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In this Take Five interview, Stockholm Design Lab creative director Frans Enmark discusses his music-driven route into graphic design and the studio's belief in intuition, clarity, strategy and meticulous craft. Enmark explains how SDL develops simple ideas, protects what matters under deadline pressure, and creates long-term work for clients including Polestar, Moderna Museet, the Nobel Prize and Sigma. He also previews his POV Budapest 2026 talk on how an identity acts as well as looks.
Steven Heller reports on the New York Botanical Garden’s 'Flower Power' exhibition, a summer event celebrating the art, activism, and aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s. The show features works by iconic artists such as Andy Warhol, Milton Glaser, and Corita Kent, alongside new installations by contemporary artists Eugenia Mello and Amie Jacobsen. The exhibition explores themes of peace, protest, and environmentalism through vibrant, flower-inspired art and design.
Creative Boom’s 2024 Christmas Gift Guide highlights thoughtful, design-led gifts from independent makers and small businesses across the UK and beyond. Curated by Katy Cowan, the feature champions sustainable, handcrafted, and locally produced items for creatives, from illustrated ceramics to eco-conscious fashion and design books. The guide encourages supporting artists and small brands during the festive season.
Steven Heller’s Daily Heller column spotlights 'The Illustrated Life of Terry Southern: Book One (1924–1938)', a new graphic biography by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall. The project explores the early life of writer Terry Southern through a scrapbook-style comic format blending archival research, illustration, and narrative experimentation. Persoff discusses the creative process, research methods, and the cultural relevance of Southern’s satirical legacy.
This obituary commemorates Shirley Girton Glaser, painter, author, photographer and pioneering director of SVA's Visual Arts Gallery, who died at age 95 on June 29. It recounts her more than 30 rapid, conceptually ambitious gallery exhibitions from 1964–1969, her support of emerging and prominent artists, and her creative work with Milton Glaser, including children's books.
Steven Heller’s Daily Heller column advocates for a long-overdue monograph on Brazilian designer Bea Feitler, highlighting her pioneering work across major magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Ms., and Vanity Fair. The article references a proposal by Serge Ricco and Bruno Feitler for an English-language monograph and calls for greater recognition of Feitler’s legacy through a book and exhibition.