These days, it's difficult for me to talk about club culture without falling into "old man yells at cloud" clichés. Namely, that when I was young in the 1990s, everything was better, faster, more fun, ...
Aki Kanai and Taku Sasaki have worked at the same Japanese stationery giant for 17 years – balancing their corporate work with an independent practice spanning identity, products, exhibitions and ...
The stop-motion studio behind Coraline, The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings is bringing its puppets and sets to London. Its art director explains how and why they were made. Remember when the ...
Unveiled at London's Jack Barclay this week, the new global concept swaps the traditional forecourt hard sell for lounges, a materials atelier and a "cinematic handover room". We find out more. When I ...
The Amsterdam-born, Milan-based artist graduated into the pandemic, yet built an editorial career by sending emails. She tells us how she turns difficult themes into an image in five hours flat, and ...
If August showed some positive green shoots for the creative industry, September is proving even more fruitful. Here are the month's biggest movers, shakers and launches, and our take on what it all ...
Summer is fast becoming a memory. We've all had our holidays, switched off our out-of-office replies, and are wondering whether to put a jumper over our T-shirt. And as we power up our laptops once ...
"You can look at anything around you and wonder how you could interpret this in design or motion," says Rob Farmer. A walk after dinner, a flock of gulls, the static hiss of a TV screen – all of it ...
It's a dilemma every designer who's ever worked on a sponsored event will recognise. Two logos arrive. One is the logo for the actual event. The other is the sponsor's logo. And you know, deep down in ...
From a chance ink sketch to a full series of paintings and wooden sculptures, the illustrator and animator explains how Les Femmes sauvages came together. "I was playing with ink, and I linked a ...
Last week, I wrote a critique of The Working Assembly's new identity for voice-journalling app Untold. The article was broadly favourable, but questioned the team's use of AI illustration over a human ...
What's been cooking up in typography over the summer? Quite a lot, actually. We share some of the latest typefaces to inspire your next design project. You don't expect much news over the summer ...