16 years since the duo’s last onscreen adventure, Wallace & Gromit will be back on our TVs this Christmas. Here, we speak to its creator and director Nick Park, co-director Merlin Crossingham and supervising animator Will Becher to take a look at the legacy of the adored animation.

Dec 16, 2024 · 35 years ago, a plasticine man donning a sweater vest and slippers, and his mute yet expressive plasticine dog walked onto our TV screens. Wallace & Gromit’s arrival struck a chord with audiences of the late 80s, with its handmade touch and careful blend of humour, charm and wit.It was novel yet nostalgic, posing new possibilities for the world of animation with a portrayal of Britishness ...

Mar 20, 2024 · Quite unsurprisingly, taking one of top spots this year is designer Sun Young Oh’s cat flow charts. While we know we have an animal-loving readership, we think it might have actually been the designer’s process that really captured you all, with his visual investigation of words in a careful crossover between art and typography.

Dec 17, 2024 · We all love to hate and in the world of graphic design the clear culprit for the most hated font has long been the infamous Comic Sans. So, of course you clicked when Thomas Steeles claimed to have unearthed its origin story.

From comics to editorial spots, hand-drawn to digital, 2D to 3D, here we showcase fantastic illustrators and their inspiring work...

Dec 9, 2024 · The hit multimedia puppet show Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (DHMIS) from Blinkink, and directors Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling has come full circle with a new website – published some 13 years after Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared was first launched on YouTube. “We wanted a place for people outside of the UK to see the Channel 4 show and for reasons we simply cannot talk about, Netflix were not ...

Dec 3, 2024 · To mark Disability History Month 2024 and International Day of Disabled People (today, 3 December), the artist James Lake, known for his life-size cardboard characters, sculptures and scenes, has released an animated short film Another Day.The poignant film explores themes of loneliness, routine, and the nature …

Nov 28, 2024 · Dasha Surma’s pencil drawings look like painterly impressions of the photographs you might take on holiday. In a place where everything is unfamiliar and, with a newly naive perspective, you are able to notice something beautiful in the smallest of things.

Oct 4, 2024 · Nishant Choksi has contributed to some of our favourite editorial projects of recent years. He illustrated Volume One of The Guardian’s Long Read magazine (a rare physical publication), providing drawings for the cover and inside pages. The expressive faces that covered issues one through 12 of Real Review were also his. And yet, despite a client list of heavyweight editorial commissioners ...

Oct 17, 2024 · Hands up if this sounds familiar. In the 2023 film BlackBerry, the creator of the eponymous smartphone technology Mike Lazairidis is painstakingly developing the first prototype, adamant it should be absolutely perfect before shown to any potential investors – despite imminent financial ruin.His CEO (more of a numbers guy than a creative) tells him “perfect is the enemy of good”.