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From the humble backyard plot to the royal Water Theatre Grove at Versailles, gardens have long been a source of sustenance, beauty, and spiritual communion. A forthcoming book from Phaidon sprouts from this history as it celebrates how these sites of joy and grandeur endure throughout the ages.…
On the sides of rusted barrels or crushed steel spheres, Lithuanian artist Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė (previously) applies delicate reminders of resilience. Using cotton thread, the artist cross-stitches vibrant flowers and butterflies onto facets of corroded metal, merging materials…
The Monthly Interview: Margaret Johnson In 30 years working at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Johnson has seen the advertising industry undergo seismic change. Reflecting on her time as CCO, she tells CR why she’s embracing AI, why humour is back and why she’ll always leave her heart in San…
Elephant Mindsparkle Mag Grayscale Investments crypto asset manager brand identity rebranding Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest crypto asset manager, is unveiling a new brand identity that reflects the firm’s decade-long evolution, as well as its future-forward commitment to investors.…
Le film Dune de Denis Villeneuve a remporté six statuettes le 24 mars à 94e cérémonie des Oscars. Un franc succès pour ce film monumental avec Timothée Chalamet et Zendaya à l’affiche. Adaptation du roman fleuve de Franck Herbert de 1965, le film de science-fiction remporte les prix du Meilleur…
Sous les mains expertes de l’artiste serbe Endre Penovác, l’encre coule. Vivant son histoire naturellement, elle occupe l’espace sur le papier. Le peintre vient ensuite souligner quelques traits, dessiner des yeux, apporter une touche de couleur ou ajouter des détails qui viennent créer une…
Parfois, en levant les yeux au ciel et avec un peu d’imagination, on peut imaginer des formes dans les nuages. Une sorte de jeu qui parle à tous et qui aide à apprécier la beauté de ce qui nous entoure. Dans un autre genre, ce sont les ombres que Vincent Bal interprète. L’artiste utilise en effet…
Loin d’effectuer un travail archéologique (quoique…), Rachel Crisp alias @bluesunthreads créé des broderies inspirées par la nature. L’artiste, photographe et guide touristique réalise des œuvres sur lesquelles figurent des crânes de dinosaures, entourés de végétation. Travaillant sur plusieurs…
Mademoiselle Salty est une marque née dans l’esprit de Marion Ferrari, lors d’une année de vie en Indonésie. L’équipe derrière elle, liée par une passion de l’océan, du surf, des voyages, des bijoux et de la culture indonésienne, propose des bagues, colliers ou encore des bracelets et accessoires…
Illustration by Tala Safié This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published online in January, 2022. What are you seeing? Layered, type-driven design inspired by 1980s advertising is on the rise, and along with it, a…
Bumpy, a variable typeface drawn with gender in mind. Courtesy of Beatrice Caciotti. This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published online in 2021. As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken…
Driftwell branding, courtesy PepsiCo. This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published online in 2021. It used to be that if you needed a sleep aid, you went straight to the medicine aisle, but things are rarely that…
When editor and consultant Casey Lewis started her newsletter digest on youth culture, After School, she instinctively gravitated towards pastel and iridescent-like backgrounds for her graphics. “To be honest, and I’m sort of embarrassed to admit this, I didn’t think about it too deeply!” she told…
Illustration by Kaiya Waerea One afternoon last spring, I collected a bag of small stones from the dried out river in my local park. The next day, I took them with me to a lecture I was giving to graphic design second year students about my research. I began by introducing the following quote from…
Illustration by Beatrice Sala Run by Richard Embray and Elinor Jansz, Four Corners Books is a London-based publishing house that seeks to bring art history to life. They explore unfamiliar histories of visual culture, sharing the stories that capture their own attention in order to grab ours. We…
@joeysunnydesign. Courtesy Joey Donatelli. Joey Donatelli slides their glasses off and proudly holds them in front of the camera, as though bestowing an all-powerful gift. Donatelli is wearing a stone-washed Space Jam T-Shirt (the original 1996 version) and three metal chain necklaces, one of which…
It was Brian Eno who invented the term ‘scenius,’ which counters the myth of the lone genius and credits the collective effort. There might be one name on the front of the record sleeve, though there’s usually a whole cast of important contributors with their names written in tiny lettering…
Books The winners of this year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers showcase proves that 2021 was an utterly rich year for cover design Published on October 13th, 2022 Artwork. Advertisement. Encapsulation. Billboard. Brand. A book cover is many things — and the best ones tend to be all things. In other words,…
A scroll through Tatsuya Tanaka’s Instagram chronicles the everyday happenings of a cleverly designed world in miniature. The Japanese artist (previously) has spent the last decade reimaging life-sized objects like pencil sharpeners, sponges, and slippers as tiny sets for his cast of characters: a…
Illustration by Jens Schnitzler When Lesley Carter*, 26, first saw the salaries listed in the Graphic Design Salary Transparency Spreadsheet in January 2020, she took several screenshots. Carter, a graphic designer in New York City, had been looking for a job for several months, but she wasn’t sure…
Photography As part of a closing hand-off ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and the 2024 games in Paris, choreographer Sadeck Waff worked with 128 performers in a dizzying performance focused on arms and hands. The French dancer and choreographer has become known for his limb-centric…
A stunning macro image by Ole Bielfeldt lays out the individual elements that comprise a dusting of sand from a Mallorca beach, revealing a piece of microplastic embedded within the colorful composition. “Although to the naked eye this looks like very clean natural sand, pieces of microplastic, as…
Le 26 septembre, la Salle Pleyel a accueilli la 2ème édition des Fubiz Talks, organisée main dans la main par Fubiz Media et l’agence TETRO. Neuf intervenants ont pris part aux conférences et dévoilé les coulisses de leur travail. Le line up était composé par l’architecte Rudy Ricciotti,…
Ard Gelinck est un expert du photomontage. Voici plusieurs années qu’il poste sur son compte Instagram des photos un peu particulières : des pères avec leur fils, des grandes soeurs avec leur petite soeur, des mères et leur fille, les grand-parents et leurs petits-enfants… Mais ces clichés sont en…