NASA's travel posters promote newly discovered planets
As interest in space travel grows, NASA has created posters advertising holidays on planets that could potentially support life. More
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Illustrators respond to Charlie Hebdo magazine attack
Cartoonists and graphic designers from around the world have responded to yesterday's attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. More
Competition: five Landmarks and Elevations posters to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Gothenburg-based Studio Esinam to give readers the chance to win one of five monochrome prints showing elevations of iconic structures from different cities. More
Federico Babina creates "a Las Vegas of architecture" with famous quotes
"Less is more" and "form follows beauty" are some of the famous architect quotes reimagined as roadside advertisements in this set of illustrations by Italian graphic designer Federico Babina. More
Comic Spurs typeface is Comic Sans with added irony
Two designers from different sides of the globe have used a fictional design company to launch a new version of Comic Sans, with added spurs to lend it a "vintage, Mid-Western American aesthetic". More
"People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design"
Interview: ahead of his talk at London's V&A museum on Friday, typographer Vincent Connare has defended the reviled Comic Sans font he created, saying its detractors "don't know anything about design". More
Minimal cookbook presents Japanese sweet ingredients as colour swatches
Ingredients are displayed like fabric samples to help western readers recreate traditional Japanese sweets with common foods, in this cookbook by designer Moé Takemura. More
Apple releases San Francisco typeface for watch-app developers
News: the typeface used on the recently unveiled Apple Watch has been made available to download alongside a kit of tools for developers who are customising apps for the device. More
Norwegian travel documents given a minimal makeover
News: Oslo-based Neue Design Studio has won a competition to redesign Norway's passports and ID cards, a month after graphics by Snøhetta were chosen for the country's new bank notes. More
Federico Babina imagines film stars living inside famous architect-designed houses
Movie stars including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando make themselves at home in Modernist masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and more, in this illustration series. More
Christian Boer designs typeface for readers with dyslexia
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: a typeface created specifically for dyslexic people by Dutch designer Christian Boer is on show at this year's Istanbul Design Biennial (+ slideshow). More
Merel Witteman's Aversive Aesthetics photos are designed to trigger disgust
Dutch Design Week 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Merel Witteman has created a photo series that includes images of stepping in poo and a dead rodent skewered on a fork to explore our fascination with being disgusted. More
Tomek Ducki animates Adam and Eve's sinful story like an "underground party"
Music: the story of Adam and Eve is told through acid-colour graphics in this music video for electronic artist Zhu by director Tomek Ducki. More
Pentagram rebrands MIT Media Lab with grid-generated glyphs
Design agency Pentagram has used a simple grid of squares to create a new visual identity for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s research centre (+ movie). More
Lianne Polinder's Technomimicry textiles are based on LCD screens and solar panels
Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designer Lianne Polinder has created a textile based on the pixels of an LCD screen as part of her Design Academy Eindhoven graduation project (+ slideshow). More
Google animates St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate Christopher Wren's birthday
News: today's Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 382nd birthday of British architect Christopher Wren with an animation showing the rise of St Paul's Cathedral. More
Competition: five Lost Destination prints by Dorothy to be won
Competition: Dezeen has partnered with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of forgotten architectural monuments. More
Architect silhouettes pose inside iconic windows for Federico Babina's Archiwindow series
The silhouettes of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid are each depicted within a window from one of their buildings in these new illustrations by Federico Babina. More
SBTRKT's animated music video follows a creature through urban dystopia
Music: a "spirit animal" slinks around after dark in director Fons Schiedon's music video for SBTRKT's track New Dorp. New York. More
Snøhetta graphics to feature on Norwegian banknotes
News: Norway's central bank has selected pixellated designs by Oslo design studio Snøhetta to feature on the back of the country's new banknotes. More