Creative

A hamper of pretty things, from my browser to yours. For some reason, this week I can’t move for photographs of yellow cars! No idea why, they just keep popping up on Threads and Pinterest… Read More »Meanwhile: Ivy Cafe

Can a novel also be a design book? The answer is yes. As an object, Blackouts by Justin Torres stuns with brown text on cream paper and text matched page by page with illustrations and… Read More »Bringing the Making of “Blackouts” to Light

Robert Andrew Parker lived a long, productive life, much of it in Canaan, CT, beside the Housatonic River. I used to visit his book-lined home often but regrettably lost touch about 20 years ago. Right… Read More »The Daily Heller: Robert Andrew Parker, Literary Illustrator, Dead at 96

Project by Buff Buff’s Creative Director and Co-founder Tom Allen explains why he’s become the course leader for the English-language Online Master in Motion Graphics at LABASAD. Together, we explore the online, hands-on methodology of… Read More »Why you should learn motion design with LABASAD, Barcelona School of Arts and Design

Cecilie Maurud Barstad. Photography by Charlotte Wiig The Norwegian author and illustrator explains why she turned small tales of north London domesticity during the pandemic into an evocative book, Rear Windows. It’s a bit weird,… Read More »Cecilie Maurud Barstad on what inspired her illustrated short stories of lockdown life

The Wet Market © Huilin Gui New York-based illustrator Huilin Gui captures everyday moments from her childhood spent growing up in China in a beautifully nostalgic series of images titled Home. As an artist, Huilin… Read More »Huilin Gui reconnects with her childhood in a series of delightfully nostalgic illustrations