Best-of.
10/10/2016
Imagining customer feedback on mythical posters. The tone is exacerbated and any resemblance to real and actual feedback is purely coincidental.
03/10/2019
In the 1950s, in the midst of the Cold War, Paul Rand transformed the use of graphic design and the face of American companies.
12/03/2013
Müller-Brockmann is one of the most influential graphic designers in the history. His work is always taught, studied and published. It is certainly the figurehead of Swiss graphic design (which also takes the name of international style). His work is influenced by Bauhaus and constructivism. Typography and geometry are predominant.
14/06/2017
From codex to colour printing! Here is the first part of this series of articles sweeping the evolution of book covers to the present day, through the most striking revolutions.
27/11/2019
It took 68 million years to resurrect a T-rex, and almost as long to create the Jurassic Park logo. Here is his wicked adventure.
21/09/2016
Graphic design in Africa. From the first alphabets to contemporary issues.
18/09/2015
New branding of the Saint Etienne Opera House. Logo, posters, brochures ... And the magic operate...
17/05/2016
Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau rebranding.
22/10/2019
Visual identity project for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The most important thing is to participate!
23/03/2016
Pierre Bernard & Grapus. Collective and individual itinerary of a committed graphic designer, tireless defender of the notion of public utility in graphic design.
03/01/2015
New visual identity of Bordeaux Metropole. An opportunity to examine the generative visual identities.
29/03/2020
To grasp the genius of Iranian graphic design one must understand its incredible heritage in the arts, and the current upheavals. A short journey from ancient Persia to the most contemporary graphic design.
02/06/2021
Total has changed its name, with a new logo and a new identity: TotalEnergies. Is this a faded strategy to go green without denying its past?
01/03/2021
Peugeot reveals its new logo, a revival of the 1960 logo. An astonishing or worrying positioning? Here are a few insights.
12/07/2017
From Penguin Editions to the birth of graphic design, the cover is an open book on the social mores of a country and an era.
29/06/2017
Under the influence of Japan, France or Russia, book covers are constantly evolving with technical progress and crises.
21/03/2023
From Toblerone to Milka to feta cheese, brands mark their territory on their packaging and are sometimes caught up in the globalization game.
20/10/2020
To understand cowboys' branding system, it is necessary to look at the hot-branding of cattle, and artists' monograms.
04/10/2020
From Uncle Ben's or Aunt Jemima's brand name history to Mammy's syrup, the racist packaging are sitting on a (pancake) powder keg.
31/08/2017
Last chapter on french publishing houses, the split between Poche and Folio, the graphic inventors, and the return of the beautiful independent book.
01/10/2018
Discover how Harald with blue teeth, a Danish king of the 9th century, inspired the name and logo of Bluetooth.
28/01/2018
Ever wondered how it is like to be a designer abroad? Here is an illustrated portrait of Turkish graphic design, through history and contemporary designers.
05/01/2017
The Codex Seraphinianus is considered by some as the strangest book ever published. A unique, beautiful, confusing... and above all indescribable art book!
15/02/2017
Portrait of Karel Martens, the man with multiple motifs and lovers of constraints, reference in the world of graphic design and plastic research.
14/12/2016
Ode to Cassandre, the man of a thousand talents. His design of posters and graphics revolutionized the role of visual communication.
29/06/2020
Graphic designer Milton Glaser gave the 70s and 80s a cheerful and colourful face and New York a reason to love him. Among his most famous creations are the logo "I ❤ NY" and Bob Dylan's psychedelic poster. Let's go into the history of a very, very big name in
10/06/2018
Robida, Verne, Schuiten... Here is an overview of the representations of writers, draughtsmen, scriptwriters and architects who have contributed to dreaming of the city of the future in a utopian impulse, or to underline its limits.
20/07/2022
Herb Lubalin's biography in pictures. In his 40-year career, Lubalin has revolutionized the landscape of American graphic design by composing images with text.
23/10/2019
Wally Olins is the inventor of business and territorial branding and all the influence that comes with it. Discover his work and our exclusive interview.
21/11/2016
Saint-Étienne Opera House new season's identity. Emotion in the foreground!
04/12/2018
By designing UK's road signs, Margaret Calvert's discreet work helped to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the United Kingdom.
18/09/2017
Visual identity project for Tours Métropole. A generative and modular territorial visual identity.
03/04/2022
From the Nazis to the moon, Futura is probably the most used typeface in the world, and yet it's not new!
19/05/2019
Le MoMa est un musée incontournable et son logotype est devenu une référence de l'identité visuelle et du branding culturel. Découvrez la personne à l’origine de cette création graphique qui réconcilie génie et simplicité.
16/06/2020
Being a designer like Reza Abedini in a country such as Iran means juggling with an incredible artistic, visual and calligraphic heritage that is 3000 years old.
