With its mishmashed merchandising, handwritten price stickers and garish shopfronts, the humble corner shop is generally immune to the whims of the design industry’s latest fads – and is often all the more charming for it. Oslo-born convenience store concept Innom is vying to be the exception to this rule, however. Offering a mixture of goods that places it somewhere...
Anthony Blasko captures the frivolity of the annual Florida Strawberry Festival
The annual Florida Strawberry Festival dates back to 1930, and was originally introduced as a way of celebrating the success of the state’s yearly harvest. New York-based photographer Anthony Blasko has been attending the festival, which takes place in the aptly named Plant City, since 2013, and has made a habit over the years of photographing the other attendees. These...
Get the most from any shoot location
It takes planning, vision, and research to source the perfect shoot location, but that’s only half the battle. Once you’re in there, the clock is ticking, and you must be creative and resourceful to get all the shots you need in the time available. “Finding the right location for a shoot is an art in itself,” begins Jonny Bateman, creative...
Evangeline Gallagher wins inaugural Folio Book Illustration Award
The brief for the inaugural Folio Book Illustration Award, launched by publisher the Folio Society to mark its 75 th anniversary, was to create an illustrated response to Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death. First published in 1842, the story follows Prince Prospero who decamps to his castle to evade a fatal plague known as...
What the design industry can learn from academia
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park, the founders of design consultancy Synoptic Office, have a dual career as educators at Parsons School of Design in New York. They explain how this mix of influences informs their work...
Soho bounces back to life after Covid in new exhibition
As pandemic restrictions in the UK began to lift last year, so too did the curbs on the nightlife and hospitality industries – a phase in our history documented by photographer Dougie Wallace. Known for his uncompromising high-contrast images of city life, Wallace took his infamous flashgun photography to the streets of Soho last summer to capture the area as...
In Gli Isolani, Alys Tomlinson documents age-old Italian rituals
Known for her evocative portrait photography, as shown in her previous bodies of work Lost Summer and Ex-Voto, Alys Tomlinson is a photographer with an aptitude for capturing the human gaze. Over the last two years, she has been applying this skill to a new project, titled Gli Isolani (The Islanders), which has seen her travel throughout Sicily, Sardinia and...
Why we need more creatives in the C-Suite
Are creatives the missing piece of the executive puzzle? We talk to David Droga about his first year as CEO and creative chairman of Accenture Song and explore why creative leaders should be installed at the top table...
New Bonobo video illuminates the patterns hidden around us
The McGloughlin Brothers have created the music video for ATK, the first single released by Bonobo since his album Fragments. The duo, made up of brothers Páraic and Kevin, have created numerous pieces of work in the past that twist scale, perspective and motion into compelling sequences, with recent credits for A$AP Rocky and Max Cooper. The high-speed video for...
New book charts the history of Comic-Con and the “triumph of geek culture”
“Fandom is a tribe of people,” says pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein. “Geeks, nerds, fanboys/fangirls, misfits, outsiders, weirdos — all bonding over pop culture nostalgia. People who speak a shorthand based on the singular universe built around certain niche passions. It’s more than a subculture, but rather an entire network of interconnected and often overlapping nodes of fandom.”… Source...
Wieden + Kennedy on the ad agency of the future
The newly installed trio of ECDs at Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland office brings together an eclectic mix of experiences and ideas, which may just help spark the advertising renaissance we’re all hoping for...
A spiralling new visual identity for the Leeum Museum of Art
Since first opening its doors in 2004, the Seoul-based Leeum Museum of Art has been building up a wide-ranging collection of Korean, international modern and contemporary art. The cultural institution, which is run by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, was founded with the ambition to become a 21st century ‘museum of convergence’ – a place where people could see and...