Your regular dose of Creative Boom, featuring highlights from the past seven days including Tré Seals on protect graphics and typography, our latest podcast guest Izzy Burton and why logos get changed.
Tré Seals has been (quite rightly) getting many people in the design and font world talking lately. His type foundry Vocal Type aims to create typefaces that reflect and encourage diversity in design directly through their letterforms.
After 10 years of working for large corporates who "don't care about the environment, animals or people", Andy Lester decided to set up his own studio, all with the aim to "design for better purposes".
Glasses brand Warby Parker doesn't just help people see with the use of corrective lenses: it makes them see in new ways by exposing them to some of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
Whatever you want to know about designing today's logos, their history or the key players who make them, you'll probably find it in a book titled, you guessed it, Logo: The Reference Guide to Symbols and Logotypes.
"Teaching art is akin to a human right; art teachers are human rights workers," says artist Bob and Roberta Smith, discussing the effects of the pandemic on arts education with UK charity The Arts Society.
