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We talked with illo about colour, systems, and keeping motion human | Mindsparkle Mag
illo Torino, Italy Mindsparkle Mag For thirteen years, illo has been turning complicated ideas into something you can feel at a glance. The Italian studio — motion, illustration and brand systems in equal measure — began in a kitchen under the gloriously unpronounceable name ilenoliukgo, and set…
Jaguar’s new car’s interior has been revealed – welcome to the inside of the Type 01
Anybody paying even the vaguest bit of attention will have noticed that Jaguar’s Type 00 concept car created a huge amount of fuss in both the car world and the culture wars space starting from December 2024. Electric, boldly pink (or baby blue), huge, and different. Some designers decided they…
Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits
From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits. The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of…
Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured
Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space. Sometimes these…
Tour de Type: Oyster-Inspired Letterforms, Satisfying Logotype, and World Cup Tidbits
By Filed under Tour de Type monthly round-up of tip-top typography! DIELINE’s Charlotte Beach touches on a few of her favorite type specimens she encountered in July, from an oyster-inspired display typeface to signage in San Sebastian, Spain, with a few noteworthy wordmarks inbetween. Welcome back…
Booms & Shakes: Why August's hires and launches might suggest the worst is behind us
As the editor of Creative Boom, I get to chat with so many founders and leaders. For a long while, they've been telling me how quiet it's been. That the last 18 months have been god-awful for cash flow and investments. Which is why I am so happy to share August's Booms & Shakes. It seems things are…
How can tech serve us better? Insights explores in new report, Good Screens
The world of smart products, wearables and AI-powered devices is booming, accounting for much of the $1.3 trillion USD spent on consumer tech globally in 2025. Yet that statistic doesn’t reflect the entire picture. Good Screens, a free, downloadable report from Insights, tells the other side of the…
mexican craftsmanship finds contemporary language in everyday ceramics
CLAY WITH A SENSE OF PLACE Mexican ceramic atelier SAUDARA approaches clay as more than raw material. Founded by Ivana Sánchez and her mother, María Padilla, the studio creates tableware, vessels and domestic objects that bring a contemporary sensibility to forms rooted in Mexican craft and…
forestier’s solis pendants by jette scheib radiate a soft glow with hand-woven raphia
JETTE SCHEIB EXPLOREs THE GEOMETRY OF LIGHT WITH SOLIS Maison Forestier introduces the Solis collection, a series of pendant lights that balance natural fibers with graphic forms. Designed by Jette Scheib, these luminaires use hand-woven raphia to diffuse a soft glow that mimics the gentle warmth…
Amber Pjongluck’s two-metre-long book catalogues the designer’s entire life in objects
Amber Pjongluck’s practice primarily surrounds the collection and curation of archives, and they very often end up taking the form of books: “Books serve as design artefacts from periods in my life,” the designer says, each is “a visual library with its own language and system”. The way Amber…
Jump into Alèxia Ponce’s gloriously avante-garde animations, made with the most unexpected materials and methods
Analogue animation is having a boom. Tactile, frame-by-frame motion is often one of the most charming things we can encounter across on our social media feeds, but when we saw one of Alèxia Ponce’s works for the first time, we were struck by its less than conventional approaching to creating such a…
Liquid Death launches wacky soda-scented flushable wipes
The popular drink brand has partnered with Goodwipes to create a limited-edition pack of wipes that smell like cream soda In an unexpected collaboration, beverage brand Liquid Death has teamed up with personal hygiene brand Goodwipes to launch a limited-edition pack of wipes, inspired by the…
Packaging the Essence of Heritage – BP&O
BP&O Plus Packaging BP&O Voices Written by Lisa Cain Posted 12 August 2026 Heritage in design is either a velvet rope or a velvet coffin. Done well, it keeps the soul alive while giving the brand room to evolve. Liberty London has been balancing this since Arthur Liberty founded the business in…
Die Ästhetik des Hemds by Anton Rahlwes
Die Ästhetik des Hemds. Queere Perspektiven auf die Geschichte normierter und vergeschlechtlichter Schönheit is the Master’s thesis by Anton Rahlwes, designed by Dean Schwarz. The publication examines the shirt as a cultural artefact through queer perspectives on the history of normative and…
SOME THINGS SURE CAN SWEEP ME OF MY FEET exhibition posters and flyers
SOME THINGS SURE CAN SWEEP ME OF MY FEET is the title of the Graduation Show 2026 of the Sandberg Instituut, held at Immediate Spaces in June 2026. The 4-part poster series and matching flyers were designed by Ccharm using Arial Narrow and DGM Gleff. Formats Posters/Flyers(6117) Designers/Agencies…
Modernists & Mavericks by Martin Gayford, Ad Marginem
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by art critic Martin Gayford was published in Russian by Ad Marginem, under the title Модернисты и бунтари. Бэкон, Фрейд, Хокни и Лондонская школа. The graphic design and book cover design were created by Katya Yumasheva. The…
Modernists & Mavericks
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by art critic Martin Gayford was published in Russian by Ad Marginem. The graphic design and book cover design were created by Katya Yumasheva. The cover is set in Archaism by Nikita Kanarev and the body text in Georgia by…
Meet Party Cannon, the candy-coloured group turning death metal branding on its head
Over the decades, I've sat through more design conferences than I can count, and Party Cannon's logo turns up in an unreasonable number of them. It's the case study everyone loves: a death metal band from Dunfermline who ditched the illegible black spikes that dominate the genre's logos and went…
Après la fin
The exhibition catalog Après la fin (“After the end”) presents the work of 41 artists exploring the themes of borderlands and alternative cartographies. These subjects are addressed through artworks that investigate places of exchange, hybrid spaces that are constantly evolving, much like the…
François Monchâtre, créateur singulier
François Monchâtre, créateur singulier (“François Monchâtre, a singular creator”) is a monograph on painter, sculptor, ingenious builder François Monchâtre, an unclassifiable artist, a genuine heir to surrealism. His dream machines made of wood, lead, and mirrors, his OPNI and his « Crétins »…
Iron Branches: A Holiday Tale by S.R. Andrew
In a city that has never known holidays, young Phineas builds a mechanical tree from nothing but scrap gears and imagination – an act of quiet rebellion in a world ruled by coal, smoke, and silence. Iron Branches: A Holiday Tale is a holiday novella blending Victorian charm with steampunk…
Uncommon is rolling a giant hairball through New York
The stunt is to promote a new ‘hair longevity serum’, FutureIQ, created by biotech haircare brand K18 You know it’s silly season when you’re sent a video of a giant hairball rolling down the streets of Manhattan. The 10ft high ball is apparently made of real human hair (ew!) and was created by…
Is there a retirement crisis in the creative industry?
There's a conversation in creative industries right now that's largely going under the radar. It's happening in DMs, in whispered conversations at industry events, and at 3am when people can't sleep. The conversation starts with this: "I think I need to retire." Take illustrator and designer Jason…