Why Cavalry is the secret weapon of the world’s best design studios

Sep 1, 2025

This revolutionary motion graphics tool is reshaping global design. Discover Cavalry, and find out what it can do for you. When a small team of animators in Manchester decided to build their own motion graphics software, they weren’t just solving their personal...

Tips from creatives on how to handle cashflow stress

Sep 1, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock In the second of our new advice series, creatives share their hard-won wisdom on surviving feast-or-famine cycles, late payments and the perpetual anxiety of freelance finances. Welcome to the second in our new agony aunt series, Dear...

The New York Times launches its first original logic puzzle Pips

Sep 1, 2025

Following the runaway success of Wordle and Connections, The New York Times Games team has unveiled a tactile, domino-based puzzle that blends clarity, colour and clever design thinking. When The New York Times Games drops a new puzzle, it’s always going to turn...

Yinka Ilori launches debut watch collection with M.A.D.Editions

Sep 1, 2025

The British-Nigerian artist and designer has unveiled a trio of limited-edition watches created in partnership with MB&F’s M.A.D.Editions. Yinka Ilori MBE has released his first-ever watch collection in collaboration with MB&F’s M.A.D.Editions. The...

The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House

Sep 1, 2025

In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Tijuana-born and San Diego-based illustrator received the contest’s grand...

The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction

Sep 1, 2025

LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse, on the other hand, strikes the exact right balance. Drawing on scholar Jo Applin’s research, curator...

Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression 

Sep 1, 2025

When the United States Department of Agriculture established the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937, hoping to provide aid to rural communities affected by the Great Depression, it also implemented a photography project headed by government official Roy...