Why is type design still so male?
There is now a growing movement of women type designers grouped under the moniker of ‘femme’ typographers – but why is such a definition necessary in 2020? Emily Gosling investigates
Sega Arcade games celebrated in a new pop-up book
SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up History, which is published by Read-Only Memory, lovingly brings to life games including Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run, After Burner, and Thunder Blade as pop-up models
Daniel Savage’s animated short is an examination of unexpected grief
Los Angeles-based graphic artist and animation director Daniel Savage has just released his new animated short Igneous, described as “an attempt to capture the emotional weight of dealing with the unexpected death of a parent”
Gaming meets high-fashion in new Karl Lagerfeld collaboration
Karl Lagerfeld gets in on the retro gaming trend with this charming – if tricky to play – game that turns the famous Lagerfeld cat Choupette into a Pac Man-style hero
From sausage factories to CERN: photographer Alastair P Wiper’s new book
Wiper’s new book, Unintended Beauty, tells the story of “what it means to be human” through industrial machines and technologies
Pentagram creates homely and positive identity for Maggie’s cancer charity
The agency has created a new identity and website based around the concept of home, representing the charity’s focus on providing comfortable and homely environments for cancer patients and their families
Renell Medrano explores how heritage can shape the creative process
Pampara, a new series of works commissioned by WePresent, sees photographer Renell Medrano explore her Dominican roots and examine how they have influenced the imagery she creates
Accumulate launches new radio show created by young homeless people
The UK’s first online radio run by and featuring homeless people, Sound Judgement, has been launched by Accumulate, which bills itself as the “art school for the homeless”
Moonpig and KFC collaborate on scratch and sniff Valentine’s Day cards
Nothing says romance quite like the unmissable smell of fried chicken – so this Valentine’s Day KFC and cards company Moonpig have joined forces to launch a series of cards ranging from the saucy to a scratch and sniff design
New exhibition celebrates the artistic power of trees
A new show at Fondation Cartier in Paris focuses on artists working across painting, drawing, photography, film, sound, installation and more to “shed new light on trees”
On the rise of the creative self-help book
The design monograph has been replaced by the design self-help guide as the new stamp of career success. Emily Gosling explores what’s behind this new trend and what it suggests about the industry today
Illustrator Ushiki Masanori mixes discipline, diaries, sci-fi and Manga in his work
Ushiki Masanori’s project Visitors started life as a daily surrealist portrait diary, and has since travelled the world on clothing brands, in exhibitions and now, as a book