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Mastercard redesigns its iconic logo for the digital age

Gasp! Mastercard has gone and messed with one of the most iconic logos in corporate history and, shockingly, the new one isn't absolutely terrible. Far from it, in fact, as the old payments processing giant has done a fine job of modernizing its signature interlocking circles and integrating them into a modern, cohesive brand identity that keeps the logo looking great even at small sizes on mobile screens.

A less obvious difference is the dropping of the camel case, so from here on out it's going to be Mastercard or, as above, mastercard, and not MasterCard. Basically, the company's casting off many of its aging facets and looking to start afresh, which is why it's tied this identity redesign to the re-announcement of...

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These gorgeous Overwatch prints are available for just 24 hours

Olly Moss, a graphic designer and illustrator and one of the artists for indie game Firewatch, has made a name for himself doing stylized and cherubic renderings of pop culture characters. He has them Giclée printed on high-quality 5 x 5-inch watercolor paper and sells them in limited time windows for a voracious community of fans. Now, Moss has gone ahead and released a set of six prints for the hugely popular Blizzard shooter Overwatch. They're available over at Moss' web store for 24 hours, with the clock ticking presumably from when Moss tweeted his store link at approximately 12PM ET on Thursday, July 14th.

According to his store, the "set is printed to fulfill the number of orders received within these 24 hours." So long as you...

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Dirty house music: how David Adjaye's DJ brother turns his buildings into beats

When architect David Adjaye creates a building, it's not finished until his DJ brother Peter ‘like Dr Dre on magic mushrooms' translates it into music. The pair introduce his latest soundscapes here

If architecture is frozen music, as Goethe said, then Peter Adjaye has been busy taking a blowtorch to his brother's buildings. The result, released this week in the form of a limited-edition vinyl album, sees 10 of David Adjaye's projects melted down into a liquid cocktail of electronic sounds, plucked strings and deep percussive beats, in a series of experimental soundscapes composed by his musician brother over the last 15 years. Ranging from ambient scores to more jazzy tracks, the results form an intriguing album, as meditative, brooding and spine-tingling as some of David's most evocative spaces.

“I see rhythms and melodies in everything that surrounds us,” says Peter. “Music is how we navigate the city. Every space has its own soundtrack.” He is sitting in the top-floor cafe of his brother's Idea Store library in Whitechapel, where, looked at through a musician's lens, the double-height timber columns form something of a syncopated beat against the green-tinted windows, themselves echoing the tarpaulin canopies of the market stalls outside. A grid of exposed concrete beams runs across the ceiling, forming a robust rhythm of its own, punctuated by a big open skylight.

David's Horizon pavilion was given a soundscape based on silence

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Glass wedding cake or London's best stairs? The RIBA Stirling prize shortlist

This year's prestigious UK architecture prize shortlist includes a library, university buildings, a gallery, a controversial estate and a concrete stealth home in a hill

Three university buildings, two of them commissioned by Oxford, will go head to head with Damien Hirst's art gallery, a controversial estate regeneration project and a stealthy concrete house worthy of a Welsh Bond villain, in the battle to win the RIBA Stirling prize for the UK's best new building.

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