Katy Cowan
Author, Host
About
Journalist and founding editor of Creative Boom, the independent art and design platform she established in 2009.
SourceIn their own words
I want it to come alive and be a character of its own. Like it's everyone's friend, keeping a watchful, caring eye over everything.
Flexible help is no longer the thing you fall back on when you can't afford a permanent hire; it's a first choice.
To be recommended, you have to be known. To be known, you have to be talked about.
The creatives who get featured aren't necessarily the most talented; they're the ones who make the journalist's job easy.
When making things gets easy, deciding what's good becomes the whole job.
Sometimes the most confident thing a studio can do is admit it's too close to see itself clearly.
Articles & interviews
- Macfadden & Thorpe creates fluid identity for Art + Water
MacFadden & Thorpe and independent brand designer Anisha Sachar created a fluid identity for Art + Water, a San Francisco waterfront art hub founded as a free alternative to conventional art-school study. Drawing on the flow of the bay and the exchange of knowledge between established and emerging artists, the system uses a bendy custom wordmark, winding type, shifting image frames, loose motion and hot fuchsia and electric aqua.
- Alan Dye reflects after closing NB Studio
NB Studio co-founder Alan Dye reflects on closing the London agency after 29 years, alongside fellow founder Nick Finney. He revisits the studio's playful, expressive work for clients including ANNA Money, Petit Pli, Royal Mail and the Almeida Theatre, while arguing that contemporary design needs more humour, colour, tactility and joy. Dye and Finney are now working independently and occasionally together.
- Jaguar unveils electric Type 01 with leaper restored