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Brand makes you buyable

77% of VCs believe branding significantly impacts their perception of a start-up’s potential and is a key factor in funding decisions.

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A lesson from the US: identity is complex

Amid the cavalcade of commentators, we’ve heard enough from the experts, the pollsters, the politicians. It’s time a design journalist weighed in.

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New book celebrates UK’s influential modernist graphic designers

A new book promises to “right a historic wrong” by highlighting the work, and enduring influence, of some of the UK’s modernist graphic designers.

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How Femme Type found the hidden women of typography within a year

Amber Weaver, the designer behind the organisation, speaks to Design Week and reflects on a year of celebrating women in typography.

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How the design of the postbox has evolved

This week the Royal Mail began trialing a new postbox, heralding the first major design change in its 160-year history.

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Emily Oberman gives Rotten Tomatoes its first rebrand in 17 years

The Pentagram partner has given the film and TV review website a new logo, icon range and colour palette for the first time since 2001.

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“People are amazed by what designers could once do with their hands”

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Waitrose rolls out new brown sauce packaging – designed by a seven-year-old