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Review of the Year 2018: Top 25 Graphic Design

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Date: 19 December 2018
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You can’t have failed to notice how much attention It’s Nice That focuses on graphic design. This year we have, as ever, cast a gaze over everything from big name commercial work to the fantastic self-initiated projects that feel as fresh now as they did the first day they arrived perfectly formed in our inbox. Practitioners and enthusiasts alike, consider this a crash course in the year that was in graphic design.

Graphic designer Bryan Rivera references mistakes and imperfections in his portfolio

16 January 2018

Tsto returns to design Flow Festival's identity, pushing and playing with its typography

18 June 2018

Designer Paw Poulsen turns celebrities such as Bill Gates and Elton John into typefaces

23 March 2018

Are interactive, digital posters set to overtake the printed poster?

1 November 2018

Rikako Nagashima's analytical approach to graphic design makes for satisfying results

5 April 2018

Designer Marc Armand on graphically interpreting the French football team’s kit ahead of the World Cup

23 May 2018

Knif Mono, a typeface presented how it will inevitably be used by other designers

2 February 2018

New work from the ever-prolific graphic designer Ben Arfur

26 March 2018

Meet Monkey Type, an international collective bananas about fonts

16 January 2018

Dive into Mira Joyce's portfolio with its “healthy balance of calculated and convoluted silliness"

19 March 2018

Designer Jay Vaz combines his love of music and analogue art in a colourful and textural portfolio

24 April 2018

Studio Dumbar on its dynamic identity for youth foundation Jeugdfonds

9 May 2018

The Saul Bass Archive looks back on the trailblazer’s rare poster design

8 November 2018

Benedikt Luft's identity for Lazy represents the joyful nature of a drunken outdoor party

16 May 2018

Team Thursday's print work proves how implementing design rules can actually be fun

5 February 2018

Yutaka Satoh's designs blur the boundaries between text and visuals

27 March 2018

Alexa Viscius' warm portfolio combines photography and delicate graphic design

4 April 2018

DIA channels NYC and gives Squarespace its signature kinetic treatment in brand refresh

4 December 2018

The Clash who? Graphic designer Michael Clasen envisions a new punk era

1 March 2018

Mother Design creates an empowering identity for LGBTQ health organisation, Callen-Lorde

24 January 2018

“I love the imperfections, the grains and the stains": Ryan Ormsby on his creative approach

12 February 2018

Wolff Olins on the tech-fuelled future of the humancentric rebrand

10 May 2018

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