Dana Design Brief — Google rebrands Gemini with Neural Expressive, Vincent Leroy floats a kinetic cloud over Beijing, and Actiu's HQ doubles up on LEED and WELL Platinum
Welcome to Storyflo Daily Design. I'm Dana. The brand-system story the rest of the discipline will be reacting to this week: per Dezeen, Google rolled out a redesign of its Gemini AI tool at the I/O developer conference, anchored on a new visual identity called Neural Expressive. Dezeen reports the system spans typography, vibrant colours, fluid animation, passive feedback, and a redesign of Google's app-icon set. Gemini VP Josh Woodward, quoted by Dezeen, frames the work as making the chat experience feel "fluid and futuristic and incredibly natural" — and notably argues that good design…
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