White Bear refreshes Bold Bean with a simplified brand identity

The London agency has reworked the cult bean brand’s packaging and identity with a “simplified to amplify” approach, creating a stronger, more navigable system that celebrates imperfection while scaling for mainstream growth. Bold Bean has been a...

NOLA RAIN: the definitive chronicle of Banksy’s New Orleans legacy

Twenty years on from Hurricane Katrina, Jesse Zuefle tells the full story of the famous street artist’s mysterious visit. In the summer of 2008, the world’s most enigmatic street artist slipped into New Orleans like a ghost. Three years after Hurricane...

Rhea Freeman on how to set creative goals that stick

The award-winning author shares a practical guide to redefining goal setting and making real progress, tailored for creative professionals. Did you know we have our own network for creatives, The Studio? It’s free to join, and one of the benefits is the...

The Sacred Waterways of Black and Indigenous Communities

Felandus Thames, “Wail on Whalers, a Portrait of Amos Haskins” (2024) (all photos Aly Thomas/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) MYSTIC, Conn. — A momentous exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum honors the ancestral knowledge and creative innovation that flow from...

The São Paulo Biennial Is the Calm Before a Storm

SÃO PAULO — At the pre-opening of the 36th São Paulo Biennial on September 5, a spiritual procession filled the austere Cecilio Matarazzo Pavilion in Parque Ibirapuera with rousing drums and smoke. With the festivities of poetry readings and live performances...

An Indian-American Artist’s Self in Pieces

For a 2024 exhibition in Mumbai (for which I wrote a catalog essay), Sangram Majumdar explored the contrast between visceral presence and memory’s shadow, as well as the double state of consciousness that is inherent in having to constantly realign here and there....

Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA 

On Monday, September 22, a projection of FBI Director Kash Patel looking back and forth with widened eyes appeared on a building on 2nd Street and Beaudry Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. Other digital projections parodying Trump and his allies have been popping up...

OpenAI’s first big ChatGPT campaign signals a new era

Shot on 35mm film in the US and UK, OpenAI’s new campaign follows different characters using ChatGPT to cook, learn, travel and reach personal goals—an elegant piece of brand storytelling that shows AI slipping quietly into everyday life. The world is changing...