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Trends of 2022: The year in advertising
Brand purpose dominated again this year, while the growing influence of new technologies and the cost of living crisis challenged the ad industry to take stock and reflect...
The women tackling “millennial realities” through illustration
Tackling “millennial realities” like money woes, job insecurity, the concept of “sisterhood”, and navigating relationships forged online, nine female Spanish illustrators are featured in a new exhibition at CCCB Barcelona. Titled Graphic Constellation: Young Women Authors of Avant-Garde Comics, the show uses bespoke installations to bring the artists’ “creative universes” to life in a 3D space… Source...
Record sleeves of the year 2022
The embrace of vinyl showed no signs of slowing down in 2022. While the influx of major labels pressing on wax has caused a frustrating backlog for independents, the overall shift towards physical formats can only be read as a good thing for album designers in the battle against thumbnailification. This year, we also saw some of the world’s biggest...
Ukrainian agency Twid reflects on 2022
Ukrainian creative agency Twid is resolutely clear in what it wants – more global clients, “to prevail over the terrorist state” – and what it doesn’t. “In Ukraine, we don’t want to feel that foreigners are making indulgences for us – we don’t want to miss deadlines or not reply to emails,” says Alex (Sasha) Alymov, partner and business lead....
Music videos of the year 2022
As we round off the year, it feels as though you can’t move for someone sending you an AI-generated Christmas card, or rewriting A Christmas Carol on ChatGPT but with all the characters as dogs. So it’s perhaps little surprise that many of the most interesting music videos from the last year have been heavily focused on pushing the boundaries...
Trends of 2022: The year in tech
Changes swept through the tech sector this year, leaving a trail of uncertainty across social media, cryptocurrency, and the creative workforce – but opportunity in some corners, too...
Ad campaigns of the year 2022
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...
Inside the world of contemporary board game design
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...
Cáit McEniff’s folk-inspired illustrations
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...
Trends of 2022: The year in photography
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...
Movie posters of the year 2022
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...