Articles
Advice, insight and first-hand accounts of creative career journeys, aimed at helping you find your way in the industry.
Creative Lives
Countering the stale state of football culture: SEASON zine founder Felicia Pennant
Parts of the Process
How Aesop created a life-saving campaign for anti-slavery charity Unseen UK
Advice
Breed founder Olivia Triggs on how to do commercial work without losing your soul
Written by
Olivia Triggs
Creative Lives
Collaborate, be chilled and emotionally connected: Molly Manning Walker, freelance DOP
First Hand
It’s Freezing in LA! on using magazines as a vehicle for change
Written by
Martha Dillon
Creative Lives
How a background in journalism led Jeavon Smith to working in experience design at Amplify
Insight
Money, skills, working culture: What’s the state of creative work in 2019?
Written by
Creative Lives in Progress
Creative Lives
Ben Giles’ journey from tree surgeon to freelance collage artist
Parts of the Process
Welcome to the family: Director Jack Whiteley’s 90s-inspired trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
Advice
W+K copywriter Ruby Norman-Curran on why it’s time to kill the ‘genius’ myth
Written by
Ruby Norman-Curran
First Hand
Artist Steven Chorney on hand-painting posters for some of Hollywood’s most famous film studios
Interview by
Marianne Hanoun
and
Parts of the Process
Photographer Elise Dumontet’s Make Book documents a love for imperfections
Creative Lives
Glasgow-based illustrator Oscar Mitchell on rejection, luck, and chasing those “big, juicy dream clients”
Creative Lives
Multidisciplinary creative Daniel Baragwanath on art directing for Dua Lipa and developing 3D code
Parts of the Process
Make Time! Introducing the 2019–20 Lecture in Progress Year Planner
Creative Lives
Battling imposter syndrome with vintage visuals: Art director and designer Halima Olalemi
Parts of the Process
Relentless energy, disruptive attitude: The makings of Keith Haring’s first major UK exhibition at Tate Liverpool
Parts of the Process
How to get Slowthai nude, exposed in a pillory in front of his old home
Creative Lives
Meet Chrystal King, one of the designers behind your Depop experience
Insight
100 creative schemes helping to diversify the industry
Creative Lives
Creative Lives
Illustrator Jack Oliver Coles on freelancing, people-chasing and the power of social media
Parts of the Process
Ines Alpha on becoming a 3D make-up artist and creating bewitching face filters
In the Studio With
Meet Amplify, the London-based studio championing young creative talent
Advice
Contracts and small print: A project manager’s guide to being commissioned