Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam launched a visually striking campaign to announce the arrival of Klabu, a non-profit that is building sports clubs in refugee camps and settlements. Klabu’s mission is to empower young refugees by providing facilities, equipment, and clothing. 100% of proceeds go towards the foundation, with the ultimate goal of recreating this simple and sustainable concept in other refugee settings around the globe.
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Motion Artist Marco Mori’s World is a Collision Course for the Human Form
Marco Mori’s visual storytelling is simultaneously smart, grotesque, funny, and dark. It relishes in a queasy manipulation of the human form through inhuman experiences, from bodies bouncing boneless down a staircase to heads expanding, melting, and colliding.
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This Photo Series Tells the Stories of Homeless People Through Their Most Essential Items
The interviews and photographs, captured at a drop-in center and safe haven in Manhattan, tell deeply personal stories of pain, addiction and loss but also of hope and ingenuity. Creatives Chris and Simon discuss the project as a reclamation of what it means for something to be “essential.” They also talk about the importance of setting aside creativity for the sake of creativity in favor of an authenticity that serves the stories of their subjects.
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Book Design by Anna Kasnyik
An Actual Advertising Book That Doesn’t Pretend to Have It All Figured Out
“Junior creatives in the fledgling stages of their careers are reading about the economic impact of the industry, overseeing global campaigns, changing the world through 360 campaigns, but not how to write the ad for the brief in front of them. This book is written by somebody who is definitely still in it and still figuring it out.”
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Be More Mindful of the Planet & Each Other with This Dinner Date Publication
Date Paper is a new quarterly publication that curates primal dishes in service of your health and the health of the planet. “The First Date” launches today, on Earth Day, with 100% of the proceeds for this first issue donated to Farmworker Justice.
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Introducing Illustration to Pro Wrestling, a Ring of Copyright Challenges & Wrestlers-Turned-Art Directors
“As a fan and a commercial illustrator, it’s the coolest thing to look at the list of available stars to work with and brainstorm visual ideas. These posters are stories: the wrestler’s stories. It’s my main priority to have a sensitivity to that and create exciting ideas that everyone is happy with.”
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The Recipe for Cheerios & 72andSunny’s Animated Kindness Campaign? Creators That Play Well with Others
Director Johnny Kelly shares how he helped create a perfect collision of collaborators with Nous Vous and Andy Gent, how his creative process shifts with his intended audience (in this case, kids and their parents), and his proudest moment with this project: unleashing these films on an unsuspecting public.
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For Jimmy Simpson, Working with Giphy Feels like Creating a Personal Project with a Payday at the End
Jimmy Simpson talks about the benefits of having open-minded clients like Giphy and why their voices align. He also discusses his interest in working with musicians and the empowerment and excitement from being part of a creative community that is overwhelmingly positive.
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Members to Watch: Best of February
Here are just five projects from Working Not Working Members that caught our eye this February.
Read MoreWitness the Natural Wonders of Love in These Animated & Educational Stories
From gorillas matchmaking via algorithm to lesbian seagulls starting a home together in the seventies, “Love Animated” manages to affirm the natural wonders of love in just four short clips.
Read MoreLove Letters From the WNW Team
Since we’re lovestruck with top-caliber creative work, we figured we’d use this Valentine’s Day to spread the love. The Working Not Working team writes a polyamorous love letter to personal projects, musicals, campaigns, and chatbots, all coming from the global Working Not Working community.
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Meet minutiae, the Photo-Sharing App That Captures Your Actual Life
Martin Adolfsson and Daniel J. Wilson share the inspiration behind their app minutiae, how it works, and what a collaboration between a photographer and a neuroscientist looks like. They also offer what this exploration and experience has taught them about the ways creatives interact with technology, and how they measure minutiae’s success.
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Members to Watch: Best of January
Here are seven projects from Working Not Working Members that caught our eye this January.
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A Collaboration with NYC Ballet is the Perfect Stage for Shantell Martin's Lines
With drawings that regularly incorporate questions like “Who are you?”, “Are you you?”, and “Where are your lines leading you?”, Shantell’s collaboration with NYC Ballet feels like the ultimate destination of where her lines are leading her. The performances will take place on February 2nd, February 8th, and March 2nd.
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How to Create a Brand Identity that Sets the Mood for an Erotica Audio App
“We were excited to take on a project made by women for women with such a provocative message, and knew that the branding had the potential to be as modern, refreshing and sexy as the platform’s content. Plus, we were excited by the fact that we hadn't seen anything like this out there.”
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‘A Word, A Week’ Perfectly Embodies the Motion Community’s Collaborative Spirit
Jeroen Krielaars started to wonder how his animated typefaces being used and in what kinds of projects. So he invited a few studios and freelancers from the tight-knit animation community to take part in an experimental brief.
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Gundi Studios Celebrates Desi Women from the Motherland, Diaspora, & Beyond
Natasha Sumant is a young designer hell-bent on correcting the representation of South Asian women in fashion, editorial, media, and beyond. In 2014, she started Gundi Studios, which aims to inspire and educate her audience on issues related to feminism and navigating the world as a South Asian woman.
Read MoreAlasdair & Jock Peel Back the Glass Onion for The White Album’s 50th Anniversary
London-based Animator and Director team Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney share how they brought Richard Hamilton’s White Album collage to life, what it was like collaborating with Apple and Universal, and who their respective favorite Beatle is.
Read MoreRedesigning the Bill of Rights for A Modern Age
“Most Americans best know the Bill Of Rights by their shorthand, like Freedom of Speech or The Right to Bear Arms. But most of us haven't read them in their entirety and the shorthand can gloss over some key details,” reads his Kickstarter page. “I wanted to create a series of typographic images that call out this discrepancy.”
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