No Way Back: Learning from, not longing for, the past
Launching with a fascinating book, the No Way Back project is a multi-platform initiative that brings together long-lost music and subculture journalism and photography
Arsh Raziuddin on working across multiple worlds
Balancing book and magazine design, alongside illustration projects and working at Christie’s auction house, Arsh Raziuddin’s work requires adapting to multiple needs across a range of media
Good Reads: Offal journal offers up a literary feast
Designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer, Offal celebrates artistic offcuts and serves up disparate text-based leftovers from a range of sources
Ard Su on illustrating the serious stuff
The New York-based illustrator is often called upon to visualise complicated themes and concepts, from technology and medicine to human rights and social issues
Vanessa Saba and the evolution of collage
Collage is an alchemical and subversive process, perfectly suited to our fragmented times. And as artists like Vanessa Saba are showing, online it has reinvented itself yet again
Gradwatch is back – and we want to see your work!
Our annual showcase of the best graduate talent is returning in 2025. Send us your work by July 11 for the chance to be featured by Creative Review
Good Reads: Food newsletter Vittles ventures into print
The popular Substack has launched a new print magazine, with its first issue digging into playful, absurdist food stories
Mustafa’s poetry publication is designed with symbolism in mind
Artist and poet Mustafa’s new project explores different forms of ceremony through poetry and photography, a theme that’s echoed in the editorial design by Jordan-based studio Turbo
Birmingham Design Festival returns with a playful focus for 2025
The event’s seventh edition explores the theme of Play, with talks from the likes of Studio Dumbar’s Liza Enebeis, Chris Clarke from The Guardian and Aardman creative director Merlin Crossingham
McSweeney’s latest issue ponders what it means to be Vietnamese today
Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, The Make Believers issue includes a cigar box-inspired design and contributors from across the Vietnamese diaspora
Good Reads: Tummy Ache launches its laziest issue yet
Continuing its mission to destigmatise mental health, the slow fashion brand and magazine’s new issue explores how laziness has long been a story told by the oppressor of the oppressed
Good Reads: Cake Zine is one for all the sweet tooths
Founded by a pastry chef and a former editor at Bon Appétit, the food culture mag’s latest issue explores how bread impacts our lives through ritual, religion and routine
How Center design studio is shaping startups
Formerly a design director at Coca-Cola, Alex Center’s Brooklyn studio now brings branding magic to startups and small businesses
Laphroaig x Willem Dafoe is a peaty partnership worth savouring
The Islay single malt has enlisted the Hollywood star for its latest campaign, celebrating the whisky’s unmistakable, enigmatic taste
Why brands need culture
In her new book, Leila Fataar explains how the most powerful engagements between brands and audiences happen through culture, requiring different approaches to marketing and comms
Brompton unfolds bold new identity for its 50th anniversary
The British cycling brand has partnered with Studio Blackburn to celebrate its heritage as it enters a new, globally minded era