Using shattered glass as both metaphor and medium, Broken Dreams offers a striking meditation on innocence, conflict and the quiet persistence of hope. There’s no shortage of footage documenting the impact of global conflict, but… Read More »Director Benjamin Nicolas captures conflict through a child’s eyes in new short film
This week’s guest is illustrator, art director, and fine artist Carson Ting. Ting kicked off his career in Toronto before moving across the country for a dream job at Rethink. Today, he is best known… Read More »Carson Ting on Making Career Moves
As a kid, I would spend hours in Microsoft Paint sketching what I thought were pixel-perfect purple dolphins and my own sticker designs. A few years later, I was introduced to Clippy and WordArt, and… Read More »Windows, WordArt, & What’s Next: A 90s Kid Reflects on Microsoft’s 50-Year Brand Evolution
A new interactive art project invites us to video chat with a poetic, product-peddling AI version of Jesus—just in time for Easter. Surreal, satirical and thought-provoking, AI Jesus takes aim at the growing commercialisation of… Read More »AI Jesus has risen—and He’s got thoughts on what you should buy
Editor’s Note: Over the years, Steven Heller has written thousands of installments of his blog, The Daily Heller. We’re currently exploring entries from the archives. This post first appeared in January 2017. Before Photoshop, it… Read More »The Daily Heller: Precision Hand-Work
Photo by Jody Hartley The radical field in Glastonbury’s Southeast corner will look and feel totally different this year. We chatted with creative director Kaye Dunnings to learn more. In a dramatic shift from previous… Read More »Why Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is dramatically reinventing itself for 2025