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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lake Buckley is an award-winning designer and creative director working across film, branding, photography and illustration. In 2017, she turned down an in-house role at Patagonia to launch her freelance design career in a tiny studio in Brooklyn, New York. Since then her work has earned a Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award, SPD Awards, [...]
Based in Chicago, Other Studio was founded by art director and multi-disciplinary graphic designer Eileen Tjan and works across design and branding work for clients across artsy print publications and branding for organisations like AIGA to some great work for a sex toy brand. Now, though, we’re shining a spotlight on its fantastic work for [...]
Changing to a creative career takes a lot of time and money, right? Wrong. If you can’t afford much of either, you’re in luck. Shillington is offering half scholarships for its three months full-time and nine months part-time courses this September in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, New York, London and Manchester. Basically, you can get 50% off [...]
I’ve never been good at riddles: those sort of problems that generally seem to involve cabbages, goats, boats and the like are utterly baffling. So it was interesting to see one such riddle brought toile in such a beautiful, beguiling and psychedelic way by director Winnie Cheung, a Hong Kong-born, Queens-raised, Brooklyn based filmmaker who [...]
At the Venice Biennale, every pavilion has to work hard to be noticed; and while that comes down to the art it houses, it also means the branding and graphic design has to be pretty special. German graphic designer Mirko Borsche was commissioned to create the branding for the Venezia Pavilion in the main Giardini [...]