Google Design Editorial Campaigns
Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across design-focused teams at Google to publish original content, produce events, and foster creative and educational partnerships that champion the incredible work and thought leadership happening across the organization.
Below, you’ll find a selection of editorial campaigns featured on design.google and our accompanied social channels.
Art Direction
Google Design, New York
Three Google UX practitioners discuss their work at the forefront of digital wellbeing, exploring how a digital ecosystem that’s developed with empathy has the power to change our future for the better.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, illustration toolkit, and social campaign.
Illustration: Max Guther
Art Direction: Sara Lunder
Writing: Sara Lunder, Kate Lockhart, and Lauren Wilcox
Agency Partner: Anyways
Interviewing the people who design and build Google products what they consider to be good design—bringing “good design” objects to life through 3-D illustration.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, illustration toolkit, and social campaign.
Illustration, Animation: HAIKOO STUDIO
Writing: Carly Ayres
Interviewing the designers behind Google Material Design’s “Floating Action Button”—showing their processes to create this iconic UI element through comic strip-like illustrations.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, illustration toolkit, and social campaign.
Illustration: Jiye Kim
Writing: Jordan Kushins
Agency Partner: Anyways
Interviewing three Google designers at the leading edge of their fields, discussing how their different roles in industrial design, AR, and VR help shape the design narrative across the organization. We’ve created daydreamy illustrations depicting the designer’s tabletop workspaces—combining elements of their unique processes, habits, and tools needed to move design forward at Google.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, illustration toolkit, and social campaign.
Illustration: Santa France
Writing: Google Design
Agency Partner: Anyways
We partnered with the Google Maps team to highlight their journey of streamlining a palette of 700+ colors down to 25 major and minor tones—ultimately making the Map more accessible and more recognizable-ly Google.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, and social campaign.
Animation: Sharon Harris
Writing: Molly Moker
Content Expert: Dana Steffe
From basements to highrises, folding tables to gaming chairs, familial officemates to curious cat colleagues, six Googlers share their makeshift, out-of-office workstations. Collage art was created using photography sent in by interviewees—depicting these perfectly imperfect, WFH environments in a colorful new light.
Creative Direction, Art Direction
Editorial feature, illustration toolkit, and social campaign.
Illustration: Fenna Fiction
Writing: Jordan Kushins
Agency Partner: Anyways
