Open to ideas: inside the modern ad agency
Today’s advertising agency is determinedly open-plan with the accent on collaboration and sharing. It’s all a far cry from Don Draper’s wood-panelled Madison Avenue den
Today’s advertising agency is determinedly open-plan with the accent on collaboration and sharing. It’s all a far cry from Don Draper’s wood-panelled Madison Avenue den
New book Studio Culture seeks to examine the inner workings of 28 top graphic design studios. Here, we have an exclusive extract
So, you’ve got the location and the space sorted, now what? Managers from three leading design studios discuss what it takes to run a successful business.
We asked readers to submit images of their studios to our Flickr group. Here are some of the results.
“Unimark was self-aggrandising, hubristic, wasteful, under-planned and overblown,” says Rick Poynor in our review of a new book about the design firm with the unusual dress code
Cambridge creative agency The District is based in a small two-storey house, with its own gallery space downstairs. Gavin Lucas meets founders Alun Shooter and Matt Bagnall in their Frontroom
Ugly Betty lied to you: magazine offices are seldom as beautiful or ordered as the pages they produce
I mean, seriously, we all have to pretend that we like it – or be perceived as egotistical dinosaurs – but we don’t really, do we? The proof is that when forced to operate in an open-plan environment, many creatives attempt to block it out, by clamping a pair of headphones on their ears. Did Zola […]
The winners of this year’s BTAA Craft Awards are in, with Bare Films’ hard-hitting ad Sarah’s Story for the Motor Neurone Disease Association picking up the gong for Best Crafted Commercial of the Year.
Following exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, the series of prints created for this year’s Some Type of Wonderful are now available to buy online…
Mark Denton of COY! has shot a series of fun new idents for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) that sees various foods conversing with one another…
Pirates collective has created a rather tasty film for the Central Illustration Agency called We Like Colour. It’s a timelapse recording of the six strong team creating an enormous, colour-loving mural. Click through to watch it