All photos courtesy of John Baeder Call it what you will — folk, naif, vernacular or indigenous artwork is not derived from or beholden to the popular styles, manners and movements dominating the art and… Read More »The Daily Heller: Signing Off the Grid
Image licensed via Adobe Stock From the design-saturated optimism of the 1980s to corporate consolidation, austerity and AI, designer Paul Leon traces forty years of the UK creative industry, and makes the case for why… Read More »Why the creative industry feels broken right now (and why it isn’t)
Clementine’s Bookshelf, 2021 © Hilary Pecis Edited by Olivia Clark, Phaidon’s new book gathers more than 200 works across centuries, tracing the feline’s influence on artists and pop culture. It seems like cats have always… Read More »Art history has always been obsessed with cats – now there’s a book to prove it
For more than five decades, Edwin Schlossberg has been interested in a deceptively simple question: how do we come to know what we cannot see? Across his career as an artist, writer, designer, and pioneer… Read More »Unseen Layers: Edwin Schlossberg and the Architecture of the Invisible
Lola Delafuente, junior creative at 20(SOMETHING), reflects on the jump from university to studio life, and why fixing the gap between education and industry matters more than glossy International Women’s Day panels. If you’d asked… Read More »If we want a fairer creative industry, we need to redesign the doorway
Seeing Maira Kalman’s portrait of Kim Hastreiter—co-founder and longtime editor of Paper magazine—promoting the current episode of Design Matters on Print‘s homepage, prompted me to publish the following video. Alex Kalman directed it to promote… Read More »The Daily Heller: Indulging in Maira Kalman’s Capacity for Producing Calm