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playful design
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2010Sophie Kern: Believe In Make Believe
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2012Come revel in the diversity of naughty but nice illustration duo Cachetejack
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2014Beautifully playful identity by D for Edizione Limitata
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2015Illustrator Lili des Bellons' chipper images are full of geometric whimsy
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2012Swayspace have been Vandercooking up a storm and yes, we're swayed
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2009Hop Along, Queen Ansleis
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2012Shari Mendelson recycles plastic bottles into ornate, playful vases
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2009YooouuTuuube
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2013Raw Color's massive foam sculptures look like a lot of fun
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2012Our final Here profile looks at the work of Tom Roope and The Rumpus Room
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2019Untitled Macao exemplifies the fun side of events design
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2023Yonk on using VR to become “playful problem solvers”
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2018Studio Spass is fun by name, fun by nature
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2012Risking a probing is worth it for the LOLs with these naughty passport stamps
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2019“Stay simple and playful”: Arnaud Aubry talks to us about making his fun and charming work
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2014Graphic Design: Tasty risograph posters from prolific designer Scott Reinhard
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2012Gogel Mogel: The Blah Blah Blah Book
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2021Explore the playful language of zines with Social Species
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2016Playfulness and versatility in graphic designer Laura Bergans' work
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2013Photography: Catherine Losing advocates playing with your food for The Gourmand
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2014Introducing: Niek Pulles of studio Heyniek on frivolity and exploding carpets
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2012Jason Evans provides more playful zest than a truck load of oranges in fancy dress
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2015Semi-naked sunbathers – come roll around in the Weekender
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2015Cheeky, weird and downright rude 3D renders by designer Anton Hjertstedt
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2017Campus Flirt poster
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2016From psychedelic collage to saucy shorts, this Nicer Tuesdays has it all - get tickets now!
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2015Dominic Wilcox's bonkers breakfast-based inventions for Kellogg's
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2013The Weekender's at the bar, serving up springboks, jacuzzis and business cards
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2015Bods, zig-zags and rude toast... it's the February edition of THINGS!
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2013Art: Jean-Charles de Castelbajac proves he doesn't just make teddy-bear dresses
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2015Playful mixed media works from Chilean artist Mario Felipe
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2017The frustration of crazy golf embodied by student animation collective Megacomputeur
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2023Designing a condom identity that outlasts the hype with Buck
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2015Eric Rohter's kid-friendly identity for the World Children's Festival
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2012Very naughty, but very nice – the sumptuous digital illustrations of Théo Gennitsakis
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2015Simon Porte Jacquemus and Bertrand le Pluard playfully lampoon fashion films
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2020Cute but quirky and surreal too! You never know what you’re going to get with uou_cute
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2021Anthony Bryant values process over aesthetic in his clever and playful graphic design
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2022Graphic designer Leila Register combines mundane objects with wonderfully playful designs
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2013Separating cookie and creme – meet Dentaku's wonderful Oreo Wheel
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2022“I want to be free when I’m designing”: Maria Chiara Moro on the importance of experimentation
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2022Enric Pérez Vercher on how to benefit society through playful design concepts
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2015Vibrant, playful work from Camberwell grad and painter Lewis-John Henderson
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2012Carl Kleiner's new studio Lollipops series is a fun end-of-summer treat
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2011Fizzz Bzzzz!
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2011Take This Lollipop
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2009Amusement Magazine
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2010The Selby: Rockaway Taco
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2017Daniel Fletcher uses a playful spirit to represent the excitements and anxieties of daily life
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2012Brilliant? Brilliant! Peter Millard's acid-trip homage to Hulk Hogan
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2014Get yer party outfit on, it’s the bank holiday Weekender!
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2013Channel 4 rings in the mating season with Arthur, the online-dating tortoise
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2019Montague Llywelyn combines playful elements with the traditions of graphic design
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2012Queen of the doodles Hattie Stewart launches her brand new website!
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2013Publication: Charming new Viction:ary title reflects on the creative power of play
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2017Gabriel Alcala's new book explores the nature of objects with giggle-inducing results
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2020Daniel Peter adds colour and personality to traditional Swiss graphic design
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2015Hamburg-based studio Karl Anders wishes you a Heavy Birthday
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2019Say cheese! Meet The Gourmand’s latest cover star
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2013Check out these cheeky plaster hands grifting on the streets of Barcelona
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2023Being funny and fearless with Singaporean art director Jonathan Chen
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2016“Don’t mix rock and roll with professionalism” – a conference through the eyes of Snask
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2013The Weekender: Clap your hands and spin around it's the weekly nonsense update!
