The trend of employees leaving their jobs in droves is real and escalating, as we learned this month from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which announced that 4.3 million Americans – 2.9% of the workforce – quit their jobs in August. It was a record-breaking statistic, mirroring previous months of high numbers. What adds […]

Jen, Blake and Rachel, 1985-1986 Marshall started the series in New York in 1985, after meeting 16-year-old high school student Molly Brover. The photographer – whose work has appeared in the Atlantic and the New York Times Magazine – was invited into what she describes as Brover’s “Upper West Side girl world”, with its cast […]

As the branding and design agency reaches its 20th anniversary, we talk to founders Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi about the industry developments of the last two decades Twenty years ago, Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi wrote a rather important list. The list was the culmination of their learnings from running departments in other design […]

Founded in 1991, the Big Issue is a social enterprise whose mission is to dismantle poverty now and for future generations. Since its launch, the organisation has helped more than 100,000 homeless and vulnerably housed people earn over £140 million selling its weekly magazine to the public. To mark its 30th birthday, and following the […]

As the Cop26 Climate Change Conference kicks off in Glasgow, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has unveiled a new film that urges more climate action from global leaders. Released as part of the organisation’s Don’t Choose Extinction campaign, the film focuses on the key issue of countries around the world spending hundreds of billions […]

Fresh from finishing a hefty new book of infographics, the Delayed Gratification team chats with CR about the format’s boom in popularity, and how, at the heart of it, it’s all about the story In the last decade, infographics have become the medium of choice for newspapers and magazines trying to offer concise visual overviews […]

AI is often viewed as the death of creativity. Yet, as Maximilian Niemann, a director at Unit9 production company, points out, when machines are used in collaboration with humans, it may actually make for better work Artificial Intelligence is not traditionally linked to the emotion-fuelled craft of creativity. Being perceived as a uniquely human skill, […]

Hosted at London’s Jealous Gallery, the exhibition brings together Tattersfield’s collection of confessions, which the designer and Marby & Elm founder amassed over lockdown after promising people, via Instagram, a postcard in exchange for a secret. Lockdown Secrets features the most memorable examples drawn, the gallery says, from across all walks of life. One person […]

Finishing a first draft is a huge deal. If you just accomplished this, be proud of yourself! At the same time, you might be wondering how to revise a novel after that first draft is done. There’s a lot of advice out there. Which do you listen to? The revision process doesn’t have to be […]

Are we doing enough for workers who – in many cases – don’t have the option of doing their job from home? I’m talking about frontline workers such as truck drivers, those who take care of the sick at hospitals, serve coffee in quick service restaurants, work in manufacturing plants, labs, distribution centers, and many […]