8 slang terms every creative should know in the AI era

Aug 27, 2025

From ‘clankers’ to ‘delebs’, we explain all the words cool kids are throwing about in meetings. Whatever your creative discipline, you need to communicate effectively with your colleagues, collaborators, clients and bosses. And part of that is...

Inside Bitsville: Dale Crosby-Close’s eccentric new comedy world

Aug 27, 2025

A year on from first making waves with his surreal, deadpan shorts, the Sheffield animator is back with a new series that expands his eccentric universe into full 10-minute episodes. We explore how he’s building a comedy empire, one bizarre character and...

Inside Bitsville: Dale Crosby-Close’s eccentric new comedy world

Aug 27, 2025

A year on from first making waves with his surreal, deadpan shorts, the Sheffield animator is back with a new series that expands his eccentric universe into full 10-minute episodes. We explore how he’s building a comedy empire, one bizarre character and...

The Taylor Swift story retold in search and find illustrations

Aug 27, 2025

For Brazilian illustrator Gus Morais, illustrating this incredible book was a labour of love, even though he knew little about Taylor Swift when he set out. Dazzling. Beguiling. Sometimes overwhelming. 100 per cent entertaining. That’s what a Taylor Swift show...

What happens when cinema gets more emotionally intelligent?

Aug 27, 2025

Tobey Duncan, chief strategy officer at Uncommon, explores how the studio’s new short film, Losing It, joins a wave of cinema redefining masculinity, turning silence into dialogue and taboo into cultural conversation. Film is finally cracking open one of the...

A Landmark Raphael Retrospective Is Coming to The Met

Aug 27, 2025

Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11) (image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) “How generous and kind Heaven sometimes proves to be,” mused Italian Renaissance artist and...