Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Creative Review is hosting a webinar in partnership with Figma on March 29 at 11am BST, where we will discuss why design is vital to better brand success in the digital space. From Uber to Airbnb to Monzo, disruptive digital-first businesses have prompted a total rethink of how we engage with products, services and activities on a daily basis. The...
Launched just in time for World Tattoo Day on March 21, #TattooDuoOver has big ambitions to translate every single foreign language tattoo shared with Duolingo over the course of the next two weeks. Duolingo has launched the campaign with a playful film – created by BETC Paris and directed by Pierre Edouard Joubert – affectionately mocking anyone who’s ever decided...
Having spent much of his 20s “doing floristry, and furniture design, and waitering, and all sorts of bits and bobs”, Max Hayter realised that what he really loved was making images. “I never really knew it was a career,” he tells CR. Hayter started assisting fashion photographer Oliver Hadlee-Pearch, and a year in, just as Covid hit, he began thinking...
Artists critiquing our increasingly screen-based existence is nothing new. The series of stock images showing a couple in bed, each turned from the other toward their phones, their faces lit only by the glow of whatever ‘content’ they’re fictively engrossed in, is now so well-worn that there’s a meme template for it. Where Italian photographer Cristiano Volk’s work stands out...
Is sustainability enough to save the world, or do brands need to commit to a more radical, reparative model to survive?...
Council estates in Britain were born in response to the slums of the Victorian era. The country’s first was the Boundary Estate in Shoreditch, which was built in 1900 by London County Council and provided as many as a thousand homes. Now often in the hands of private owners or housing associations, historic council estates can be found all over...
Brand activism has long been confused with purpose or pro-bono work. It’s time to reconsider its meaning and the role ad agencies can play – here’s how...
Magpie Studio has created the branding for cocktail bar Seed Library, creating a visual identity to match the ‘lo-fi analogue’ vision for the bar. Seed Library, which is based in the basement of One Hundred Shoreditch (Formerly Ace Hotel), is run by Ryan Chetiawardana — better known as Mr Lyan — who Magpie says is “often referred to as the...
Nicolas Roope talks to us about his new NFT platform Plinft, its “fractionalised” model, and the challenge of introducing selection to this space without losing the spirit of openness we’re told it brings...
The ten book series brings together well-known and celebrated female literary figures, including Xiaolu Guo’s Fenfang, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Darling. According to Lily Richards, picture editor at the publishing house, the collection offered a perfect opportunity to work with “some of the best and most exciting contemporary women… Source...
The ten book series brings together well-known and celebrated female literary figures, including Xiaolu Guo’s Fenfang, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Darling. According to Lily Richards, picture editor at the publishing house, the collection offered a perfect opportunity to work with “some of the best and most exciting contemporary women… Source...
The ten book series brings together well-known and celebrated female literary figures, including Xiaolu Guo’s Fenfang, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Darling. According to Lily Richards, picture editor at the publishing house, the collection offered a perfect opportunity to work with “some of the best and most exciting contemporary women… Source...
