#design news

Adobe have just launched their ‘new’ application, Animate CC. A major component in the Creative Cloud application suite, Animate CC replaces Flash Professional CC, and is available to download now. As we previously reported, Animate CC is an evolution of Flash Professional. The name change is based on the changing role of the application. Adobe believe that the renaming of Flash Professional CC as Animate CC more clearly defines its...

Today, Google released an update to its logo which it describes as: “simple, uncluttered, colorful, friendly”. The discernibly scrappy dotcom-era style has been replaced by a simpler, geometric sans-serif, with only the famous blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red color sequence surviving. The new design is a vast improvement aesthetically, but it’s unlikely it will stand the test of time because it’s too now, too of the moment....

When Google acquired YouTube back in 2006, most people expected to see a rebrand to pull the video sharing site closer to its parent company's corporate style. That anticipated rebrand may finally be on the cards 7 years later as YouTube rolled out updates to its apps at the end of August, featuring a swanky new logo. Strange then, that the new branding has thus far failed to appear on YouTube's web sites. Questions are being asked, particularly...