Whatsapp launches first brand campaign, an epic film inspired by Carnival

The messaging app’s inaugural foray into advertising is based on a real story of disaster ahead of Brazil’s national celebration.

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“I made my own world for people like me”: Wednesday Holmes on their work representing the LGBTQI+ community

The artist and activist uses illustration to deal with their own problems, as well as to empower others.

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Bijan Berahimi on the “extremely rare and beautiful process” that created Joon, an ode to Portland

The founding designer of Fisk talks us through how he’s built this new magazine from the ground up.

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Cole Barash’s otherworldly series documents the nocturnal snowmaking industry

Titled Snowgods, Cole’s latest work documents those who work in the manmade snow production world, their nocturnal lives and the extreme conditions they endure.

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Meet Person918x: a digital artist who makes work for the internet

Daniel Euphat, aka Person918x, has one main goal – to make works that he would appreciate if he were to stumble across them online.

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10 young illustrators have been enlisted to raise drink driving awareness for Think!

Those chosen for the poster-based commission include Joey Yu and Molly Fairhurst.

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CSTM Fonts is making up for lost time with Cyrillic typefaces

The pair is creating unique fonts used for everything from news to way finding.

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Wieden + Kennedy enlists Nimura Daisuke and Alva Skog for Coca-Cola’s Open campaign

The illustrators have worked on a comic strip-style print campaign, animation and can design (respectively) to support the brand’s new action-packed ad aiming to save the world without super heroes.

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Erlend Peder Kvam’s illustrations are designed to entertain

Erlend’s recent work sees him return to an analogue, drawing-based approach.

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Parasite to be made into graphic novel using Bong Joon Ho's storyboards

Grand Central Publishing is collating the Korean director’s original sketches to form a 304-page book, celebrating his unusual process.

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Joe Donaldson visualises the voices of Leonard Cohen and David Attenborough for The New Yorker

Working on the publication's venture into animated storytelling, the Florida-based animator proves the magic in narrative-led motion design.

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Teranga documents an Afrobeats migrant-run nightclub in Naples offering a safe space for the city’s asylum seekers

The documentary film follows Fata and Yankuba, who fled the dictatorship in Gambia, only to find themselves living in a politicised limbo, when they find solace in a migrant-run nightclub.

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Hui Yeon Hwang is an imaginative designer who takes risks

Here, the designer tells us about two recent freelance projects: a series of posters for Nike, and an identity for an Italian textiles company.

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Celebrate the distinct personalities of mushrooms through Phyllis Ma’s fun-filled photography

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Morph Collective is a multifaceted design studio raised on collaboration

Founded by a bunch of graduates from the Netherlands in 2018, the studio has since produced a multitude of technological installations for exhibitions – including Milan’s Salone del Mobile.

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Ben the Illustrator’s survey reveals that 60% of illustrators earn less than £20,000

On the plus side, more than half of illustrators surveyed were given more work this year.

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Jonas Lindstroem on his subtly powerful film for Sephora

The beauty retailer’s campaign by BETC enlists the director and photographer Nadine Ijewere to tell an inclusive and atypical tale of beauty.

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Make yourself into a humanised, 3D, floating letter with Dinamo and Tabitha Swanson's type face filter

Indulge in a dose of Windows XP desktop nostalgia with t¥p3w0rld, a new collaborative digital project that Dinamo says is “doing something completely different to what’s out there”.

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Antoine Marchalot’s work involves a sideways look at the world

The French illustrator switches between the comic, the other-wordly and the bizarre.

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The Mixcloud rebrand by Studio Output visualises the connecting power of music

The graphic designers have created a responsive visual language for the audio streaming platform, bringing to life the “i” in its wordmark through animation.

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