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How Clara Bergoënd turns Alpine folklore and fire healing into dreamlike, high-fashion illustration
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (498+ words) The French illustrator on mountain magic, the "sisters" she draws, and why, at 31, she's finally proud of her weirdness. As a child, she mixed this up with the books and pop culture she loved: witches, forest giants, folklore, astrology, the…...
Sod's law: cartoonists map Britain's rudest slang with cunning linguists
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (532+ words) Cult cartoonists team up with University of Sheffield experts to record how the whole country swears, one region at a time. The headline exhibit at Having an exhibition yeah?, Modern Toss's 21st anniversary show, is a prototype device called the UK…...
The creativity tax: why the boldest ideas rarely make it out of the room
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (793+ words) Every agency claims to want mavericks, but plenty of creatives have learned that a wild idea is only welcome if it arrives from the right mouth. The creativity tax. Image licensed via Adobe Stock This isn't because creatives have run…...
Five joyful objects for high summer, from sandals to sunglasses
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (249+ words) A carafe shaped like a pill and ping pong paddles you can hang on a wall. Here are five things from Malika Favre and George Wu's bazaar that we'd happily blow the summer budget on. You weren't looking for a…...
Should agencies be worried? This launch suggests clients increasingly don't need them
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (343+ words) The team behind Ibiza's biggest superclubs has launched its own creative agency, The Ideation Bureau. Is this a sign that brand owners are done outsourcing their ideas? Yann Pissenem and Sam Mooney Traditional creative agencies have spent the past few…...
Tomorrowland's stunning designs highlight what creativity can add, in a sea of samey festivals
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (435+ words) Belgium's biggest dance festival keeps building on a scale most events can't match, at a time when dozens of UK and European festivals are folding for good. What sets Tomorrowland apart isn't the line-up, though that's pretty impressive, with Martin…...
Derek&Eric embraces the chaos with a joyfully bold brand for The Glorious Mess
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (438+ words) The independent London studio has turned the happy accident behind one of our favourite puds into an ownable identity for a new dessert brand from meringue makers Flower & White. Nobody can quite agree on how Eton Mess came about. One…...
Koto helps restaurant-discovery app Franki make time dance
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (309+ words) Tap outside or press Esc to close The global design studio has given the social restaurant-discovery app a warm, yellow-soaked identity built on one deceptively simple idea: make "time" itself dance. That idea reframes taking part, too. Every post and…...
Why media relations just came full circle – and how to get journalists to actually notice you
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (853+ words) Tap outside or press Esc to close Remember PR? Good old public relations? Well, it's back. And this time the machines are in the picture too. Here's how to get yourself covered, from someone who's been on both sides of…...
Why 'Indie Game Works' is a love letter to the bedroom coders who changed gaming
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (451+ words) Tap outside or press Esc to close A new Thames & Hudson book surveys 50 indie games that redrew what a video game could look like – with a foreword from Elite co-creator David Braben. The pixelated graphics were primitive. But that did…...