David Hill Gallery in London has opened a new exhibition of work by West African photographer Rachidi Bissiriou, titled Gloire Immortelle. It presents a selection of images taken by Bissiriou in his home country of Benin as it underwent crucial changes. Born in 1950 in the village of Kétou, Bissiriou set up Studio Plaisir, a local photographic studio, when he...
Anna Haifisch’s illustrations offer up a warped version of cute
Anna Haifisch has a beautifully singular, surreal way of discussing and sending up artists, art, and the ‘art world’. Strange, animal-heavy, and sometimes tear-jerkingly pathos-laden, her work has long explored the nuances, trials and tribulations of what it means to create. Haifisch’s book The Artist was published in 2016, having previously been serialised in comic form on Vice… Source...
El mejor diseño del año vuelve al Disseny Hub Barcelona
El FAD (Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño), con la colaboración del Museo del Diseño de Barcelona, organiza la undécima edición de El mejor diseño del año, la cita por excelencia para conocer la situación del diseño gráfico, la comunicación visual, el diseño industrial, la arquitectura o el interiorismo en el último año. La entrada El mejor diseño del...
Álex Trochut: «El trabajo del diseñador del futuro va a ser más de comisario que de creador»
Con motivo del Experience Valencia 2022 hablamos con Álex Trochut sobre cómo percibe el diseño, la tecnología, el arte y el papel del diseñador. El primer contacto de Álex Trochut con el diseño gráfico tuvo lugar en Valencia. El entonces joven Trochut viajó a la Ciudad del Túria para visitar a un amigo de sus […]...
A playful new visual identity for Pret
Pret has come a long way since opening its first shop in London in 1986. By the 2010s, the café chain had become the to go-to source of expenditure for harried and hungry office workers, spawning what seemed to be a Pret on every corner of central London. Despite a challenging time during the pandemic when city life effectively ground...
In Memory of Colin Forbes, Celebrated Co-Founder of Pentagram
Colin Forbes, who passed away just a little more than a week ago, was a key part of the design community, the AIGA, Pentagram, and my life. He was a founding member of Pentagram and the architect of a unique approach to design. Among many of his leadership roles and accolades, Colin served as AIGA’s president for several years in...
Haeru, el extraño acierto de Nendo. DIY, portátil y funcional
Haeru es un hibrido entre mesa auxiliar y lámpara de pie que busca sentar las bases de una nueva tipología de producto. Compuesta de ocho piezas principales: tres patas discretas de acero tubular; dos lamparas con pantalla de silicona… La entrada Haeru, el extraño acierto de Nendo. DIY, portátil y funcional apareció primero en Experimenta....
Slanted in Stockholm: Our Polite Society
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to meet great designers from the local creative scene, among them Our Polite Society! In 2008, Our Polite Society was founded by Jens Schildt and Matthias Kreutzer. They worked with the Kunstverein Bielefeld, the Sandberg Institute, the Bauhaus Dessau,...
Wolff Olins overhauls GSK’s identity
Wolff Olins has created the new brand identity for global healthcare company GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline), aiming to better express its focus on innovation. The agency was brought on board around 18 months ago having won a competitive global pitch to help GSK develop its new purpose, voice and identity. According to David Stephens, executive strategy director at Wolff Olins, GSK...
Is originality an outdated concept?
We talk to the Public Domain Review’s Adam Green about his new book which draws links between 2,000 years of visual culture, and examines why we’re obsessed with originality...
The many faces of William Klein
The photographer and filmmaker’s exhibition at the ICP in New York celebrates the multifaceted nature of his practice over the course of nearly seven decades...
No vas a poder sacarte de la cabeza la canción del nuevo anuncio de Easypromos
Fundada en 2010 y con 12 años de experiencia a sus espaldas, Easypromos se ha convertido en una de las plataformas más conocidas para realizar concursos y promociones digitales. Fruto de esa evolución, acaba de presentar una nueva imagen para adaptarse a los tiempos que corren en la que combinan la intensidad del azul con la calidez del color naranja...







