London-based agency Sea Design has recently rebranded analytics and software company Callcredit, creating designs that aim to position the brand as “a contemporary and vibrant business within a crowded sector.” Sea worked with the UK Callcredit team and consultants Crimea River on the project, which looked to reposition the brand as well as creating a […]
Ru Paul, Puff Daddy and Naomi Campbell are among the stars of the 2018 Alice in Wonderland-themed Pirelli calendar, shot by Tim Walker.
Over the next six months leadership coach Elizabeth Lovius will conduct a series of talks about the creative power of the mind, at Studio 7 Shoreditch. Here she shares a few things she’s learnt about the nature of creativity.
A saunter around the big city can work wonders for the mind and the transformation from designer to unhurried ‘flâneur’ is relatively simple: Go slow – and get lost
Artist Emma Hart’s strange cast of ceramics heads – all funny little noses, doleful eyes, and jaunty patterning – seem cute, in a Sanrio sort of way at first. On second glance, they have slightly darker connotations: pantomimic cutlery blades spin around, cutting the faces off below the nose. There’s a David Shrigley-ish black humour […]
Droga5 NY’s latest campaign for the US athletic brand matches leading women athletes with poetry in a series of inspirational – and motivational – stories
Analysis of significant creative projects, people and trends
Looking at how work gets made & what gets in the way
Images & ideas to feed your imagination
Practical advice on the challenges of running a creative team
It’s the epitome of the copywriter’s art. We celebrate phrasemaking with this selection of our favourite slogans and the writers who came up with them. We’ve tried to acknowledge different approaches to writing a great slogan, as well as mixing the commercial with the political.
The best work, how it was made, who made it and why
Inspiration, innovation and key developments from the art world
Google Design Advocate Mustafa Kurtuldu’s YouTube and podcast series aimed at improving understanding between designers and developers
Winners of the 2nd annual Magnum Photography Awards have been announced, with winning work including a series that explores the decadence of life in Dubai and another that documents street protests in South Korea
Danish design agency Kontrapunkt’s minimal cans for Carlsberg Black Gold Pilsner are designed to look as if they have been “dipped in black”. Cans feature a two-colour design and a matt black top and ring pull. Black Gold has a slightly higher alcohol percentage and a more “intense” flavour than regular Carlsberg. Kontrapunkt says the design […]
This time last year, a Minnesota woman named Diamond Reynolds made a chilling broadcast on Facebook Live, streaming the moments that immediately followed a police officer fatally shooting her partner Philando Castile during a traffic-stop. Reynolds’ four-year-old daughter was in the back seat of the car. If you saw the footage, which more than six million […]
While many would argue that Jane Austen’s themes, heroes and heroines are as relevant in 2017 as they ever were, 2017 in fact marks 200 years since the author’s death. To mark the anniversary, the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) has launched an illustrated “bookazine” gathering together writings on Austen from the likes of Melvyn Bragg, […]
French photographer Karine Laval’s work veers from dreamy lido snaps to lysergic-hued nature photography to disconcerting dystopias, yet somehow manages to retain a distinct style throughout.
The Natural History Museum’s new exhibition on whales features accessible graphics by Wiedemann Lampe and beautiful illustrations by Sarah Maycock – and is the first event marking its new focus on the future of conservation
As degree show season comes to an end for another year, Hannah Ellis asks whether it’s time to rethink a concept that favours the spectacular over the thoughtful and fails to accommodate many aspects of design practice
Jeremy Deller and Rufus Norris’ commemoration to the Battle of the Somme on July 1 2016 was one of the most powerful public art projects of recent years. Here, in an extract from a new book on the project, Jon Snow interviews Deller about the work that went into this unique event
Analysis of significant creative projects, people and trends
Looking at how work gets made & what gets in the way
Images & ideas to feed your imagination
Practical advice on the challenges of running a creative team
