Welcome to a new column we’re affectionately calling, Identity Politics. Written by veteran journalist Susan Milligan, we’ll be covering the big issues in the socio-political ether as they intersect with design, art, and other modes… Read More »What the Age-Old Campaign Against Childfree “Cat Ladies” Doesn’t Get
Benjamin Phillips is the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024 The V&A Illustration Awards, now celebrating its 52nd year, continues to champion the finest in contemporary illustration. This year saw a record-breaking 2,000 submissions… Read More »V&A names Benjamin Phillips as Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2024
Like the main image above, this still render was created in collaboration with South African artist Ells Phee. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Reggie Perry, Jr. creates virtual visions of a world inspired by black culture,… Read More »Sound and vision: the 3D animation of Reggie Perry, Jr
Colourful, playful, and surreal, New York illustrator Jimmy Simpson has a portfolio full of mind-blowing artwork driven by retro influences but executed in his own contemporary style. Illustration seems to come naturally to Brooklyn-based artist… Read More »Art history skates the halfpipe with Jimmy Simpson
Barcelona-based motion design studio THRU developed the Summer of Stars campaign identity, collaborating with designer and art director David Rinman and 3D designer Richardo Rey. The summer of sport has officially drawn to a close,… Read More »Stars and stripes: Designing Fox’s summer sports broadcasting campaign
In 2012, scientists gathered at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva to hear about an incredible discovery in particle physics by Peter Higgs. This humankind-altering news was met with cheers and tears… Read More »Comic CERNs, Helveticization, & Change: A Design Anthropologist on “Fontroversy”