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Category Archive: Design
Pinterest has served as a source of information about home décor colour preferences. For Turkish decorative paint brand Jotun, Danish designers Mie Frey Damgaard and Peter Ørntoft have developed a great infographics project, which is based on the colour trends spotted when looking through Pinterest interior décor boards.
A range of styles from the Prada fashion house and its Miu Miu brand influence the collection of dresses for the long-awaited Baz Luhrmann‘s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which is to be released in May. Miuccia Prada has unveiled a series of sketches for over 40 looks for the movie, which were developed by the Italian fashion label and costume designer Catherine Martin. According to Vogue, each of the sketches is “inspired by the creations of Miuccia Prada from the archives of the last 20 years.”
More than a half (59% —against 58.3% in 2011) of the UK design and digital agency staff intend to change their job in 2013, and overall, feel less confident and more disappointed. Continuing the trend of the previous year’s gloomy findings, the annual report by Fairley & Associates, Gabriele Skelton and On Pointe Marketing again proves that the future of small firms in the UK, and the design industry on the whole, looks dim.
McDonald’s has unveiled a new eye-catching packaging design, which is fun and educational at the same time. The restaurant chain is changing the look of its carry-out bags and fountain beverage cups, which now fearure QR codes that provide access to nutrition information. The fast-food giant launches the new design in the U.S. this week and is going to roll it out globally through 2013, “with the text being translated into 18 different languages,” says the company in the press note.
American Airlines started a new year with a new visual identity developed by FutureBrand. The company has waved goodbye to its old red and blue AA Silver Bird symbol and unveiled a new logo and exterior for its planes for a modern twist to the company’s image. It’s the first update of American Airlines look in over 40 years. The colours, slightly refreshed, remained the same (they are blue and red as before), but the symbol (the eagle) is now spreading its wings wide, instead of rising them above.
The Swedish car brand Saab changes its logo—the visual identity drops the legendary crowned red griffin. The new grey logo, which will be used for passenger cars, has been developed by National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS), which has recently acquired Saab, and the design agency Stockholm Design Lab AB.