Design

It’s Nice That sits down with creative director Christy Silva and director of brand design Cynthia Pratomo to discover the inspiration behind Instagram’s latest brand system, and an exciting new wordm...

Crown Royal and Juicy Couture are tapping into Gen Z’s Y2K obsession with a bedazzled collaboration featuring limited-edition tracksuits and custom whisky bottle bags. The post Crown Royal and Juicy C...

A single project can be entered in more than one category and place in each. How to read the category list against your own work before the August 28 deadline. The post One project, several categories...

Maybe swaps the usual energy drink branding and gamer graphics for poster-style fruit illustrations and soft flavor appeal. The post Maybe Is the Energy Drink That Never Screams at You, and That&#8217...

A gentle pear branch pattern and honest gold foil replace sustainable minimalism, turning a whole seasonal cycle into a story you can hold. The post Limin’s Pear Cider is Inspired By Traditional...

Chef, restauranteur, and Food Network star Esther Choi breaks into CPG with a line of Korean pantry essentials that reflects her Korean-American heritage and personality. The post Chef Esther Choi Ta...

Despite being in the tech industry, Clay doesn’t want its identity conforming to the generic, geometric trends associated with it. Alongside illustrator and animator Hudson Christie, its output is now...

Founded in São Paulo in 1998, Almeida & Dale is a Brazilian art gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art. Over the past 20 years or so, across its three galleries in Brazil it has devel...

For some people, seeing a celebrity IRL is like seeing a shooting star. For comic artist Luke Healy, it’s an everyday occurrence… or is it?

Alice Bowsher’s illustrations, narrated by Himesh Patel, tell a subtle yet heartwrenching story to highlight the financial challenges one in eight families face in the UK.

Hart Brands gives Wag Lab’s new modular dog toy line, PlayStack, a vibrant, cartoon-inspired overhaul—ditching the pet aisle's bland, utilitarian look for bold typography, energetic packaging, and she...

A holographic pouch that shifts color with the light, turning the meaning of Lumee's name into an actual design mechanism rather than just a story. The post Lumee Turns Light Into the Whole Design app...

A simple smiling character that shifts expression by flavor, proving non alcoholic beer doesn't have to take itself so seriously. The post Loose Goose Gives NA Beer a Cute Little Face appeared first o...

Charlotte Beach touches on a few of her favorite type specimens she encountered in July, from an oyster-inspired display typeface to signage in San Sebastian, Spain, with a few noteworthy wordmarks in...

We live in the age of bad screen time. But is there a world in which technology can feel balanced, fulfilling – good? In our latest report, we explore the growing appetite for devices that make a posi...

Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Pentagram’s packaging for Liberty fragrance brand LBTY. The post Packaging the Essence of Heritage appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packagi...

For the Barcelona-based audiovisual designer, animating analogue and frame-by-frame is the process that invites the most play.

In her final thesis project, the designer tackles publishing as a tool to gather, sort and reorient personal memories in a catalogue of objects past and present.

Following the brand book is not the same as translating the brand into interface decisions.Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

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For the first time in 30 years, Jif peanut butter is getting a major redesign. While choosy moms choose Jif for classic PB&Js, the brand is modernizing its packaging to highlight peanut butter’s...

I love my Vans almost literally to death: the little black, three-hole plimsolls are so well-loved that there are holes in both big toes, and on the right side, actual horizontal tears across the top....

The life of a design studio means designing a cocktail menu one day, coding motion design for entire cities the next. What Studio Dial does best is make it all intoxicating to behold.

Kwazi Design’s years-long typographic archival project pays homage to the city of Kolkata and reveals the hyper-local and cultural context behind the aesthetic it celebrates.

Graphic design has kinda become this important skill, not just in art-focused areas but across a lot of industries, like social media content, business branding, website visuals, digital illustration...

Plenty of analogue crafts are at risk, particularly due to the increasingly digital echo chamber that many of us inhabit. For those getting into these endangered crafts, there is a real jeopardy of kn...

The multidisciplinary studio believes culture, creativity and belonging is too often swapped out for basic function – instead it should be “felt, embodied, and experienced through physical space”.

This fictional publication is a rallying cry against the patriarchy and toxic diet culture, inspired by feminist publications from the 70s.

Graphic designers Tess Lockhart and George Fletcher have shaped a new visual lexicon for sun cream that isn’t beholden to pharmaceutical or beach-ready aesthetics.

Nicer Tuesdays is a global event from It’s Nice That: an evening of talks where speakers from across the creative sphere share insights from landmark projects.

The Stack Reading Habits Report digs deep into how and what people are reading nowadays, and – importantly – why. Here, Stack founder Steven Watson shares some of its fascinating results and his opini...

Dogfooding, or using your own products internally, helps catch bugs, but it can't replace user research: your team knows too much to represent real users.

Pressure to adopt AI isn't evidence that a tool helps. The PROVE framework tests one tool against one task and produces a provisional decision you can defend.

Join us for our next Nicer Tuesdays event in London, where you can catch exciting talks about hand-painted films, internationally acclaimed magazines and brand identities that breathe life and inspire...

Nicer Tuesdays is returning to LA! Just in time for fall, this September’s line-up promises to bring some fresh inspiration with talks on all things branding, design, photography and folk art!

Spend a fun-filled weekend in Rotterdam with From Form: Ashley and Jurjen share their creative recommendations across food, film, literature, music and more!

