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25 Coffee Roasters is a company from Kharkiv. The company was founded in 2013. It works with the production and supply of freshly roasted coffee. In 2018, the company decided to rebrand and completely update the logo and corporate identity to make the brand more emotional and modern. The fresh view and image was the main condition for the new identity. On another hand, the new identity should maintain brand awareness.
Tanzanian-born artist Sungi Mlengeya’s passion for art sparked at a very young age, at their home in Serengeti where she and her sister would go through the craft pages of their mother’s Woman’s Value magazines looking for something interesting to make. Living inside a national park with electricity
It will work on smart speakers, TVs and mobiles but would Beeb be a good wake-up word?
Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains dimensions in ways that even a 5-year-old can understand.
The technical limitations of the mid-century—the need for a steady hand and a precise mind for mechanical reproduction—demanded that an exceptional level of care and creativity be given over to shape and space, association and perception. These considerations created a rich corporate and consumer form language and range of graphic techniques. These have been partly …
Officially on display at the Paris Zoo from 19 October, this unicellular organism will be the first-ever “brainless blob” to be showcased in a zoo. Despite not having a brain, the mass can complete a bevy of tasks from improvising music to maneuvering through a maze, remembering which food it likes best, and crossing a…
Illustrator Eiko Ojala (previously) tackles complex topics with masterfully simple images. Though his work often appears to be made with layered paper, the artist clarifies on his website that he works digitally, building each image from scratch. Cleverly using negative space, mirroring, and raking
With phones becoming more crucial to every part of daily life, more people are taking steps to find their balance with technology. To help them do this, we’re making Digital Wellbeing a part of our products, like Wind Down on Android and Take a Break reminder on YouTube. Today, in support of our efforts to extend our best practices to the community, we’re launching Digital Wellbeing Experiments—a platform to encourage designers and developers to build digital wellbeing into their products. Anyone can use the platform to share their ideas and experimental tools to help people find a better balance with technology.
The American artist chimes in on the digital debate
Coming soon: Wallpaper* collaborates on an exclusive project with Doug Aitken in our November 2019 issue, on sale 10 October
German light company Midgard is reproducing a lamp that was used at the Bauhaus school to coincide with its 100th anniversary.
Looking into how Punchcut uses Studio to design products for the next generation.
The 156-year-old train network is famed for its “moquettes,” or carpeted textiles. One design studio is working to reimagine the archival patterns for today.
Inside one Hamburg gallery, unpretentious curators invite visitors to slap stickers wherever they want.
Shai Goitein has always loved airplanes. As a little boy he built hobby models; as a teenager he took up paragliding; and when he joined the Israeli military, he started a 15-year career as a pilot.
He missed that aeronautic rush when he went back to civilian life and became Kodak’s lead designer, overseeing industrial design at six different R&D centers around the world. He started teaching STEM classes around aeronautics, and soon launched a runaway-success Kickstarter campaign that brought those models to kids and classrooms worldwide.
from now until january 18, 2020, those in lisbon can attend an exhibition that documents the life and work of photographer fernando guerra.
Hornsey Town Hall is undergoing a restoration and renovation led by Far East Consortium and Make Architects. The regeneration of the site includes two new residential buildings, and a new arts centre, hotel and co-working space in the Hornsey Town Hall building which will be preserved to its 1930s decor and style
A yellow organism, which looks like fungus but acts like an animal, has gone on display at a Paris zoo.
The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastic and biodegradable plastic, amid rising concern over greenwashing.
As a company is fined for sending UK waste to China, just where does our recycling and rubbish go?
Take a trip down memory lane and (re)discover the history of grids — from ancient Egypt to modern web design.
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