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National identity updates tend to rely on safe shapes, which makes Singapore city branding a welcome departure by trading its old dot for a heavy, rotating sphere that gives the national mark actual weight. Civic design is trying just as hard to loosen up elsewhere, as seen in Span's identity for Illinois Department of Human Rights, which turns a basic punctuation mark into an activist megaphone. Meanwhile, physical craft quietly holds its ground, perfectly captured by Tom Hegen through uncompromising aerial photographs of the mineral mines quietly paying the price for our low-carbon future.