Mark Power’s ongoing US photo series drifts towards dystopia
The third volume in the photographer’s Good Morning, America book series paints a sobering portrait of the US, bookending a year that has changed the country forever
How Phunk pioneered a riotous clash of art and design in Singapore
New book Control Chaos looks back on 25 years of Phunk – the Singapore design collective that mashed creative disciplines together with its eye-popping work
Documenting NHS workers on the frontline of the pandemic
As the UK enters the third act of the coronavirus crisis, photographer Slater King reflects on what it was like to be at the forefront of the pandemic last year, when he began shooting portraits of NHS staff at London’s Whittington Hospital
A new book celebrates the diversity of the queer photography scene
Over 50 photographers have contributed work to New Queer Photography – which pays tribute to what its editor Benjamin Wolbergs describes as “a variety of different styles and visual worlds beyond clichés and preconceptions”
Timo Kuilder’s new book explores the challenges of having a bipolar parent
In Until One Sunday We Didn’t, the illustrator reflects on his experience of growing up with a bipolar father, using stark illustration and disarmingly honest accounts of his childhood
How the tech revolution failed creatives
Tech firms once claimed they could set us free. But, as a new book points out, for those working in the creative industries, the offering has proved a particularly bad deal
Creative Review Annual 2021 is open for entries!
Our showcase of world-changing creativity is open for entries now – with a deadline of January 15. Find out all the details of how, why and where to enter here
The best book cover designs of 2020
Mark Sinclair, senior editor at Unit Editions, shares his favourite ten book covers of the year with us, which have emerged as the book world has buffeted the challenges (and opportunities) presented by the coronavirus pandemic
Photographing dreams and reality in a Johannesburg suburb
Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Cyprien Clément-Delmas photographed the people and places of the Afrikaner suburb Daleside, exploring class, struggle and hierarchies on both sides of the lens
Inside Ricardo Cavolo’s wild drawings
As he releases a new book, the Barcelona-based artist talks to us about his creative process, and what it’s like to be introduced to the visual arts from the day you were born
The American Dream retold through mid-century railroad graphics
New book Logomotive: Railroad Graphics and the American Dream traces the history of advertising and design across the US railway network through archival photographs and ephemera collected during the 60s and 70s
New book Auto Erotica delves into the titillating world of car brochures
From a racy flick book for the Ford Cortina Mark III to a poster promoting the ‘sheer logic’ of the Reliant Robin, Jonny Trunk’s latest ephemera-themed project draws on his childhood love of collecting British car brochures