5 Hacks to Appeal to Gen-Z Shoppers

5 Hacks to Appeal to Gen-Z Shoppers

I hope you enjoy reading this blog post. If you want my team to just do your marketing for you, click here. Article sponsored by PayPal. Gen Z’ers, which includes those born between 1996 and 2012, now make up 20 percent of the US population and account for $143 billion in direct spending. If you […]



Gradwatch 2021: Photographer Maria Meco Sanchez, UWE Bristol

Gradwatch 2021: Photographer Maria Meco Sanchez, UWE Bristol

Maria Meco Sanchez’s work sits somewhere between fiction and reality, and comes with a slightly haunting quality. Shape and shadow dance eerily in x-ray style images, or grainy black and white photographs of children and dogs that seem plucked from another time. Even the more overtly joyful moments she captures are imbued with a subtle […]



All About Substack: Opponents, Options, and Viewers

All About Substack: Opponents, Options, and Viewers

Do you love to write? Draw? Create in any way? Do people tell you that you should try using your creative skills to make a living? Do you shrug them off because you don’t know how to get started or because you don’t feel you have the time to commit to unpaid work? After all, […]



The rise of anti design

The rise of anti design

A corner of the design world is retaliating against minimalism with an eccentric visual language evoking the early days of the internet. We talk to creative technologist Rifke Sadleir and design duo TeYosh about challenging tastes and throwing out the rulebook “I love it when someone’s like, ‘so yeah we want the whole thing to […]



Discovering Time to Write: three Foolproof Methods to Write With a Busy Schedule

Discovering Time to Write: three Foolproof Methods to Write With a Busy Schedule

Whether or not you write for a living, you probably have a lot of other responsibilities, like a day job, school, or parenting. Still, finding time to write is necessary for any writer who wants to make a career out of writing. This means that if you want to become a writer, making time to write […]



Penguin goes inexperienced with ethereal covers by Tom Etherington

Penguin goes inexperienced with ethereal covers by Tom Etherington

Penguin Classics has announced the launch of its new Green Ideas series – a collection of 20 short books, all in pocket-size editions. Published at the end of August, the range of titles includes works from the likes of Michael Pollan, Naomi Klein, Wendell Berry, and Greta Thunberg. With the series, the publishing house aims […]



How designers make meals manufacturers scrumptious

How designers make meals manufacturers scrumptious

Whether it’s the battle of plant-based brands or the move to online shopping, designers have more opportunities than ever to tickle people’s tastebuds. We spoke with studios Robot Food and This Way Up about what it takes to create a successful food brand Several years ago, designer and type researcher Sarah Hyndman investigated how typefaces […]



Graham Coxon on his dystopian AV undertaking Superstate

Graham Coxon on his dystopian AV undertaking Superstate

The musician, visual artist and Blur member is releasing a sci-fi graphic novel and soundtrack that straddles hope and despair in an alternate – yet familiar – reality With one foot in the world of music and another in the visual arts, Graham Coxon is well poised to take on a project like Superstate. The […]



The way to Write Compelling Meta Descriptions That’ll Enhance Your Rankings

The way to Write Compelling Meta Descriptions That’ll Enhance Your Rankings

If you’re looking to increase your organic SEO rankings, meta descriptions might be the answer.  That is, if they are written well!  A great meta description should compel users to click on your page in the search results to learn more.  It should also contain keywords to boost your SEO. Below, we’ll explain the best […]



Goo Choki Par displays on designing this yr’s Paralympic Video games posters

Goo Choki Par displays on designing this yr’s Paralympic Video games posters

Tokyo-based studio Goo Choki Par is made up of three graphic designers: Q Asaba, Kent Iitaka, and Rei Ishii, and the trio regularly work on a range of projects from art direction to brand identities, digital artworks to poster design.  The work is split equally and the aim of most of their projects is to […]