Sound System. All images © Mark Simmons and HVBS A new photo exhibition running as part of Bristol Photo Festival is highlighting the city’s rich history of attracting and nurturing pioneering sounds and artists. Bristol is closely associated with trip hop acts like Portishead and Massive Attack, which originated there, and has also been a […]

30 percent of all retail sales occur between Black Friday and Christmas. This means preparing your e-commerce site for this busy period is essential to success. The good news is, small changes can make a big difference to your revenue. The level of competition for Black Friday e-commerce sales is off the charts, which means […]

All images: There’s a Ghost in this House, Oliver Jeffers. Published by HarperCollins Having sold over 14 million copies of his books worldwide, illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has become celebrated for his imaginative takes on the humble children’s picture book. For his latest adventure, Jeffers has released his most creative title yet with the […]

Ad creatives are the ads served to users on a social media or digital media platform. On YouTube, these are most often video ads and may include images, video, audio, and text. When combined, these creative elements form a full video advertisement. YouTube ads are just another way to expand your reach. To ensure your […]

There’s a common formula known as the 7-38-55 rule that indicates only 7 percent of meaning is conveyed through the words we speak, and the remaining percent of meaning is informed by tone of voice (38 percent) and body language (55 percent). As a result, every time we communicate with someone, a vast majority of […]

Osbert Parker has spent the last 30 years ripping, cutting and dismantling in pursuit of his mixed media moving image work. He tells CR why experimentation – and a certain amount of naïvety – is key to his success “I just play here,” says Osbert Parker, who’s chatting over Zoom from his studio in Islington. […]

“Superette was a reflection of how we saw retail, and what we thought retail can look like in cannabis,” says Drummond Munro, the co-founder and chief brand officer of the Canadian cannabis brand. Superette was founded in 2018, the same year recreational cannabis was federally legalised in Canada, and right around the time Ontario switched […]

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then 20-year-old Jefferson Hack and photographer Rankin. Three decades on, it has grown into the Dazed Media empire, comprising the print magazine, along with AnOther, Dazed Beauty, Nowness and Dazed Studio. Having built a reputation […]

I’ll let you in on a secret. People are talking about you online. Whether it’s a direct @ mention on social media or involvement in an untagged rant—the likelihood is, there’s a lot of conversations occurring on “dark social” that you don’t know about. For the most part, brand mentions are a marketing score (even […]

Gem Fletcher profiles LA-based photographer Rory Hamovit, who uses photography as a stage to play with manhood and queerness, and speak to the complexity and fragility of masculinity Making poetry out of the collisions between masculinity and queerness is an integral part of Rory Hamovit’s work. The Los Angeles-based photographer is interested in the theatre […]