Dezeen promotion: an alternative world map thought to be the most accurate 2D projection ever made has taken the top prize at the Japan Institute of Design Promotion's Good Design Awards. More
Australian design studio Toko modelled signage for the East Sydney Early Learning Centre on the shapes and colours of children's building blocks. More
We've received dozens of Christmas cards from architects, designers and brands this year. Here's a selection of our favourites, including a disappearing pile of mince pies from Studioilse and an icy woodland cabin by Invisible Studio. More
A partner at New York agency Pentagram has created the visual identity for an organisation set up to lobby the US government on the controversial tax on menstrual products. More
From illustrated responses to the US election and Brexit, to posters for the Rio Olympics, Dezeen managing editor Olivia Mull picks the graphics and illustrations that tell the story of the last 12 months, as part of our review of 2016. More
An anthropomorphised dog and duck embark on a summer fling in the city of Bergen in Kakkmaddafakka's new music video, which was directed by Carlín Díaz. More
Dezeen has teamed up with independent publisher D&B Books to give away five copies of a lettering book by Edward Johnston, the graphic designer famous for his work on the London Underground. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sooji Lee has created a hand-operated machine that painstakingly rewrites the Bodoni typeface in lowercase. More
London studio Special Projects has created a flat-pack survival guide to avoid the "screaming arguments" that come with assembling Ikea furniture. More
File-sharing site WeTransfer has unveiled its first ever rebrand, which includes a refresh of its logo, identity and website. More
Studio dn&co's wayfinding for London's Here East campus features symbols borrowed from circuit drawings. More
Inception-esque folded buildings feature on new book covers for the science-fiction novels of William Gibson. More
For Keøma's new music video, Dirk Rauscher created a series of sculptural figures that gradually evolve and crumble away. More
London studio Johnson Banks is almost finished with its rebrand for software community Mozilla, which has been carried out in public. More
Illustrators are taking to Instagram and Twitter to express their feelings about Donald Trump becoming the next president of the USA. More
Simon Landrein depicts the chain reaction that follows after a woman falls in love with a random man in Coco Banana's Earthquaker music video. More
Eyeballs, tentacles and weird machinery inhabit the peculiar forest Roof Studio designed for Empire of the Sun's High and Low music video. More
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced the addition of the original 176 emoji set to its collection of "humble masterpieces". More
Kodak has rebranded for the first time in 10 years, ditching its typographic logo for a red and yellow version of the marque it used during the 1970s and 80s. More
BuzzFeed designer Mark Davis has made a freely available font version of US presidential candidate Donald Trump's handwriting, and used it to annotate a Dezeen article. More