Discover how The Guardian tricked its readers into inventing the island of San Serriffe, a fictional republic born of a typographic April Fool’s joke that has become cult status. Between subtle satire and typographic wordplay, immerse yourself in one of the most brilliant journalistic hoaxes of the XXᵉ century.
Discover how Brian Eno, genius musician and producer (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, U2…), pushed back the limits of creation thanks to a simple card game: “Oblique Strategies”.
The tote bag has become an essential part of our everyday urban lives.
What does it say about our society, our times, our habits and our behaviour?
Mascots, those soft, slightly silly characters, are nothing new. Here’s a look at their origins, from Antiquity to Japan.
Y2K, the trend of the 2000s, is back. Embodying an already retro future, its iridescent reflections shake up digital codes.
From founders’ surnames to initials and acronyms, brand names have always oscillated between abstraction and familiarity.
Ambigrams, visual and symmetrical puns, have mysterious origins and are used today in logos and art.
In Iran, Mahsa Amini died for a lock of hair poorly concealed behind her headscarf, giving rise to a massive protest movement against the mullahs’ regime. The gesture of a severed lock of hair becoming the symbol of this struggle gives us the opportunity to look back at the many symbolic of hair.
Resourceful and itinerant, the hobos developed a secret language system, doomed to disappear, to leave clues for their fellow hobos.
The organizers have unveiled the new Olympics pictograms of the Paris 2024 Games, which totally lose us.
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!
The stones of the French Museum of Natural History design patterns and natural landscapes, fascinating mineral creations of millions of years.
The first writings were drawings, and universal languages have always used images to communicate.
The strategy of “RGB-First”: Reflection on the colorimetric chain RGB / CMYK in print and digital communication.
Many brands use colors as symbols to convey their identity. But can we really legally appropriate a color?
When artists are the users of an exclusive color, one may wonder if it is the color or its symbolism that unleashes the passions.
Avoid broken links in indesign or illustrator when working on documents shared with colleagues in a drive or dropbox.
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.
Who controls the memes controls the universe! Analysis of the meme phenomenon,
comparison with the stakes of brands and analysis of the impacts on political communication.