Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
A chance discovery at an antiques market led Jonny Trunk down a rather niche graphic design rabbit hole. In his new book, Holiday Exotica, he explores the curious world of vintage travel brochures, whose striking use of colour, illustration and typography offer a different perspective on commercial design. “The book started when I found a 1960s Lake District map at...
The Dutch Railway Sector and 113 – the national suicide prevention line in the Netherlands – have partnered with Amsterdam-based advertising agency Yune on a new campaign aimed at reducing deaths on the nation’s rail network. Each year, nearly 200 people die by suicide on the Dutch railways, and many more people are affected by the events, including family members...
Being challenged on a recent brief to make a brand ‘feel British’ set We Are Pi’s Rick Chant thinking about what this means, when all the clichés are removed...
On their new album No Bad Memories, the Australian electronic outfit turn their attention to the jingles, startup chimes and commercial sounds that soundtracked their late-20th-century childhoods...
Just Eat is taking a more human approach to its advertising with Stay Just Where You Are, a new global brand platform developed by VCCP that reframes the role delivery plays in people’s lives. The campaign centres on a simple human truth: when you’re enjoying yourself, the last thing you want to do is leave. Research cited by the brand...
Sensory Experiences founder Russell Jones explains how neuroscience is informing a new approach to brand design, as seen in its work with Bentley...
There’s something slightly surreal about walking through a museum and suddenly finding yourself deep inside an enchanted forest. That’s the feeling evoked by Wildwood: The Exhibition, which offers a close-up look at the making of Laika’s latest stop-motion epic. Running at London’s Design Museum, the show highlights the Portland-based animation studio’s painstaking production process… Source...
Most of us have an idea of the life we want. It comes in and out of focus – sometimes we see it with acute clarity, at others, it’s more just a faint outline at the edge of our thinking. We know, somewhere beneath the noise of daily life, that we are capable of more than we are currently doing;...
The best packaging does more than grab attention, it shapes the experience of the product. CR explores how creatives are taking inspiration from other categories and rethinking form and function to build distinctive brands...
David Rocastle was one of Arsenal’s defining players of the late 1980s and early 1990s, helping the club win the old First Division title in 1989 and 1991. Known affectionately as Rocky, he was admired as much for his character as for his talent on the pitch. It is fitting, then, that Arsenal have chosen to pay tribute to Rocastle...
Walker’s new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery is a glorious celebration of queer history when the community once again feels under threat, says designer Simon Hatter...
Pablo London has collaborated with the MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Association to launch a new brand campaign. Titled Life Stripped Away, it offers a moving insight into the condition, revealing how MND steadily takes away “what you love”. Focusing on four different people from across the UK who suffer from MND, Pablo’s work on the campaign includes a 90-second hero...
