Photography by Cian O’Riain The popular VR experience In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats arrives in Leeds, promising to transport audiences to the birth of UK rave culture. For me, it unlocked a flood of teenage… Read More »Back in the Car: How an immersive rave exhibition took me back to 1995
With decades of creative direction experience behind him, Stuart Jackson’s latest personal project – a growing series of powerful typographic works – is less about clients and more about creative clarity. Stuart Jackson has launched… Read More »Stuart Jackson’s evolving art series strips it back to what matters
After a stroke left her unable to write, this designer transformed her recovery into revolutionary typographic art. Most of us take our ability to communicate for granted. We type, we speak, we write, we gesture.… Read More »From aphasia to art: how Eilish Briscoe is reimagining visual communication
This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, host Nicola Hamilton is joined by Kemp Attwood, partner at AREA 17. With a background in creative writing and new media design, Attwood has spent nearly two decades working… Read More »Design is More Than Just Craft with Kemp Attwood
Sustainability brands have long been defined by soft color palettes, delicate leaf motifs, and messaging that nudges consumers toward “doing less harm.” It’s a visual and verbal language that feels familiar and comforting — maybe… Read More »The Collision of Bold Modernism and Eco Branding: VSA’s Seventh Generation Experiment
In the case of the Illinois “Help Stop Hate” program, these words are pictures, pictures are signs, and signs are totems that encourage the public to “Report Hate … Get Support.” In the midst of… Read More »The Daily Heller: Words Are Not Just Words