When creating the visual identities for “non-Western” food brands, designers face a daunting challenge: go more generic and risk cultural appropriation, or go too niche and lose out on the opportunity to reach a broader market. Designers can often struggle to thread the cultural needle, but a commitment to research, communication and creative thinking are the key to success.

It turns out ‘unfocus’ is a prerequisite for creativity... but in a world where distracted device-browsing has become default, how do we distinguish between helpful and unhelpful mind-idling?

Motion blur, spiked typography and vests – we analyse key art for action movies of the past, and investigate whether they’ve changed, with a so-called masculinity crisis upon us.