In the face of rising inflation and an increasingly dicey economy, it’s little surprise that client budgets are one of the creative industry’s biggest gripes. But what’s really going on?...
NB Studio designs Royal Mail’s Pride stamp series
NB Studio and illustrator Sofie Birkin have created a new Pride-theme special stamp series for Royal Mail to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Pride rally in 1972 – a march organised by members of the Gay Liberation Front to protest homophobia and transphobia. The designs are based around the idea of ‘a march through time’, and were...
Zora J Murff’s series asks how much we control our own image
Before his career in photography flourished, US-based artist and activist Zora J Murff was a social worker in the criminal justice system in the US, specifically helping young people avoid incarceration. The two facets of his working life – social work and visual art – first came together in his early project, Corrections, and his background has continued to inform...
Brutal but cinematic documentation of the NYPD homicide division
Until 2018, the NYPD had never in its history granted a photographer access to its homicide division — which isn’t wholly unsurprising, when you consider both the grizzly nature of the profession, and the innumerable misconduct scandals that have plagued the NYPD over the years. However, for two years (2018-2020) New York-born photographer Theo Wenner was granted unprecedented access to...
The big money questions: a guide for new creatives
Pay rises, day rates, dilemmas about prioritising money or creative opportunities – young creatives have a lot to get their heads around. We asked OMSE founder James Kape, copywriter Ellen Ling and the Talent Business partner Anna Green for advice...
Kelly Anna brings the Lionesses’ Euro 2022 campaign to life
Perceptions of women’s football in the UK have been transformed in recent years. This is partly thanks to the success of England’s Lionesses, but much of the legwork is also being done at grassroots level by fan-led platforms such as ThisFanGirl and football and fashion zine Season. The sport is set to gain even more momentum as England hosts the...
CALM launches major new suicide prevention campaign
The Last Photo is a new UK-wide campaign from suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), created with adam&eveDDB in London, which aims to offer practical advice on what suicidal behaviour might look like and how to help loved ones you might be worried about. The campaign also aims to redress the ‘image’ of suicide that we might hold...
CALM launches major new suicide prevention campaign
The Last Photo is a new UK-wide campaign from suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), created with adam&eveDDB in London, which aims to offer practical advice on what suicidal behaviour might look like and how to help loved ones you might be worried about. The campaign also aims to redress the ‘image’ of suicide that we might hold...
The LTA’s new campaign puts a flashy spin on tennis
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), the governing body of British tennis, enlisted The&Partnership to work on its new summer campaign #YourCourtYourRules, which is the third instalment in its ongoing Play Your Way brand platform. The campaign seeks to put a more welcoming spin on a sport that’s famously traditional in Britain, thanks in particular to its headline Grand Slam tournament...
Graduates, we want to see your work!
Gradwatch, our annual showcase of the best graduate talent, is back for 2022, and we’re on the lookout for creatives. As usual, we’ll be scouring degree shows in person and online for graduates, and you can also send us your work directly. We’re inviting anyone who is completing an undergraduate degree programme in summer 2022 to submit your work directly...
The delicate balancing act of creative and commercial work
Is it a creative industries myth that bigger budget client work can’t be creatively fulfilling? Design studio DR.ME, photographer Emily Stein and branding studio NB weigh in...
Theo Deproost shines a new light on a museum’s old objects
When we think about historical artefacts, the images that come to mind are often ones of documentation – the sort of photographs that live in a dusty archive somewhere or in the pages of an equally dusty textbook. It was this association that photographer Theo Deproost was keen to counter with his new project Re:Collect, which is composed of a...