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The history of Snake: How the Nokia game defined a new era for the mobile industry

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Jack Taylor on fine-tuning his practice and working more in the style of Ligne Claire comic artists

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In his new book, Daniel Stier invites the viewer to take a second glance at the city

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Dn&co adds warmth and humanity to its identity for Showhere with Hollie Fuller’s charming illustrations

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Why humour is so important in the creative world

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Hyunmin Kim tells stories through the merging of digital and analogue architectural landscapes

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Laura Callaghan illustrates RBG, Angela Davis, Malala and more for Feminist Oracles

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Grace Helmer's new comic is a wonky journey through space and time

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Changing the practice of dining at home: the creative determination of Momofuku Ando and instant noodles

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“Beauty is always in flux”: How three artists are redefining beauty and inclusion

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Best of the Month

From a photography series documenting London’s roller skaters to an in-depth look at Netflix’s new Headspace series, below are some of our favourite stories from the past few weeks.

Pay it forward: We’re offering young creatives free Extra Nice membership

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Huruf explores Malaysia’s visual culture and multilingual vernacular through type

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And breeaaathe: the animation supergroup creating meditation TV for Netflix’s Headspace

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Alva Skog’s cartoonish characters now populate WeTransfer’s entire interface

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Learn new creative skills and techniques from the world’s leading artists and designers

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“Designers are not neutral agents”: Paola Antonelli explores design’s role in building a better future

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Alice Zoo documents a community of roller skaters, evoking a sense of much-needed warmth and hope

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Netflix launches anime scholarship, designed and taught by Studio Ghibli’s Hitomi Tateno

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Gang Buron-Yi adds hints of “artificial flavours, sugar, fat and salt” to his highly addictive graphic design practice

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Is graphic design too trendy?

Whether it’s chrome lettering or outlined type, we’ve all heard someone say: “Ooh, that’s a bit trendy!” Here we question what’s wrong with that, what’s right about it too, and the unexpected significance design trends have.

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Graphic designer Ira Ivanova treats each project like a game where you set your own rules

10 February 2021

Now You See Me Moria is a poster project raising awareness about the EU humanitarian crisis

10 February 2021

Gilbert Schneider likens his design practice to crate-digging for the perfect sample

4 February 2021

Sam Winston’s concrete poetry project rearranges the dictionary to question our learnt definitions

2 February 2021

MakingIt21: 21 posters sharing positive messages and insights from the industry

1 February 2021

Tom Noon shares an update of his work, which includes a gritty book on life in lockdown

29 January 2021

Automatico studio updates its design ethos to one that succumbs to “simplicity, reduction and calm”

25 January 2021

Mark Bohle and Raffael Kormann designed 80 posters over a year for Kulturzentrum Merlin

22 January 2021

Chaumont poster competition calls for entries with collage-based identity by DIA

11 January 2021

Ikki Kobayashi returns with a new train of thought, this time focusing on positivity and interiors

7 January 2021

Designing the identity for an art institution that contradicts the all-too-familiar capitalist narrative

8 December 2020

Marylou Faure takes on poster design for Montreux Jazz Festival following the likes of Andy Warhol and Malika Favre

4 December 2020

Nolan Paparelli’s Everett typeface is back, but this time it’s matured and refined

3 December 2020

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“Designers are not neutral agents”: Paola Antonelli explores design’s role in building a better future

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“Truth is the first casualty in a war”: Poulomi Basu on her acclaimed docu-fiction film, Centralia

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“Our goal is to democratise design”: Deem Journal on how it’s tackling systems of oppression

21 January 2021

Geoff McFetridge on how he thinks through drawing

22 January 2021

The Pink Triangle: how a symbol moved from one of persecution to power

The Pink Triangle is a symbol of resistance and solidarity among the LGBTQIA+ community but its beginnings in Nazi Germany are dark. How has the meaning of such a simple icon changed so much? And why has it endured so long?

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