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,...
Butcher Billy channels 1980s horror for his Stranger Things posters
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...
Saatchi & Saatchi revives pregnant man to protest US anti-abortion rulings
Saatchi & Saatchi has updated its ‘pregnant man’ campaign following the US Supreme Court’s ruling that abortion is no longer a protected right, overturning the 1973 landmark Roe v Wade decision that decriminalised abortion across the United States. The ruling effectively removes the right to an abortion from the US constitution and places it in the power of state legislatures....
Martin Wecke on why we’re approaching the metaverse all wrong
The Berlin-based designer and developer also suggests we might be seeing a return to MySpace-like styles and values in web design...
Will Netflix spark a rebirth in great ads?
Netflix has recently announced that it will offer a lower-priced subscription featuring advertising. Here, Ben Kay explores what opportunities it might offer the ad industry...
HP leans into the hybrid working debate in new ad
One of the more unexpected results of the Covid-19 pandemic is the upending of office working for many, and the fierce debates that have accompanied this change. While flexible working was edging its way very slowly into our consciousness prior to Covid – egged on by technology supposedly offering the option for us to work from anywhere – this change...
A snapshot of humankind in Royal Ontario Museum ad
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has launched a new spot, Immortal, that guides us through the history of planet Earth and the civilisations which have shaped it. Directed by Mark Zibert, the film is set underwater, offering an ethereal, dramatic quality to the historic reenactments, and takes an unborn child’s point of view – its mother being Mother Earth....
Gucci ventures into the world of NFTs
Launched last year, Gucci’s online platform Vault looks back across the fashion house’s 100 years of design history with a series of rotating ‘editions’, inspired by the layout of magazines. Now the brand is taking its visual experiment one step further with the platform’s first online exhibition and auction of NFT artworks, which has been created in partnership with marketplace...
How should designers address the cost of living crisis?
With a potential global recession on the horizon, brands are facing complex decisions, which will offer both challenges and opportunities for designers, says Design Bridge’s Tom Gilbert...
A photographic celebration of Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community
Manchester club the Haçienda is synonymous with a few things: Factory Records, New Order, Peter Saville’s design, acid house, and people generally having it large. And while Manchester itself has a rich and storied LGBTQ+ history, the iconic nightclub’s own associations with that community aren’t discussed perhaps as often as they should be. Now a new photography exhibition has opened...
Irma Boom designs new book documenting UAE culture and history
“What started as a conversation amongst family and friends between Dubai and Amsterdam, led us here to the launch of a collection of tales,” says Yasser Bin Khediya – a philanthropist, owner of property development firm YBK Group, and the commissioner of the 50U book. He says the ambition was to celebrate the past, present and future of the country...
Exposure: Steph Wilson
Steph Wilson’s photography uses humour and wit to explore our relationship with our bodies. Gem Fletcher talks to her about her work...