Jaguar Type 01 is here, and this Coventry kid is rooting for it
Nearly two years after its rebrand sparked international debate and uproar, Jaguar has revealed its first production car, marking its new era. As someone born in its home city, I've been looking...
View Article50 years on, here's why TypoCircle still matters, and deserves celebrating
Run by volunteers since 1976, the organisation is marking its half century with £15 posters by Paula Scher, Margaret Calvert and more. To rank-and-file creative workers, some big design organisations...
View ArticleKiss Branding on what happens when studio founders stay out of their own rebrand
Co-founder and creative director Poonam Saini Kilb explains why she let her team create a new identity for the Leeds studio. Ask any designer who their nightmare client would be, and quite often...
View ArticleBusier briefs, shorter days: 8 ways to survive the last quarter of the year
We asked fellow creatives how they avoid running on empty from October through to December. Here's the best advice they shared. Is it just me, or does the last quarter of the year always feel like the...
View ArticleSam Nicklin turns eBay finds into small, funny worlds
The Nottingham-born photographer and director builds still lifes from a colour, an object and a good joke – with subjects including a watch squeezed into a stack of onion rings and a crocodile that...
View ArticleTamura Ikuho on skipping agency work and diving straight into freelance...
The Tokyo-based designer and video artist lets us in on their journey and the process behind making music videos, posters and 3D-printed figures. There's no right or wrong way into the industry. Some...
View ArticlePhilip Lindeman builds a slightly haunted Sofia of night shops and stray cats...
For his new solo show, the Utrecht illustrator invented an entire after-dark city and barely slept in the process. What can an illustrator make in less than a fortnight? Quite a lot, I would imagine....
View ArticleFjällräven bets on the handmade with giant stitched banners by Miscellaneous...
Emma and Andrew Groves have spent the last 15 years building a creative life in the Lake District. Now Fjällräven has commissioned them to hand-sew its event banners from leftover outdoor gear. I don't...
View ArticleElizabeth Saloka paints groceries and gadgets onto rocks – yep, rocks
From Bonne Maman jam to old food packaging, the New York-based artist transforms found rocks into tactile artworks. We always love hearing about a creative's first moments that inspired their wonderful...
View ArticleAna Popescu's idyllic illustrations remind us of the warm summer months that...
Whether it's a street corner, the shadow of a tree or the facade of a building, Ana's dreamy work is inspired by everyday observations and slower, leisurely days spent outside. A whopping nine years...
View ArticleFried-egg teapots, tufted roll cakes and Moroccan landscapes feature in...
The French-Moroccan artist tells us how she moved to Tangier to open a pastry shop but found herself drawing instead. In Myriam Lemon's Breakfast Teapot, we see the vessel plastered on a pink...
View ArticleEllie Campbell turns club nights into hand-painted, gloriously wonky animations
Growing up in Weston-super-Mare, the artist found an escape in cartoons and animation. Now, she's turning that lifelong obsession into painstakingly painted rotoscoped works that are full of life and...
View ArticleRui Pu makes graphic illustrations that are direct, a little weird and sure...
Drawing from internet culture, memes, travel and everyday observations, the illustrator and graphic designer makes colourful collages that bring humour and absurdity to everything from horses to...
View ArticleVisit Sweden opens a travel agency for introverts in London
Nearly half of Brits say they're introverts, myself included, so Sweden is coming to Marylebone to sell us a holiday where nobody bothers us. I could've done with this a few years ago. I once had a...
View ArticleWhy Studio Playground asked a kidswear brand to design its team uniform
The European publisher teamed up with Oxox Club on a limited-edition workwear set that swaps conformity for freedom. If you've been invited to a big industry event, you'll recognise the stress of...
View ArticleDerek&Eric's olive oil identity swaps Tuscan cliches for attitude and colour
Drzzl, a new olive oil brand, is brought to life with zingy colours and a wiggly wordmark. One of the biggest dilemmas in branding is finding a balance between giving people the reassurance they expect...
View ArticleThis packaging for ready-made dinners can teach you to cook better
Center's identity for Riff, chef Daniel Humm's new meal kits, turns the dinner box into a cookery lesson. Ready-to-cook dinners are often seen as the bottom rung of dining. Sure, they're...
View ArticleLouise French quit London, cycled the Andes, and came home an illustrator who...
The Manchester-based artist talks to Creative Boom about a wrong turn in Colombia that cured her self-doubt, how she ended up drawing live on stage for 200 people, and the children's book she refuses...
View ArticleListen to Jordic: The unlikely heart warning men need to hear
A new campaign by Havas Lynx UK uses humour, music, and an unlikely Viking character to encourage blokes to recognise erectile dysfunction as a potential early warning sign of cardiovascular disease....
View ArticleWhy a laundry brand made four T-shirts you're not supposed to wash
Ecover and Uncommon have been making tees from "lucky charms", and there's a lesson here for anyone selling behaviour change. Are you familiar with the concept of a 'lucky' item of clothing? The idea...
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