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2019Victor Fonseca treats his graphic design practice like a “playground”
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2007Jeep Parking Space
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2011Clay Weiner: Happy Father's Gay
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2010Stefan Sagmeister: Darwin Chair
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2013Art: Alex Chinneck slides the whole front off a house. No big deal.
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2013Product Design: Matthias Borowski makes furniture that looks like giant sweets
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2013The Weekender – with dirty, dirty ducks, sloths and a cat-based quiz
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2008Merry Christmas from Mr Bingo
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2013Playfulness abounds in dazzling Dutch designer Femke Agema's fashions
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2014The Weekender: Lock your mum in the kitchen, it's party time! Welcome to the Weekender
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2012Balancing Blocks –more beautiful than Lego and Jenga combined?
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2012Steve Harries produces an extraordinary mirrored trampolining short
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Flounce
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2019Through playful forms, Bára Růžičková tackles the rigid structure of the design industry
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2021Warsaw-based UVMW designs a playful, hand-drawn wayfinding system for a music school in Poland
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2018Nick White's playful work proves that art does not have to be serious
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2016More superb work playfully presented by young Paris-based designer Axel Pelletanche
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2007Go Around Twice If You're Happy
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2016Logo Hop
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2023(2021.07.31) Sorriso Nogueira Virada Cultural Online Itapevi (51372367233)
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2013The Weekender: Get your jazz hands a-waving it's our weekly roundup
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2023This identity for a digital nomad cafe uses the visual language of Excel as its foundation
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2017Graphic designer Tracy Ma reflects on her career and her “scrappy, playful style”
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2024Business or pleasure? Grilli Type’s new GT Flaire is the “mullet of typefaces”
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2014Toot toot, it's time to get on the fun bus! Welcome to the Weekender
Garment
2012Design duo Anamorphee inject much-needed fun into high-end fashion campaigns
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2020Behind Malwine Stauss’ playful work is an important and empowering message
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2012Two Jacks are better than one in Mr.White's slick new video
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2013Booyah! Happy days ahead with the new(ish)-look Weekender!
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2013Grainy castles, topiary and miniature golf from Mary Katherine Spence
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2018Koln Studio designs artist's catalogue using improvisation and fun
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2016Dark Igloo's deliciously digital branding for Giphy will “melt your face”
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2018Liam Cobb plays with architecture in a bunch of new sigh-inducing illustrations
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2011The Balloon Hat Experience
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2013Art: Rob Ryan evokes his schooldays with his Eastpak Artist Studio creation
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2015Carsten Höller's fairground of a show: "it's like Pat Sharpe's Fun House"
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2022Gu Dongjie designs delicious food packaging for cakes, mochi balls and crisp breads
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2016A sneak peek at Parra's upcoming exhibit, No Work Today
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2017Jacob Wise’s visually led, historically inspired designs are “visual nonsense”
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2019Issue nine of Buffalo Zine steals the identity of all your favourite fashion magazines
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2012The Weekender – super-cool kids, holy water-based sweet treats and tube wifi
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2022Love, curiosity and a passion for graphic design powers Valencia-based Viuda Studio
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2023(2021.07.31) Sorriso Nogueira Virada Cultural Online Itapevi (51371378077)
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2018"Love me, love my dog" - C.J. Taylor. LCCN2012648724
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2014Katjes logo International Logo
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2021Le Dico des Ados small logo 2021
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2019My Kid Could Do That
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2022New Logo and Identity for PLACE Lab by Block
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2021Friday Likes 400
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2025Little Troop’s playfully peculiar identity for MoMA’s family festival characterises childhood imagination
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2010Textile Exposé
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2020Laugh out loud with Ollie Hudson’s blobby characters and smug-looking bees
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2018Milwaukee Logo Secrets
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2011Yes Yes Y'all
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2014Graphic Design: Dot Dash create a playful identity for new London bakery Fatties
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2018Crooked Spotify
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2016Playful build-it-yourself Eastern Bloc architecture: introducing Blokoshka
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2016APRIL FOOLS: Friday Likes 359
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2012The Weekender – with a Youtube fun, dragons and a great impression of a nuclear bomb
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Cloud and Proud
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2013Don't worry, your job will still be there on Monday. Time for The Weekender!
