Maria Meco Sanchez’s work sits somewhere between fiction and reality, and comes with a slightly haunting quality. Shape and shadow dance eerily in x-ray style images, or grainy black and white photographs of children and dogs that seem plucked from another time. Even the more overtly joyful moments she captures are imbued with a subtle nostalgia for lost summers. “I...
Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Sam Wagstaff, Manchester School of Art
“I quite like cramming as much detail as I can into it,” says Sam Wagstaff, a Manchester School of Art graduate who works in a distinctive graphic novel style of illustration. It’s an approach that particularly suits city scenes, or imagery of boats, trains or clusters of buildings – all of which allow Wagstaff to incorporate minute hints of narrative....
Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Sam Wagstaff, Manchester School of Art
“I quite like cramming as much detail as I can into it,” says Sam Wagstaff, a Manchester School of Art graduate who works in a distinctive graphic novel style of illustration. It’s an approach that particularly suits city scenes, or imagery of boats, trains or clusters of buildings – all of which allow Wagstaff to incorporate minute hints of narrative....
Goo Choki Par reflects on designing this year’s Paralympic Games posters
Tokyo-based studio Goo Choki Par is made up of three graphic designers: Q Asaba, Kent Iitaka, and Rei Ishii, and the trio regularly work on a range of projects from art direction to brand identities, digital artworks to poster design. The work is split equally and the aim of most of their projects is to visually express something in a...
Graham Coxon on his dystopian AV project Superstate
The musician, visual artist and Blur member is releasing a sci-fi graphic novel and soundtrack that straddles hope and despair in an alternate – yet familiar – reality The post Graham Coxon on his dystopian AV project Superstate appeared first on Creative Review....
How designers make food brands delicious
Whether it’s the battle of plant-based brands or the move to online shopping, designers have more opportunities than ever to tickle people’s tastebuds. We spoke with studios Robot Food and This Way Up about what it takes to create a successful food brand The post How designers make food brands delicious appeared first on Creative Review....
How to handle a PR disaster
Persuasion Communications founder Jane Austin discusses what it takes to recover from a PR crisis – and how brands can avoid bumbling into one in the first place The post How to handle a PR disaster appeared first on Creative Review....
How to handle a PR disaster
Persuasion Communications founder Jane Austin discusses what it takes to recover from a PR crisis – and how brands can avoid bumbling into one in the first place The post How to handle a PR disaster appeared first on Creative Review....
Black Diamonds explores Appalachia’s “magic of the land”
Originally from Virginia and of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent, Rich-Joseph Facun travelled all over the world during a 15-year career as a photojournalist, before moving to the Appalachian Foothills of southeast Ohio in 2015, when the industry he was in was “looking bleak”. Although he’d been commissioned by titles including the Atlantic, the New York Times and the Wall...
Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Molly Jones, Camberwell College of Arts
Molly Jones’ illustrations have the cheeky energy of a retro cartoon strip. Her loose lines, goofy yet expressive characters and trippy scenes make for an irreverent illustration style, often topped with playfully grotesque or childlike touches. Look a little closer though and there are references aplenty that bring her work right up to date, namely in her pieces that illuminate...
Quirky McDonald’s Canada ad celebrates the joy of friendship (and fries)
It’s surprising what we might have missed during the pandemic. There’s the obvious stuff – hugs with friends and family, the chance to talk over travails and triumphs face to face – and then there’s the small moments that might have even been a bit annoying, but now they’re prevented, you want them back. This new ad from McDonald’s Canada...
Jeano Edwards’ debut book shows Jamaica as he sees it
The idea of home, what it represents and what it looks like, is a recurring theme in Jeano Edwards’ practice. Born in Jamaica and now based in Brooklyn, his new photo book, EverWonderful, quietly mulls over these questions, toeing the line between distance and familiarity as he photographs his home country as a resident of another. “I wanted to create...








