For Petit Bois, the artist combined oil pastels and collage to capture the personal and poetic experience of exploring the forest.
The designer and art director approaches each project holistically, using close observation, conversation and a poetic sensibility to uncover its deeper stories.
The capacity for judgement now matters more than the capacity for execution. Handling this shift well ultimately depends on how designers frame their relationship to AI: as a collaborator to work alongside, or as an oracle to defer to.
Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, explains how eBay dolls, hidden AA symbolism and a 14th Century manuscript all found their way into his lettering.
Created around nine interchangeable logos and a hands-on approach to print, the designer’s new identity reflects the warmth, versatility and community at the heart of the third-generation business.
Without the structures and parameters of conventional work places, career progression in the creative industry can become hazy. How do you measure your professional growth with no yardstick to compare it to? In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Katie Cadwell offers her advice on the matter.
The week’s over! Log off and touch grass with the LA-based designer, art director and creator.
Alfie Whiteman might be the ultimate multi-hyphenate: a former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper turned director and photographer. While playing professionally, he began building what he calls a “parallel life” in the creative world until the two could no longer run alongside each other. Eventually he traded a childhood dream for something less certain and more daring. At Nicer Tuesdays in July, Alfie told that story from back to front: the discipline carried over from elite sport, the long stretches of solitude that pushed him toward the camera and what it actually takes to walk away from one life and commit fully to another.
Special thanks to EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney).
]]>Calm, tactile, and impressionistic, Simji’s drawings give her feelings a form – and making them “feels a bit like therapy”.
Multimedia artist Jazz Grant joined London’s Nicer Tuesdays stage in July hot off the heels of her group show Are We Really Here? The collagist draws upon her dual heritage and the vast potential of physical materials – and Jazz takes our audience through her career, from the origin of her interest in tactile animation to working with Gucci, Burberry, Hackney Central Library and The V&A.
Special thanks to EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney)
]]>A chance encounter causes the graphic designer turned performance artist to look back on her design career and consider the creative skills that she took with her into the next (professional) life.
The leaders of Channel 4’s in-house agency share their approach to building momentum around ideas, working without a traditional hierarchy and making work that can cut through a noisy media landscape.
This photographer is less interested in capturing a menacing robot or a completely charming one. Instead, he sees human innovation in technology and centres it in these steely, evocative photographs.
The designer’s latest letterset had so much personality she decided to make it the protagonist of her new sci-fi fintech feminist novel.
Illustrator and artist Lily Kong joined London’s Nicer Tuesdays stage in July once again to infect the audience with her typically optimistic outlook on art and design – in her own words, illustration is great at “bringing lightness to talking about seriously saddening problems”. Lily’s talk details how illustration practices can be used as forms of self-discovery through research, connecting with nature, practice and experimentation.
Special thanks to EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney).
]]>Harry Butt and Connor Campbell, the co-director duo behind motion studio Daisy Chain, shared the Nicer Tuesdays stage in July to walk the audience through their electric portfolio of colourful and dreamy animations. As well as that, the duo spoke about their collaboration with Crack Magazine, which included the task of making the average fly into a protagonist and putting their own spin on the mag’s identity using 3D graphics inspired by slime.
Special thanks to EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney).
]]>Using licensed AI twins, hybrid photography and self-imposed rules around authenticity, the creative studio is deciding how much of the real world an artificial one is allowed to borrow.
This beautifully illustrated picture book lets you become the nosy parker you’ve always wanted to be, peering into the multi-layered treasure troves of collector’s homes.
From a huge collaborative team to millions of tiny decisions, Meta’s Jasmine Probst and May Hartono reveal how a decade-defining rebrand comes together – and why the hardest work is meant to look effortless.
...and how economic and political turbulence is resetting the defaults of Japanese design.
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