Created for Swiss sportswear brand On, the short film, directed by Richard Bullock, puts an emphasis on Frimpong’s position as a role model for younger generations but also the immense challenges he has overcome during his career, which is littered with extreme highs and lows. The ten-minute-long film takes viewers through Frimpong’s journey to the […]

The media agency’s updated identity dials down the purple palette in favour of multicoloured, ‘elastic’ new branding According to NB Studio founder and creative director Nick Finney, the Mindshare rebrand is designed to be “in tune with the places where people actually live their lives – inside platform ecosystems”. “That’s where you’ll find all of […]

Barney Bubbles is a designer who manages to straddle two camps: he’s truly a ‘designers’ designer’, but also one whose work is celebrated by those outside of that, well, bubble. Best known for his work with record label Stiff, his distinctive imagery demonstrates both a rigorous understanding of design’s technicalities in its lines, layouts, grids […]

High Noon, 2021. All images by Alex Prager, courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin Photographer and director Alex Prager is best known for her choreographed, noir-ish images of crowds, where the buzz is frozen and not a hair is left out of place. In her new exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in London, the influence […]

Welcome to my round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.  This Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: 10 Failproof Employee Engagement IdeasBy Roxi Bahar Hewertson via SHRM (@SHRM)Employee engagement should be top of mind for every leader and communicator. Try these 10 ideas. “No matter your specific business, if your employees aren’t […]

M&M’s has kicked off the year with changes to its visual design and a stronger emphasis on brand purpose, with a new mission of “creating a world where everyone feels they belong”. This will be reflected in a refreshed tone of voice that parent company Mars promises will be “more inclusive, welcoming and unifying, while […]

The illustrator and writer discusses how, already 30 years into her career, a commission from the New York Times for a column called Principles of Uncertainty opened up a myriad of new possibilities I was born in Tel Aviv. A glorious Bauhaus city on the Mediterranean. A beautiful life. When I was four, my family […]

Originally conceived in 1969, America in Crisis was a group initiative that used the power of imagemaking to assess the state of the nation. Taking the form of an exhibition and publication, the project was led by Magnum Photos’ then New York bureau chief, Lee Jones, and American photographer Charles Harbutt. “Several of us felt […]

In life, it can feel like things happen randomly, without causation, and with little or no meaning. The human brain, though, needs meaning. We need to understand why things are going badly for us so we can avoid it or why things are so well so we can do more of whatever’s working. This is […]

How can creatives manage their ‘whizzy’ brains, and is our pursuit of concentration doomed to fail? Illustrator and writer Ben Tallon discusses how to avoid the demons of procrastination, and still find time to let the brain percolate For many of us, focus is hard to find. If only I could have a whole hour […]