Taschen has a word for what branding is, and it’s the wrong one. In the opening pages of The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller’s new 496-page survey of 110 identity systems,… Read More »What Brands Are Actually Made Of
Today, Pope Leo XIV announced the first exhibition in a cycle of existential themes—this one addressing water, titled AQVA: Catastrophe and Wonder, on view at the Vatican Apostolic Library from Sept. 15, 2026, to May… Read More »The Daily Heller: Wood Type and Water at the Vatican Apostolic Library
IconPapers © Mathilda Mutant The Mainz designer on packaging obsession, a pseudonym that got out of hand, chocolate shaped like breasts, and why she’s best in the in-between. Ask most designers where they go looking… Read More »How Mathilda Mutant built a 14-year one-woman studio on supermarket shelves, pink and a grown-up Pippi Longstocking
The award-winning studio has given BAFTA’s various ceremonies a single visual language – flowing coloured particles that gather into interesting forms. And it was all built in Cavalry. Here’s something worth remembering the next time… Read More »How Studio Kiln built one ‘particle’ system to unify all four of BAFTA’s awards
Andy Aitchison is the UK’s foremost prison photographer. In a new book from Bluecoat Press, two decades of his work find the people behind the clichés – delicate, tragic and often surprisingly ordinary. I’ll say… Read More »A quarter of UK prisoners are held in Victorian jails. This is what they actually look like inside
The fresh identity trended on X on day one, drove Granola’s biggest-ever download day, and helped the company raise $125m in funding. Here’s how Ragged Edge did it. Back in my broadcast journalism days in… Read More »Ragged Edge rebrands AI notepad Granola with a co-founder’s handwriting and a deliberately imperfect logo