Domee Shi’s debut feature is a joyous celebration of Chinese culture. Here, illustrator Stanley Chow chats with her about growing up as a child of immigrants and the importance of telling diverse stories on-screen While big animation studios used to be guilty of pumping out a conveyer belt of Disney princess type protagonists in their […]

The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting is designed as a box set of individual pages, featuring essays written by the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Margaret Howell and an interview with Shelley Duvall – who played Wendy Torrance in the film, and who has spoken about the bullying she faced from the director on […]

Knowing how to write a short story seems like it’s a no-brainer. They’re short; how hard could it be? However, once you start writing a short story you’ll probably realize that you don’t know how to write a short story. You’d like to have some short story tips. Pin A novel has hundreds of pages […]

The advertising and design industries have always been obsessed with the future, but this infatuation has entered warp speed over the past six months or so, since the mainstream arrival of the metaverse and NFTs. In this issue, we examine what this might mean for the creative industries and how it will impact how we […]

by Sarah Gribble | Knowing how to write a short story seems like it’s a no-brainer. They’re short; how hard could it be? However, once you start writing a short story you’ll probably realize that you don’t know how to write a short story. You’d like to some short story tips. A novel has hundreds […]

I first met Joe Macleod on a train from Edinburgh to London. I was travelling home from the Design Council’s Design for Planet conference in Dundee. So was he, but whereas my journey would end in a few hours, Macleod was on the first leg of a railway odyssey that would take him, eventually, home […]

Sarah Hyndman has been exploring how typography influences us for the past decade or so; setting up experiments and studies around its effect on our moods and senses and demonstrating how letterforms have powers far beyond mere legibility or decoration.  Hyndman, a designer and founder of the Type Tasting enterprise, published the book The Type […]

We’re all well used to the news reports about the retail apocalypse by now. It’s a slow decline that has loomed over traditional retailers for the past ­decade and has only been accelerated by the pandemic, where the recurring story is one of plummeting sales and deserted high streets. In place of bricks-and-mortar, the obvious […]

Illustrator Justyna Green and designer and ‘colour doctor’ Anna Jacobs explain why painting your home can be a radical exercise in creativity After a year spent working from a spare bedroom in her house, illustrator Justyna Green decided it was time to tackle the “bare walls” she’d spent most of lockdown surrounded by. “I’d been […]

The Vagina Museum in London has been closed for the last six months, but it’s back with a bang thanks to its new poster campaign – designed to celebrate the museum’s relocation from Camden to Bethnal Green. Designer Mirjami Qin has created an impressive 16 posters, including ‘Mind the WAP’, which cheekily appropriates the iconic […]