A wander around the Brick Lane area of London will reveal two types of graffiti: the illegal kind – once frowned upon, now a significant draw for tourists – and…
Month: January 2020
Why Ikea decided to let kids design its soft toys
With Ikea’s annual soft toy drawing contest as popular as ever, CR speaks to Bodil Fritjofsson about how they’re making dreams come true one soft toy at a time The…
Dan Reisinger: Master of Colour
Dan Reisinger was born in Kanjiža, Yugoslavia, now Serbia in 1934. Much of his childhood was spent in hiding from the occupying Germans and having lost many family members in…
Does Gucci’s scrawled logo spell the end of fashion’s blandification?
In his predictions for the new decade, D&AD CEO Patrick Burgoyne called for an end to bland branding, and a return of “ornament, flourish and humanity”. And right on cue,…