In 1988 Timothy Wilkinson, a British designer at frog design in Silicon Valley, was tasked with creating a logo for the biggest peripheral maker in the world: Logitech. The company kept Wilkinson’s logo around for almost 30 years. And while it long seemed weird to me, it’s also completely brilliant.

Your smartphone was designed to deliver as much value as possible to its manufacturer, carrier and OS vendor, leaving behind the smallest amount of value possible while still making it a product that you'd be willing to pay for and use. But in south China, the absence of patent and copyright enforcement, combined with enormous manufacturing and design capacity, means that phones for the domestic market are wildly innovative -- more than just endless variations on glass-distraction-rectangles.

Become a mandala drawerer, create and share Mandalas.

Until recently, sex toys for women were grotesque in how closely they resembled real human anatomy. Then designers started taking the industry seriously.

Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and founder, announces a design competition for his revolutionary open source Hyperloop transportation concept. It will take place in 2016.

Officially it is claimed to be inspired by bathroom signage, but I personally find the resemblance so similar as to question the idea that it played no part in the inspiration.

Gouache rendering titled "San Angeles," a cityscape for Blade Runner (1981). The original of this painting was lost on tour when exhibited in 1991.

A personal take on the first post-war planned community in the U.S

A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage

Designers! I am a San Francisco computer programmer, but I come in peace!

Why your wardrobe is wine-hued this year. By Claire Cameron.

Art Chantry is a con artist. The great con is the world of graphic design, and despite his protests to the contrary, Chantry is an artist. Like a magician revealing how his tricks are done, Chantry spills all in his new Feral House book Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of 20th Century Graphic Design. Examples of his heresy to the trade abound, but I particularly enjoyed this quote, “Designers need to be aware out there. This stuff we do isn’t ‘art‘-it’s marketing language and propaganda."

Gabellini Sheppard Associates completed the design of an impressive Soho loft with urban garden terraces in New York, USA.

A visual look of Winter Olympic Poster through time 1924 to 2014

On the anniversary of Eric Garner's death, WNYC and SHoP Architects turn a payphone into an on-the-ground reporting tool.

In April, Apple presented the Apple Watch in Milan. But what do designers think of it now and why are so few of them wearing it? Dezeen investigates

High quality templates, mature design patterns, automation, AI, and mobile technology are signaling the end of web design as we know it.

Striking new buildings evoke our national heritage.

As New Zealand prepares to change its flag, Phil Mercer examines how a country’s cultural identity can be represented by a single design.