Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
AD handed out its awards, which celebrate the very best creative work across advertising and design, via two digital award ceremonies which took place on May 25 and 26. Hundreds of the industry body’s much-prized Pencils (which now include Wood, Graphite, Yellow, White and Black Pencil awards as well as special categories such as Side Hustle, Future Impact and Collaborative)...
The images featured at the agency are curated by Kateryna Radchenko, director of Odesa Photo Days Festival, who is currently working with photographers at the frontlines in Ukraine. The work is displayed on digital screens, meaning it can be regularly updated with new images from photographers on the ground. The 16 featured artists are Yurko Dyachyshyn, Andriy Lomakin, Volodymyr Petrov…...
The humble billboard is evolving as creative uses of 3D imagery are being used to sell everything from movies to video games to sneakers. Here, Alex Wilson, ECD at brand experience agency Amplify, examines what they offer for brands...
In the face of both climate and financial crises, we look at how companies are harnessing technology to reduce the staggering amount of food that gets thrown away, and whether tech alone is the answer...
Shot by photographer James Day, who is known for his work for the New York Times, New Yorker and Wallpaper, the new B&Q ads are simple yet beautiful. Each features a mobile phone with a B&Q product bursting from it, including paint, a roll of wallpaper and a bloom of flowers. The only text accompanying this is the brand’s web...
Founded 75 years ago, Magnum Photos is steeped in photographic tradition, and its members are heralded in particular for their documentation of everyday life from multiple angles, whether seemingly mundane street scenes or highly charged warzones. Foam in Amsterdam, which is staging an exhibition of Magnum photography, is the first to admit that even the cooperative’s members rarely promote the…...
Paris is going through a period of rapid change and expansion. We talk to the photographers who are documenting this shift, who aim to show a vision of the city that reaches beyond its romanticised image...
To mark African Union Day today (May 25), pan-African social media platform NewComma has created a sticker pack of gifs based on African phrases. The gifs are housed on Giphy, and serve to announce the integration of Giphy for the NewComma web app. Each is based on a word or phrase in Pidgin English, a mixture of English and local...
While it hasn’t been subjected to the same level of scandal and critique as its parent company Meta (aka Facebook), the sheen seems to be wearing off social media’s one-time golden child, Instagram, as users are drawn to the less curated world of video-first platforms such as TikTok. It’s in this context that the social media giant has unveiled a...
Earlier this month, former Talking Heads front man and pioneer of oversized workwear David Byrne celebrated his 70th birthday, so it seems like an apt time for him to publish a book that sounds pretty ambitious in scope: ‘A History of the World’. However, like most things Byrne, there’s a twist: this is A History of the World (in Dingbats)....
We chat to VFX wizards ILM and director Baillie Walsh about making ‘Abbatars’ come to life, creating visual ‘short stories’ from Abba hits, and more...
Growing up as an only child in Tokyo in the 90s, Nico Ito’s most frequent companion was his own imagination, which used to run wild with fantastical stories. “I used to draw the world of those fantasies. I loved the creatures and motifs that appeared in those drawings, and the process of creating settings for each one,” he tells CR....
