In an excerpt from Taschen’s The Elements of Brand Design, Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller chart the genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual identities, from the 19th century to how we experience them today. | Continue reading
Collecting visual references from film and music, the artist’s tender drawings are like a road trip across an empty America, where transience is never-ending. | Continue reading
Studio Nari’s new wordmark for Threads helps the platform step out from Instagram’s shadow, with a flowing – yet chiselled – design that reflects the momentum and immediacy of IRL conversation. | Continue reading
What else is there to say? This book is sick. | Continue reading
This speculative fiction online magazine is all about the “soilpunk”, the aesthetics of resistance on planet Earth. The website takes unique, imaginative stories and goes even further with them, turning the entire web experience into a rabbit-hole of trippy visuals and seamless n … | Continue reading
If you’re finding the impacts of AI and the relentless demands of algorithms are draining your team’s creative ambitions, you’re not alone. In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Katie Cadwell offers some much-needed motivation. | Continue reading
Created with agency JKR, the next chapter for the chicken giant spans a new 3D logo, custom typefaces, restaurant design and serious amount of sauce. | Continue reading
Designed in collaboration with Hato, the brand design for the Bao founders’ new restaurant represents fast culture – and is also entirely open-source. | Continue reading
An army of over two dozen craftspeople, led by production designer Liam Moore, worked for a month on a gargantuan undertaking that bridged the worlds of practical effects, stop-motion puppetry and miniature art. | Continue reading
You’ve landed on some cultural recommendations for an even better weekend: flick through Yinka Ilori’s rundown of what to read, watch, listen to and eat! | Continue reading
At July’s event in London, expect talks from a motion design studio, an illustrator of beautiful rural scenes and an ex-Tottenham goalie-turned-photographer! | Continue reading
Styling intimate and relatable slip moments, the series is an ode to everything a mother juggles with little ones under her arms. | Continue reading
Inspired by Japanese gore films and the body horror of self-manicures, this animator navigates the trials and tribulations of cosmetic chaos. | Continue reading
Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a fantastic foray into queer image-making that defies “easy categorisation or legibility”. Instead, it revels in its multiplicity. | Continue reading
This illustrator’s new story project Northbound is about how people are shaped the persistence of struggling within a system. The results are bleak and beautifully painted. | Continue reading
In this deep dive into 50 Years of Print, the exhibition celebrating art from the archive of Harvey Lloyd screens, we go behind the scenes on the studio’s remarkable legacy and its imprint on design and illustration today. | Continue reading
Working with designer and illustrator Arsh Raziuddin, Mayor Mamdani’s City Hall campaign aims to build community by being rooted in local visual culture. | Continue reading
The Streets-soundtracked campaign, directed by Glenn Kitson in collaboration with Otherway, is a belter! This ode to Britishisms and the nation’s number one cider brand puts authenticity first. | Continue reading
The newest game from Czech games studio Amanita Design doesn’t just think outside of the box, it’s literally made from the box. | Continue reading
Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help you navigate the creative journey. | Continue reading
We’re teaming up with Canva to bring Nicer Tuesdays back to Cannes for 2026! Join us for an inspiring line-up of talks on analogue illustration, short-form filmmaking, genre-defying branding and creative direction. | Continue reading
Now open at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London, Queer as Comics is the UK’s first major exhibition on the subject. We speak to curator Paul Gravett about its rich archive of work, and why this format deserves more recognition. | Continue reading
From camcorders and Super8 to 16mm, the emerging studio is creating commercial campaigns that hold the nostalgia and charm of indie, amateur movie-making. | Continue reading
The associate creative director behind A24’s biggest hits is trading blockbusters for Brooklyn brainrot, internet satire and tongue-in-cheek energy for venue Baby’s All Right. | Continue reading
For The Weekend With, creative people share cultural recommendations across food, film, fashion, literature, music and more, to help you make the most of your time off. This week, Julia Schimautz offers up her top picks. | Continue reading
Between 1-4 July 2026, New Designers 2026 takes over Islington’s Business Design Centre, London, in an entirely new four-day programme celebrating and showcasing creative graduates. | Continue reading
