South Carolina-based studios SDCO and Basic Projects have overhauled a seaside restaurant in Charleston with a nostalgic design that extends across everything from interiors to memorabilia. Contemporary details feature throughout the redesigned Sullivan's Fish Camp, but are interwoven with retro elements to create an aesthetic that respects the restaurant's long history. Sullivan's Fish Camp is a family-owned diner that first opened in 1988 Located on Sullivan's Island, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, the family-owned diner has been serving cold beers and seafood to locals and beachgoer ..read more

UK LGBTQ+ media brand Gay Times is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Here, senior art director Jack Rowe shares five key magazine covers with progressive design language. Rowe selected the covers from the 540 magazine covers included in Gay Times: The Exhibition, an audiovisual decade-by-decade timeline displaying the brand's journey over the past 40 years. "It's about making a bold statement" According to Rowe, the most successful covers were designed to make an impact, while reflecting the queer community. "It's about making a bold statement," Rowe told Dezeen. "Our covers ai ..read more

Type foundry British Standard Type has developed a custom typeface for British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori that blends rounded and square shapes to reflect his dual heritage. Ilori, who is known for his vibrant and playful designs, previously used a generic typeface across his different multidisciplinary projects but wanted something bespoke to embody his distinctive style. The result of the collaboration with British Standard Type (BST) is a display typeface duo called Yinka Sans Ultra and Yinka Sans Shadow, which function as an extension of the designer's visual identity. Yinka Sans Ultra ..read more

French post office La Poste has introduced a stamp designed by Stéphane Humbert-Basset that gives off the scent of bread when scratched to celebrate the baguette. The stamp has a "bakery scent", which was achieved through the use of microcapsules that are embedded within the ink of the stamps to provide the bread-like fragrance, reported French newspaper Le Monde. The stamp has a "bakery scent" "This scent is encapsulated," Damien Lavaud, printer at Philaposte, told radio station France Bleu. "We buy it from another manufacturer." "And the difficulty for us is to apply this ink without b ..read more

The New York Jets NFL team has brought back a jet aircraft to its logo as part of its latest rebrand, which is a nod to its 1980s Sack Exchange era. Designed to combine "coolness and nostalgia, the rebrand reintroduces a jet – the American football team's namesake – to the logo for the first time since 1997. The design is a modernised update of a logo originally designed by Jim Pons, the team's former video director and former bass guitarist for Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention. The original logo was used during the 1970s, '80s and '90s and is connected to the team's fon ..read more

Graphic designer Ian Cartlidge has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here he selects five projects that best reflect his studio's work. Cartlidge is the co-founder of London design studio Cartlidge Levene and considers the core ethos of his work to "produce design that makes a meaningful and positive contribution to the world". The British designer told Dezeen that his work is informed by architecture, viewing his studio's wayfinding and signage as an integral part of the architectural design. "Good architecture responds to how people use space and interact with buildings and I often see ..read more

Italian automaker Lamborghini has unveiled a rebrand featuring a flat, simplified logo as part of a broader "transformation process" aimed at sustainability and decarbonization. The logo has the same set-up – a bull placed at the centre of a shield, but the detailing has been pared down into a silhouette, while a broader, thinner typeface was introduced. "The new logo is redefined by a broader Lamborghini typeface than its predecessor and by colors that are minimal yet bold," said the company. "The restyling is driven by a new strategy that involves adapting the brand's visual expressions to ..read more

Dezeen Showroom: produced by Faina, the decor brand of Ukrainian architect Victoria Yakusha, the Soniah floor lamp is a dramatic piece that appears to grow from the ground. Yakusha referenced Ukraine's national flower – the sunflower – in both the name and the form of the Soniah floor lamp. The Soniah floor lamps are inspired by Ukrainian cultural heritage and sunflowers Available in big, medium and small sizes, the lamps are sculpted from Faina's own natural composite material called Ztista, which is made from a mix of clay, straw, wood chips, cellulose and other organic substances ..read more

Methane data and dishonest oil company advertising are juxtaposed in Smoke and Mirrors, a new visualisation produced by artist and musician Beatie Wolfe in collaboration with visual effects studio Parliament. Debuting last week at South by Southwest, Smoke and Mirrors doubles as a video clip for Wolfe's song Oh My Heart, which was released in 2022 on the world's first bioplastic vinyl. While plumes of brown gas slowly engulf an image of planet Earth, the video displays phrases like "out to clean our air", "unsettled science" and "don't risk our future" – all slogans used in oil industry adver ..read more

French artist Ugo Gattoni has created a duo of intricately hand-drawn posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which can function independently or combine seamlessly to create a single composition. It marks the first time that posters for both summer games were designed together as a diptych, according to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. Ugo Gattoni has designed the poster for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games The posters tell a singular story about the games via a hyperreal depiction of Paris incorporating 47 Olympic and Paralympic sports alongside various ..read more