The world’s newest country – an island made of trash?
Read 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...
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Save on packaging material, make it inflatable
Read 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
Read 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.
Read 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
Read 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
Read 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
Read 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
Read 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?
Read 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,...
The Alphabet of Illiteracy
Read moreA lovely campaign from Project Literacy, an initiative backed by education publisher Pearson, about the lifelong, and life-changing impacts of illiteracy. Simple, strong and beautifully made using real sculptures to illustrate every letter, and every point. Agency: FCB Sculptures: Wilfrid Wood
