Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
As we are all too aware, it’s been another rollercoaster year of drama and anxiety, with 2022 awash with political and economic turmoil, war, and ever-increasing evidence of the devastating effects of climate change. We’ve also seen ongoing social division, played out with the most intensity – as ever – on social media, while the world of tech continues to...
Modern board games can help us understand complex real world scenarios, while also having fun. We take a look inside the current boom for new games and how they are designed...
I’m basically trying to make art and see the world like I did as a kid,” says illustrator Cáit McEniff. You could apply this to the purposefully wobbly lines and bucketloads of charm in her fabric pieces or paper illustrations. However, what she means is the childlike spirit and curiosity she tries to maintain in her practice: “Indulging in ideas...
As the world struggles with grim realities, from climate change to war, to a cost of living crisis, photographers are finding new ways to articulate today’s many challenges...
This year’s selection of the best movie posters of the year once again demonstrates a wonderful array of traditional techniques and styles – photography, painting, collage – and a refusal to homogenise into any singular form. One pleasing commonality: as yet, the world of film poster design has resisted any incursion from AI-generated art. Whether their creation was through physical...
In recent years, videogame worlds have transcended their original purpose as mere containers for player navigation and become tools for education. Since the release of its first Assassin’s Creed game, French developer Ubisoft has received messages from teachers around the world saying that they have used various instalments in the series to teach history lessons. In 2019, it was even...
Quirky type and bright colours were a key theme in 2022, suggesting that brands had rediscovered their sense of fun after a tough couple of years...
For a brief period in 2022, it looked like no-one would play (or talk about) anything other than Elden Ring ever again. Gamers around the world were hooked, with the title dominating online discourse for weeks on end. In reality, it was one blockbuster release amongst an overwhelming array of games covering a spectrum of styles, genres and studios. This...
A new book titled Out of the Box presents a decade’s worth of research, curation and documentation revolving around ‘box art’. The term is a vague one, but the book’s author, Tom Buchanan, offers a comprehensible – if slightly ambiguous – definition: “Artworks which have evolved, been created within, or even escaped from a box.” Understandably, such artworks are vast,...
CR spoke with people from the worlds of design, advertising and film to find out whether AI is a creative industry killer or the most promising new technology to come along in years...
Last year I began CR’s round-up of the best book covers of the year with a plea to publishers to credit their designers when sharing newly created work for forthcoming titles. One of the issues raised at the time, by Penguin studio manager Ebyan Egal, was that far from being a simple enough request to ask of publishers, it was...
Over the years, many books, films and documentaries have taken as their premise the rituals of rural life, studying the quirks and foibles of the strange yet loveable characters that can be found in small villages the world over. In photographer Thomas Rousset’s latest body of work, which has been published as a photobook by Loose Joints, the village in...
