Crown Creative’s identity for Barkhouse, a luxury New York dog hotel, solves one of branding’s more unusual briefs: two audiences, one of whom has zero interest in your typography. Every creative brief has a tension… Read More »Barkhouse hotel: how do you brand a service for a client who can’t read?
This week’s DesignThinkers podcast features independent designer and writer Elizabeth Goodspeed, whose work blends history, research, and visual culture across branding, editorial, and packaging design. In the conversation, she discusses how archives and ephemera shape… Read More »DesignThinkers: Elizabeth Goodspeed
With all the chaos that has occurred during the past week—symbolized by the futility of returning to Daylight Savings Time, wherein an angst-ridden hour is stolen from us—I’m frustrated that the human lifetime is so… Read More »The Daily Heller: Enjoy a Respite With Seneca on the Shortness of Life
The Amsterdam-based artist turns everyday objects into meditative studies of colour and form. When a simple idea is executed well, it can be utterly satisfying. And when we mean simple, we mean the objects that… Read More »Hugo Rocci paints the tools we forget to see
The Paris-based illustrator transformed Hermès’ ‘Venture Beyond’ theme into a technicolour underwater world where the sea becomes sky. When you’re working with a well-known brand, it can sometimes be tricky to navigate legacy, tight briefs,… Read More »Linda Merad dives into an upside-down ocean for Hermès
It was a small act of defiance with an intended massive message. Human rights advocates in New York City, appalled by the Trump administration’s decision to remove anything “woke” (which seems to include anything promoting… Read More »Designing Derangement