Why inspiration feels harder to come by and how three types of creative ritual could be our strongest defence against the slow erosion of taste, attention, and intention.

The Christophers, a new Ian McKellan-starring film includes 16 ‘fake’ artworks by painter Barnaby Gorton. Our culture columnist Gary Grimes argues that this body of work isn’t so different from the ...

Pulling away from a focus on plants, the artist has turned her brush to a number of tasty visual treats of late, all in her signature fuzzy style.

Despite everything existing in the digital, the world’s most popular travel guide publisher is sticking close to its roots with a new DIY print offshoot that seeks to connect us with what it truly ...

Feeling like you and your work are overlooked is demoralising. Katie Cadwell demonstrates how you can prove your capabilities in this week’s Creative Career Conundrums.

What really matters is personality. Not a fixed identity, but a living one. Just like people, brands evolve. The key is to ...

The American health care system is mind-bogglingly cruel and cryptic. When Parker Jones found herself trying to read countless medical documents, she teamed up with Rajshree Saraf to reverse-engineer ...

The Brighton-based visual artist’s new creative avenue has seen him animating everything from wool to receipt print reels. Alex Khabbazi is “analogue process obsessed”. Well known for his illustrative ...

Stink Studios got the hefty (and top secret) design brief to give an identity to Saturday Night Live UK. To face up against the gigantic US reputation, the global creative studio chose to literally ...

Working with the everyday hardware to create “something sensitive and slow from something biting and fast”, these abstract compositions pull the colours of rare wood varieties over the grit at full ...

Existing in parallel to a world of hyperrealistic CGI is a growing segment of gaming using illustration and painterly art to make mesmerising and charming visual experiences. Angelica Frey explores ...

From the fantasy realms of RPG graphics to sheer 8-bit pixelation, video game visuals don’t mean any one thing, as these brilliant creatives prove. Just like there are rich aesthetic histories for ...