Does your creative process sometimes feel chaotic? If you and your team are putting in too many extra hours to get a project over the line, the risk of burnout is real – and the work will inevitably suffer as a result. Fortunately, there’s plenty you can do to streamline how you work and get […]

As business owners and marketers, we go through manic highs and lows. Things go well for a while, then follow with periods of low performance. This is normal. One way to help get yourself over the hump is with business coaching. The best business coaches not only coach you in your business but also coach […]

If you look on Instagram and type in #travelphotography, more than 152 million results pop up. Pristine, shiny, beautiful photos of faraway places, idylls of sun-drenched sea and sand. Of course they’re captivating, especially after spending over a year at home, but they do all start to look the same.  For the past few years, […]

Five years ago, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) got together a team of designers and illustrators to imagine the bleeding edge of tourism, with a series of vintage-style travel posters dedicated to the moons and planets of our solar system. ‘Experience the charm of gravity assists’ reads one peppy design for the Grand Tour of […]

As part of our series about creative businesses set up during lockdown, we speak to three newly-launched ad agencies to find out why they took the risk and how they’ll do things differently Advertising and marketing took a big hit at the start of the pandemic. As brands worked out how to communicate with consumers […]

London-based architects Projects Office has created a radical new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) unit in Edinburgh, which challenges assumptions about “how healthcare environments should look and feel”.  The new unit comprises outpatient facilities for 5-18 year olds and an in-patient unit for 12-18 year olds. The space has been purposely made colourful, […]

Do you love a good cliffhanger? Most readers do. Whether they entail a twist that hits like a tidal wave or employ a more subtle revelation, cliffhangers keep readers eagerly turning the pages—even when they’re unaware of a cliffhanger’s meaning and function. But what is the definition of cliffhanger? And how can we, as writers, […]

Video content creation can be a massive headache. I get it. Even for seasoned marketers, creating compelling content is a challenge. The real uphill battle is trying to create that level of content regularly. That’s why we’re taking a closer look at automated video creation and some of the best tools your brand can use […]

Penguin Modern Classics has published three books by the Italian novelist and translator Antonio Tabucchi, who died in 2012: Requiem: A Hallucination; Pereira Maintains: A Testimony; and Little Misunderstandings of No Importance and Other Stories. Tabucchi is best known for his 1994 novel Pereira Maintains, which Philip Pullman described as “the most impressive novel I’ve […]

Diana Markosian’s series Santa Barbara is a thing of questions and contrasts. Part-staged narrative, part-documentary project, the photographer worked with a casting director, a group of actors and a scriptwriter from the 1980s soap opera Santa Barbara (which she watched while growing up) to reenact the final days of her family life in post-Soviet Russia, […]