Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, the founders of design consultancy Synoptic Office, have a dual career as educators at Parsons School of Design in New York. They explain how this mix of influences informs their work...
Soho bounces back to life after Covid in new exhibition
As pandemic restrictions in the UK began to lift last year, so too did the curbs on the nightlife and hospitality industries – a phase in our history documented by photographer Dougie Wallace. Known for his uncompromising high-contrast images of city life, Wallace took his infamous flashgun photography to the streets of Soho last summer to capture the area as...
In Gli Isolani, Alys Tomlinson documents age-old Italian rituals
Known for her evocative portrait photography, as shown in her previous bodies of work Lost Summer and Ex-Voto, Alys Tomlinson is a photographer with an aptitude for capturing the human gaze. Over the last two years, she has been applying this skill to a new project, titled Gli Isolani (The Islanders), which has seen her travel throughout Sicily, Sardinia and...
Why we need more creatives in the C-Suite
Are creatives the missing piece of the executive puzzle? We talk to David Droga about his first year as CEO and creative chairman of Accenture Song and explore why creative leaders should be installed at the top table...
New Bonobo video illuminates the patterns hidden around us
The McGloughlin Brothers have created the music video for ATK, the first single released by Bonobo since his album Fragments. The duo, made up of brothers Páraic and Kevin, have created numerous pieces of work in the past that twist scale, perspective and motion into compelling sequences, with recent credits for A$AP Rocky and Max Cooper. The high-speed video for...
New book charts the history of Comic-Con and the “triumph of geek culture”
“Fandom is a tribe of people,” says pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein. “Geeks, nerds, fanboys/fangirls, misfits, outsiders, weirdos — all bonding over pop culture nostalgia. People who speak a shorthand based on the singular universe built around certain niche passions. It’s more than a subculture, but rather an entire network of interconnected and often overlapping nodes of fandom.”… Source...
Wieden + Kennedy on the ad agency of the future
The newly installed trio of ECDs at Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland office brings together an eclectic mix of experiences and ideas, which may just help spark the advertising renaissance we’re all hoping for...
A spiralling new visual identity for the Leeum Museum of Art
Since first opening its doors in 2004, the Seoul-based Leeum Museum of Art has been building up a wide-ranging collection of Korean, international modern and contemporary art. The cultural institution, which is run by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, was founded with the ambition to become a 21st century ‘museum of convergence’ – a place where people could see and...
Woolmark takes on synthetic fabrics in bold new ad
Titled Wear Wool Not Fossil Fuel, Woolmark’s new campaign features striking imagery to emphasise the negative impact of synthetic fabric and the crude oil used in its manufacture. Released to coincide with the September fashion weeks around the globe, creative company 20something pulls no punches in the ad, which is directed by Studio Birthplace, the directing team behind Greenpeace’s award…...
Tabitha Soren’s photos address our tech dependence
Unlike many of the things we interact with on a daily basis, the technology we use bears very few physical traces from our contact with it, since most of the activity taking place is happening behind a screen. One trace that is left behind however, is the marks made by our fingers; not always immediately perceptible, these marks are nevertheless...
Soho House launches new magazine with a splash
Soho House is known for its luxe members-only clubs around the world, as well as a growing array of offshoots, like its plush homeware and skincare ranges. So the new Soho House magazine may surprise those who would expect the dimmed lights and muted luxury of those spaces to be translated onto its pages. Yet surprise is exactly what recently...
Modern Life’s visual identity puts a different spin on insurance
Life insurance is a purchase which most people only make a couple of times in their lives. It’s a process that is further complicated by the antiquated nature of the industry, which typically relies on outdated legacy systems and unreliable manual processes. Tech startup Modern Life was founded in the hope of upending traditional approaches to life insurance. The brokerage...