Pantone has announced the new release of a total of 336 new colors to their Plus Series catalog for next June- they've coined the tagline "Unleash Your Passion" for the occasion. These new additions complete a total of 1,677 solid choices, adding a wide range of metallics, bright neon and cool pastel hues. The trendiest shades are included in this new release, giving designers an even more complete chromatic sphere to pick just the right color for each project from. Regards the color libraries used in design software, they will be automatically updated once they've been released with Pantone C

After more than 20 years after its first airing, E! Entertainment Television is finally getting a makeover. The television channel is updating its look by a re-design of the brand and a fresh new tagline. Their current logo hadn't been modified since its launch, except for the 90's neon-versions before the iconic red and white one. As for the logo touch up: the letter E finally expands over the exclamation mark, being now the exclamation mark itself. The bright red has been replaced by a glossy shade of black, a more attractive look that matches the character of the station's TV shows.

LogoLounge has published their 10th annual trends report for this year, and after reviewing and dissecting over 30,000 logo designs from all over the world we can see quite a few interesting trends that are brewing up for the future. Let's take a look to a few of them. For the whole report you can go here. Watercolor For this year's 'organic' trend there is an arrival of watercolor designs. The nature of this technique refers to a certain sensibility and colorful lightness, and this style also allows for more delicate logos. The subtlety that watercolour can add to a design is perfect to

Coca-Cola has a history of featuring famous designers for limited editions of their products. This time Jean Paul Gaultier is the man that took over the European creative direction of the brand. The Diet Coke bottles inspired by the iconic male and female perfume bottles -signature elements of the designer's work- are the star product of the campaign. The campaign is also accompanied by a series of interesting (weird?) TV commercials where you can see Gaultier helping out some creepy looking dolls... all part of the designer's tongue-in-cheek style!   Video commercials

For all football fans out there (soccer for the U.S. residents) the UEFA Champions League might be one of the biggest events of the year. While people are dreaming of an epic final match, designers are also interested for the branding aspect of the tournament. Works is the studio in charge of the whole event as they already have experience with sports events, including the last Champions League image and the South Africa World Cup. Munich is the host city for this year's finale, and as inspiration they've taken some german influences as well as iconic landmarks of the city. The use of

Being one of the most important TV networks in the U.S, TNT has come up with a refreshed corporate identity to consolidate its drama-experts status. The cable network started in the 1980's focusing mostly on films, TV series and sports. Since 2001 they've taken a different direction with the slogan "We Know Drama" consolidating their style of programming. Now they've relaunched their image, this time called "Drama, Period.", a straight-forward tagline that matches the minimal trend with a clear, concise message. The visual aspect is just as bold, combining a black background with a st

The small Principality of Liechtenstein is currently having a voting contest to choose the country's new visual identity. Every citizen over 14 years old is allowed to choose between five proposals that were made by agencies from all over Europe. The basic guidelines of the logos are based on the national's colours -red and blue- and some of them refer to the royalty condition of the nation using dashes of gold. The logo should also take in consideration the fundamental principles and values of the little country, such as its independence, national security, self-determination, etc. Here are t

In the past iPad launch conference, the presentation ended with a different version of the Apple logo that we know today. This new version apparently wants to go back to the rainbow-striped look that they had back in the day, only with a different display. It might be inspired by the iPad's new super high screen resolution, in a way to showcase their new screen technology. But what about the appliances for this logo? First of all, it takes a gigantic leap from their classic image, leaving behind their modern-minimalistic-chrome look. Second of all, if this logo is actually going to be Apple

After two years since its last update, Adobe has finally come up with a new version of Photoshop. For the first time this beta version of the software is free to download just by signing in with your Adobe ID account so you can test run the new features yourself. But what's new in this version? Most of the changes were made based on user's feedback which is a smart move on Adobe's side. The first noticeable change is the UI which is now darker instead of the light grey we have been used to for so long. And apparently one of the biggest improvements is its improved speed. In total there

Apparently Adobe didn't want to be left behind in the ever growing photo editing app world and therefore released the Photoshop Touch app for iPad2 (though there's also an Android version available as well). This is not an extensive version of the desktop Photoshop but it has a lot of the features adapted for the touch screen and easy to use for both professionals and amateur photo enthusiasts. Photoshop Touch's highlights are layers, a scribble selection tool that lets you select objects by just scribbling over them, filter brushes with which you can paint filter effects, edge-aware painting