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A growing side project, Toronto-based designer Kiros Chu pushes letterforms to find inspiration for further design briefs.

Starting as a daily drawing task set by the illustrator to get over a creative slump, Laura’s drawing subconscious has created a series of calmly relatable pieces.

Meet the minuscule typography magazine and publishing research project with a difference.

Featuring 272 works by artists around the world, the book is described by makers Carosello Lab as “a story of solidarity and collaboration” is raising money for the Italian Red Cross.

Turning to art at the beginning of quarantine during the pandemic, the artist’s practice is bringing nostalgic joy via Instagram.

I’ve always struggled with anxiety and depression, but lately they’ve been exacerbated by compounding global crises.

Kahleen Crawford Casting has worked with a wide range of directors, with recent highlights including I Hate Suzie and His Dark Materials.

“I felt the need to respond to the namby-pamby, weak reporting that was missing the point or diminishing the reality,” says Schor.

We can let our rage scorch us slowly from the inside out — or we can channel it and express it in powerful and beautiful new ways, says writer and activist Soraya Chemaly.

The radical tradition of mail art, which used the postal system to distribute drawings, poetry and other texts, has seen a recent resurgence. Louise Benson speaks to the creatives who are pushing the envelope.

It’s never the wrong time to make impactful positive changes to your creative methods of working, and here are a few ways to start.

In the pursuit of pixel-perfect typography, have we lost the origins of its artistry in place of efficiency? We talk to contemporary typographers as well as stone letterers who are keeping the origins of the discipline alive, asking what is lost and gained in the movement from physical to digital.

An exhibition of student and faculty posters from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) sparks a larger conversation around inclusion and representation in design.