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We’ve long-been fans of whatever they’re cooking up over at the Montreal-based agency Six Cinquième. Founders and partners in life Ash Phillips and Miro Laflaga are mission and purpose-driven in the way they’ve built and… Read More »Six Cinquième Scribbles a New Future for the Arts Nonprofit 1001 Colors
Waves of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, my grandparents among them, landed at Ellis Island. From there, they traveled to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, then to the boroughs, suburbs and beyond. Two generations later,… Read More »The Daily Heller: Celebrating the Lost Tribe of Alphabet City
Allison Henry Aver The veteran creative leader, who specialises in branding for beauty and fashion, explains why it took her a few decades to figure things out. The most surprising thing to me when I… Read More »Allison Henry Aver on why 45 is the perfect age to start your own agency
Blood Stocks, a Danish proposal to turn menstruation into a medical asset, was the only project at tonight’s ceremony in London to take both a Black Pencil and a White Pencil. Here’s why it struck… Read More »D&AD New Blood Awards 2026: a student project about periods wins both of the year’s top prizes