Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
A familiar sight in pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants, the matchbook epitomises the kind of useful but ephemeral merchandise that countless brands were once keen to distribute. Yet with the increasing availability of disposable lighters and the decline in smoking rates, not to mention the corporate desire to distance business from its harms, the ubiquitous matchbook – and its built-in...
Organic period care brand Totm and creative agency Joan have teamed up to launch a campaign that tackles the lack of tampon regulations in the UK. The hero film, Safer than a Tampon, highlights how heavily regulated products like candles, car air fresheners and balloons are, in comparison to the fairly lax guidelines in place for tampons. Currently, tampons are...
Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn’s ninth Gorillaz album focuses on the journey of life and death. Here, Hewlett shares how he created its India-inspired artwork...
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in 1787 with a remit to act as the guardian of the game’s laws. From its base at Lord’s Cricket Ground in northwest London – still known reverentially around the world as the home of cricket – the MCC has long sought to honour that tradition while also being cognisant of the sport’s...
Gem Fletcher speaks to the New York-based photographer about his project Hard Feelings, where he explores youth, friendship and grief, as well as the role of masculinity in the US today...
Last weekend saw another attack on arts education, with creative arts courses described as «dead-end degrees». Here, James Kirkham of Iconic spells out why in the age of AI they are anything but...
With modern wellness brands moving beyond health shops and into supermarkets, it remains a challenge to stand out amid packaging trends that often over-emphasise the functional and scientific aspects of these products via hard type and no-nonsense design. Equip aims to run counter to this and “return to timeless nutrition that works, because that’s how nature designed it”… Source...
Twenty years on from helping to launch the BBH China office, Kelly Pon reflects on the total transformation of the industry there, and what the West could learn from it...
Few sports do sentimentality better than football. Despite its hyper-commercialisation in modern times, it still thrives on nostalgia, ritual and shared traditions. Most memorably in recent years, Axa leveraged its partnership with Liverpool FC for its Empty Seat campaign, raising awareness around mental health and depression in fans (a famous ad from the late 90s for the cult British TV...
Greet explains how his ongoing personal project Phenomena sparked a new way of thinking about his work and his approach to outdoor photography...
The Blank Space author explains why the algorithm, the rise of right-wing politics and our general desire to always be liked have led to culture losing its edge. But don’t worry, there is a way out...
Butoh is an avant-garde dance form that emerged in post-war Japan in opposition to the growing influence of Western culture. Its movements are slow, primal and unrestrained. Dancers paint their bodies white and contort into ghostly figures, becoming “vessels for something beyond themselves”. Photographer Tom Johnson was introduced to Butoh by his friend Mari Ohashi around six years ago. Source...
