From Six agency and Frost type foundry, the typefaces draw on vintage cycling magazines, race handouts, event graphics, race jerseys and technical manuals dug up from the brands archive.
Using alcohol markers on paper, the illustrator turns every day pains and makes them look as if Mark Rothko traded paint for felt tips.
This designer has built a practice that’s brimming with physicality, texture and contrast – from hand-painted lettering and collage to meticulously crafted typography.
Taking tips from the city itself this brand system uses iron clad typography and photo collage to bring the heart of Bristol back up to date.
Seth Akkerman and Talia Cotton explore the disruption of design and technology, asking how co-creation has dissolved disciplines, what sandboxes do for creativity, and what new tech has fundamentally changed the creative process.
The illustrator has had quite a few run-ins with vultures in the creative industry, but he’s had enough. After an altercation with lousy quasi-capitalists, he decided to write a book to earn back more than what he was owed.
The renowned album art auction in support of War Child UK is back with an extraordinary line-up of world-renowned artists, including artworks for vinyl by Anthony Burrill, Justin Frischmann, Jon Burgerman, Thierry Noir and Clare Twomey MBE.
From bootleg merch to the superfan economy, we dissect where fandoms and design collide and what creatives can learn from listening to the lore.
You’re generally advised not to zigzag and move around a lot in the creative industry, but is it really that bad? In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Kat Wong tells us what it means to be a “squiggly” career.
This independent documentary from Back Market, directed by Zack Grant, dives into the mystery of novelty Garfield landline phones appearing on the French coast and asks what it says about our consumerist inclinations.
]]>Topsafe’s new book collates contemporary documentary photography and rare imagery from the 90s to paint a picture of football culture across borders.
It’s so hard to recreate a time that doesn’t exist anymore, but everything about this new photo-book is surprisingly effective. From its warm hues and kitschy wallpaper to stylish haircuts and thick-rimmed glasses.
The week’s over! Check out Billie Marten’s tips for what to watch, read and listen to for a whimsical weekend ahead.
Through threads, holes, paper and text, this stop-motion animator found a way to tell stories of her life experiences through physical materials and abstract imagery.
For the Austrian event series Salon skug, the Vienna-based studio creates posters that function as a design playground and a support system for emerging musical voices.
Collecting visual references from film and music, the artist’s tender drawings are like a road trip across an empty America, where transience is never-ending.
In an excerpt from Taschen’s The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller chart the genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual identities, from the 19th century to how we experience them today.
This speculative fiction online magazine is all about “soilpunk”, the aesthetics of resistance on planet Earth. The website takes unique, imaginative stories and goes even further with them, turning the entire web experience into a rabbit-hole of trippy visuals and seamless navigation.
What else is there to say? This book is sick.
Studio Nari’s new wordmark for Threads helps the platform step out from Instagram’s shadow, with a flowing – yet chiselled – design that reflects the momentum and immediacy of IRL conversation.