The simple pencil remains the most ubiquitous and beloved of all writing instruments. Everyone has a favorite that probably triggers their earliest memories. For those who continue the love affair with this low-tech device, Pencil… Read More »The Daily Heller: Getting the Lead In
The London agency has created the positioning and identity for Hovis Bakeries, the new home of two of Britain’s best-known loaves, and has mercifully resisted every visual cliché the bread aisle has ever baked up.… Read More »Hovis and Kingsmill are now one business – and BrandOpus has given it an identity with no wheat in sight
From Delinquent Youth to Cool Kids: Taiwanese Tattoo Artists 1980–2020 © Houth Studio The Taipei-based studio turns ideas into practice, building branding and publishing systems that briefly disorient you before resolving into something familiar. Houth… Read More »How Houth Studio turns Taiwanese culture into bold graphic design
Striped Bow © Hannah Knox, 2026 Drawing on fashion, memory and material culture, the artist transforms jumpers, fur coats and slogan T-shirts into meticulously painted studies of identity and desire. Growing up in Ealing with… Read More »What if clothing could tell the whole story? Hannah Knox on painting ‘portraits without people’
Jaiku Live Marketing Ideation, June 2025 (Credit: Adam Kang) The JAIKU Storytelling Summit lands in London this September, bringing founders, marketers and creative leaders together to ask whether narrative still has the power to change… Read More »Can stories save us? JAIKU is putting 60 people in a room to find out
Yesterday’s post about the Patriotic Front prompted this look-back at a vintage merch catalog that sold vestments and accessories that all good Ku Klux Klan members were encouraged to purchase in order to fit right… Read More »The Daily Heller: KKK Mart