World Cup calendar poster

Designer David Watson of design studio Trebleseven has designed a colourful, typographic World Cup poster (detail shown above) to raise money for Soccer Aid…

Classic World Cup moments on T-shirts

We received a batch of A3 posters from a company called Tiny Industry last week – each of which shows off an illustration that appears on one of their Foot-T range of T-shirts that celebrates memorable moments from World Cups past…

The unbeautiful logo

I recently watched a video clip of the Oasis guitarist, Noel Gallagher, talking about “his favourite world cup moments”, writes Michael Johnson. Somewhat surprisingly, his first thoughts about the 1978 tournament were about the logo

Probably not the best Carlsberg ad ever

YouTube commenters have been calling Saatchi’s Carlsberg Team Talk ad ‘the best ever’. Really? It’s not even the best football-related Carlsberg ad

Mill Co the show

The Russian Club in Hackney is currently playing host to the debut London show of Mill Co and its eclectic bunch of designers, photographers, artists and illustrators. All around the theme of community

Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed

Opening today at the Photographers’ Gallery in London is freshfacedandwildeyed, the gallery’s annual display of work by recent UK graduates…

Claridge’s rebrand

London design studio Construct has given the branding of London’s famous Claridge’s hotel a thorough overhaul, starting with the hotel’s crest which has been redrawn and the logotype which has also been redrawn using a refined weight of typeface SangBleu…

Waterstone’s rebrands

Waterstone’s booksellers unveiled a new identity this week. Out go the serifs and caps, in come sans and lowercase, plus a range of logo iterations in-store…

Pantone Plus Series launches

Pantone, the company that sets the world’s standards on colour, has relaunched its Pantone Matching System as The Plus Series. As part of the launch of The Plus Series, the company has released this mini documentary giving an insight into the way it works…

Warren & Nick’s new UNKLE video

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones have directed the video for Follow Me Down – the first single from UNKLE’s new album, Where Did The Night Fall…

Not My Type exhibition

35 different Birmingham-based artists – including Mark Murphy (of design studio Surely?), Stef Grindley, Claire Hartley, Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust and Lee Basford – have each created a new typographical illustration for an exhibition currently running at Birmingham’s Created In Birmingham store…