Making a splash
Imagine a world in which marine life has almost disappeared. Imagine going scuba diving and not seeing live coral and tropical fish. Imagine having a childhood without eating tuna salad
A fairy tale of two halves
It’s two days before the FA Cup final and this has landed on our desk – the second in a series of collaborative publications from consultancy Fivefootsix. Each magazine, in
Fifty years of Private Eye
Frequently hard-hitting, occasionally scurrilous and almost always hilarious, satirical bible Private Eye has been delighting readers and upsetting the great and good since its inception in 1961. The Private Eye:
London Design Festival unveils 2011 line-up
This year’s London Design Festival will feature key works from architects John Pawson and Amanda Levete and French design team the Bouroullec brothers.
Somerset House to launch Earth-designed website
Historic arts and cultural events venue Somerset House is poised to launch a new website next week, designed by independent consultancy Earth Creative Strategies which is based in the Somerset
Small Back Room creates shops for National Museum of Scotland
Small Back Room is working on two new retail spaces for the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of a wider redevelopment led by Gareth Hoskins Architects.
Coley Porter Bell gives new name and branding to HR software firm
Coley Porter Bell has rebranded human resources software company StepStone Solutions, renaming it Lumesse and creating a new tone of voice, website, and visual identity to be used across all
The home of metal
Mephistophelian pacts, spandex onesies, pyrotechnics, poodle-perms, thrash- industrial- and death-, the gamut of metal runs wide and deep, but it’s rooted in the West Midlands. Next month a Home of Metal
A paper opera
Over the past few years, the promotional materials that paper companies have mailed out to win the attention of designers have been largely uninspiring and rarely dramatic. But Fedrigoni UK
On the Larkin trail
The Larkin Trail – a series of 25 typography-heavy signs scattered around the city of Hull – provides a fittingly literary tribute to one of the the city’s most famous
The River Thames
From Jerome K. Jerome’s novel Three Men in a Boat to the opening credits of Eastenders, the Thames has long been part of the London’s creative output. This year’s The
Window shopping
Opening this evening in London’s Bond street is Streetlights, a collaboration between sartorial bible Vogue, Bond Street’s fine jewellers and students that sees the traditional shop window given a glittering
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