Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Sound System. All images © Mark Simmons and HVBS A new photo exhibition running as part of Bristol Photo Festival is highlighting the city’s rich history of attracting and nurturing pioneering sounds and artists. Bristol is closely associated with trip hop acts like Portishead and Massive Attack, which originated there, and has also been a throbbing hub for jungle and...
If the prospect of a rapidly arriving new year feels frightening, take solace in the Toiletpaper 2022 calendar – a food-filled frolic of bizarre imagery that lives somewhere between 70s cookbooks and pinup pics. Toiletpaper – the biannual magazine and creative union of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari – has been creating calendars since 2013, all of them with the...
As cannabis laws continue to relax in North America, we talk to three founders about how branding and creative direction are baked into the process of changing perceptions of the category The post The changing nature of cannabis branding appeared first on Creative Review....
Osbert Parker has spent the last 30 years ripping, cutting and dismantling in pursuit of his mixed media moving image work. He tells CR why experimentation – and a certain amount of naïvety – is key to his success The post Osbert Parker on the importance of play appeared first on Creative Review....
All images: There’s a Ghost in this House, Oliver Jeffers. Published by HarperCollins Having sold over 14 million copies of his books worldwide, illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has become celebrated for his imaginative takes on the humble children’s picture book. For his latest adventure, Jeffers has released his most creative title yet with the spookily well-timed, There’s a Ghost...
Opened in September this year, the new 250km network – which will comprise 12 routes by 2026 – promises Lyon residents a safer set of cycle lanes, and is named, says Spintank president Nicolas Vanbremeersch, to suggest “a sense of status and importance within the public space”. The paths are separated from roads and pavements, intended to connect key destinations...
For all of the attention flowing toward NFTs in recent months, a lot of the focus has been on the massive amount of money in the space — and for good reason. A $69 million sale for Beeple. A $124,205 cartoon of an ape. $1 billion in NFT sales during the last week of August. As exciting as big numbers...
Gem Fletcher profiles LA-based photographer Rory Hamovit, who uses photography as a stage to play with manhood and queerness, and speak to the complexity and fragility of masculinity The post Exposure: Rory Hamovit appeared first on Creative Review....
In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then 20-year-old Jefferson Hack and photographer Rankin. Three decades on, it has grown into the Dazed Media empire, comprising the print magazine, along with AnOther, Dazed Beauty, Nowness and Dazed Studio. Having built a reputation for groundbreaking photography, fashion and...
As the business unveils a major rebrand, founder Taymoor Atighetchi shares how he’s spent the last six years building a category-defining stationery brand The post How Papier redefined the stationery sector appeared first on Creative Review....
Smartphones are a typical feature of exhibition experiences nowadays, primarily used as a way to make a personal record of our time there. However a new show at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) flips the direction of this relationship: the pieces in the exhibition have been made with a phone to capture the privacy of the creative process,...
Last week a revamp, albeit a temporary one, of the British Rail double arrow logo caused a stir in the design press and on social media. CR speaks to Studio Blackburn, the team behind the update, to get an insight into the project and how they felt about the reaction The post Studio Blackburn on its We Mean Green campaign...
