Observing the world by Zoran Popovic
By Tatjana Vukic on 29 March 2019Read moreThis is a new ( but so old and forgotten) concept of visual communication, which has this A-ha moment because it is known to everyone but has remained undefined in Art as an expression of perception. This is, at this time of technology...
4The world’s newest country – an island made of trash?
By Reuben Turner on 14 September 2017Read moreThere’s a mass of plastic waste floating in the Pacific that’s the size of France. To call attention to it, social brand LADBible has teamed up with some creatives, TV presenter Ross Kemp and, erm, Al Gore to have it...
Save on packaging material, make it inflatable
By Marc van Gurp on 29 July 2017Read moreThis is a really nifty idea from Belgian agency Friendship. Nifty because air is used instead of plastic to safe packaging material. By 2020 more than 2 billion people will be using parcel services to send packages around the world. And...
Beautiful and deadly: polluted water ice-lollies
By Reuben Turner on 12 June 2017Read moreYou might call them ‘popsicles’. I call them ‘ice lollies’. Either way, these ones could kill you. Made with dangerously polluted water by students in Taiwan, this series of 100 lollies are designed to demonstrate the pollution found at common water sources...
Unexpected images. Powerful stories.
By Reuben Turner on 14 March 2017Read moreTo mark the publication of a new report on the 6th anniversary of the conflict in Syria, Save the Children has commissioned a series of powerful images from photographer Nick Ballon, image-maker Alma Haser and art director Gem Fletcher. What...
Shepard Fairey about We The People
By Marc van Gurp on 30 January 2017Read moreThis video is nice rough cut made in the days of the Trump inauguration and the following Women’s March in Los Angeles. But the filmmaker Laura Rudich began with an interview of Shepard Fairey at his latest exhibition in gallery Subliminal Projects....
The beauty and horror of mental disorders #Inktober
By Tom Megginson on 21 October 2016Read moreShawn Coss is an artist best known for his work as a background designer and Merchandise artist for Cyanide & Happiness. His personal work, however, goes much deeper into the darker places. This month, Shawn decided to do the #Inktober challenge. A fan,...
#SavePepe: A campaign to reclaim a meme
By Tom Megginson on 19 October 2016Read moreIt was just one more stupid meme in a year of internet stupidity, egged on by a very stupid American election campaign. One of the iconic Pepe web comics from the early 2000s But for some reason, the use of...
This furniture is handicapped and function pretty good
By Marc van Gurp on 9 May 2016Read moreThis campaign about the inclusion of people with physical disabilities in the workplace is made pro bono by Brazilian agency Y&R São Paulo. They did it for the Institute of Social Technology – ITS Brasil, which promotes the so-called “Supported Employment”....
AA ads are stark art, but are they too Absolut?
By Tom Megginson on 27 April 2016Read moreThey’re certainly artistic, with illustration by Arthur D’Araujo. And the message, by Ogilvy & Mather, Auckland, is clear: Alcoholics Anonymous will help you get across the chasm of addiction, to the people and things that matter. The weird thing about the ads,...