Jeremy Jeffs has spent years capturing a huge variety of protests, and he believes photographers are critical to documenting the changing state of democracy and holding power to account...
Emily López’s digital artworks are an acid colour trip
Emily López has had quite the journey over the last ten years, living in Atlanta, Bogotá and now New York, and trading an impressive advertising CV for life as a freelance artist. After a lengthy stint working as a graphic designer at Ogilvy & Mather, DDB and Vice – all in Colombia where her family lives – she decided the...
The return of Cannes Lions
Next week marks the first Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity since 2019. Our ad correspondent, Ben Kay, ponders what might be different this time around...
A new photo book is capturing the beauty of birds
Imbued with wide-ranging symbolism – from joy or dread to death or divinity – the bird has long been a source of inspiration for creatives. Some of the best-known admirers of our feathered friends have ranged from Pablo Picasso to photographer Eric Hosking, whose 60-year career saw him break new ground in how birds are documented. “Today, birds are a...
Reinventing Interview mag for a new era
Speaking at magCulture Live in New York, Interview’s editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg and editorial & design director Richard Turley discussed how they are injecting a bit of fun back into the cult magazine...
McDonald’s continues its minimalist mission in new print ads
Created by Leo Burnett London, the latest UK campaign for McDonald’s features the fast food brand’s distinctive products – including the Big Mac, a gherkin, a strawberry milkshake, and fries – in a stripped-back illustrative style. It is a look that we’ve come to expect from the brand, and which follows campaigns including its previous work for McDelivery and also...
The changing role of the ad agency CCO
ECD, CCO, CEO, COO: the ad industry is awash in three-letter jobs. But beyond the acronyms, what is the role of senior teams in shaping creative work and establishing agency culture today? BBH’s Alex Grieve and Helen Rhodes discuss...
A new exhibition captures West Africa in a period of cultural transformation
David Hill Gallery in London has opened a new exhibition of work by West African photographer Rachidi Bissiriou, titled Gloire Immortelle. It presents a selection of images taken by Bissiriou in his home country of Benin as it underwent crucial changes. Born in 1950 in the village of Kétou, Bissiriou set up Studio Plaisir, a local photographic studio, when he...
Anna Haifisch’s illustrations offer up a warped version of cute
Anna Haifisch has a beautifully singular, surreal way of discussing and sending up artists, art, and the ‘art world’. Strange, animal-heavy, and sometimes tear-jerkingly pathos-laden, her work has long explored the nuances, trials and tribulations of what it means to create. Haifisch’s book The Artist was published in 2016, having previously been serialised in comic form on Vice… Source...
A playful new visual identity for Pret
Pret has come a long way since opening its first shop in London in 1986. By the 2010s, the café chain had become the to go-to source of expenditure for harried and hungry office workers, spawning what seemed to be a Pret on every corner of central London. Despite a challenging time during the pandemic when city life effectively ground...
Wolff Olins overhauls GSK’s identity
Wolff Olins has created the new brand identity for global healthcare company GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline), aiming to better express its focus on innovation. The agency was brought on board around 18 months ago having won a competitive global pitch to help GSK develop its new purpose, voice and identity. According to David Stephens, executive strategy director at Wolff Olins, GSK...
Is originality an outdated concept?
We talk to the Public Domain Review’s Adam Green about his new book which draws links between 2,000 years of visual culture, and examines why we’re obsessed with originality...