HP enlists creative and scientific community to help imagine life on Mars
An ambitious year-long programme, HP Mars Home Planet will use virtual reality to simulate what a human population of one million could look like on Mars
Design Museum reveals 2017 Designs of the Year shortlist
A knitted pussy hat, on-air branding for the Premier League and Pokemon Go are among the designs shortlisted for the Beazley Designs of the Year award
Ikea’s spoof instructions for creating your Game of Thrones cape
SMFB Oslo responds to news that the Game of Thrones costume designers used Ikea fake fur rugs to create outfits for some of its characters with instructions on how to make your own
Make it metal, a headbanging activated music experience from Sony Japan
Ogilvy & Mather Japan have designed a fun new music launch for heavy metal band Crossfaith’s latest single. You might want to warm up your neck and shoulders before you listen…
These new ads for holiday site Secret Escapes will make you LOL
Brilliant scripts and performances make these Secret Escapes holiday ads a cut above the rest.
Sticker-tastic new video for The Shins
Thousands of stickers make up this ace new video for The Shins’ track Half A Million, directed by Lamar + Nik.
The cover art of Preservation Music documented in new book, Outside Material
Outside Material catalogues artwork that Formist Studio’s Mark Gowing has designed for his record label, Preservation Music
Polly Nor explores women and their demons, and racks up Instagram fans to boot
Illustrator and veritable Instagram celeb Polly Nor’s work can easily be summed up as “women and their demons”, but as with most things, there’s more to it than that. Her images are bold in their colours and strong in their use of black linework, but behind the apparent simplicity lie a knotty range of issues […]
Cats of all shapes, sizes and dispositions conceivable
After conquering the world of internet memes, the humble house cat is now set to take on the world of publishing. Laurence King celebrates feline inspired art in a new book titled The Book of the Cat.
Unlikely beach scenes by Ward Roberts
Photographer Ward Roberts decontextualises and desaturates New York’s Far Rockaway Beach in a series titled Flotsam, published in a photobook by Atelier Éditions
The Book of Black explores the enduring power of the gothic in visual culture
Goths were once a rather unfairly maligned subculture, but just as geeks really did inherit the earth, they’re laughing on the other side of their pallid faces since all things goth-leaning appear to have become very trendy indeed. Whether its the chopped-and-screwed hip hop vibes of the disappointingly short-lived 00s witch house trend, the health […]
Poetry as a visual art – on designing a new identity for the Poetry Foundation
Pentagram has brought a new typographic look to the Poetry Foundation and its long-established magazine, Poetry, which explores the visual possibilities of this unique written form. Michael Bierut explains the thinking behind the work