Designers share key strategies for keeping their ideas fresh among the clutter of today's visual culture. Jorge Grimberg reports from São Paulo. >

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum gets its own typeface and gives it away for free thanks to Eddie Opara's bold new identity makeover. >

We round up the must-see, stay-in-the-know stories that proved popular on designindaba.com in this new weekly feature. >

Eddie Opara of Pentagram has designed a new name, visual identity and website for one of the most innovative architecture firms in New York. >

DJ Stout has designed the layout and cover for a new coffee-table book that looks at the surfing culture in Texas. >

Pentagram's DJ Stout has designed a new visual identity for the University of Colorado Boulder. >

Abbott Miller designs a fresh system of signage and wayfinding for the Centro Roberto Garza Sada arts centre at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. >

Designer Eddie Opara creates a striking illustration, which expresses a digital concept in analogue form, for the December 2013 issue of "Wired" magazine. >

Michael Bierut has redesigned the website for the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine to suit the needs of a 21st century congregation. >