Council estates in Britain were born in response to the slums of the Victorian era. The country’s first was the Boundary Estate in Shoreditch, which was built in 1900 by London County Council and provided as many as a thousand homes. Now often in the hands of private owners or housing associations, historic council estates […]

Design institutions need to forge better connections between schools, communities and the industry, says D&AD president Rebecca Wright If you are in design education, you cannot help but be an optimist,” says Rebecca Wright, dean of ­academic programmes at Central Saint Martins in London and the D&AD president for 2021/22 – the organisation’s first from […]

Reality as we know it is changing. We’re living in a time when you can experience zero gravity without jetting into space, own a virtual possession that costs more than its physical form, and teleport into the office while remaining at home. The virtual world is no longer a game – it is seeping into […]

It wasn’t too long ago that Maryna Chernyavskaya, creative group head at Kyiv creative agency Bickerstaff, was feeling disillusioned with her job. “I felt burned out and tired, and I asked my boss to give me a creative break,” she tells CR. “I was thinking, come on Maryna, you’re almost 30 and what do you […]

Photo by Anja Niemi The ten book series brings together well-known and celebrated female literary figures, including Xiaolu Guo’s Fenfang, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Darling. According to Lily Richards, picture editor at the publishing house, the collection offered a perfect opportunity to work with “some of the best […]

As the horrifying events in Ukraine continue to unfold, the creative industries are coming together to support the country through a growing number of initiatives. Among the latest is Art4Ukraine, a charitable online art print sale from Theprintspace, which invites people to view and purchase works by a group of contemporary Ukrainian and international photographers. […]

Designers have resisted the idea of AI, but it can open up new horizons for creativity and personalisation, says Stink Studios’ James Britton In a recent episode of a four-part ­BBC series of Reith Lectures on artificial intelligence, Professor Stuart Russell discussed AI and what he predicts will be “the biggest event in human history”. […]

Today’s article is written by James Barrows. Read James’s full bio at the end of this article.  Are you one of the new writers looking for advice on how to start writing? Have you decided you want to write a fantasy novel with wizards and ghouls? Or do you want your debut book to be […]

At a time when so many employees are feeling stretched, disconnected and overwhelmed by the challenges of our new working reality – and businesses wrestle with significant change and cost pressures – communication leaders are looked to for answers. What can communication leaders do to stay in tune with the needs of the business and […]

Since he broke out as a photographer nearly ten years ago, Thurstan Redding has been a mainstay on the fashion circuit. You’ll find his name affixed to the look books, shows and campaigns that prop up each season, working with houses as broad as the iconoclastic Charles Jeffrey and storied behemoths like Chanel and Gucci. […]