Entertainment & Culture

Map Irish Design is now live

Map Irish Design is the significant new research project undertaken by the 100 Archive that helps reveal the impact of design on life, culture, business and society in Ireland over the past decade.

The project examines more than 2300 design projects gathered since 2010 for inclusion in the 100 Archive – an online archive of the best in Irish communication design assembled every year from…

The Creatives Against Covid-19 shop is now open for business.

Creatives Against Covid-19 called on the creative industry to design and donate inspiring posters to raise funds for vulnerable women and children during the current crisis. The campaign surpassed all expectations, capturing hearts and minds across the globe. Over 1,000 posters, from over 30 countries, were designed and submitted…

We’ve gathered a couple of helpful links to free stuff that may interest creatives now that we’re all at home and indoors a lot these days. Just be sure to keep that creative brain buzzing.

Adobe Creative Cloud

If you’re a student Adobe is offering at-home access to Creative Cloud, which includes PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign, so that colleges can continue to provide you with access…

David Shrigley’s art comes to AR life in sketch restaurant with app created by HATO

sketch, one of London’s most unique restaurants, and HATO have collaborated to create a new app, that brings Turner prize nominee, David Shrigley’s artworks to life through AR technology. 

The sketchApp allows diners can create their own immersive playground using animated digital stickers of Shrigley’s characters and motifs. These can be placed around your immediate surroundings using your…

Nike teams with Piet Parra to design 2020 Olympic Skateboarding Uniforms

Skateboarding, which has always had a renegade name for itself, is carving its way into mainstream via Japan as it makes it Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games. 

Nike have announced they will be outfitting three skate teams this summer, France, USA, and Brazil, who will be wearing uniforms designed by Dutch artist Piet Parra. 

Parra, a frequent Nike collaborator who has designed some of…

Winona Ryder Embarks on a Journey of Self Discovery via Squarespace

Welcome to Winona

Squarespace returns for its sixth Super Bowl advertisement featuring Winona Ryder as she embarks on a journey of self discovery to her namesake town of Winona, Minnesota, which is also where she’s from.  

In the campaign, Winona captures the essence of her hometown through a photography project that leads…

Curzon Artificial Eye commissions La Boca to create Parasite poster

The New York Times reviews Bong Joon-ho’s new pitch-black comedy, Parasite, calling it “brilliant and deeply unsettling.”

The film centers around a destitute South Korean family who occupy a wealthy household in an elaborate scheme that goes horribly wrong.

To mark the movie’s upcoming release, distributor Curzon Artificial Eye commissioned independent design studio La Bocato create this…

Animation Director Nina Gantz Creates Ceramicist William De Morgan Inspired Christmas Ad for LOEWE

An Otter’s Tale brings the world of British ceramicist William De Morgan to life in a beautifully crafted commercial to launch the Spanish fashion brand LOEWE’s Christmas Capsule collection.

Animation director Nina Gantz and Blinkinkworked with acclaimed puppeteer Josie Corben (Isle of Dogs) on this combination of live action models and stop motion creatures. Everything from the trees and…

'The Lighthouse' by Robert Eggers gets Glorious Posters for Commercial Cinema Release

LA based design firm P+A have created a series of stunning posters for visionary filmmaker, Robert Eggers, new movie The Lighthouse.

Set in the 1890s, the hallucinatory tale sees two lighthouse keepers, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattison, stationed on a remote New England island. Faced with bad weather and increasing isolation, they begin to question their sanity. 

The monochrome posters for

Gucci calls on Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos for limited-edition artbook

Greek auteur, Yorgos Lanthimos joined forces with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele on the artbook Ωοτοκία (Oviparity).

Lanthimos, who has created otherworldly movies from Dogtooth to The Killing of a Sacred Deer, has gained a cult following for his unique and surrealist style inside his films.

Shot at the Leda Gallery of Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome, models are captured posing…