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Limber Brands brings archival gems to life with a new brand for Adam Matthew

Creative Boom

Now they're often digitised, housed in themed collections – anything from the colonial Caribbean to post-war consumer culture. It's an incredibly clever feature that makes the new name highly functional as well as crucially clear. The rebrand centres around a simplified new name: AM.

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'I only want to make clear visual messages, which may prevent or inform': Aliona Solomadina on the role of design in wartime

Creative Boom

My posts are not like a diary. Titled Znak , the text features research by Aliona along with Uliana Bychenkova and Nika Kudinova of the UNA Collective on the history of Ukrainian graphic design, particularly corporate identity design during the period of Thaw, Stagnation, and Perestroyka. I do this not very often. It took four days.

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Personal family history informs David Blandy's films tackling the legacy of war and empire

Creative Boom

His book Trial By Battle was based on his experiences interning in Japanese POW camps for three years during the Second World War in Singapore and Taiwan. . The war ended absolutely abruptly, and he survived, so there is some merit to his thinking," says the artist. David Blandy, Empire of the Swamp, film still, 2023.

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Sébastien Cuvelier’s photos contrast utopia and reality in Iran

Creative Review

Nearly 50 years ago, Sébastien Cuvelier’s late uncle travelled from Namur in Belgium to visit Persepolis, located in Iran – a journey he documented through diary entries and photographs he gathered while there. “Most graffiti I saw had the same recurring themes, mostly revolving around war martyrs and floral motifs.”

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Toy designer Tom Karen: “Pleasing objects are what I live for”

Design Week

The models were the only toys he was permitted to bring with him as his family fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the run up to the Second World War. The models were the only toys he was permitted to bring with him as his family fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the run up to the Second World War.

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One Photographer’s Quarantine Diary with His Mom and Ex-Wife

Feature Shoot

“For a few weeks, at least in my mind, I could imagine what it must feel like to be in a war-torn country, afraid of leaving the house, and needing to protect your family at all costs.” “This was all supposed to be temporary,” Kramer remembers. “From Sophia and my mother battling over who controls the kitchen.

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Rolling Stone Photo Editor Sacha Lecca on Annie Leibovitz, Tina Turner, and a Lifelong Love of Music

Feature Shoot

This year, Lecca also joins the jury for the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards , where he will be one of our judges for the Series category. “For instance, getting to work on the Kill Team feature (2010) still feels significant; it involved imagery of US soldiers and evidence of war crimes.