Aesop designs logo for Andy Murray

Branding agency Aesop has created a logo for tennis player Andy Murray, featuring his initials and the number 77. But how does it compare to his competitors’?

CGI and Shibari: FKA twigs’ new video for Pendulum

FKA twigs has released the video for Pendulum, which she has directed herself. The video references the Japanese bondage style shibari and also sees the singer almost swallowed by a CGI sea, in a series of mesmerising scenes…

Guy Cotten’s chilling website wins the FWA Site of the Year

FWA, the website that champions the best new creative projects online, has announced its Site of the Year for 2014. The winner is Guy Cotten, the French marine clothing and safety equipment brand, which created a terrifying web experience to raise awareness of the importance of wearing a life jacket…

Jean Jullien: Life Drawing, an interview

Jean Jullien’s observational take on modern life has made him one of the most sought-after image-makers around. We talked to him about his recent move to New York and his work to date. Here, we publish the full transcript of the interview

Exposure: Photographer Sarker Protick

Art Director Gemma Fletcher examines the work of Photographer Sarker Protick, in the third installment of a series looking into new talent in photography, from recent graduates to photographers breaking into the industry…

Proxy: Venture capital meets branding

Proxy is a London‐based venture capital company with in‐house brand studio which creates visual identities, interfaces and packaging for the companies it invests in. We spoke to co‐founder Aapo Bovellan about how the business works, some of its recent projects and the importance of providing design and branding support to startups…

Are ads getting too long?

YouTube has released a list of the ten most watched ads in the UK in 2014. Aside from the mild surprise that Sainsbury’s ended up beating John Lewis at the Christmas ad game, the most striking statistic the press release contained was that the top ads this year were 57% longer than in 2013…

The case for design consulting

With the likes of IBM, Barclays and Apple aggressively buying up design and creative talent on the one hand, and pressure from the democratisation of design tools and services on the other, some have predicted the imminent demise of the design consultancy as a viable business. Here, John Rousseau of Seattle-based Artefact argues that it still has a vital role to play

Ads of the Week

We’re only just over a week into the new year, but already the ad industry has surpassed itself, with a plethora of great new campaigns released. As well as Ikea and Nike+, which we’ve already covered, here are the other ads that have impressed us this week…