Using a purposefully limited typographic toolkit, the intuitive, reactive identity from Polar directly embodies the fast-paced nature of bakeries.
From ultra marathons to mountaineering, founder of the Swedish studio Lukas Nässil doesn’t just design the brands supplying the adventure and endurance gear, he uses them.
The eclectic magazine from US-based studio Beam creatively curates the words of chefs, fishermen, fishmongers, and scientists. What are they talking about? Fish!
Part of the Ed Davis visual universe, design studio Hot Cottage takes joy in the archive, the collage and the alternative references.
Making fashion and product photography that feels more tactile and less sterile, the creative is treating the discipline more like print – seeing images as surfaces for something more.
The former Loewe CMO is on a mission to make tech cool again, and thinks the best brands know how to entertain.
We’ve all faced a little bit of creative confrontation in our time. Creativity is led by opinion and taste, so it’s no surprise that opinions sometimes clash. But how does one navigate pushing through fresh and maybe unconventional ideas, when in a more conventional studio setup? Katie Cadwell, co-founder of branding studio Lucky Dip and The NDA Podcast, has a few thoughts in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums.
We chat to INTL festival co-founder James Gilchrist about how poster design has changed over the past decade and what to expect at this year’s show.
Toyto, the Berlin-based brand of old school wooden block toys, is advocating for natural and tactile play over a childhood of blue-light-induced headaches.
Photographer Arielle Bobb Willis shares how her journey with depression led her into photography – a practice that has allowed her to stay present “when depression wants to keep me thinking about the past or the future”, she says. The image maker took the Nicer Tuesdays LA crowd through her creative process, revealing how she has devoted her use of the lens to paying attention, staying curious and allowing herself to be moved by the world around her. Arielle speaks to how this approach has led her to shoot editorials for Vogue, capture figures like Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish and release her debut monograph: Keep the Kid Alive.
]]>Design director Will Geddes and executive producer Helena Corzan from design and marketing agency The New Company spoke all about how to keep things new. Defining the agency’s creative approach as an ever growing pursuit of novel ideas, the pair showed the Nicer Tuesdays LA crowd how the studio takes each brief as a chance to get out of its creative comfort zone and make things happen that haven’t been done before. From its identity system for AG1 to its ongoing work with Nike and EA sports, their question is always: how do we find a new way through?
]]>The luxury scandi fragrance brand strikes a perfect balance between confidence and simplicity – it draws on all the visual codes of personal correspondence with taste.
Robocobra Quartet may not be the first band to create a sprawling album going way over the traditional track listing, but they are the first band to grow an entire musical identity in petri dishes.
Air has found that creatives waste a fifth of their day just searching for assets – its new agent promises to take away the tedium and make time for creativity.
With critical thinking and creative concept at the core of its practice, the Rio de Janeiro-based studio recognises the influential dialogue that design can create between company and consumer.
Rigour and research underpin A2-Type’s typographic system, drawing directly from the museum’s architecture and extensive print archive.
For its rebrand of Apple Music, TBWA\Media Arts Lab set out to visualise sound. The result involved months of experimentation, a surprising amount of oil, and a renewed appreciation for showing your workings.
]]>Artist and illustrator Bill Rebholz takes to the LA Nicer Tuesdays stage to talk about how his background in street art and sign painting has shaped his creative practice. A world of floating information, slightly untethered from more traditional conventions of composition, Bill outlines how vernacular city signage has influenced and informed the artwork he’s made to date in technique and construction. The artist demonstrates how ordinary things can become important when we take what is typically discarded and scale it, elevating it to the status of treasure.
]]>Under-documented and under valued for centuries, a new book from Four Corners on children’s photography shows the creative freedom that can flourish when adults are out of the picture.
We all love a sleepy, moody bar, and DutchScot’s identity for Brooklyn’s latest cocktail spot takes its patrons on an ethereal journey of calligraphy, art and interpretive animals.