Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Lex (short for Lexicon) is the text-centred social app that aims to connect queer lovers and friends. Originally an Instagram account called Personals created by Kell Rakowski in 2017, it mimicked old school newspaper personal ads where people detailed their desires and romantic requirements. Around 10,000 personals later, Rakowski launched Lex in 2019 as a “low-fi, text-centred dating app where…...
As Forsman & Bodenfors sets up a new in-house team dedicated to the dark art of digital distribution, we discuss why ‘fame’ is returning to adland’s lexicon...
Comprising a new logo, symbol, colour palette, photography, illustration and sonic branding, the new identity brings both companies together under the Eurostar name, which was chosen “due to its powerful equity and global recognition”. The new branding will launch in full by the end of 2023, and hopes to put a modern face on the Eurostar Group while respecting the...