Based in leafy yummy-mummyish south London enclave Forest Hill, Ancestrel (yes that’s a deliberate misspelling) is a wine shop and so much more – it’s proudly the first company in the UK t...

The photographer spent her past few summers swapping festivals with friends for battlefields, all to create an archive for historical events that have no photographic record.

The Stadtmuseum is an amazing body of museums all over Berlin, but people don’t know where it is or most importantly, what it is. Design studio Stan Hema reviewed the facts, stepped in and gave it a b...

Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Han Goa’s packaging concept for ‘Nice Cream’ The post When Less Screams More appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opi...

Custom hoodies remain one of the most requested apparel items for brands, schools, event organizers, and online sellers in 2026. Picking the right vendor affects your cost per unit, turnaround time, a...

Take up to 2 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. October 26 - October 29, 2026.

It’s not easy to make an identity look genuinely effortless – more often than not, the very intention to do so renders the result looking the exact opposite. And nothing, no one, ever wants to be leve...

NN/G is hiring a People & Culture Generalist. This is a fully remote, permanent role running the day-to-day of our People function. Three to five years of People Operations or HR generalist experie...

Mentorship is an essential growth tool that offers substantial personal and career benefits, but only if you engage in it properly.

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

We live in a world of color. Screens are brighter, gradients are bolder, and palettes are more saturated than ever. The default is color. But in this landscape of visual noise, black and white works p...

It’s hard to think of a bigger name client than Coca-Cola: the brand is so huge that it’s become a shorthand for anything meaning ‘global mega-corp’. Its reach is so vast, its history so firmly cement...

Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on the brand identity for vegan meat brand Juicy Marbles designed by Ljudje. The post Don’t Be the Sad Snack appeared first on BP&O - Branding,...

I’ve no idea what this trend is called, or indeed if it even has a name, but I’m seeing it around a hell of a lot lately: t-shirts (usually very crisp, almost box-fresh-clean, and white) w...

A brand name is more than a label. It is a repository of trust, recognition, and emotional connection built over years. Changing it is not a minor update. It is a gamble with the equity your business...

Since starting life in 2008, Stack Overflow has functioned as a website/platform/forum that soon became a sort of internet go-to as a shared notebook or tool guide for programmers: somewhere they can...

A mascot is a temptation. It is cute, memorable, and fun. It gives a brand a face and a personality. Every startup founder sees the Slack or Mailchimp mascots and thinks, “We need that too.&#822...

As more interface work is AI-generated, the output of research and design shifts from documents written for humans to curated context that guides AI.

Product sense means predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.

You hand over your business card at a networking event. The recipient glances at it, nods, and slips it into their pocket. Three days later, it is in the trash. This happens to millions of cards every...

Kaiber thrust AI video into the spotlight with Linkin Park’s “Lost,” but its pricing now freezes many musicians. A five-day trial costs $5 for 500 credits, and the $29-per-month Creator plan includes...

It’s never fun being negative about a project – it’s far more gratifying to show really great work, genuinely exciting or useful brands and organisations – and get under the skin of what makes them so...

Dropdown lists can be used in narrow, specific scenarios, but misuse can cause more harm than alternatives.

Even if AI matches researcher-output quality, human-led research will remain essential — the team learning from observing users can't be outsourced.

Fjord is a new  floating sauna and cold-water plunge experience moored in San Francisco Bay’s Sausalito area. Rather than being exclusively positioned as a wellness-type experience, instead it looks t...

Take up to 5 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Training focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. October 5- October 16, 2026.

Email has quietly outlasted every other digital channel. Not because it is flashy. Because it is personal. The inbox remains the one place where a brand’s message sits alongside messages from fr...

While icons on iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) have always been rounded squares, and rounded-square icons have existed on Apple platforms for over 20 years now, Mac app icons have historically exhibited a var...

Handoff willingness, flexibility, proactivity, emotional responsiveness, and transparency help you build trustworthy AI chatbots that guide users well.

Use this maturity model to assess your design system’s health and identify where to focus next.

Last week, Luka and I worked with the hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast—Marco Arment, Casey Liss, and John Siracusa—to design new Liquid Glass icons for their apps. Each submitted their own brief, and...

UX teams should report business outcomes — not activity or UX metrics — to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

Different enterprise roles need different types of explanations for AI outputs.

A poster that truly stays with you is rare. You see it and you cannot stop looking at it. You walk past and it follows you home. You remember it years later without having to search your memory. It is...

Digital design has inherited many things from print. The grid. Typography. Color theory. But something has been lost in translation. Print designers learned lessons that digital tools have made easy t...

Learn to spot and filter out survey bots’ responses before analysis so fake data doesn’t distort your findings.

Gather baseline metrics before starting a project so your team can demonstrate its impact.

A mindful incentive structure can keep diary study participants engaged and responding, without overloading you with low-quality responses.

Nondevelopers are building complex agentic AI systems on intuition developed through many hours of experimentation, YouTube videos, and Reddit threads.

Five custom app icons exhibiting the updated Liquid Glass style. Liquid Glass is getting a much-needed update from Apple, replacing the fuzzy layer styles and contrived rotation effects of the...

To build useful and usable AI-powered systems, our understanding of users’ needs and our design judgement must be encoded into well-defined evaluation criteria.