Gem Fletcher profiles Brooklyn-based photographer Tonje Thilesen, whose image-making explores our precarious coexistence with the natural world, and spans fashion, portraiture, and observational photography “It just feels so good to not be in this world sometimes,” Tonje Thilesen tells me. It sounds dramatic, but they are right. We exist in a time of not one […]

Women are leaving the workplace in greater numbers than men as the “Great Resignation” continues to place pressure on organizations to recruit and especially retain valued employees. In September 2021, 309,000 women aged 20 and over left the labor force entirely, the biggest monthly decline in a year. There were 57.1% of U.S. women in […]

A new PSA has been released in an effort to encourage men in the US to get vaccinated. While death, long-term respiratory and cardiac illnesses are some of the virus’ biggest dangers, the campaign takes a unexpected approach and instead focuses on recent studies that have found that “men who’ve had Covid are six times […]

Artists and activists Robert Del Naja (also founding member of Massive Attack) and Bill Posters, perhaps best known for his eerie celebrity deepfakes, have teamed up with green energy industralist Dale Vince on a platform called Eco-Bot.Net. The project is many things: a resource for reporters, a call to arms, and what Posters calls a […]

Gus Van Sant has engaged with filmmaking in every which way. He’s had the mainstream Oscar success story with Good Will Hunting, done the Hollywood remake (though not as you know it) with 1998’s Psycho, and directed a career’s worth of compelling indie pictures, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho and Elephant among them. What […]

M&S has launched its Christmas campaigns for both food and clothing. For the food spot, the brand has transformed the Percy Pig motif seen on its line of sweets into a fully animated character for the first time. The store ran a pre-campaign, #whoispercypig, to tease the new voice of Percy, which has been revealed […]

For decades, comic books have showcased vibrant graphic design that is a pivotal part of the superhero world. Liz Stinson, editor of a new book celebrating Marvel, discusses the publisher’s lasting contribution to visual culture The Marvel universe is vast, spreading across comic books, films, TV shows and video games, with a cast of hundreds […]

While the John Lewis Christmas ad has become an institution over the years thanks to its ability to tug at the nation’s heartstrings, no one has quite known what to expect from its festive campaign in the wake of the pandemic. Last year’s spot took a different approach from the retailer’s tried and tested cute […]

If there was one take-out from Adobe MAX 2021, it was the critical role that collaboration plays in the creative process. Headline speakers from a diverse range of disciplines touched on the influential part that collaborators have played in their lives – empowering them, challenging them, and driving their work to new heights. According to […]

Great stories are filled with great characters. One of the most common characters in any story is the Mentor, an essential character if you’re writing a Hero’s Journey story. In fact, the fourth step of the Hero’s Journey is Meeting the Mentor. Who is your hero’s mentor, and how do they challenge them? As you […]