Australian design studio Jack and Huei has proposed Bleached Coral as the colour of the year for 2020, claiming that Pantone's shade for this year Living Coral fails to highlight the ongoing destruction of coral reefs. More about Australian designers suggest Bleached Coral to follow Pantone's "tone deaf" colour of the year
Faces and licence plates are among the details that can be clearly seen in an ultra-high-resolution bird's-eye photograph of Shanghai, created by Chinese company Bigpixel Technology. More about 195-gigapixel photo of Shanghai allows viewers to zoom in on street-level detail
A British Army recruitment campaign targets "snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies, and me, me, millennials" in boring jobs, with a design that draws on first world war recruitment posters. More about British Army calls on "snowflakes" and "millennials" in recruitment drive
Representatives of rock band Nirvana are suing Marc Jacobs for using its copyrighted smiley face logo in the fashion designer's latest collection and campaign. More about Nirvana sues Marc Jacobs for using iconic smiley face logo
Our pick of the best Christmas card designs we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes an upside-down snowy scene by Alma-nac, exploding Christmas baubles by MVRDV and an idyllic winter scene by Ström Architects. More about Christmas cards by architects and designers for 2018
Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki has released an acid house record and corresponding video protesting Brexit and the rise of anti-immigrant mentality. More about Yuri Suzuki and Pentagram drop anti-Brexit acid house album
Creative agency Anti has produced a custom font called Optician Sans by adding to the ten letters used in historic optotype eye test charts. More about Optician Sans is a font that completes the eye test chart alphabet
The medal handed out to Nobel Prize winners at the first awards in 1901 is the inspiration behind Stockholm Design Lab's rebrand for the prestigious awards. More about Stockholm Design Lab creates "timeless" visual identity for Nobel Prize
A logo resembling "stencil letterforms" is printed on the exterior of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed art gallery on Boston's waterfront, as part of a major branding overhaul by graphic design studio Pentagram. More about Pentagram prints stencil-style supergraphic across ICA Boston
Twelve studios have come together to design bespoke Christmas wrapping paper for charity, featuring prints inspired by hip-hop icons and social media. More about Designers create Christmas wrapping paper to support London's homeless
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. More about Ai Weiwei designs footprint flag as a symbol for human rights
Colour expert Pantone has chosen a peachy orange shade named Living Coral, or Pantone 16-1546, as its colour of the year for 2019. More about Living Coral is Pantone's colour of the year for 2019
For our review of 2018, design reporter Gunseli Yalcinkaya picks out 10 defining moments in graphic design, including Edel Rodriguez's depiction of Donald Trump, Kanye West's Kids See Ghosts album and the social-media response to the Pittsburgh shooting. More about Dezeen's top 10 graphic design and illustration moments of 2018
Amsterdam-based design platform What Design Can Do has unveiled 13 campaigns against the sexual exploitation of underage children, as part of a design competition called No Minor Thing. More about What Design Can Do campaigns combat sexual exploitation of children in Netherlands
Electronic musician Aphex Twin has released a line of merchandise that references his music videos, including a series of teddy bears with menacing human faces and an anti-pollution mask. More about Aphex Twin launches creepy merchandise based on his music videos
Graphic designer Micha Weidmann Studio has collaborated with photographer Leon Chew to create the visual identity for tonight's Dezeen Awards ceremony. More about Micha Weidmann Studio uses colour and movement to animate Dezeen Awards ceremony
Pentagram and Map have set out to prove that computer hardware doesn't have to be "cold, dark boxes", by designing colourful products for machine-learning technology startup Graphcore. More about Pentagram and Map create bold visual identity for Graphcore's computer hardware
Tilda Swinton, Nan Goldin and Vivienne Westwood are among 10 artists and activists commissioned by Visionaire magazine to design protest posters for readers to download and use for free. More about Open-access protest posters by Vivienne Westwood and Tilda Swinton appear in Visionaire
This archive organises campaign logos of every candidate on the ballot in America's congressional elections today, revealing design trends across the competing parties. More about US midterm elections logos compiled into searchable database
Norway has put new 50 and 500 kroner banknotes into circulation, featuring pixelated images of Norwegian coastlines designed by architecture studio Snøhetta. More about Norwegian banknotes featuring Snøhetta's pixelated designs now in circulation