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2023Just for Kicks
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2014Friday Likes 79
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2011Marina Port Vell
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2009Mr. TwitPic
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2010Chair Whore
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2018Jay Cover and Brad Holdgrafer visually tackle the concept of walls through "playschool politics"
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2025Hondo is a joyful convergence of minds, material and meaning
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2024New Packaging for Uoga Uoga Kids by AndStudio
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2009Pam&Jenny
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2021Art or furniture? Serban Ionescu’s new book is an ambiguous (and playful) take on form and function
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2008In Brief: If this Logo’s a Rockin’ don’t come a Knockin’
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2017Springing into action it's March's Things!
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2013The Weekender: Oil yourself up, it's the slip and slide we like to call The Weekender
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2017Friday Likes 214
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2023New Logo and Identity for Hackajob by Droga5
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2015Lukas Ackermann’s playfully abstract identity for new Zurich culture hub
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2013Friday Likes 64
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2018Lulu Lin’s illustrations depict playful, round and tumbling female figures
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2022Friday Likes 422
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2012A bike-happy, tasty reindeer of a Things feature - with some stickers thrown in for good measure
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2012Round of pool with a tiger? Matias Santa Maria's game if you are
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2010San Diego Zoo Gets Funky
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2021Little Troop adds a touch of joy and “kid-like” design to every single project
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2019Faux Crocs Redesign
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2021Friday Likes 395
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2020Yuxin Zhou on her speculative practice and the balance between research and play
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2012Brighten up your day with DangleBoris as creatives take on mayor's mishap
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2024In Maddie Fischer’s motif, you’ll see “little creatures having a delightful time”
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2013Yabadadadoo! It's the new and shiny Weekender! This way for Things, links and funnies galore...
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2015More awesome and playful work from Korean designer Kyuhyung Cho
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2020Spikes, satire, Frank Ocean and The New York Times: Nejc Prah discusses his recent work
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2025Buro Blits is tackling branding with a fun and fearless approach
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2012Sweet! Introducing the playful, attention-seeking Pinokio lamp
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2017Friday Likes 220
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2019No matter what the output, graphic design studio Choque Le Goff finds the fun in every project
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2013Architects Hondelatte-Laporte create an amazing giraffe-based children's centre
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2012David Lyle skillfully reproduces black and white photographs with a playful edge
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2019Sejin Choi blurs the boundaries between graphic design and art
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2020Amy Victoria Marsh creates playful ceramics and illustrations with “a little bit of sass”
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2020A portal into fun, silliness and childlike imagination: Sofa magazine’s fourth issue collaborates with Gucci
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2016Friday Likes 178
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2017Dunkin’ Correctly
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2017Is it real, or is it not? Mirror Mirror's identity for Integrated 2017
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2019Atelier Brenda and Amélie Bakker create “squidgy” identity for Beursschouwburg
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2020Friday Likes 354
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2025Tamagotchi re-designs, video game visuals and lucky charms: Welcome to the overstimulating 3D world of Iosif Abaab
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2015Get back into the swing of it with our weekly round-up, the Weekender!
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2015Love psych, pastels and playful designs? Steven Harrington's your man
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2016Playful yet smart exhibition identity from Glasgow-based Warriors Studio
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2018Bureau Bertrand Clément’s portfolio represents the importance of playful graphic design
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2014Playful and bright design from Czech Republic-based Anymade Studio
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2011The Sweet Shoppe
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2019How typography informs the playful designs of Kimgarden studio
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2018A comic and playful stream of consciousness from illustrator Ben El Halawany
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2015Japanese designer Tadashi Ueda is back with some ambiguously playful posters
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2018Team Thursday's print work proves how implementing design rules can actually be fun
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2013Miscellaneous: Meowy Friday! It's the Catleidoscope! You can thank us later...
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2008Here Fido, Good Fido
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2016Friday Likes 161
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2012We have a shiny new intern, so it's right and proper that you meet him too
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2015Karl Anders' playful, bright look for Vitra Home Complements
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2025Friday Likes 526
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2013April Fools: Google Chrome’s Broken Image Icon Heals Broken Hearts
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2018Ways of Seeing: Laurie Rowan fills FACT's architectural space with a troop of exploring characters
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2016Friday Likes 156
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2025Friday Likes 532
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2015Olafur Eliasson creates Lego cityscape for public to play with in New York
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2023Playful and pastel: Alexis Jamet’s work continues to perk up our interaction with nature
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2024Astrae Studio brings a touch of supermarket fun to its sophisticated identity for Danish concept store, Grocery
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2022Serve and Volley playfully turns traditional design principles on their head
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2023Friday Likes 459
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2019Louise Daneels makes playful, ceramic illustrations of everyday objects
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2012Mind-bending updates from the exuberantly playful Aakash Nihalani
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2013