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Funeral directors
In the past, death was a public thing. We brought our dead home. We buried them in crowds. We mourned with our friends and our neighbours. Death was once a part of our daily lives. Now it's not. Now...
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British coinage system
Coin use is in a steady decline because of credit cards, but we still feel there is a place for coins in the economy, and at present, charities, the homeless, buskers, churches and small purchases are...
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The birth certificate
The birth certificate is the first official document you are given in what is hopefully a long life of much lesser forms and documentation. It is the official record that you have arrived and is...
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Meccano
After considering the options for our rethink, we eventually agreed on Meccano. We loved it as kids and admired the vision and imagination of its inventor Frank Hornby, who, with no formal training,...
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Pevsner guides
The desire to redesign the Pevsner guides doesn't come from any strong feelings about the existing format, but rather from an attachment to the books themselves. We want to propose a different...
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Aldi
On 10 April 1913, Karl Albrecht started a bakery shop in Essen, Germany – a modest beginning for what was to become the global discount giant Aldi. A century later, the world economy is in crisis,...
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LGBT visual language
Swedish studio Lundgren+Lindqvist's emblem is firmly rooted in the LGBT community's history but can be used in virtually any situation – it even works as a punctuation mark While we recognise the...
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Rethinking Old Street roundabout
Icon asked six local architects to redesign the east London eyesore – here are the results As part of Clerkenwell Design Week, Icon invited six of the area’s most distinguished architects – Almanac,...
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The London boroughs
A strong visual system can bring the capital's 32 different administrative areas together, and help to celebrate what sets them apart, says (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea-based) design...
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Pictogram humans
In the world of signage, it is men who hail cabs, check in at airports and slide on slippery floors, while women only ever go to the toilet. Isn't it time we made things less gender-specific? There is...
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Parking signs
Few things make a New Yorker's blood boil more than a ticket on the windshield. Is it time for parking rules to be displayed in a calmer, clearer, perhaps even more charming manner? Patience and...
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LGBT visual language
As Ireland votes in favour of legalising gay marriage, we revisit Lundgren + Lindqvist’s redesign last year of the symbols and flag of the international LGBT movement. The emblem is firmly rooted in...
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Berlin branding
With its vibrant culture and tumultuous, divided history, the German capital has many identities. Can they be unified in a single logo? Berlin seems to be so trendy, contemporary and cool, but its...
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The Penguin Composition Rules
Swedish graphic-design studio Bedow says it’s time to rewrite the book on blank space In the late 1940s, the German typographer Jan Tschichold devised a set of typographic rules for British publisher...
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Charitable giving
Giving has become too complicated. With so many good causes fighting for our attention, donors too could do with a helping hand, says Neue Design Studio The world is experiencing any number of...
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Criminals worry about retirement – just like you!
The problem with living outside the law is the inherent lack of security. If crime can contribute to a nation’s GDP, isn’t it time that society gave a bit back, asks Hort? From 2015, the German...
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Rethink: IKEA logo
The furniture giant’s products are usually clever and design-focused, so why is its name still trapped in an outdated yellow lozenge? It’s time to take a modular approach, says Daniel Freytag Love it...
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The British summer
The way that summer is branded is all wrong, over-stimulating us with exotic notions like sunshine and barbecues. Bob Design tells it like it is ... It was a particularly grey summer’s day at our...
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Rethinking Brexit
The UK’s journey into the unknown needs a more upbeat identity. And almost certainly some warm socks. Hamburg-based studio Karl Anders helps out its estranged neighbours Brexit. Can you hear it any...
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Rethinking Planet Mars
Technology is bringing us ever closer to Mars, but its popular image has barely changed over the past 100 years. As Donald Trump orders Nasa to speed up its efforts to send astronauts to the red...
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Rethink: Cricket
London studio NB offers a helping hand as the summer game struggles out of its white trousers and tries to fit into something a little more urban The Twenty20 format has torn down some of cricket’s...
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Aldi: TwoPoints.Net shakes up creative branding
Hamburg-based graphic design studio TwoPoints.Net gave supermarket chain Aldi a fresh rebrand, challenging customers' visual literacy. Good design is efficient and effective. Anything else would be a...
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