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‘Something in me sparked’: the Iranian women using art to protest | Graphic design

Posted on 15/10/2022

The Azadi (“Freedom”) tower is one of Tehran’s most recognizable 20th-century landmarks. Built under the reign of the last Shah of Iran, it was finished in 1971 and named Shahyad Tower (Shah Memorial Tower). Following the 1979 revolution, associations with royalty were swiftly removed. Now, it’s being associated with freedom from the very regime which renamed it.

The Iranian graphic designer Jalz has drawn on the tower for one of his designs in support of the recent protest movement. “This is the sole image of Iran’s freedom,” argues Jalz. Combining an image of the tower with Matisse’s dancers and the “women, life, freedom” protest slogan which is so central to the movement, he wanted to complete the sense of freedom for the female body.

Touraj Saberivand uses images from traditional Persian book painting to address the crisis. Photograph: Touraj Saberivand

Jalz’s work comes in response to a wave of protests across Iran in the wake of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in hospital on September 16 having been arrested, and reportedly beaten, by Iran’s so-called “morality police ” for flouting the country’s misogynistic dress laws. Since then, the protests have spread across Iran, calling for women’s

Overwatch 2’s visual design leaves fans feeling unsatisfied

Posted on 15/10/2022

Overwatch 2’s visual design and UI is leaving fans of the latest Blizzard game feeling profoundly unsatisfied. Following multiple bouts of Overwatch 2 server downtime and numerous bugs, including one causing accidental store purchases, players who have actually been able to spend time with the multiplayer game seem to be of largely one mind – it’s fun to play, but its presentation is just … bland.

Blizzard made a wide number of Overwatch 2 changes going into its sequel, which have led to players feeling underwhelmed by its presentation. Gone are medals and player cards at the end of matches, gone is the ‘on fire’ mechanic that would light up player’s portraits when on a hot streak, gone are levels and player borders to show off your veterancy with the game. Blizzard talked prior to launch about its decision to remove these – in many cases because they felt they caused increased player toxicity – but at what cost have these changes come?

Both Twitter and the Overwatch 2 Reddit are flooded with posts lamenting missing features, calling the game’s UI a “stripped version of OW1,” or expressing various issues with its new UI design. One of the most common

Porsche Taycan owners are getting range bump through software updates

Posted on 15/10/2022

Many Porsche Taycan owners are going to be happy to know that Porsche is making their vehicles more efficient through software updates resulting in range bumps.

As we reported back in July, the Porsche 2023 Taycan model year update was mostly focused on software improvements.

Several of these changes were related to the entertainment system in the electric vehicle, but there were also several software improvements to the powertrain and thermal management system that are making the 2023 Taycan more efficient.

Now the good news is that those software improvements are also coming to existing Taycan electric vehicles produced over the last three years.

The biggest range bump goes to the Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo, which now goes from 204 to 233 miles of range on a single charge – a 14% range increase through software improvements to the efficiency of the vehicle.

Most other range increases are between 3% and 7%, but there are a few other variants that are getting range increases of more than 10%.

Here’s a list of all the range bumps for all the different Taycan variants (via Drive Tesla Canada):

Variant	EPA estimated range 2022 (miles/km)	EPA estimated range 2023 (miles/km)	Improvement
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Twitter is in awe of the ingenious meaning behind the Wipeout logo

Posted on 15/10/2022

We’re big fans of the Sony Playstation and even bigger fans of clever logo design, so it’s a delight to see the internet discover a secret behind the logo of one of the first PlayStation games. The Wipeout logo was a product of its time, and while it might not be the cleanest or even the most readable, people on Twitter are just discovering that it’s extremely clever.

A tweet explaining the history and meaning behind the Wipeout logo has rapidly clocked up a thousand retweets and thousands more likes. Many of the people replying were big fans of the original PS1 video game back in the late nineties but never realized that there was more going in the Wipeout logo than what first appears (if you’re looking for a contemporary game, see our pick of the best PS5 games – and don’t miss our live blog on the best Nintendo Switch Prime Day deals)

Wipeout logo

The Wipeout logo on the original PS1 game (Image credit: Psygnosis)

For those who haven’t had the joy of playing Psygnosis’s original Wipeout, it was a futuristic racing game originally released as a European launch title for the Sony PlayStation, as well as for PCs,

A squishy identity for Nike Kids embraces the way young people play

Posted on 15/10/2022

How many times have you seen the Nike swoosh? Stitched into an unending array of fabrics and adorned with countless slogans and textures, the symbol is everywhere – and it’s hard to come up with unique takes where so many have trodden before. It’s a fact that makes Burn & Broad’s recent experiments with the form even more impressive. A half-chewed watermelon, fluffy cloud, dripping ice lolly and gap-full grin are just some iterations the New York-based creative studio have dreamed up for Nike Kids. The playful work is part of an identity for the campaign Never Done Playingwhich launched this summer.

Centered on the back-to-school period, Never Done Playing looks “to go beyond the competitive side of sport”, instead showing parents and kids how sport can tap “into an imaginative world of play, laughter and fun”, Burn & Broad co-founders Eugene Serebrennikov and Vicente García Morillo explain. Interweaving live-action footage shot by Soursop, with typography and 3D graphics from Burn & Broad, the campaign shows kids’ imagination and “ever-changing” creativity transposed onto familiar scenes.

One notable area of the project is Burn & Broad’s use of 3D to create clay-like textures, imparting the sensation of squishy, mashed-up matter.