This post is written by guest writer Michelle Renee Miller. You can learn more about Michelle Renee Miller at the end of this article. 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 […]

Butt magazine has made a comeback for its 30th issue, returning ten years after its last print issue in December 2011. Butt was founded by Dutch journalist Gert Jonkers and art director Jop van Bennekom in 2001. It adopted a distinctly fleshy hue and featured minimalist designs (courtesy of van Bennekom) while offering up unabashedly […]

Competition to stake a claim on a great brand name is fierce, and companies have always mined language for brand names that trigger the best associative meaning. It’s a tried-and-true part of the branding process.  Take the holding company Alphabet Inc, for example: it’s the first result that comes up when you search ‘alphabet’ online. […]

We talk to Yorkshire Tea and Brooklyn Brewery about how they translated the values of their birthplaces into well-loved brands that reach far beyond them A name has the potential to make or break a brand – and things get even more complicated when that brand name directly refers to the place of a product’s […]

The observatory, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been in operation for 75 years, and is now used as a research institute by the University of Manchester. It’s home to several telescopes, with the Lovell Telescope – which has been used to track space probes and satellites – one of the largest […]

It’s been four years since file sharing and productivity service WeTransfer launched its digital arts platform WePresent, and in that time it has become a solid destination for editorial and creative content. Where it has had particular cultural cut-through is in producing and commissioning projects that resonate in the worlds of art, film, and music. […]

Migrantes © Adam Ferguson Adam Ferguson has been named Photographer of the Year at the 2022 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards. His series, Migrantes, which also won in the Portraiture category, comprises self-portraits of – and by – people in Mexico waiting to cross the border to the US. The series was conceived […]

Nobody likes to look stupid in meetings, but sometimes asking seemingly dumb questions or admitting you don’t understand something can unlock better creative work, says Julian Harriman-Dickinson I was sitting in a client workshop recently (the kind of workshop that four people had flown in for, each with decades of experience) when I realised we’d […]

The Dutch husband and wife team behind Design by Toko have lived and worked everywhere from America to Australia over the last two decades. Then the pandemic changed everything The idea of moving studios over 12 times in 20 years would be a stressful thought for any creative, let alone throwing cross-country and intercontinental relocations […]

So, you’ve got an intriguing story idea and you’re picturing some of the scenes in your mind, eager to get them down on paper and begin wowing readers. But unless you ground your readers with deep POV right from the start, you’ll have a hard time getting them to care what happens. Pin There are […]