Why fashion is winning the digital wars
Malcolm Poynton, Global Chief Creative Officer at Cheil Worldwide, on ASOS’s slick new image recognition tool, and the impressive digital innovation that’s coming out of the fashion industry.
Malcolm Poynton, Global Chief Creative Officer at Cheil Worldwide, on ASOS’s slick new image recognition tool, and the impressive digital innovation that’s coming out of the fashion industry.
Unaffordable house prices, the growth in desktop businesses and the ability to work from anywhere are prompting many creatives to move to the country, or at least to provincial towns and cities. But, asks Miriam Rayman, is the countryside – particularly its housing stock and its tech infrastructure – ready for this influx of Millennial ‘Rurbanites’?
In The Backstage Sessions, a new film series curated by Rankin for WeTransfer, three greats of music photography – Gered Mankowitz, Kevin Cummins and David Montgomery – offer insights on their process plus what it is like to work with Bowie, Björk and The Stones et al
The publisher’s new edition of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly is the latest visual exploration of the late writer’s work, illustrated by Chris Skinner and Andrew Archer, respectively
A new book by GraphicDesign& celebrates some brilliant design projects for healthcare and asks the question ‘Can graphic design save your life?’
At Ideas on Revolt, the third annual Graphic Design Educators’ Network conference, there were calls for students to become more involved in resistance and rebellion. But perhaps their teachers should be leading by example, suggests Hannah Ellis
Whether you’re sharing a meme with friends and family, or selecting a stock asset for your next creative project, there are more ways than ever to tell powerful stories with a single image. Emily Gosling examines the power of visual narrative
What are some of the obstacles that limit our creativity? Here we speak to Caroline Pay, Jim Sutherland and Zia Zareem-Slade about the things that come in the way of making creative work
Twelve book cover designers share some of their creative failures and discuss how rejection, far from marking the end of a design journey, can often lead the way to something new
UEFA’s new international football tournament is represented by a vibrant system referencing the flags of all 55 competing countries
What is at the heart of creativity? In practical terms creativity means thinking what you haven’t thought before. Or another way to say that is stepping into the unknown.
Some reduce creativity to competitive advantage, notes Michèle Champagne. But the tides of skills come and go, erasing business certainties and reviving old mental tools rife with new possibilities.