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....
The inner life of a photographer explored in five ways
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,...
Studio Blackburn on its We Mean Green campaign
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...
How to make your company more sustainable
Stink Studios has recently examined and reported on its carbon emissions, and is pledging to make changes to how the company works as a result. Here group managing director James Britton explains the process and offers some advice The post How to make your company more sustainable appeared first on Creative Review....
Geltor’s identity by &Walsh emphasises the wild beauty of nature
Biodesign company Geltor creates animal-free ‘designer proteins’ for brands across various consumer packaged goods, including beauty, food and drink, and nutraceuticals (products derived from food considered to have physiological benefits). Among its developments is the world’s first vegan collagen – which typically comes from pigs – for the food and beverage market. The company has a new visual identity designed...
Kyle Ellingson on how his personal work informs his editorial commissions
Before becoming an illustrator, Brooklyn-based Kyle Ellingson wrote short stories and worked as a bookseller. It was after a colleague, who read graphic novels, introduced him to the work of Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan and Moebius that his love for drawing and comics was ignited. “Stylistically I still feel grounded in that world, and enjoy remixing comic elements into my...
Stephen Tayo on photography and philosophy
The photographer discusses growing up in Lagos, how studying philosophy influenced his imagemaking and why the government in Nigeria needs to start recognising the value of the creative industries The post Stephen Tayo on photography and philosophy appeared first on Creative Review....
Billy Barraclough’s Murmurations captures the mass gatherings of starlings
Barraclough started the series during the first lockdown of 2020, when he opened a box of photographs and notebooks left by his late father and found snapshots of his younger self chasing starlings in Blackpool. The photographer, who’s based in London, started taking images of murmurations – the name given to a flock of starlings – in an effort to...
Lifting the lid on Pringles’ new rebrand
Snack brand Pringles has revealed the first update to its mascot in 20 years. JKR creative director Della Lawrence takes us through the new branding, including Mr P’s widely discussed haircut The post Lifting the lid on Pringles’ new rebrand appeared first on Creative Review....
Polly Alderton’s photo series offers a candid yet romantic view of family life
Based in the UK, Polly Alderton has photographed for the Sunday Times, the Observer and the BBC among many others. Her series of family portraits are featured in the latest release by Open Eye Gallery and Setanta Press, who together launched a project last year to highlight work by emerging or unpublished photographers. A new book is published in the...
Bouygues Telecom ad shows off its new sustainable solutions in style
Usually dropping your phone and discovering a smashed screen is the sign of a pretty bad day. Not so in this new ad by BETC for Bouygues Telecom, where for one couple a dropped phone signals the arrival of another magical life moment. Set to Alicia Keys’ track Fallin’ we watch as the couple meet, fall in love and raise...
Thilde Jensen’s series documents homelessness with an empathetic lens
In 2014, Danish photographer Thilde Jensen met two men in upstate New York: Reine and Lost, who lived together under a highway. After Reine and Lost shared their stories with her, she pursued a project documenting people’s experiences of homelessness around the US, including in New Mexico, Las Vegas and New Orleans as well as Syracuse, New York, where it all...