The bleak but powerful message was created by Toronto agency Berners Bowie Lee for the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA), and aims to remind those dwelling in the city that shopping local could mean the difference between life or death for many independent businesses. Toronto has had some of the strictest and longest-running lockdowns in North America, with...
Why mentoring’s for life (not just for uni)
Mentoring is a powerful tool throughout your career, says Katie Cadwell, a designer at DesignStudio in Sydney. Here she talks about how you can get it started, and what makes for the most fruitful mentor/mentee relationship The post Why mentoring’s for life (not just for uni) appeared first on Creative Review....
How FIFA became a creative catalyst
Not just an enormously popular video game, this year saw FIFA become the impetus for some forward-thinking creative work. Engine and adam&eveDDB discuss its huge cultural influence and advertising’s changing relationship with gaming The post How FIFA became a creative catalyst appeared first on Creative Review....
Raman Djafari directs stunning animation for Warp Records’ Squid
The video centres on a character who struggles to engage with the world he sees going past his window. “I wanted to explore a state of mind that I have found myself in many times, of fearing to go outside and being confronted with everything that one cannot love about themselves,” says Djafari. The director depicts the character’s suffering through...
Leeds 2023 Year of Culture unveils new visual identity
Just as Coventry City of Culture 2021 is beginning to heat up, the team behind the Leeds 2023 Year of Culture has revealed a fresh visual identity. The city originally bid to be European Capital of Culture back in 2015 but, after UK cities were banned from entering following the country’s vote to leave the EU, the newly formed Leeds...
Good Reads: Thiiird magazine embraces the intersectionality of identity
Rhona Ezuma has always been fascinated with the art of storytelling. After studying English literature at uni, she did some journalism work before gravitating towards fashion styling, working with the likes of GQ, Vogue Arabia and Adidas. Outside of her styling work, Ezuma is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Thiird, a Black-owned independent magazine and creative platform amplifying the...
Funky Buddha sets up the Manatee Derby to promote seltzer
The Manatee Derby took place earlier this week, and can be viewed below on a nine-minute YouTube film that certainly makes for one of the weirdest (yet surprisingly compelling) marketing campaigns of late. The campaign is a partnership between the Funky Buddha brand and the Save the Manatee Club, a non-profit that aims to support the mammal, which is listed...
Gilles Peterson releases a book documenting the first UK lockdown
As someone who is used to travelling the world for music and broadcasting projects, Gilles Peterson became aware of the coronavirus pandemic early on. Writing in the introduction to his new book, Lockdown FM: Broadcasting in a Pandemic, he observed: “Early 2020 had been loaded with events and projects. Chicago, New York and the annual Worldwide Awards followed by a...
Unrecognised and unloved: Patrick Burgoyne on the state of creative education
Education is vital to the UK’s phenomenally successful creative industries. Yet its value to the country appears to be going unrecognised in the government’s plans The post Unrecognised and unloved: Patrick Burgoyne on the state of creative education appeared first on Creative Review....
Ryan Reynolds creates a Father’s Day cocktail: The Vasectomy
Ryan Reynolds continues to prove that comedy is gold in advertising, with his latest ad showing him extolling the many joys of fatherhood as he mixes a special cocktail for Father’s Day, named The Vasectomy. The spot sees Reynolds (who is a father of three) rather cack-handedly mix the cocktail on screen, in doing so managing to send up some...
Ryan Reynolds creates a Father’s Day cocktail: The Vasectomy
Ryan Reynolds continues to prove that comedy is gold in advertising, with his latest ad showing him extolling the many joys of fatherhood as he mixes a special cocktail for Father’s Day, named The Vasectomy. The spot sees Reynolds (who is a father of three) rather cack-handedly mix the cocktail on screen, in doing so managing to send up some...
Ryan Reynolds creates a Father’s Day cocktail: The Vasectomy
Ryan Reynolds continues to prove that comedy is gold in advertising, with his latest ad showing him extolling the many joys of fatherhood as he mixes a special cocktail for Father’s Day, named The Vasectomy. The spot sees Reynolds (who is a father of three) rather cack-handedly mix the cocktail on screen, in doing so managing to send up some...








