Information designer Giorgia Lupi and photographer Tom Wood explain the creative, practical and personal value of their archives...
Logo Beginnings delves into the deep history of logo design
“The logo has become an established fixture in all aspects of human activity,” writes designer and author Jens Müller, who’s no stranger to the history of graphic design. “These days, it is almost impossible to imagine a university, band, medical practice, community initiative, or app without a custom-designed source identifier composed of shapes and letters.” In Logo Beginnings… Source...
What Coinbase’s Super Bowl ad reveals about how we adopt new tech
Coinbase’s Super Bowl ad – and the fallout after it – has shone a spotlight on the relationship between tech and marketing. Here Lore Oxford, global head of cultural insights at We Are Social, examines what it can teach us...
The Grand National gets a galloping new standalone brand
In 2022, the annual steeplechase welcomes an in-person audience for the first time in two years – 2020 was held as a virtual race, and only owners, trainers and staff were allowed onto the racecourse in 2021. To mark its return to normality, the Grand National is launching its first standalone visual identity – previously, the horse race was branded...
The do’s and don’ts of creative side hustles
Three creatives share advice on how to start (and stick with) a side hustle – from balancing it alongside your day job to ensuring you are doing it for the right reasons...
How artists subverted the language of advertising to talk about AIDS
This year marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of same-sex relationships in Norway, a change in legislation that not only “legitimised sexual difference”, but also “had cultural, social and political repercussions”, according to the Henie Onstad Art Center in Oslo. The legislation’s half-centenary is being marked by many cultural institutions in Norway as part of a national Queer Culture… Source...
A new photo book remembers the bygone era of the office
Our relationship with work has changed beyond recognition in the wake of the pandemic. Now acronyms such as WFH are part of our everyday lexicon and business attire is defined by what you can see on a Zoom call (otherwise known as ‘waist-up fashion’), it’s hard to remember a time when we actually went to an office every day. As...
Why neutrality is a powerful tool for grassroots abortion campaign graphics
Designing graphics around abortion is a tricky balance: too strident, they further alienate the people a campaign needs to reach; too plain, they risk being ignored...
Why neutrality is a powerful tool for grassroots abortion campaign graphics
Designing graphics around abortion is a tricky balance: too strident, they further alienate the people a campaign needs to reach; too plain, they risk being ignored...
Why neutrality is a powerful tool for grassroots abortion campaign graphics
Designing graphics around abortion is a tricky balance: too strident, they further alienate the people a campaign needs to reach; too plain, they risk being ignored...
Why neutrality is a powerful tool for grassroots abortion campaign graphics
Designing graphics around abortion is a tricky balance: too strident, they further alienate the people a campaign needs to reach; too plain, they risk being ignored...
How CALM moved away from mental health’s ‘sad lad’ image
Simon Gunning, CEO of the suicide prevention charity, explains why its “hit-driven” brand partnership approach works – and why more nonprofits should behave like brands...