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So Long As It’s Black

Words by Alex Bec, Tuesday 15 June 2010

As the clouds form over ‘sunny’ England, this fantastic little blog seemed very apt. So Long As It Is Black, does exactly what you think it might, cover work defined by it’s lack of vibrancy, although there’s no shortage of things to please the eye in other ways. Monotone-tastic.

“Evolve or die”: Bloomberg Businessweek creative director Rob Vargas on the magazine’s redesign 16 June 2017
Southbank Centre visual identity redesigned by North, to be a “confident masthead” for the institution 19 June 2017
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The Buzzfeed redesign: UK art director Tim Lane talks us through his seven-month overhaul 19 June 2017
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Fresh Yale grad Franci Virgili applies an academic approach to graphic design 20 June 2017

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The mystery that surrounds Aphex Twin is like no other, outside and within electronic music, a genre he has shaped over the past 20 years. A man of 18 different pseudonyms, the rumours that surround Richard D. James are absurd but often true. It is difficult to name another artist who encourages such hearsay as to whether he lives in a box structure on the Elephant and Castle roundabout, when he was actually living in abandoned bank office. He’s a musician who announces upcoming albums via blimps flying over London or by hiding a track list in a deep web server, an innovator across all aspects of his creative output. It comes as no surprise, the visuals of Aphex Twin have evolved with the increased sophistication of technology.

Lucy Bourton — 05 June 2017
Sponsored / Miscellaneous MullenLowe Group’s Global Creative Officer José Miguel Sokoloff on judging CSM's degree shows

London art school Central Saint Martins is name-checked the world over as a creative incubator, bringing to life the industry’s best known talent and counting the likes of Stella McCartney and Jarvis Cocker as alumni.

It's Nice That — 22 May 2017
Work / Miscellaneous Is colour subjective? Disegno tests Johannes Itten’s colour theory

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Oliver Stratford — 26 April 2017
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In Wang & Söderström’s biography its work is described as “mind tickling” and we couldn’t put it better ourselves. As a studio, Anny Wang and Tim Söderström create interior and architectural digital works that “combines, collects and explores physical elements in a digital environment,” they explain. The end result is a portfolio of projects “utilising new technologies to shape tomorrow’s visual and spatial experiences”.

Lucy Bourton — 18 April 2017
Features / Miscellaneous It's Nice That's Easter Break

It’s the Easter Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, so we are out of the office for the next four days taking a breather and hopefully enjoying some great spring weather. To keep you entertained over the long weekend we have pulled together some of the highlights from the year so far. Below you can find the most read stories of the year to date, some films to watch, our favourite long-reads from 2017, our selection of music-related stories, and last, but by no means least, some of the weird, wonderful and NSFW articles that have appeared this year.

It's Nice That — 13 April 2017
Sponsored / Miscellaneous Unlock your potential with creative classes from Skillshare

We’d all love the opportunity to learn new skills, fine tune old ones or get proper advice from working creatives directly. But when we take into consideration limitations like time, money and accessibility, these aspirations seem too lofty to achieve. But fear not, for this is where Skillshare comes into play as the online learning community open to everyone who wants to take or teach a class within the creative, business and technology industries.

Sponsored Content — 10 April 2017