FEATURE
Olympics exclusive: director of design, Joachim Roncin on Paris 2024
How do you begin to design the Olympics? A few days before the Olympics, Wallpaper interviewed the director of design for Paris 2024 to learn more...
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The 15 best Olympic Games poster designs, from 1912 to Paris 2024
The Olympics are underway, and some might even argue that in an era of mass digital media, the Games no longer need much promotion at all. It was a different story in the past, when the best Olympic Games posters helped establish the event as a major global spectacle.
CreqtiveBloq picked their favourite posters for the Olympics from the past 120 years.
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VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt rebrands as HMH with a new logo
The company previously known as Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt—the publisher behind such childhood favorites as Algebra: Structure and Method—just renamed itself HMH and got a new logo. The rebrand, by the creative agency Lippincott, is part of a pivot that aims to reflect the way students learn today.
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Charted: America’s Most Popular News Sources
This visualization shows the percentage of Americans who use various news sources on a weekly basis. More than 2,000 nationally representative Americans were surveyed in a 2024 YouGov survey commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
When it comes to traditional mediums (TV, radio, and print), local TV stations are still the most frequently used by Americans (28%).
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CREATIVITY
With 13 Words, Ryan Reynolds Just Exploded a Huge Myth About Creativity and Success
Reynolds: "One of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money."
Constraints, or Reynolds's 13-word quote about lack of resources spurring creativity doesn't just apply to the movie business. It's a general truism about creativity and success in many domains that other high achievers have echoed.
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48 logos in 4 hours: Kamala Harris’ design team shares how it approached the historic campaign rebrand
Politics aside, there hasn’t been a creative brief in presidential politics quite like the handoff from Biden to Harris. Under incredibly short notice, the campaign designers faced a mighty task: build a brand that could visually convey the newly announced candidate to the country and smoothly pivot the campaign with just over 100 days to go until Election Day. What did Ryan Reynolds say about constraints and creativity?
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INCLUSIVE
What brands can learn from Coca-Cola's Olympic hugging can design
When it comes to famous brand sponsorships, Coca-Cola and the Olympics go hand in hand – and so do the new cans that the iconic soft drinks brand has launched to celebrate the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
With two cans placed together to create an image of two arms locked in an embrace, the new design symbolizes hope and inclusivity.
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INSPIRATION
Innovation by Design Awards 2024
Behind each of the winning projects featured in this year’s Innovation by Design Awards is a team of people who challenged themselves to solve big problems. Their brilliance resulted in a vast array of projects, products, services, and ideas that span industries.
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