ThoughtMatter unveils a building block-style identity for World of Women

Artist Yam Karkai co-founded the World of Women (WoW) organisation, alongside partners BBA, Raphaël Malavieille, and Toomaie, in an effort to address the significant gender imbalance that dominates both cryptocurrency and the NFT market. The collection comprises 10,000 portraits of women, generated from an original artwork created by Karkai, and depicting various skin tones, hair colours and styles. WoW launched...

Celebrating the design genius of Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles is a designer who manages to straddle two camps: he’s truly a ‘designers’ designer’, but also one whose work is celebrated by those outside of that, well, bubble. Best known for his work with record label Stiff, his distinctive imagery demonstrates both a rigorous understanding of design’s technicalities in its lines, layouts, grids and colour selections, and a...

Selfridges is now selling NFTs in-store

This week, Selfridges became the first retailer to sell NFTs IRL, as the retailer puts it, as part of its exhibition of Op-Art giant Victor Vasarely in collaboration with French fashion house Paco Rabanne. Titled Universe, the show is described by Selfridges as a “groundbreaking entrance into the metaverse”,  and will be selling around 1,800 NFTs for between £2,000 and...

Oatly launches cute but weird puppet campaign The New Norm&al Show

Oatly has launched a cute but pretty weird new campaign, The New Norm&al Show, starring carton-based puppet pals Norm and Al. In the brand’s biggest ever UK campaign, the miniseries comprises five short episodes of the show created by its in-house agency ‘Oatly Department of Mind Control’ (which replaced its marketing department in 2019), director Conor Finnegan and production company...