Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Shopping online has soared during the Covid-19 pandemic, but brands needs to create experiences in real life to keep their customers engaged in the longer term, says Simon Hatter, founder of creative retail agency Hatter The post Why all high-street brands should embrace ‘experience retail’ (or risk disappearing) appeared first on Creative Review....
The UK’s high streets are an eclectic mix of shops, and have become more transient in nature over the years, with the rise of the pop-up shop. Harking back to simpler times when shopkeepers were well-known faces and often family-run businesses, are the images of self-taught photographer Brian Lomas. His series showcases the shops of his native north Manchester back...
The UK’s high streets are an eclectic mix of shops, and have become more transient in nature over the years, with the rise of the pop-up shop. Harking back to simpler times when shopkeepers were well-known faces and often family-run businesses, are the images of self-taught photographer Brian Lomas. His series showcases the shops of his native north Manchester back...
In her latest Exposure column, Gem Fletcher profiles the poetic, dreamlike portraiture of Annie Lai, whose image-making aims to unpick complex issues around belonging The post Exposure: Annie Lai appeared first on Creative Review....
Canada Water, which is located in south east London, is part of the city’s former docklands. Canada Dock, built in 1876, was mostly filled in in the early 80s, and the area became home to a shopping centre, leisure park and a newspaper printing works – now known as the Printworks London nightclub. In 2019, Southwark council signed off on...
A new photography exhibition at Side Gallery in Newcastle brings together wide-ranging representations of young people in the UK from 1981 to 2021 as they edge ever closer towards adulthood. Earlier perspectives come from documentary photographers Chris Killip and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, whose various works along the northern coastlines sit in dialogue with contemporary images made around the country. Top: from...
Wieden + Kennedy London’s legendary ECD is passing on the torch after a 20-year tenure. He discusses the highs and lows of agency life, and how to know when it’s the right time to go The post My Career Journey: Tony Davidson appeared first on Creative Review....
Graphic biographies and histories are having a moment, as a raft of recent releases show how the medium can immerse readers in lives and times gone by The post How graphic bios offer another view of history appeared first on Creative Review....
Channel 4 has set a very high bar with its coverage of the Paralympics, which it has broadcast in the UK for the past two Games. The tone taken by the channel has been set by its award-winning advertising campaigns, which have seen Paralympians presented as super humans, while also acknowledging the day-to-day challenges that they, and non-athletes with disabilities,...
“I got my first camera at a really early age. At around 13, I got into shooting skate videos. I was so inspired by Spike Jonze’s Fully Flared skate video that I started experimenting with practical effects, like setting skateboards on fire and puppetry,” director Andzej Gavriss tells CR. “After doing it for quite some time, I was offered to...
Based in an old coal mining complex in Genk, C-Mine is one of Belgium’s most exciting museums and cultural centres. This summer marks the arrival of the museum’s new multidisciplinary festival Zomerslag, which features a programme of theatre, dance, music, events and more. Part of the festival is Shout, curated by Daan Linsen and Debora Lauwers of Alley Design Studio,...
Set to a soundtrack of Kitty Wells’ classic country and western track Searching (For Someone Like You), the ad eschews the hip youth demographic we are used to seeing in Apple ads for a hip older demographic instead. The enigmatic spot opens with a rancher and his dog driving through never-ending farmland filled with identical haystacks. It’s unclear quite what...
