June 2026

Patrick Boyle

Lemnismath

Duriboh

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Kyle Hill

Dallas Taylor

Andy Brewer

Creative Boom · Bentzion Goldman

Mother Design's Bentzion Goldman argues identity work has become safe, sanitised and forgettable — and makes the case that embracing the weird is how brands cut through. He traces a line from...

The Brand Identity

Motto marks its 20th anniversary with the Future of Brand 2026 report, and its co-founders sit down to unpack it. A clear-eyed look at what's actually shifting beneath the surface, and how...

AIGA Eye on Design · Aggie Toppins

A thought experiment from Aggie Toppins: what would happen if we taught graphic design history without its cast of heroes and masterpieces? An argument for foregrounding the social forces — labour, technology,...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Creative Boom's annual community survey surfaces the 15 illustrators winning the most admiration from working creatives in 2026. The throughline is a personal point of view and a handmade quality built over...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Creatives surveyed by Creative Boom name the ten visual trends they're tired of, from AI slop to gratuitous gradients and glassmorphism. The shared complaint: technique deployed without intention or a point of...

Dezeen

Osaka Art and Design returns for a fourth edition, and Dezeen rounds up seven highlights — including Yuichi Hirako's giant wooden figure crowned with a tree and antlers, installed inside the Hankyu...

It's Nice That · Olivia Hingley

Koto digs into the Norton Museum's archive to revive an 80-year-old wordmark and seal, redrawn with a 40-degree tilt that runs through the rest of the identity. Strategy director Katie Hughes argues...

Creative Review · Megan Williams

Creative Review asks four brand and design experts whether design alone can drag FIFA out of its post-Qatar reckoning. The 2026 identity — 48 teams, three host countries, a customisable city-by-city system...

It's Nice That · Ayla Angelos

JKR delivers KFC's first 360-degree rebrand in decades: a 3D logo, two custom typefaces with Studio Drama (Kentucky Fried Serif and Sans), a redrawn Colonel, new restaurant interiors and a category shift...

It's Nice That · Ellis Tree

Milan-based studio Oneplus treats every project as excavation rather than invention, digging into vintage references and reconfiguring them into sleek, modern identities for bars, books and album sleeves. Founded in 2023 by...

Dezeen · Cajsa Carlson

Dezeen rounds up 13 must-see shows for Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design (10–12 June), with this year's theme 'Make This Moment Matter'. Highlights include Tom Dixon taking over the Egmont multi-storey car...

Creative Boom · Abbey Bamford

Studio Blackburn evolves Brompton for its 50th with 'Life Unfolded' — an identity built around motion, because the bike itself is a moving product. A custom typeface expanded from the original eight-letter...

Creative Review · Alex Brown

Campfire's Alex Brown argues heritage is still an asset in 2026, but not the way it used to be — the brands thriving now are the ones reinterpreting their legacy for how...

It's Nice That · Paul Moore

The V&A's Lost Music Venues display turns posters, set-lists, doors and disco balls into a kind of forensic record of vanishing nightlife. Curator Harriet Reed walks Paul Moore through the politics of...

Creative Review · Adam Woodward

Why Projects and type designer Rob Clarke deliver Radio Times' first major rebrand in 20 years — a new logotype paired with Degular, motion, sonic identity and a deep British racing green....

It's Nice That · Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller

In an excerpt from Taschen's The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller trace the genesis of modern brand identity — from Peter Behrens at AEG in 1907 (often cited...

The Brand Identity · The Brand Identity

Now a senior brand designer at Red Antler, Sasha Denisova works deliberately at the seam of brand and type — treating custom typefaces as infrastructure, not decoration. She explains how a tight-deadline...