An author brand is what makes your work unique or distinctly you. It tells readers (and potential readers!) what to expect from you as an author as well as what to expect from your books. Today, let’s look at how to build an author brand. This is part of our ongoing series on How to […]

Tackling “millennial realities” like money woes, job insecurity, the concept of “sisterhood”, and navigating relationships forged online, nine female Spanish illustrators are featured in a new exhibition at CCCB Barcelona.  Titled Graphic Constellation: Young Women Authors of Avant-Garde Comics, the show uses bespoke installations to bring the artists’ “creative universes” to life in a 3D […]

Turbulent is probably the most apt word to sum up the state of the ad industry in 2022. As we slowly emerged from the other side of the pandemic and people reassessed what they wanted from their working lives, the impact of the great resignation was felt in agencies across the country and the concept […]

This year, news coverage of the technology sector was dominated by agents of chaos. Lawsuits, layoffs, and financial losses were near-permanent fixtures in headlines when it came to the big multinationals and Silicon Valley behemoths, even among those that seemed to be faring comparatively well. However, while it’s easy to succumb to the doom and […]

As we round off the year, it feels as though you can’t move for someone sending you an AI-generated Christmas card, or rewriting A Christmas Carol on ChatGPT but with all the characters as dogs. So it’s perhaps little surprise that many of the most interesting music videos from the last year have been heavily […]

How do you start a story? You might have heard that you need to start with a bang, that you need to hook the reader with deep conflict in the first few pages. But what does that actually mean? The answer is the inciting incident, one of the six structural elements of plot used to tell […]

Ukrainian creative agency Twid is resolutely clear in what it wants – more global clients, “to prevail over the terrorist state” – and what it doesn’t. “In Ukraine, we don’t want to feel that foreigners are making indulgences for us – we don’t want to miss deadlines or not reply to emails,” says Alex (Sasha) […]

I’m basically trying to make art and see the world like I did as a kid,” says illustrator Cáit McEniff. You could apply this to the purposefully wobbly lines and bucketloads of charm in her fabric pieces or paper illustrations. However, what she means is the childlike spirit and curiosity she tries to maintain in […]

Modern board games can help us understand complex real world scenarios, while also having fun. We take a look inside the current boom for new games and how they are designed The cover of Daybreak, a new cooperative board game exploring climate change, presents an optimistic vision of the near future with a sunrise breaking […]

When I was a kid, I loved reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels that had alternate paths written into the story. If you aren’t familiar with them, they were elementary or middle grade chapter books that begin a story and at key moments, offer the reader a choice: “To go through the portal, turn to page 37. To […]