Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
“I’ve always struggled with the idea of having a ‘style’: I just wanted to be able to create what I wanted to create in that moment in time,” says Winchester School of Art grad Eden Poole. She needn’t have worried, however, having emerged from her Graphic Arts course with a distinctive but hugely versatile style of motion graphics that ranges...
Harriet Noble’s illustration practice is rooted, like most creatives, in those formative childhood years. Her use of paper in particular stems from her days creating shoebox buildings and furniture out of paper and card, which have translated into her leggy characters and layered scenes that are often constructed from paper today. Noble came from a fine art background but found...
Older creatives have bags of experience and the ability to crack a brief like a walnut. So why aren’t studios and agencies hiring and keeping hold of more of them?...
“I never really thought of advertising as a career path, purely because I didn’t know it was a career path. And then when I looked further into it, I realised it was all of my pet interests and skills combined,” says Keilan Grant – one half of Ben & Keilan, a copywriting and art direction duo. Both studied Creative Advertising...
Taschen has released a new book that explores the visual history of menu design between the years 1800-2000. Authored by Steven Heller, co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Design programme at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and edited by Jim Heimann, the executive editor of Taschen America, this publication is a “culinary and graphic travelogue through Europe”. Starting...
Universities and industry are inextricably linked yet serve different purposes – do they need to be more joined up for the creative industry to thrive?...
“Some pieces were drawings that would probably make people think I’ve done acid, but I haven’t,” says illustrator Katrina Sadovnikova of the portfolio that landed her a place on Arts University Bournemouth’s illustration degree course. “[It was] very bizarre – wine bottle fountains and people falling out of a fairytale house. Bizarre things with a lot of colour, a lot...
While most back-to-school campaigns tend to blend into a sea of samey school uniform commercials, Nike is approaching this highlight in the children’s calendar differently this year. In its new campaign, Never Done Playing, the sportswear brand focuses on finding the magic in the mundane by transforming everyday chores into sporting events The campaign is led by creative consultancy Soursop…...
Key to bringing new, diverse talent into the creative industry is to raise awareness at a school level, where the career opportunities it brings are still too often opaque and misunderstood...
Inspired by her own experiences of chronic illness, Olivia Spring founded Sick magazine during her studies at Goldsmiths University in London. Originally from New York, she had come to the UK to pursue a degree in journalism when – suffering from fluctuating health and unemployment as a result – she had the idea of creating a platform to support herself...
Despite urgent calls for diversity, the creative industries remain overwhelmingly middle-class. We look at what can be done to allow new voices in...
Inhabiting a mixture of absurdism, surrealism and existentialism, Hanna Norberg-Williams’ illustrations are instantly recognisable, thanks to their distinctive use of coloured and textured environments and characters. The multi-disciplinary designer (who uses they/them pronouns) moved from Cardiff to London in 2019 to study illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. At the time… Source...
