Nils Leonard explains how painstaking craft turned a collection of annoying buzzwords into a parody of the periodic table, a campaign that's now won design and advertising's biggest award. It's diffic...

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Unveiled at London's Jack Barclay this week, the new global concept swaps the traditional forecourt hard sell for lounges, a materials atelier and a "cinematic handover room". We find out mo...

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The well-known lettering artist, illustrator and designer proves that typography matters for kids too. I've been a huge fan of Jessica Hische since she first came to prominence in 2009. Back then, I w...

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The Liverpool studio has given the Manchester tree-planting company a brand that finally says what it is: a business doing good, and damn proud it it. You know that optional contribution you get when...

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The Amsterdam-born, Milan-based artist graduated into the pandemic, yet built an editorial career by sending emails. She tells us how she turns difficult themes into an image in five hours flat, and w...

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The 170-year-old Italian confectioner has opened a new visitor experience around its live production line, and the joy is how little of it is on a screen. You know the song. Only this isn't pure imagi...

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The racing marque's new look pays homage to a service station in Auckland, but keeps the Speedmark, the Papaya and the Speedy Kiwi. It's good to remember where we came from. It grounds us when life fe...

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The transformable jacket comes as new research uncovers the UK's bizarre bag-for-life habits. It also makes a clever little marketing campaign for the budget supermarket chain. Aldi's middle aisle is...

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The Chinese illustrator's personal series highlights how being alone is never as simple as it looks. Humans are social animals, and so in our cultural imagination, we tend to bracket solitude with lon...

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The Dutch designer has rebuilt Richie Hawtin's landmark album DE9, 25 years on, in a way you can deconstruct and remix yourself, in the browser. I won't go into too many details, but let's just say th...

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Toronto agency Rethink has rebranded one of Vancouver's best-loved social-enterprise hotels, ditching a confusing old name for something rooted in a native tree. One of the biggest challenges in brand...

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The Antwerp-based illustrator on finding a style of your own, why the first idea is usually the best, and why you must never settle for less than your work is worth. There's a reason why videos about...

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The London studio has folded two letters, 'C' and 'H', into a house symbol for the new cultural venue, which includes a 360-degree immersive gallery and a rooftop sky garden. There are some good thing...

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If August showed some positive green shoots for the creative industry, September is proving even more fruitful. Here are the month's biggest movers, shakers and launches, and our take on what it all m...

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A new report by MikeTeevee asks in-house leaders at some of the world's biggest brands what AI is doing to their own teams, and their feedback unearths problems that were brewing long before the tools...

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After losing commissions to AI, the stop-motion animator started posting her hand-drawn work online and found a community of like-minded people instead. "I see myself as a pretty pessimistic pers...

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Trained in traditional Chinese and Japanese ink painting before discovering aquatint etching in Vienna, the artist explains that a 15-step process always begins with a sketch in a diary. Chien Yu Lin...

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The illustrator finds beauty and humour in everyday life, with an aim to elicit some feelings from the narratives created in her work. "I do unfortunately have to say 'all over', as awful as that...

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