Mawmaw is as much of an education as it is an absorbing narrative on West Virginia’s grandfamilies – families in which grandparents become primary caregivers again. Photographer Anthony Wilson shoots them in all of their complexity. | Continue reading
From reconfigured American flags to decimated collages, James Stuart is a graphic designer, filmmaker and musician whose work has the riotousness of independent rock music as well as the craft of careful calligraphy. | Continue reading
The V&A’s newest display memorialises and preserves the visuals of a vanishing live event landscape. But not all is doom and gloom, as curator Harriet Reed and her team prompts visitors to cherish the ones still standing and perhaps even envision what the future could look like. | Continue reading
What has Murugiah, the multi-disciplinary British and Sri-Lankan artist, not done? He’s an artist, illustrator and designer in London, and his recent talk on May’s Nicer Tuesdays stage took us through just about everything he’s done with his boundless imagination, from exhibition … | Continue reading
The new branding system pays homage to the institution’s history while bringing it firmly into the future, with colours inspired by Florida’s landscape and a redrawn seal. | Continue reading
The designers’ visual systems often find their start in off-piste vintage design references and explorations off screen – that’s why they don’t really look like anything else you’ll see today. | Continue reading
Amber Weaver, the founder of Type01 (a type-led creative media platform as well as font market Type Department and type magazine Typeone) joined us on stage at London’s Nicer Tuesdays to take us the through the Type01 universe, from its feminist origins and creation of the magazi … | Continue reading
This emerging Polish voice in the editing community shows how Gen Z is bringing forth an exciting and innovative visual attitude to contemporary pop music videos. | Continue reading
Vintage references are reconfigured into inventive visual identities for bars and books alike at this Milan-based practice. | Continue reading
Our Cairo correspondent looks at how the absence of design criticism in the Arab world has weakened the field’s ability to assess itself, and uses the branding of the Grand Egyptian Museum to ask who really gets to define ‘good design’ in the region. | Continue reading
You don’t love the work your agency produces and you’re starting to feel like the clock is ticking on finding your way into something new. But hold your horses! In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums Kat Wong explains why its never too late to roll the career dice again. | Continue reading
Delali Ayivi is a Togolese-German photographer based in London and Lomé, recognised for her work exploring identity and authentic storytelling, and in her Nicer Tuesdays talk she asked: who gets to decide what’s possible in art? She also reflected on how image-making has allowed … | Continue reading
Commercial Candy explores how something mass market can be turned into rare treasure when under the right lens. | Continue reading
In this refresh on the brands classic packaging, The Italian studio struck a balance between re-establishing the Milanese confectioners contemporary relevance and honouring the modernist heritage of a household name. | Continue reading
The answer for those too creative for traditional business school, the new MSc in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership is backed by an advisory board drawn from Adobe, Ogilvy, IDEO, YouTube and more. | Continue reading
After a brain injury that disabled his left arm, Trevor Small went from mechanic to full-time embroidery artist – and found art therapy in the process. | Continue reading
The Young Vic is at the cutting edge of modern theatre. Now, the world-renowned institution is flying into the future with it’s recent visual overhaul from venturethree. | Continue reading
NDAs are rife in the creative industry but you’ve started to feel like they might be halting your progression – so how can you work around them? Katie Cadwell offers insight in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums. | Continue reading
The classic UK emo band has reached its 20th birthday. For the special occasion, the seven-piece outfit has created an archive of every piece of T-shirt they put out, charting the aesthetic values, political attitudes and sometimes football madness from 2006 until now. | Continue reading
Nearly three decades after her landmark series No System, the photographer uprooted everything she knew and moved to the Isle of Skye to build a new life for herself – both physically and metaphorically. A meditative new series depicts this transition with raw beauty. | Continue reading
If your special interest is outlet types and power adapters, then boy do we have the online archive for you. Lovingly created by a designer who was frustrated with boring SEO-optimised websites whilst travelling, this community-based website seeks to make a guide that is as hands … | Continue reading
In a culture obsessed with seamlessness and instant fulfilment, inconvenience is starting to feel strangely radical again. | Continue reading