Artist, designer and illustrator Shirien Damra has created a mural for Immigrant Day of Resilience, which was celebrated on 15 April as a day assigned to honour the strength of immigrant communities in the US in the face of a long history of marginalisation. Damra, who is based in Chicago…
Post Typography is not, as you might expect, a type foundry; nor is it “post” lettering (it uses a lot of it, in fact, in work across print, digital and conceptual design)—it’s a creative studio that we’ve long admired. There’s a hell of a lot of thought behind what the…
Parisian studio and type foundry Violaine & Jérémy was founded by the eponymous Violaine Orsoni and Jérémy Schneider in 2012 when Schneider had just graduated, and Orsoni left behind a job as head of production in an advertising agency. Since then, the pair have developed a gorgeously distinctive look across…
Like many people, there came a time in Ben Greengrass’ career where he felt a little disillusioned: at best, he really fancied a change, at worst, he was concerned that the branding and packaging work he’d been doing for the likes of Umbro, Unilever and Heineken maybe didn’t matter too…
What unites The Deftones, Fela Kuti, Peter Saville, Shabazz Palaces and zine-making? Music is the obvious answer, but what we’re clumsily getting at here is all of the above’s pioneering, future-changing unity of sound and design, be that graphic design, technological innovation, moving image or fashion. The intersection of music…
It’s hard not to be into Ben Eli’s work, with its unashamedly poppy, internet culture aesthetics, bright colours and bold type; and it’s hard not to like the person behind it once you hear them gushing about both Dolly Parton and Madonna’s Ray of Light album. “It’s probably a tie…
Completed Netflix, binged through every single (free) series of Ex On the Beach on Amazon Prime? While we’re still sort of/mostly locked down, it’s about time we (by which I mean, I) consumed some decent, informative, or at least beautiful moving image, and what better way than on the incredible…
The past year or so has been tricky/nightmarish for many of us; especially those businesses or people who rely on events to pay the bills. For some people, that swift removal of reliable income has seen them change lanes, or careers (remember Fatima?), or at the very least, branch out…
In today’s parlance, some of the work of Robert Crumb could be deemed “problematic”: the famed cartoonist has little time for arbitrary distinctions like “good”/”bad” taste, or more 21st century notions around sexism and social conventions more widely. It’s perhaps exactly that which has made him one of the most…
Somerset House has launched a free, interactive digital archive that celebrates Black British art, called DECENTRALISE. The platform is the first project to emerge from Somerset House’s Young Producers programme, which offers training, development and London Living Wage paid opportunities for emerging cultural producers aged 18-30 who are otherwise underrepresented…
Over the last few years, the work of civil rights activist, sociologist and early data visualisation pioneer W.E.B Du Bois is finally getting the recognition it deserves. During his lifetime, Du Bois was at the forefront of early 20th century Black protest movements, publishing his essay collection The Souls of…
Parasto Backman’s work has long stood out for its roots in disrupting what we’d expect of “typical” Swedish design: out with minimalism, in with challenging the western perceptions of what “good” design is, and should be. Backman, who teaches as Senior Lecturer at the Master Program in Visual Communication at…
For a little joy and colour in a world that can, at this point, feel relentlessly gloomy and grey, you could do far worse than to cast your eyes over Jumbo Press’s website. The press, which specialises in riso-printing, began life in Deptford, south east London, and has since moved…
Remember how at the beginning of lockdown we were all bummed out but also determined to use all the time we’d otherwise spend in pubs/banger racing/completing your Gold Duke of Edinburgh award etc. doing useful things? People made bread, and harped on about it a lot; people briefly thought about…
It takes a smart design agency to be able to seamlessly transition from designing for Amnesty International to tackling projects for luxury brands like Calvin Klein and Prada, or pieces that feel, perhaps, less than sexy for telecom brands. C100 Studio in Munich has created great work for all of…
It’s hard not to love Rosa Kusabbi’s work, and her attitude: first, we were taken with the cursor on her website (just go there if you haven’t already, and point at things); then, we were even more taken by the fact her dissertation pieces were animations of a duo of…
Most people know a wee bit about Hunter S Thompson—even if it’s just through the lens of Johnny Depp’s portrayal of him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (or, better, Bill Murray’s in the 1980 movie, Where the Buffalo Roam.) Lots of people know that his ashes were fired…
For many people working in the creative industries, the pandemic has been a time of uncertainty; and for just as many, a time to actually have a think about what you do for a living and why. Without things like pints in public places, and community, there’s been more time…
We came across the ad agency Our Friends in London thanks to the gorgeous identity it created for sake brand Wakaze, which launched earlier this year. What grabs you about the identity, first off, are the brilliant illustrations: strange, surreal but somehow very adorable creatures adorn the bottle labels, and…
Born in Ohio and now based in Boston, Massachusetts after a near-decade in New York, Caleb Halter is, like many designers, someone whose creativity isn’t just manifested visually. Since around 2018, he’s been making music under the alias Feral. “Caleb means dog, so it’s something along those lines,” Halter explains…