The short animated campaign for the strike on 20 September was a collaboration with students and animators in the UK and Australia, which sees a female protagonist fighting a monster made of oil and coal.
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Tate Modern hopes to address “Western-centric” art history with three new curators
The newly appointed curators in African, Middle Eastern and South Asian art will help the gallery to rethink the history of modern and contemporary art from an alternative, more inclusive vantage point.
“I try to cut out anything that is pretentious”: meet graphic designer Niklas Sagebiel
Filled with art direction, book design, typography and illustration, this graphic designer talks us through his portfolio and the latest issue of Lodown Magazine – “getting asked to design an issue for them was a big deal.”
Meet Grace Wilson’s cast of charming – and amazingly lifelike – ceramic characters
It was during an MFA in Storytelling that the illustrator began to imagine the backstories behind her fictional characters. Looking at these ceramic figurines, you can’t help but wonder: What’s going on in the scene around them?
Arts publication American Chordata gets a redesign embracing its “weird” content
Brooklyn-based graphic design studio No Ideas talks us through the redesign of the latest publication of American Chordata. Avoiding “show-off” typography while retaining the original design’s restrained sensibility, the redesign celebrates content at its core.
Digi-gal’s campaign for Selfridges envisions the future of fashion in mesmerising virtual scenes
Cat Taylor – founder of Digi-Gal – talks us through the collective’s first project, a campaign for Selfidges’ The New Order – Ready to Wear AW 19 collection which presents a surreal landscape in which digitally reconstructed garments walk without bodies across enchanting virtual landscapes.
Animator Matthieu Braccini creates 15 hypnotic GIFs for McDonald’s France
When TBWA\Paris invited French motion designer Matthieu Braccini to celebrate the launch of McDonald’s all-day breakfast menu, the result was an entrancing suite of GIFs that imagine just how the Egg McMuffin gets made.
The Portrait of Britain prize announces its winners ahead of nationwide exhibition
The prize, which is run by British Journal of Photography in collaboration with JCDecaux, will display 100 portraits across screens in rail stations, malls, airports and on the high street nationwide.
Amy Worrall’s ceramic figures explore the complexities of coming of age in the naughties
Amy Worrall’s colourful ceramics are both adorable and introspective. These bobbly little characters and their amusing expressions draw heavily on the young creative’s own adolescence and her experiences coming of age in the naughties. “My work is essentially a weird, skewed vision of my own reality,” the young creative tells It’s Nice That. “It’s me consuming huge amounts of pop culture, digesting it and spewing it out as these sculptures.”
Stefan Hürlemann on the space art scene, print apprenticeships and a new platform for emerging designers
The Swiss graphic designer has ventured down an unconventional path to become a graphic designer. After five years working in Zurich’s design industry, the designer discusses why he decided to go back to art school as well as his recent projects including a series of four typographic animations for Nike China.
