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Review of the Year 2021: Top 25 News

It has been one hell of a year for creative news. From Hockney sunrises to Burger King’s rebrand, here are some of the best.

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Date: 20 December 2021
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If you were expecting a calmer news climate after 2020 – the year that gave new meaning to the word “unprecedented” – 2021 came to prove you wrong. The postponed Tokyo Olympics brought with it an animated trailer full of hidden easter eggs, conversations around social media saw Norway pass restrictions on retouched photos, and Iron Maiden returned with an epic film for their new track.

With lockdowns still looming and viewers stuck to their TV screens, stories on Grayson’s Art Club, Rankin’s Great British Photography Challenge and newly hired creative director/Rick and Morty star Jerry Smith took centre stage. Elsewhere in design, the first house ever to be 3D-printed from raw earth hit the top of our most-read chart this year.

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Review of the Year 2021: Top 25 News

This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth

The Burger King rebrand celebrates its design history and irreverent personality

Grayson’s Art Club returns, inviting submissions on six new themes

Kia unveils rebrand with dramatically different logo design resembling a handwritten signature

McDonald’s releases global redesign of packaging with a focus on illustration

CIA rebrand looks to diversify its agents, though critics say it’s a trendy step too far

12 new posters for The French Dispatch feature each of its characters within the wonderful world of print journalism

Iron Maiden returns with an overtly political animated epic by Nicos Livesey

Norway passes a law that forces influencers to label their retouched photos

Brickit is a new AR app that will scan your old pile of Lego and tell you what you can build

Mind the Gap: why Hockney’s Piccadilly Line roundel uproar signifies a deepening disconnect between art and the public

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

KFC borrows other brands’ slogans while Finger Lickin’ Good is on pause

&Walsh’s identity for health food brand Plenty is inspired by McDonald’s

Periods are getting a rebrand, and it’s about bloody time

The BBC’s animated Tokyo Olympics trailer is packed with hidden easter eggs

Rick and Morty's Jerry Smith has just been hired as a creative director

Creative Lives in Progress is a vital connector between emerging talent and the industry

Tom Hingston creates an elastic typographic identity for the V&A’s Alice in Wonderland show

Facebook and Droga5 celebrate skateboarding’s debut at the Olympics with films by FKA twigs and more

David Hockney creates a new digital sunrise to be shown at dusk on screens around the world

Play creates a visual language for Elon Musk’s company Neuralink inspired by science textbooks

Font Brief lets you find the right typeface by searching for its personality traits

Rankin to helm new BBC series, the Great British Photography Challenge

Mother Design rebrands fiction podcast brand Realm, inspired by sci-fi and magic

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