Penguin publishing is a long standing name and recognisable brand familiar to many. Producing its first paperbacks in the summer of 1935, Penguin turned the publishing industry on its head offering affordable but good quality fiction literature to the masses. Many a cover for famous novels have become part of British culture and have helped [...]

Writers and designers tend to stand apart from the crowd. They look at the world through creative eyes. While writers can create a world that is beautiful and enchanting through words, designers can inspire awe with pictures and layout. Since both fields require creative genius, how can writers and designers stir their imagination and stay [...]

It’s Friday and time for Friday5! Today we introduce Peter Ayuba from Lateral+Concept.    ONE: Peter, the slogan of your studio “Lateral+Concept” is “Intelligent Design”. What makes a design intelligent in your opinion? A Design is intelligent, if it’s able to communicate its essence effectively and without necessarily doing so intentionally. An intelligent design doesn’t [...]

b-uncut creative Cris Alex was inspired by Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third volume in a fantasy horror series for children and adults. Abarat is a magical otherworld, an archipelago of islands populated by monstrous characters. Alex’s design depicts Christopher Carrion, also known as the Lord of Midnight, who’s out to capture the heroine of the [...]

Creative Senny Rapoport posted this photograph on b-uncut. It’s called The Fall and it shows the artist jumping or falling or perhaps even flying through the air. Clear prints of Arabic and Hebrew newspapers hang next to him as the stool behind him falls backwards. We’re reminded of the surreal photograph of Dali jumping into [...]

Exchange creative Rachel Glittenberg explains the story behind this self portrait, called I wonder what she’s thinking. “I used a palette knife and worked on it very quickly. The whole piece can’t have taken more than about 3 hours. So, it’s really a moment captured in time of how I was feeling that day.  I [...]

What do you do when you work in a medium that’s perfect for the web? Photographers have the advantage and disadvantage of not being short of any images for their websites. But what do you do when everybody’s got a website full of photographs, and these days you’d be a fool not to spend some of [...]

Have the draconian new laws regarding ambush marketing claimed their first victim. With BMW the official car sponsor of the Olympics does the Honda: The Power of Dreams Team go too far? Tim Crow, chief executive of Synergy – the sponsors consultancy, said “There is no doubt Honda is trying to create an association with [...]

If you’re not already a part of the rather wonderful blur Designs crowd, then what are you waiting for? Have a look at my pick of interesting designs and sign up to see all of the amazing briefs on offer… By Luis D’Alkmin By Fabrizio Raschetti By Martin Varallo By New Light Graphics

Necessity sure is the mother of invention. Where there is a need or a problem, creative innovation normally lurks not too far behind. It’s like one of those classic montage scenes from The A-Team where B.A. Baracus & Co. are locked in a cell with little more than a spanner, a piece of string and [...]