution. The graphic system has a dual-language mode, so that both the inaugural exhibits, "Voces y Visiones" and "Nexus New York," and all future ones can be presented in both Spanish and English.
Graphics Gone Green: Ways To Go Green Without Losing Your Shirt. This recently released ebook by Rita Amladi and Erica Aitken addresses how to design products and campaigns with the environment in mind, all the while streamlining effort, cost and waste.
Archie Comics has joined the crowd "going green" and reducing the environmental impact of publishing its books.
Hickory Farms, the purveyor of premium foods and specialty gifts, lost its image as well as 30% of its sales since 2005. CEO Mark Rodriguez, hired in 2007, found the company had not evolved with the times in terms of visuals, descriptions, packaging, and recipes.