Evidence suggests that adopting inventive, individual styles of working can aid creative thinking, yet agencies and studios remain conservative in their approach...
Documenting the Summer of Love’s dying days
Just as August heatwaves recede into the gloom and damp of autumn, the ‘Summer of Love’ was never going to last forever. Despite the fairly widespread perception of the 60s as a time of halcyon days all draped in kaftans, oil projections, flower headdresses and the like, this is clearly at best the experience of a small minority, and perhaps...
Apple’s Christmas ad brings snowstorms to the streets of Buenos Aires
The campaign, titled Share The Joy, revolves around the AirPods’ sharing feature – which lets two sets of headphones listen to the same thing at once. But this is only the jumping off point for the ad, which starts out as a pair of bored friends listening to music together, and ends up as an energetic dance off through Buenos...
Remembering George Lois
Art director, graphic designer, and all-round advertising legend George Lois comes with his own slogan. Well, it’s more of an anti-slogan really, yet it has followed him around his entire life. “I kid around that when I was a baby in a crib, God or Michelangelo’s hand came through the ceiling on a dark and stormy night and said, ‘George,...
Celebrating New Talent
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D&AD’s Shifters show that creative education has room to change
At present, a three-year university degree in the UK could set a student back almost £28k in tuition fees alone, and that’s before paying for accommodation or any other living costs. For Kev(in) Audience (Ishimwe), a recent graduate of D&AD Shift, “the ROI, with visual arts, didn’t make sense”. “If I wanted to be a lawyer, a doctor, or an...
A new show uses football scarves as a canvas
They’ve become a mainstay in the final major projects of art and design students. They’re replacing T-shirts and badges as the favoured merch format for musicians and producers. And they handily keep your chin toasty while you spend two hours in the cold screaming at 11 people who definitely can’t hear you. Yes, it’s the humble football scarf, which is...
Inside Cristobal Ascencio’s enigmatic images
Cristobal Ascencio uses photography and VR to explore his family life and wider ideas of memory and truth, resulting in striking and unexpected images...
Design and the cost of living crisis
While Britain grapples with recession and a cost of living crisis, we examine how design and communication can spotlight helpful resources to struggling households and activate political change...
Dorothy’s Jazz Love Blueprint is a celebration of the music genre
Jazz Love Blueprint, as the name suggests, maps out a brief history of the music genre, detailing over 1,000 musicians, artists, songwriters, and producers who have made significant contributions to the form. Their names are spread throughout an elaborate composition that replicates the circuit diagram of a phonograph (or record player), to pay tribute to the way this unique piece...
Lauren Dykes on the joy of ads that entertain
After joining TBWAMedia Arts Lab in Los Angeles, art director Lauren Dykes has already landed a role working with one of her dream brands: Apple. Here, she talks about why brands need to be entertaining to have a chance of cutting through...
Nike enters the footballverse in its star-studded World Cup ad
It’s been a strange time for advertisers in the run up to this year’s FIFA World Cup. The event has been marred by everything from reports of exploitation and corruption, to the deaths of migrant workers, to discriminative LGBTQ+ laws. Most brands have chosen to avoid mentioning host nation Qatar as much as possible, while others have made some PR...