The non-profit Vilcek Foundation has created a manga comic starring Zambia-born South African architect Denise Scott Brown as part of its mission to raise awareness of immigrants' contribution to the US. More
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has developed a variable font that hopes to make the urgency of climate change tangible by mirroring the declining amount of Arctic sea ice in its disappearing letterforms. More
Micha Weidmann Studio has created a playful graphic identity for fashion designer Alber Elbaz's new venture, AZ Factory, based on the designer's signature style. More
Hungarian designer Vatány Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content. More
Nendo has completed a comprehensive makeover of all of Japan Airlines' in-flight amenities, from meal trays to slippers and earplug wrappers, which draws on the lines of a paper crane. More
MIDI, the global standard that allows digital musical instruments to talk to each other, has a new brand identity based on sound waves designed by Pentagram. More
Burger King's first rebrand in 20 years focuses on the American fast-food restaurant's food and its past says its designer Lisa Smith, executive creative director at Jones Knowles Ritchie. More
American automotive company General Motors has made its first substantial logo change in more than half a century as part of its pivot towards electric vehicles. More
America's Central Intelligence Agency has unveiled a new identity aimed at attracting more diverse employees but has refused to disclose the designer behind its new look. More
South Korean car manufacturer Kia Motors has unveiled a new logo, which connects the letters of its name in an unbroken line. More
Design consultancy Pentagram has created new branding for The Moholy-Nagy Foundation, which aims to embody the style and methods that artist and Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy used in his work. More
Martin Lambie-Nairn, the British graphic designer who created the seminal "Blocks" logo for UK television station Channel 4, passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 75. More
A skateboarding Santa Claus, a festive snow globe and MVRDV's mirrored art depot in Rotterdam feature in our selection of the best Christmas cards sent by architects, designers and brands this year. More
DAD Agency has eschewed the pared-back palette of traditional perfumeries in favour of kaleidoscopic colours and 3D graphics for its rebrand of independent fragrance start-up Sillages Paris. More
London charity Accumulate has released an "honest, painful and revelatory" book telling the stories of 18 different people and their experiences of homelessness. More
Naked bodies pretzeled together into different sex positions form the letters of the alphabet in the Kama Sutra A-Z coffee table book by French illustrator Malika Favre. More
People in Mississippi have voted to replace the state's official flag, which incorporated the Confederate battle emblem, with a design that has a magnolia blossom in its centre. More
Lekker Architects and Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed an IKEA-inspired manual filled with tips and tricks on how to hack the Swedish company's products to better serve people living with dementia. More
Royal College of Art graduate Marcel/a Baltarete has created a series of short animations depicting themselves as otherworldly beings to alleviate and interrogate their feelings of gender dysphoria. More
Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has created cartoons lampooning president Donald Trump as a toppling statue and a fired employee after he lost the 2020 US election to Joe Biden. More
