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For those outside of Bristol, it’s all too easy to assume that the city is merely a place where Triphop and Dubstep were born; a Mecca for trustafarian types on a perennial ‘gap yahhh’ wearing those trousers that make people look as if they’ve had some sort of toilet issue; a place where the streets are paved with ketamine and...
Pentagram
2026, UK, Fashion
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2026, USA, Technology
It’s always a joy to see an international design agency lavish the same respect, care, and craft on a relatively unknown, thoroughly local, but much-beloved brand as they would on, say, a household name product or world-renowned institution. And that’s exactly what Base Design (Kanal, 4P’s, The Huntington) – which has outposts in New York, Brussels, Melbourne, Geneva, and Saigon...
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Smörgåsbord’s branding and packaging for Coaltown Coffee....
Rerun is described as “a unified data layer for physical data that helps teams build smarter robots” which consists of two parts: Rerun SDK, “an open source library and tools for logging, storing, querying, visualising, and training on multi-rate, multimodal data”; and Rerun Hub, a “data catalogue and backend for large scale storage, access, and streaming of robotics data from...
Pentagram
2026, Japan, Museum
The Museum of Narratives (also known as MoN Takanawa) is located in Tokyo’s Takanawa Gateway City, and opened a couple of months ago in March 2026. It’s something of an experimental museum with a cross-disciplinary programme spanning visual art, installations, and performances themed around everything from society to art to science, manga, and anime; merging traditional Japanese culture with hyper-modern,...
Pedro Vareta Studio
2026, Portugal, Wine
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on ready-to-drink sparkling tonic brand Sunwink....
Leo is billed as a “hair rejuvenation brand”,founded by duo Jason Saks (who carries the rather sweet, and quite funny job title of Director of Hair Loss) and his son Joe, with the broad aim to make hair loss feel “less isolating and less complicated”. According to Manchester-based design agency Creative Spark, which has created the superb new identity,...
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