Andy Aitchison is the UK’s foremost prison photographer. In a new book from Bluecoat Press, two decades of his work find the people behind the clichés – delicate, tragic and often surprisingly ordinary. I’ll say… Read More »A quarter of UK prisoners are held in Victorian jails. This is what they actually look like inside
The fresh identity trended on X on day one, drove Granola’s biggest-ever download day, and helped the company raise $125m in funding. Here’s how Ragged Edge did it. Back in my broadcast journalism days in… Read More »Ragged Edge rebrands AI notepad Granola with a co-founder’s handwriting and a deliberately imperfect logo
The simple pencil remains the most ubiquitous and beloved of all writing instruments. Everyone has a favorite that probably triggers their earliest memories. For those who continue the love affair with this low-tech device, Pencil… Read More »The Daily Heller: Getting the Lead In
The London agency has created the positioning and identity for Hovis Bakeries, the new home of two of Britain’s best-known loaves, and has mercifully resisted every visual cliché the bread aisle has ever baked up.… Read More »Hovis and Kingsmill are now one business – and BrandOpus has given it an identity with no wheat in sight
From Delinquent Youth to Cool Kids: Taiwanese Tattoo Artists 1980–2020 © Houth Studio The Taipei-based studio turns ideas into practice, building branding and publishing systems that briefly disorient you before resolving into something familiar. Houth… Read More »How Houth Studio turns Taiwanese culture into bold graphic design
Striped Bow © Hannah Knox, 2026 Drawing on fashion, memory and material culture, the artist transforms jumpers, fur coats and slogan T-shirts into meticulously painted studies of identity and desire. Growing up in Ealing with… Read More »What if clothing could tell the whole story? Hannah Knox on painting ‘portraits without people’