Following the death of Gilbert Baker – the designer of the universal symbol of gay pride, the Rainbow Flag – advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather has created a font that commemorates his achievements. More
Design agency Pentagram has expanded on iconic album artwork by the duo Hipgnosis to create a visual identity for Pink Floyd Records. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sooji Lee has created a hand-operated machine that painstakingly rewrites the Bodoni typeface in lowercase. 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
International font company Monotype has worked with Google to create one typeface that can be used by everyone in the world, writing in any language. More
French artist Mathieu Tremblin has translated scrawled graffiti into legible typography, as part of his Tag Clouds project (+ slideshow). More
Design agency Pentagram has created a new logo and visual identity for Mastercard, the credit card company's first branding redesign in 20 years. More
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Fiona O'Leary has designed a prototype gadget that can identify the font used in any book or magazine (+ movie). More
International font company Monotype has brought the London Tube's 100-year-old typeface into the 21st century, adding the hashtag, at sign and lighter weights more suitable for digital use (+ slideshow). More
Most Loved: London designer Sebastian Wrong reflects on living with the distinctive sound made by his 2007 Font Clock for Established & Sons in the latest movie in our exclusive video series. More
Milan 2016: Danish firm BIG has created a modular lighting system that can be rearranged to form different letters of a bespoke typeface. More
Leading American typographer Tobias Frere-Jones has released his first type design since splitting with his business partner Jonathan Hoefler. More
Type foundry Monotype has used long-hidden drawings by British designer Eric Gill to create the first new typeface based on his work in more than 75 years. More
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office used metal air conditioning pipes to create giant Chinese characters on the facade of the Tubular Baitasi visitor centre during Beijing Design Week 2015. More
Graphic designer Neville Brody has worked with in-house team 4Creative, director Jonathan Glazer and agency DBLG to create a new visual identity for UK broadcaster Channel 4 (+ movie). More
Swiss typographer Adrian Frutiger, designer of typefaces including Univers, Avenir and the eponymous Frutiger, has died. More
Jerusalem designer Ori Elisar has used a bacteria-based ink to grow a Hebrew alphabet in the lab for his Living Language type experiment. More
The distinctive shapes of Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert's Joan Miró Foundation building in Barcelona are interpreted as a set of graphic symbols in celebration of the organisation's four decades of operation (+ slideshow). More
Car brand MINI has relaunched its visual identity, unveiled a new version of the MINI Clubman estate and embraced the "sharing economy" by offering every customer the chance to rent their vehicle to others when they don't need it (+ slideshow). More
Hermann Zapf was one of the most influential typographers of the early digital age. Following his death earlier this month, Rob Alderson, former editor-in-chief of It's Nice That, explains how the German designer paved the way for the emoji and helped change visual communication. More