Luxury fashion house Loewe is launching the final chapter of its Studio Ghibli collaboration with a spotlight on Howl’s Moving Castle. The classic anime directed by Hayao Miyazaki follows the story of Sophie, a teenager who’s transformed into an elderly woman by the Witch of Waste, and her quest to break the spell. The Spanish fashion label has launched a...
New ad raises awareness of the challenges of working with cancer
Campaigning around cancer has taken many forms, though most advertising tends to focus on the impact that a diagnosis and treatment can have on an individual or on family life. This new spot treads a different path by looking at the way that cancer can affect working life. It is part of a new initiative, Working with Cancer, launched by...
Vintage’s Love Poems are an illustrated ode to romance
Three illustrators were commissioned to reimagine works ranging from a set of thousand-year-old Japanese love poems through to Shakespeare’s heartbreaking sonnets. We look at how the series came to life...
Matt Williams on making a career change
Previously a footwear designer, Williams made the shift into illustration four years ago and is now working for clients including Nike and Vogue. He talks about the challenges he’s faced and the changes he’d like to see in the industry...
My Breakthrough Moment: Clay Hickson
The illustrator discusses the joys of “intentionally not online” projects and how starting a monthly newspaper scratched a very specific creative itch...
Zanele Muholi on photography as activism
As a new retrospective opens at the MEP in Paris, the photographer and visual activist discusses their life’s work amplifying South Africa’s Black LGBTQIA communities...
Mark Denton’s daily doodles head to Jealous Gallery
Drawing endless doodles while your attention should be elsewhere is a compulsion usually associated with distracted school students. Yet, all the while Mark Denton was climbing the ranks of adland, he couldn’t stop doodling away in meetings. With a dozen filing cabinets overflowing with his experiments on paper, some of Denton’s works are being pulled out of the archive and...
A glimpse behind the art world curtain
The photographer Catherine Hyland has documented the work at Fine Art Foundry in London, where artworks for the likes of Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, and Anish Kapoor are created...
ABAAD’s film reveals the culture of shame facing sexual abuse victims
Leo Burnett Beirut and gender equality non-profit organisation ABAAD have collaborated with artist Remie Akl to create Dirty Laundry, a poignant film that highlights the culture of shaming rape victims in the country. The film is based on the idea that survivors of sexual abuse in Lebanon are taught to “hide their dirty laundry” and made to feel as though...
Ernest Cole’s evocative images of life under apartheid
“When I say that people can be fired or arrested or abused or whipped or banished for trifles, I am not describing the exceptional case for the sake of being inflammatory. What I say is true – and most white South Africans would acknowledge it freely,” Ernest Cole wrote in House of Bondage, his seminal photo book on life under...
Five decades of US hip-hop told in pictures
A new major exhibition at Fotografiska New York charts the genre’s rise over the last 50 years with portraits of its biggest stars...

