Review of the Year 2020: Top 25 News

Below you’ll find the juiciest news stories that hit the creative industry in the last 12 months.

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Date: 21 December 2020
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There hasn’t been a shortage of news stories with the turn of a new decade. As the creative industry adapted to working from home as we saw a rise in stories helping us to reshape our lives indoors. Free Studio Ghibli video call backgrounds became our most read piece of the year and in other news, Ikea released instructions on how to build homemade forts for kids, while &Walsh made a new set of emojis expressing life in 2020.

In non-pandemic related news however, we welcomed a myriad of other exciting stories. From a hilarious stop motion ad from Isle of Dogs puppet maker Andy Gent, to a behind the scenes peak into Geoff McFetridge’s Apple Watch face.

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Studio Ghibli releases free video call backgrounds

Heinz gets first ever global masterbrand, served up by JKR

Tokyo 2020 unveils first ever animated pictograms used in Olympics’ history

Wes Anderson’s graphic designer Erica Dorn explains The French Dispatch poster

Ikea and Pizza Hut make a lifesize version of the little tables that come in pizza boxes

Ikea releases instructions on how to build homemade forts for children

&Walsh releases emojis for graphic designers and the wider world all about “life in 2020”

BMW unveils new flat and transparent logo, geared towards openness and digitisation

This McDonald’s campaign depicts its menu in typographic form

Bulletproof redesigns Cadbury and Dairy Milk to “put the humanity back into it”

Creatives band together for support during the crisis

Neue’s Norwegian passport designs feature landscape illustrations on every page

Group Font sees 37 very different creatives contribute a letter

Kim Gehrig and Droga5 create powerful New York Times ad, putting journalism to the beat of jazz

Diageo launches new whisky bottle made from paper

Ghibli Museum offers rare glimpse inside via virtual tours

Nike’s split-screen You Can’t Stop Us ad perfectly matches old and new footage

Škoda shot a car advert from home, using toy cars

Polaroid is back (again, sort of) with a rebrand and new camera

Geoff McFetridge creates a literal Apple watch face, blinking with each minute

Nike teams up with Piet Parra to design Olympic Skateboarding uniforms

Drop everything and watch this hilarious stop motion advert by Jeff Low and Isle of Dogs puppet maker Andy Gent

The Mixcloud rebrand by Studio Output visualises the connecting power of music

Behind Pentagram’s graphic identity for DC’s Harley Quinn film, Birds of Prey

Medium’s rebrand by Collins uses typography as a “building block” for illustrations

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