Instagram is the social media platform that stole my heart. My Instagram journey began in March 2012, when I was editor of anothermag.com and we launched the @anothermagazine account. It quickly became my channel of choice — a place where I could get ideas, engage with our audience and seek out creatives to commission, and […]
Can you tell us what your background is and when you started designing emojis for Twitter? My path will probably sound familiar to other designers as it’s a well-trodden one; a pinch of art university, a string of internships and tutelage from amazing people via on-the-job experience. When I decided to specialise in graphic design, […]
In the first of a series of articles looking at creative talent on Instagram, we speak to artist Gill Button, who received some unexpected commissions after posting personal work on the site…
Founded by Stanford graduates Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown in 2011, Snapchat started out as an ephemeral photo sharing app called Picaboo. In its early days, the app was perhaps best known for being used by teens to send naked selfies. Now, it has 100 million daily users and 8 billion daily video views. […]
The Washington Post has created Trump’s Feed, a Twitter account that replicates the ‘filter bubble’ through which the US President sees the world
In the past 12 months, there has been a 20% increase in conversations about make up and a 21% increase in mentions of skincare on Facebook and Instagram. Beauty shoppers are increasingly looking to the social media platforms to discover new products, trends and techniques and to research items before making a purchase. How beauty […]
Last week’s UK General Election was unusual in many ways. We saw the abandonment of many election traditions, particularly in the way the various parties marketed and promoted themselves. Instead we saw creative and unusual ways of talking to the public, especially via social media channels. In this article, we focus on one such example, with Ella Saltmarshe of The Comms Lab explaining how she and a group of friends used creative thinking to encourage young women to vote.
Election day in Britain is here at last. As the country takes to the polls, we take a look how this bumpy and bruising battle has played out in advertising and on social media
After six years as creative director at & Other Stories – the H&M-owned global fashion brand she co-founded in 2010 – Sara Hildén-Bengtsson has left to set up a design and concept studio for retail brands. Here, she shares the key to & Other Stories’ success and offers some advice for creating a great customer experience
In the first of our monthly showcase of outstanding creative campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, we take a look at Lionsgate UK and Create Advertising’s Instagram teasers for Oscar-winning film, La La Land
New Talent is a quarterly showcase of exciting new creative talent in partnership with Facebook and Instagram. Here, we speak to photographer and former menswear designer Flora Maclean about challenging perceptions of women’s football and giving up full-time work to go freelance
A young photojournalist from Mumbai has been using Instagram to tell the story of the city’s local trains. Her account is real, intimate and poetic.
@ticketsplz is a new online archive of movie ticket stubs from all over the world. Founder Ben Smith hopes is championing these tiny bits of paper and their role in the cinema-going experience
New Talent is a quarterly showcase of exciting new creative talent in partnership with Facebook and Instagram. In the first of a series of interviews, we speak to Kate Bones – the fine art graduate and GIF artist creating work for Nike, Rimmel, Hunger magazine and the Globe theatre
Instagram account Geometry Club collates symmetrical photographs of buildings shot from a single perspective. We speak to its creator, Dave Mullen, about how the project got started
The latest campaign features a new film, as well as fun interactive stuff on Snapchat and Facebook, and a pop-up Halloween salon in central London
This special double issue, in association with Arjowiggins Creative Papers, is our showcase of the outstanding projects of the year. In addition to the Annual, May is our Social issue with features on Kickstarter, Tumblr, Facebook and Instagram.