Coming off a busy year as R/GA chair and global CCO, Tiffany Rolfe, our jury president for creative tech in this year’s CR Annual Awards, suggests when there’s so much change in the air, it’s “on all of us” to create what comes next...
New gameshow by Childline mirrors the experience of digital anxiety
Recent studies have shown that between 1990 and 2021, anxiety disorders among young people around the world have increased by approximately 52%. There is a confluence of contributing factors to consider here, but at the centre is undoubtedly the major role that the internet and social media plays in the lives of children and adolescents. In recent years, we’ve been...
An oral history of Arctic Monkeys’ first album cover
The lead creatives behind the iconic artwork reflect on the cigarette- and alcohol-fuelled photoshoot that would define a generation...
Fortnum & Mason’s new chocolate collection combines taste and sound
Recent studies in the emerging field of neurogastronomy have shown that music and food share a special relationship, with the length, tone, pitch and other qualities of a piece of music reportedly affecting what and how we eat. This research has informed the music that is played in restaurants and cafés around the world, but how do you apply these...
MoMA Mart turns everyday groceries into delectable design objects
The visual language of food has long fed the imaginations of artists and designers alike – think of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans or Paula Scher’s classic hot dog poster for New York’s The Public Theater. Now, another of the city’s cherished institutions, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), is putting food design front and centre with a curated concept...
Offf festival returns to Barcelona in April
What can be better than sitting in the sunshine and listening to some of your favourite designers and creatives share their work, opinions and ideas? This is what visitors to Offf Barcelona, now in its 26th year, have come to look forward to each year. Taking place at its usual venue, Disseny Hub Barcelona, from April 16-18, this year’s line...
How to talk about a rebrand
Rebrands are often judged in seconds, but built over months. Here experts from Koto and How&How share how they shape, explain and protect brand work in an age of constant commentary...
How to launch your own brand as a designer
Designer Jens Marklund has worked with Ogilvy, Apple and Airbnb, but faced a whole new set of challenges when he decided to launch his own brand, Small Act...
The FCA calls in Emil the Seal to stop consumers slipping into scams
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided that the best way to cut through the noise of financial warnings isn’t another stern voiceover or bullet-pointed disclaimer. It’s a seven-foot animatronic seal. Created with M+C Saatchi, the FCA’s latest campaign – catchily titled ‘Check if it’s real, before you seal the deal’ – introduces consumers to the regulator’s new Firm Checker...
Ikea hides its prices to showcase quality in latest campaign
People are quick to judge a product’s quality by how much it costs. So to shift the conversation, Ikea’s latest campaign aims to get consumers to focus on the quality of its products, without being influenced by the brand’s reasonable prices. Created by Mother and shot by photographer Marloes Haarmans, the campaign comprises a series of OOH posters featuring Ikea...
How heritage brands can stay culturally relevant in 2026
Heritage is hugely valuable but is not enough on its own for a brand to survive today – instead they must move beyond nostalgia and be relevant to contemporary culture too, says Campfire’s co-founder Alex Brown...
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years with human-centred campaign
For 25 years, Wikipedia has aimed to provide the world with “human-powered, accessible” knowledge and information. To celebrate its anniversary, the Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit that runs Wikipedia – has launched a campaign to provide an insight into the platform’s evolution. Developed in partnership with purpose-led agency Kin, the video docuseries not only offers a behind-the-scenes… Source...