Rebranding Shakespeare’s Globe

The Partners’ new identity for Shakespeare’s Globe aims to capture the theatre’s new focus on “radical theatrical experiments”. We talked to design director Katherina Tudball and creative director Nick Eagleton about the unusual process that led to the rebrand

Penguin Women Writers covers by Martha Rich

Publishing next month, the Penguin Women Writers series will feature a set of four reissued titles, with colourful covers designed by US artist and illustrator, Martha Rich. The first books in the series are Birds of America by Mary McCarthy, Lifting the Veil by Ismat Chughtai, The Lark by E Nesbit and Meatless Days by […]

The challenges of branding new developments

Across the UK, neglected and once run-down urban areas are being transformed with the arrival of co-working spaces, housing and ‘cultural hubs’. We speak to experts about the challenges agencies face when branding new developments and how they approach the process

 

 

 

Sad! Why the cover of Fire and Fury actually works

When the most anticipated book to document the Trump era was published this week, many were disappointed with its cover. But far from a missed opportunity, the design of Fire and Fury is a considered take on what Trump – and Wolff – are all about

On trying to work in a building full of art

The art gallery can offer the freelance designer a quiet, contemplative space in which to work without distraction. Unless you start looking at the art. And the art is by John Stezaker, whose collages you really, really like….

A portrait of Britain by Niall McDiarmid

Niall McDiarmid has travelled to over 200 towns across Britain in the past seven years, taking more than 2,000 portraits. A selection of McDiarmid’s photographs are shared in a new book and a forthcoming exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol: here, we talk to him about how he creates his work, and why it occasionally proves controversial.