This new branding agency is giving overlooked B2B industries—from logistics to manufacturing—the creativity and craft they deserve. Founder Tash Peskin explains why the world’s “dullest” sectors are actually the most exciting branding challenges. For most… Read More »Boring by name, bold by nature: the new agency making ‘dull’ industries impossible to ignore
This industry op-ed is by Johanna Augustin, CEO of Stockholm agency Pond Design. Who would have thought that we’d see a golden era of packaging design? Watching my Generation Alpha daughter and her friends delight… Read More »What Gen Alpha’s Passion for Packaging Means for Brands
My friend Kelly Beal’s Instagram will treat you to a simple quote each day. There are many I have bookmarked, but this particular one stopped me cold. I haven’t stopped thinking about this deficit of… Read More »When Going Backward Feels Like Going Forward
Identity Politics is a column written by veteran journalist Susan Milligan, covering the big issues in the socio-political ether as they intersect with design, art, and other modes of visual communication. When I was a… Read More »Words Matter
Every year, RGD asks a different Canadian design studio or agency to tackle the conference identity. In these shorter episodes, host Nicola Hamilton has been speaking with some of the past DesignThinkers Design Partners. Her… Read More »DesignThinkers Podcast: Howard Poon
Edward Tenner is the go-to expert for explaining why things go tragically wrong—specifically when technology and culture collide. His 1997 book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences should be required… Read More »The Daily Heller: Oh, the Humanity! A Survey of Unintended Consequences