Every once in a while, a record comes along which is destined to be the song that eternally gets people onto the dancefloor. Featuring the unmistakable vocals of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Italian DJ/producer Spiller’s noughties classic Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) is undoubtedly one of those tracks. Originally released in 2000, the single was acquired by […]

You’ve heard the classic writing rule, “Show. Don’t Tell.” Every writing blog ever has talked about it, and for good reason. Showing, for some reason, is really difficult. Yet, it’s also one of the most important writing techniques you need to master if you want your own writing stand out. Free Guide: Want to become […]

Routine meetings with your team can give you important clues about their intent to stay and build a better employee experience. These days, people aren’t just leaving their job because of the paycheck. Many are leaving because they don’t feel appreciated, they’re not feeling connected to the organization or its purpose, or they don’t see […]

A few months back, a simple but strangely moving quote was doing the rounds on Twitter. A refreshing antidote to the platform’s usual menu of sarcasm, fighting and bad news, it was three simple words: lemurs, toilets, exit. Captioned with ‘New Live Laugh Love just dropped’, ‘lemurs, toilets, exit’ ticked a lot of boxes when […]

Certain European countries have, over time, become synonymous with a particular style or quality of graphic design: Switzerland is perhaps the most obvious example, while Dutch graphic design has come to connote exemplary 20th century corporate identity work. In comparison, we know relatively little about 20th century Belgian graphic design — despite a rich, bold […]

Documentary photographer Craig Easton photographed his series Bank Top in 2019 and 2020, the body of work named for the small pocket of Blackburn, England in which it was made. The aim was to tell an “alternative history” to the narratives seen in the media, such as the dismal label of Britain’s most segregated town. […]

It’s never been easier to order up a food delivery. If you want a big grocery shop, there’s the websites of major supermarkets; if it’s a quick takeaway, there’s the likes of Deliveroo, UberEats or JustEat; and if you urgently need a few bits, there’s ultrafast services such as Getir, Gorillas or Zapp. New app […]

Autorretrato, Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979. All images courtesy Fondation Cartier Graciela Iturbide has been taking pictures since the early 70s, having originally enrolled as a film student before she discovered photography. Over the course of the decade, she photographed many Indigenous Mexican communities, in some cases living amongst them for extended periods of time, […]

Whereas once marketers and ad agencies would have been feverishly waiting for the big game to start to see what their competitors were up to, the vast majority of the ads that featured in the Super Bowl this year were released several days before kick off. This added a certain excitement to those spots that […]

The ads are inspired by the original Love Is… series of illustrations, a set of love notes that New Zealand cartoonist Kim Grove originally drew in the 1960s for her partner Roberto Casali, which then became famous after appearing in the Los Angeles Times in 1970. Here the messages are far from supportive and loving, […]