Katherine Small Gallery proprietor Michael Russem—bookmaker, designer and former owner/publisher of Kat Ran Press—has an unforgettable physical presence. An extremely long beard gives him the air of a 19th-century scholar-cum-bookseller. His establishment on Beacon St.… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Design of Selling Design Books
Hello Kitty. Irfan_setiawan – stock.adobe.com Fifty years on, Hello Kitty remains one of the most recognised characters on the planet — not through reinvention, but through patient stewardship. Rebecca Demmellash of Pearlfisher explores what brand… Read More »Hello Kitty: She’s just a girl with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Discover why How&How built a sleep-friendly ice cream brand, Snooz, by tearing up every visual rule in the category playbook. There’s a particular kind of brief that arrives fully loaded. Not in the sense of… Read More »Why this new ice-cream brand only makes sense after dark
The social film borrows the look of viral skincare routines, then swaps serums and gentle exfoliants for heavy metals and exhaust fumes. It’s designed to make city pollution feel as visceral as it actually is.… Read More »NIOD and Uncommon Creative Studio turn city pollution into a skincare horror story
When I see a gum wrapper I immediately say in my head, Who is that going to become? Lyndon J. Barrois When Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. first started making miniature figures out of gum wrappers… Read More »Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. Depicts the History of the World Cup Through Gum Wrappers at LACMA
Visual Voices for Change — Global Typographic Posters gathers 600+ posters created by designers from all continents and exhibited in more than 20 exhibitions worldwide. The shows were part of the global Fight for Kindness… Read More »The Daily Heller: Can (Typographic) Design Emote Kindness?