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Design Week • 13th June 2022

The Mean Tomato puts a spin on classic New York pizzeria branding

Designer and lettering artist Alec Tear has collaborated with studio Kuba & Friends to create an unconventional new pizza brand for US delivery service Gopuff.

The Mean Tomato, a food company which sells New York-style pizza and will be delivered by Gopuff, has been designed to stand out in a crowded market.

Tear led the project creatively while Kuba & Friends founder Kuba Wieczorek managed it, working closely with the team at Gopuff. Tear also enlisted a team of independent collaborators to h

Design Week • 10th June 2022

E1 rebrand hopes to resist sustainability clichés

Mother Design has crafted the new branding for E1 sports entertainment series, as it makes its debut at the Venice Boat Show ahead of the 2023 inaugural racing season.

The ambition for the design work was to create a “futuristic, fluid and electrifying” new look while keeping in line with the brand’s sustainability goals, according to the design team.

E1 is an electric boat racing series founded in 2020 during the first wave of lockdowns, which makes it relatively new compared to other sports.

Design Week • 9th June 2022

Tropic Skincare’s new typeface is designed for dyslexic readers

Tropic Skincare has introduced a new dyslexic-reader-friendly typeface across its branding after discovering that customers were experiencing difficulties reading its website and communications.

Lewis Moberly, which has a longstanding relationship with the brand, was tasked with designing a new typeface without drastically changing the well-established identity. The studio’s creative director Emily Fox says, “We were given the brief of designing Tropic their own bespoke typeface that was going

Design Week • 8th June 2022

Special Projects designs Aura app to help guide people through IVF

London-based studio Special Projects has collaborated with start-up Aura Fertility to create a new femtech app which aims to improve the IVF experience.

Aura is a support platform that aims to offer personal care to people going through IVF. Special Projects, which specialises in user centred design, conducted interviews with IVF patients in attempt to understand their challenges, implementing its findings into the brand strategy.

The studio’s co-founder and creative director Clara Gaggero Wes

Design Week • 7th June 2022

This manual washing machine was designed to help refugees clean their clothes

A manual washing machine, designed to help refugees and communities without access to power, has found a new audience during the cost of living crisis.

Nav Sawhney and his team founded the Washing Machine Project in 2018, with refugees and those living in homes without electricity in mind. The aim was to create a machine that cut washing cycle times in half and reduce effort of operation.

Sawhney explains how the original idea was influenced by observations formed throughout his early professi

Design Week • 6th June 2022

The 2022 Design Week graduate show guide

After two years of online-only events, ARU’s annual degree show is returning in person as The Secret Showcase from 9-19 June. The exhibition will showcase the work of final year students from the faculties of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the Ruskin Gallery and across ARU’s Cambridge campus.

This year Brighton University will hold three in-person grad shows: the undergraduate exhibition from 2-12 June; the Architecture and Design end of year show from 17-19 June; and the MA show from

Design Week • 1st June 2022

DutchScot puts contemporary spin on Rwandan art for African start-up Oku

DutchScot studio has designed the brand identity for Oku with a pattern inspired by art techniques local to Rwanda.

Oku is a new venture which pairs African entrepreneurs with Swiss expertise to facilitate mentorships, experience and networking opportunities. Its programme aims to enable tech-savvy African entrepreneurs to accelerate their future businesses.

The studio attempt to incorporate Oku’s dual heritage – it is based in both Rwanda and Zurich – into the branding. This connection is fir

Design Week • 31st May 2022

CNET’s rebrand takes inspiration from the world of 1950s and ’70s journalism

Design studio Collins has worked with media website CNET on a complete brand refresh, including a redesign of the news website.

The transformation was prompted by CNET’s decision to extend its subject area beyond tech news. Now covering topics such as money, home, wellness, culture, cars and climate, CNET is hoping to “drive a more broad and meaningful conversation”, says Collins creative director Tom Elia.

According to the studio, the brief was influenced by this change and the rebrand aims t

Design Week • 30th May 2022

Picks of the month: design events to catch in June

The annual Birmingham Design Festival will take over the city centre for three days this month, with the theme of freedom at its heart. There will be 60 free talks to attend, followed by three evening events, plus a wide selection of workshops. The line-up, which includes 80 speakers from the graphic, digital, product, and illustration sectors, is all part of the festival team’s pledge to “connect designers to people that matter”.

BDF Directors Luke Tonge and Dan Alcorn say, “We can’t wait to w

Design Week • 27th May 2022

Diversity versus inclusivity: do we understand the differences?

“Designing for diversity can be counterintuitively a bit of an exclusive process because you’re looking to speak to a certain demographic. Inclusivity however is when you seek to speak to everyone. It’s like on GOV.UK – their design thinking has to cater to everyone,” says Sēon Creative founder and director Sarah Malik.

Malik is speaking on a panel at Clerkenwell Design Week and is joined by interior designer, lecturer and mentor Simon Hamilton, barrister and diversity and inclusion consultant,