The Ideas Generation

The Ideas Foundation exists to unlock the creative potential in kids from disadvantaged areas and ultimately encourage diversity in the creative industries. We sit in on one of its flagship projects

The LogoLounge Logo Trend Report

It’s back: our annual round-up of the hottest trends in logo design as spotted by LogoLounge, the online repository of identity design world wide. The site’s founder takes us through this year’s picks

Design in an abstract sense

The history of Chanel N˚5 is intertwined with the avant garde, as a special show at the Palais de Tokyo explored

Dvein and Blacklist’s Science idents

Subscribers to US TV channel Science may have spotted its weird and wonderful idents created by Spanish art direction studio Dvein and New York production company Blacklist.

The graphic art of Harry Potter

Since 2001, Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima have been immersed in a fantasy world – designing props, merchandise and memorabilia for the film adaptations of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.

Please draw a chair

Kingston University students Jack Beveridge and Joshua Lake held an art lesson with a class of seven and eight year-olds at a local school and asked each of the children to draw a chair. They then picked two and had them made

Taking a letter for a walk

At the heart of the new identity for the Whitney Museum in New York is a single, not uncontroversial, zigzag line. Meet Experimental Jetset’s ‘responsive W’

W+K launches new Honda idents for Channel 4

Wieden + Kennedy has launched a new set of animated idents for Honda’s sponsorship of Channel 4 documentaries featuring miniature versions of some the automotive brand’s best-known inventions.

#OccupyGezi: The art of the Turkish protests

The Occupy Gezi movement started in Istanbul with the aim of preserving one of the very few green areas left in the city and turned into a group of massive, nation-wide anti-government protests. This has ignited a flurry of creative production which has resulted in a variety of posters, banners and street art

Found creates engaging mixed-media campaign film

Motion studio Found has collaborated with film director Richard Curtis to create a striking film for grassroots advocacy organisation ONE, charting the history of popular music and protest in a visually arresting mixed-media collage