19/01/2022
Barbara Kruger denounces the over-consumption since the 70s. The Supreme brand has appropriated her graphic codes. But who is hijacking whom?
17/05/2020
Let's discover hybrid images and see how neuroscience can help us better understand our "gaze".
12/10/2022
Back to the future for Citroën which reveals a new logo inspired by the past. Nothing surprising for this necessary yet futuristic strategy.
21/03/2023
Burberry's new logo revives the brand's coat of arms by adopting an antique typography and recovering its knight.
18/02/2013
Presentation of the Italian graphic designer Franco Grignani (1908-1999) This is a text where he presents himself his work and his vision of the profession (initially published in the collection "Graphic Designers in Europe" in 1973). Surprisingly, many of his reflections remain very contemporary.
16/12/2021
"Adopte un mec" abandons its shopping cart and unveils its new logo: if women consume more, they devour! A look back at sexist ads.
07/02/2019
Design of the visual for the University of Évry open day. Creation of posters, programs, social networks visuals.... Reveal your professional future!
27/11/2017
Ebay reveals its new visual identity, with taste of already (too) seen! It's clean. It's corporate. But what the hell it's boring.
11/09/2014
As there is no smoke without brands, see why the cowboy firm tries to pack of cigarettes without logo.
03/05/2013
Retrospective of Roger Excoffon's work. Graphic designer, typographer and type designer 1910-1983. The creator of the Banco, Mistral, antique olive typography... but also of the Air France visual identity.
27/10/2016
Inventor of optical art, but also advertising and graphic designer, Vasarely is a giant at the origin of an art form accessible to all, for all.
14/02/2023
The organizers have unveiled the new Olympics pictograms of the Paris 2024 Games, which totally lose us.
28/06/2018
The Bauhaus Football Club, the story of the most beautiful design team in the world. When the football world cup is a pretext to revise your classics...
11/01/2022
To celebrate the new year, Graphéine offers you colors, to brighten up your life in 2022 (and some humor, too).
11/07/2018
Some in-house Bauhaus posters to pay tribute to the Bauhaus 100th anniversary, and to German sausages. Architecture, typography, gastronomy!
04/04/2017
For 2017, the communication team of the Paris Visitors Bureau placed its trust in illustration again, asking Vincent Mahé, one of the most parisian illustrators, to work with them.
19/06/2017
Happy birthday Helvetica! The spanish studio Husmee has invited a selection of international studios to create a tribute poster to celebrate the 60 years of the creation of the famous typography.
21/03/2023
Both a visual or life discipline, minimalism has become a questionable trend and consists in simplifying to keep only the essential.
10/10/2018
With the superpowers found in this medicinal plant, cannabis is gradually freeing itself from the codes of the high kingdom. History and analysis.
21/11/2022
John Heartfield is a German "photomontage technician", politically engaged with his collages against Nazism and fascism.
13/01/2019
Discover what we had imagined for the visual identity of the City of Paris. The symbol of the Nave was redesigned and inserted directly inside the word Paris.
25/04/2016
Shepard Fairey, "the worm that shone with the stars!" (Victor Hugo) Portrait of a street artist, illustrator and activist graphic designer.
22/07/2013
Textile designer, graphic designer, furniture designer... nothing is colorful enough for this Italian-American!
25/11/2018
Nothing predicted the Comic Sans MS to become what it is today: a font hated by graphic designers and yet very popular with the general public. Discover its history... and its some qualities.
29/09/2020
In their search for a universal language, Leibniz and his disciples may have attempted to create the impossible. And yet...
18/01/2017
Trump will soon be designated as « most powerful man in the world » and we went digging into his past. We actually have evidence that Trump was a graphic designer. True story: he even created the type of IBM's logo!
24/02/2014
Herb leupin (1916-1999). Swiss graphic designer who produced more than 1000 advertising posters.
04/10/2022
The Olympic Games are redesigning their identity to harmonize their visibility in all countries and on all communication media.
10/06/2013
Let's explore the fabulous history of Villa Noailles and its illustrious inhabitants Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, great patrons of the arts, design and fashion!
07/07/2016
Ben Bos (1930-2017) The big Bos of Dutch design! Portrait of a graphic design giant who worked for Total Design for 3 decades.
12/11/2017
Every day, millions of french people see Étienne Robial's work. In this article we decode, in plain language, a long career in graphic design, from Canal+ to Inrockuptibles.
17/09/2014
Presentation of the visual identity of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. When french interests meet petrodollars, it gives a beautiful logo!
13/03/2017
Let's fly to Brazil to meet a local star. It's neither the Cristo Redentor, nor Gilberto Gil, Pelé or even Giselle Bündchen. We will talk about curves though, but introduce you to the famous orelhões, the Brazilian phone booth of Oi -the local phone company.
