Shoair Mavlian, the incoming director of the Photographers’ Gallery in London, reflects on the challenges in attracting audiences post-pandemic, and building more inclusive spaces...
Calvin Chow captures Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap lake
The photographer documents the communities who live on the lake, which is under threat from climate change, overfishing and hydropower dams...
Rebranding Whitney Houston for a new audience
Legacy artists are big business, and labels are using creativity and design to help bring their music to new audiences. Here, we talk to designer Erik Herrström’s about the branding he’s created for the singer Whitney Houston, ten years after her death...
Thix is a hair loss brand rooted in realism
Hair loss is big business these days. Given that around 80% of men and 50% of women will experience it in their lives, it’s hardly surprising that the market for products and supplements is booming – to the tune of an estimated $23.6 million globally. Hair loss also remains a taboo subject for many people who go through it; a...
Why words matter during a cost of living crisis
We speak to Reed Words about the importance brands should be placing on their tone of voice amid the recession – and why platitudes simply won’t cut it for consumers...
Inside Not Wieden + Kennedy, the agency’s new design arm
Creative director Adam Rix talks through the plans for the new venture, and discusses the rise of design within ad agencies...
Travel agency Exoticca urges us to live more with latest ad
Created by Barcelona-based agency &Rosàs, online travel agent Exoticca’s new campaign sees a near-death experience spark a desire to take control and live life to the fullest. Titled What a Time to be Alive, we see the protagonist dodge a falling plant pot and decide to become “the director of his life”. Adopting a film trailer format, we then see...
Vintage Books celebrates the 1920s in latest series
While the 2020s might not be off to a roaring start, perhaps we can take solace in looking back to the 1920s instead, which is exactly what Vintage Books’ latest series does. The Vintage Deco series consists of nine novels that bring to life the 1920s, 100 years on. Picking up on the opulence and optimism of the era, it’s...
Arsenal celebrates its legacy and future with new stadium artworks
For the last 12 years, the Emirates Stadium in north London has been wrapped with images of iconic players from Arsenal’s past. Many of those familiar faces will still adorn the building’s exterior, but in an altogether different – and far more individual – style, as the club reveals a new suite of artworks to wrap the stadium. The timing...
Vince Frost’s lessons on running a design business
Almost two decades since moving to the other side of the world, Frost*collective’s founder reflects on why he had to radically redesign his business in order to transform his life...
Stream while you stream with Channel 4’s portable pee device
Comedy fans won’t even have to worry about getting up for a pee while watching, according to the film, which advertises a fictional portable urinal (as well as the broadcaster’s many streamable box sets). There’s scrolling type and swishy video transitions aplenty in the ad, created to send-up shopping channels and the kinds of low-budget adverts that litter daytime TV...
Why brands underestimate the power of sonic branding at their peril
Music and sonic branding are the glue that can connect a brand across a multitude of channels. Which is why, says MassiveMusic’s Paul Reynolds, it pays to bring in the music experts at the very beginning of a project...