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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...
The National Portrait Gallery in London gets a brand facelift
The new branding, from Edit Brand Studio and brand strategists Boardroom Consulting, aims to celebrate the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection, and nod to its heritage, as well as motifs found within its refurbished building. It has launched across the gallery’s digital channels and website, where its exhibition programmes for 2023-4 have been announced. The design features bold… Source...
How Elastic created the title sequence for the Last of Us
As HBO’s TV adaptation of the hugely successful game sweeps across the world, hear how California-based studio Elastic designed the oddly beautiful opening credits...
Artist Alex Prager has one word for us: Run!
Alex Prager’s new exhibition, Part Two: Run, is the concluding chapter of her investigation into social upheaval and humans’ response to it, which began with her exhibition Part One: The Mountain that debuted this time last year. The exhibition’s name stems from its central component – a short film called Run, which is in turn named after a song by...
How ASICS has embraced its past to secure its future
In recent years the sports brand has used its founding philosophy as the basis of its marketing campaigns, resulting in authentic, thoughtful and impactful work...