20/07/2021
From consumer logos to social movements, Debbie Millman questions the meaning of design in society through her work.
23/03/2017
Dick Bruna was the father of the most famous rabbit on the planet: Miffy. He passed away on February 16, 2016 and we wish to pay tribute to his work as a graphic designer, beyond the simple designer of a minimalist white rabbit.
06/01/2021
Nouvelle identité visuelle de la CIA, avec un petit look de festival electro ou de série Netflix !
20/04/2013
Visit of the Vitra Design museum near Basel. A delight of architecture, Pop Art, design furniture... and also graphics!
17/01/2018
After 2 years of public competition, Russia unveils its new tourist logo to illustrate the country internationally. An identity with supremacist accents that tells the story of Russia.
15/01/2018
Since 2015 we've been designing vectorial illustrations for the reports of the World Economic Forum. We make problems look simple.
25/02/2021
Before creating a new city logo, several elements have to be taken into account: the purpose of the new logo, the budget, its inhabitants...
28/07/2021
Product placement in movies is sometimes irritating, funny or totally fictitious. Brands from movies sometimes even come to life.
25/05/2021
An activist designer, W. Morris founded interior design and Arts & Crafts, improved the living conditions of workers and revalued craftsmanship.
06/01/2019
The Autre Soie, a unique and incredibly exciting third-place project! We tell you about the birth of its participative visual identity.
26/08/2020
Bizarre as well as strange, the Unicode language aims to collect and preserve writings... by standardizing them.
30/06/2014
Hans Hillman, German graphic designer, illustrator and designer (1925-2014). He was a pioneer who, as early as the 1950s, re-invented the art of film posters in Germany, designing German versions of posters by Godard, Bunuel, Eisenstein, Kurosawa and Bergman.
08/03/2020
Why and how anti-feminicide collages, through their "graphic charter" as simple as it is powerful, have opened a wide breach in the public debate. An opportunity to try to untangle how the "branding of a social movement" differs from the "classic branding of brands".
02/05/2018
The Brand New Conference is an annual 2-day event that brings together the crème de la crème of influential graphic designers and during which brand identity and logos are discussed. An American-style must-have led by a couple of designers who create a new identity for each edition.
24/11/2015
Marcel Jacno (1904- 1989), known as Jacno, is a french graphic designer, famous notably for having designed the NPT logo, as well as the Gauloises cigarette pack.
16/01/2019
Happils New Year 2019! This year, let Graphéine find the identity that suits you the best!
05/02/2013
The Rappaz Museum is located in the historical heart of Basel, more precisely in the studio of the eponymous graphic designer Rolf Rappaz (1914-1996). It presents a permanent exhibition on the work of this Basel artist and graphic designer.
26/10/2022
The strategy of "RGB-First": Reflection on the colorimetric chain RGB / CMYK in print and digital communication.
04/01/2018
Visual identity project for the 2017 Franco-Colombian cultural season.
21/07/2020
If Louis Dufay's name has fallen into oblivion, one of his inventions will be remembered: the heliophore, the kinetic paper that shone in the 60s.
08/02/2023
The UK Postal Service presents the new stamp of King Charles III, a very sober portrait without a crown, a very symbolic first for the British crown!
03/01/2018
The next World Chess Championship should please chess players... and Kamasutra fans. Here is the new identity of the World Chess, with a "hot" poster.
23/05/2018
The women's magazine Glamour changed its logo and layout several times before taking a radical turn in early May. Glamour displays a new logo in the United States, a new model in France, and a promise of less "girly" content.
11/05/2022
We are entering the "time of the tribes". Let's discover the impact of this post-modernity for the logos and visual identities of brands and companies.
15/07/2021
How to see more clearly in the typographic classification and which tools allow to choose and recognize the typographies?
01/07/2015
Peter Gut, a multiple work navigating between caricature, press drawing and illustration for children, with humour in the background.
21/07/2020
A furtive glimpse of some of the techniques used in the early days of colour photography, from the Lumière brothers to Louis Dufay, the forgotten inventor.
03/09/2020
Imagine a silent language, without letters or words, for non-humans. In front of your eyes, the yerkish, a language for communicating with monkeys, takes shape.
11/11/2016
Visual identity of L’influx (« the influx »), the webzine of the municipal library of the city of Lyon, France.
19/01/2017
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance ! The story about the Mallarmé famous book ! It is without superstition and with the greatest realism that the whole team of Graphéine wishes you to achieve the impossible in 2017!
17/03/2019
Didot was for a long time the spearhead of French typography. Let's discover how this bicentennial typeface managed to combine finesse and elegance to cross the centuries, and remain at the forefront of fashion!
17/04/2023
The vinyl sleeves come to life with jazz. It is a whole graphic universe that makes the music heard, through the illustration or the photo.