Sam 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...
View ArticleFaith In Nature turns a '90s rave anthem into 'Bees R Good' for its...
After over five decades of doing things the hard way, the independent personal care brand is making its television debut with a homemade bee and a tune that takes us back. I wasn't old enough to enjoy...
View ArticleI helped shape McLaren's brand. Here's what worries me about the refresh
The reaction to McLaren's new identity has been loud and largely negative. Having spent two years as its head of brand, I don't think the objections are really about a logo. In 1970 the Rolling Stones...
View ArticleMatthew Maldonado on why LAIKA made everything by hand for new film Wildwood
The stop-motion studio behind Coraline, The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings is bringing its puppets and sets to London. Its art director explains how and why they were made. Remember when the...
View ArticleJoseph Clark on why he's keeping AI out of Oh Studio, and the protest film...
The animation director behind this summer's viral We Are Better Than This film says AI has nothing to offer his work. And he's built a remote studio to prove his point. If anyone can make anything with...
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