Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Munich-born illustrator and graphic designer Nina Bachmann has carved out a niche for herself blurring the boundaries between banality and absurdity. Using garish colours and eccentric characters, her illustrations offer up a visual feast for her viewers to gorge on. Mostly, these are created using acrylic and oil sticks on canvas, but she also regularly builds sculptures with different materials…...
We talk to the curators of How to Win at Photography, now on show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London, about how imagemaking turned into a numbers game and why artists are using humour to examine it in their work...
Market researcher, avid reader, trend analyst, social media strategist – the modern book designer wears many hats, says multi-award-winning Micaela Alcaino, who’s capitalising on a renewed interest in beautiful covers. And she always reads the manuscript...
The charity celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, with the organisation expanding its focus over the last three decades from racism in football through to all forms of discrimination in sport. It’s currently partnering with Sky Sports, and as part of the collaboration has developed new programmes for schools, editorial initiatives and MBA in football scholarships to tackle underrepresentation. Source...
We’re living during a time when fake news and misinformation are an everyday occurrence in our online lives. Unfortunately, the phenomenon has arisen at the same time as a rapidly increasing number of people have begun to get their news from social media and other online platforms. Navigating the endless amount of information across the internet can be intimidating… Source...
As the name suggests, the book – published by Phaidon and compiled by American documentary filmmaker Immy Humes – explores the phenomenon of the ‘only woman’ in photography. Humes has made a habit of trawling through photography archives around the world, and her work demonstrates that this kind of imagery has existed since the inception of the camera. “The one...
Set up in 2012 as part of financial and retail technology company Diebold Nixdorf, Aevi was spun out as its own business in 2015 and now offers a cloud-based payment platform that works across different channels and devices. To cement its positioning as a payment partner, Anagram was tasked with updating Aevi’s branding – which had previously featured a bendy,...
The design and advertising industry has a plethora of award schemes. Here we examine what part they play in the industry and in the success of creative businesses...
Creative Studio GentleForces has devised the ad campaign which aims to offer up the notion that sport and fitness is simply ‘movement’ and therefore accessible to all. The campaign launches H&M Move, a new collection that is designed for ‘movers’ of all abilities and skills. As well as creating the ad campaign, GentleForces worked with H&M in putting together the...
Jellyfish Pictures spent a year working on concept art for the Apple TV show, designing beasts that go beyond the big, scary lizard stereotype...
McIlhenny Company’s Tabasco sauce has an illustrious brand history. Founded by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana, it was here that he developed the recipe for its original red hot pepper sauce. To this day, the company is still family-owned and operated on Avery Island. But it has also earned a whole host of fans around the world,...
Billy created nine posters in total, released to coincide with the first seven episodes of the Netflix show, and then later with the concluding two. “These play with the iconography, symbols and specific elements of the show, focusing more on the gory and scary scenes, without giving away too much of what happens,” says the artist, who is apparently a...
