Mother’s design team wanted the new visual identity to pay homage to the hotel, so it made use of the cartouche – an oval with a line at one end tangent to the oval, indicating that the text enclosed is …
Month: October 2021
Best Tablet for Graphic Design
One of the best brands overall for drawing tablets is the Wacom brand. Wacom specializes in tablets and tablet accessories. They provide a large range of products from items for professionals to beginners. In the field, a Wacom tablet is …
Beano: 80 years of rebel creativity
Creative Insight We recommend activating Javascript in your browser. Holden, it turns out, wasn’t the only one that had been working away, unwittingly, against the quiet background noise of the Beano. Artists he rang up to discuss the show with …
Phaidon catalogues a continuum of African Artists from 1882 to today
The academic Okeke-Agulu is a professor of African and African Diaspora Art at Princeton University; he pens an introductory essay that hopes to elucidate the history of how modern and contemporary African art has been presented and written about in …
Megaforce creates gravity-defying new ad for Burberry
Creative Inspiration Credits:Agency/Production: Riff Raff FilmsCreative/Direction: MegaforceChoreography: (La) HordeEditor: Joe GuestEdit House: Final Cut LondonPost: Moving Picture Company Burberry’s latest ad sees the brand reunited with directing team Megaforce and choreographers (La) Horde, who previously produced its hugely successful Festive …
Design studio Little Troop talks us through the entire process of its latest project for a new puzzle company
The projects Little Troop takes on also say a lot about its design philosophies. Taking a good mix of big and small projects, Little Troop enjoys working for big clients such as Apple, Google, and Nike, as much as it …
Inside the French Dispatch
Structured around the geography of a print publication, the film is set in the wryly named fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, a place primed for observations such as, “Ennui rises suddenly on a Monday morning”. Despite the dreary connotations of …
The endlessly charming Prashanti Aswani tells us how she built her illustrative career
“Many of my ideas now revolve around themes of identity, immigration, race and the female body,” Prashanti tells us. “Being the only Brown kid in a predominantly white school for many years while I grew up in Estonia familiarised me …
Advertising the menopause
Together with Dr Clare Spencer, the pair launched the online platform and clinic earlier this year, after being inspired by Normoyle’s own experience of going through the menopause. “I found it really hard to get easy-to-understand, scientifically-proven or evidence-based information …