Counterprint unleashes From Latin America, its new book featuring the region’s most talented creatives
One of Creative Boom's favourites, Counter-Print has released a new book today. From Latin America is the fourth book in its series focusing on geographic locations and their creative output and follows popular titles From Japan, From Scandinavia and From Eastern Europe. The book is a collection of work from some of the most talented designers, agencies and illustrators in this region – such as IS Creative, Estudio YeYe, Firmalt, Futura, Sociedad Anónima, Parámetro, Savvy, [...]
Obst und Gemüse is a charming visual exploration of fruit and veg
The art world has a long lineage of drawing inspiration from humble fruit and veg: think Matisse’s surreal apple, Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s absurdist Renaissance portraits; Warhol’s banana for the Velvet Underground and so many more. Now, a younger group of creatives has responded to the theme with Obst und Gemüse (fruit and vegetables in German), creating new works across ceramics, prints, and textiles. “Obst und Gemüse (fruit and veg) is still life, it’s landscapes, shop scenes, breakfast, pickles, [...]
No sirens or truncheons here: a minimal identity design for the Scottish Police Federation
I’d never really considered the branding of the police: their visual insignia to most of us is still based on fairly rudimentary props like helmets, sirens and the odd truncheon here and there. There was no such cliched nonsense when it came to design agency Cause & Effect’s work for the Scottish Police Federation, commissioned to mark 100 years of the service that represents 98% of all police officers across Scotland in the ranks of [...]
Black voters want 2020 candidates to talk about the economy. At the Black Economic Alliance Forum, they did just that.
Four presidential candidates shared their plans to close the racial wealth gap during the South Carolina event. A handful of Democratic presidential candidates spent Saturday sharing their plans to address America’s growing racial wealth gap, highlighting the benefits of their economic plans amid an ongoing [...]
Benjamin Netanyahu just unveiled Israel’s newest town: “Trump Heights”
The town will be built in the contested Golan Heights. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a plaque marking the location of the newest settlement in the Golan Heights on Sunday. The marker proclaims the settlement will be known as “Trump Heights.” Netanyahu said the [...]
Trump says he didn’t fire Mueller because he saw what happened to Nixon
Trump said, “I watched Richard Nixon go around firing everybody, and that didn’t work out too well.” President Donald Trump said this week that while he had the legal power to fire former special counsel Robert Mueller, he chose not to do so because it [...]
The Bold Type’s giant shock: finally showing what it’s like to work in media
Could the show be headed for a reinvention? Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for June 9 [...]