Jen, Blake and Rachel, 1985-1986 Marshall started the series in New York in 1985, after meeting 16-year-old high school student Molly Brover. The photographer – whose work has appeared in the Atlantic and the New York Times Magazine – was invited into what she describes as Brover’s “Upper West Side girl world”, with its cast of teenagers and the “everyday...
Eco-Bot.Net exposes greenwashing during Cop26
Artists and activists Robert Del Naja (also founding member of Massive Attack) and Bill Posters, perhaps best known for his eerie celebrity deepfakes, have teamed up with green energy industralist Dale Vince on a platform called Eco-Bot.Net. The project is many things: a resource for reporters, a call to arms, and what Posters calls a “network-based performance”. It’s also a...
New Commercial Arts on the customer experience boom
Creative agency NCA was forged with customer experience at the forefront. We speak to two of its co-founders, Ian Heartfield and Rob Curran, about why the ad industry is still playing catch-up with consumers The post New Commercial Arts on the customer experience boom appeared first on Creative Review....
Is AI killing creativity in film? Or fuelling it?
AI is often viewed as the death of creativity. Yet, as Maximilian Niemann, a director at Unit9 production company, points out, when machines are used in collaboration with humans, it may actually make for better work The post Is AI killing creativity in film? Or fuelling it? appeared first on Creative Review....
What makes a successful infographic?
Fresh from finishing a hefty new book of infographics, the Delayed Gratification team chats with CR about the format’s boom in popularity, and how, at the heart of it, it’s all about the story The post What makes a successful infographic? appeared first on Creative Review....
UN’s new climate action film stars a dinosaur with a stark warning
As the Cop26 Climate Change Conference kicks off in Glasgow, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has unveiled a new film that urges more climate action from global leaders. Released as part of the organisation’s Don’t Choose Extinction campaign, the film focuses on the key issue of countries around the world spending hundreds of billions of dollars on fossil fuel...
The Big Issue marks its 30th anniversary with a new look
Founded in 1991, the Big Issue is a social enterprise whose mission is to dismantle poverty now and for future generations. Since its launch, the organisation has helped more than 100,000 homeless and vulnerably housed people earn over £140 million selling its weekly magazine to the public. To mark its 30th birthday, and following the recent relaunch of its website,...
Mob’s rebrand puts the character back in food
The culinary world was once an exclusive space, veiled in mystery and hidden from view. In the last decade the scales have tipped in the opposite direction, with the proliferation of polished cooking programmes and increasingly ambitious competitions breeding a generation of armchair food critics. At the same time, food platforms like Mob (FKA Mob Kitchen) have set out to...
Writing for Robots
Tech is infiating the advertising landscape in increasingly unexpected ways – including who, or what, will be judging your copywriting skills, writes our advertising correspondent Ben Kay The post Writing for Robots appeared first on Creative Review....
Inside the author-illustrator relationship
As new picture book Aaron Slater, Illustrator is released, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, creators of the Questioneers series for children, talk about the inner workings of the author-illustrator relationship The post Inside the author-illustrator relationship appeared first on Creative Review....
Jealous Gallery’s Lockdown Secrets show exposes our quarantine confessions
Hosted at London’s Jealous Gallery, the exhibition brings together Tattersfield’s collection of confessions, which the designer and Marby & Elm founder amassed over lockdown after promising people, via Instagram, a postcard in exchange for a secret. Lockdown Secrets features the most memorable examples drawn, the gallery says, from across all walks of life. One person admits their hatred of yoga...
Facebook’s Meta facelift
Can a new name signal a fresh start for the troubled social media giant, and what are the hidden challenges Meta faces in its grand plan for reinvention, asks Wayne Deakin The post Facebook’s Meta facelift appeared first on Creative Review....







