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Creative Comment examines the world through a designer's lens, providing thoughtful analysis that reveals how visual culture, design thinking, and creative storytelling intersect with contemporary topics. Our mission is to inspire constructive change by illuminating the design decisions that shape our daily experiences whilst always pointing toward positive solutions and creative possibilities.
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Four decades after Ridley Scott's dystopian masterpiece, Blade Runner's layered cityscapes and lived-in technology have become the visual DNA of our digital world. From video game environments to smart city interfaces, designers are still learning from a film that dared to imagine the future as beautifully imperfect.
Culture
As algorithmic feeds increasingly shape our cultural consumption, a quiet revolution is emerging. From independent record shops to community-driven platforms, human curators are reclaiming the art of discovery, offering something machines cannot: passion, context, and the joy of the unexpected find.
Graphic Design
Gary Vaynerchuk's Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook framework mirrors sophisticated design principles, showing how consistent value creation builds stronger relationships than promotional tactics. By applying design thinking to social media, brands can transform digital platforms from competing messages into thoughtful visual narratives that genuinely serve audiences.
Graphic Design
Canva's 225 million users are creating a new visual language through template culture. Rather than homogenising design, this democratisation is opening creative possibilities for millions whilst challenging professionals to develop more distinctive approaches that serve both accessibility and innovation.
Photography
As AI generates increasingly perfect images, photographers are embracing harsh flash and visible artifice to preserve human creativity. This deliberate imperfection isn't rebellion—it's innovation, creating new forms of authenticity that celebrate the irreplaceable value of human presence behind the camera.
Photography
Ocean photography captures more than dramatic waves, it reveals our profound emotional connection to forces beyond our control. As photographers like Warren Keelan and Rachael Talibart demonstrate, these images serve as bridges between ancient human experiences and contemporary visual storytelling, offering both aesthetic beauty and therapeutic calm.
Art
Bridget Riley's systematic exploration of repetition and colour reveals how fundamental visual principles can generate infinite possibility, offering contemporary designers a model for rigorous inquiry that transcends stylistic trends to engage with the deeper mechanisms of human perception.
Graphic Design
In an age of algorithmic recommendations and thumbnail-driven discovery, a quiet revolution is happening in book design. Publishers and designers are creating covers that reward slow looking, encourage physical browsing, and help readers rediscover the joy of serendipitous literary discovery.
Architecture
From exposed brick to Instagram-worthy interiors, home design has become increasingly uniform despite endless choice. Yet a growing movement toward slow design and architectural appreciation suggests we're rediscovering what makes spaces genuinely personal, creating homes that reflect individual stories rather than following templates.
Film
The blue-orange colour scheme has dominated cinema for over a decade, creating visual homogeneity across genres. Yet a new generation of filmmakers is proving that distinctive colour palettes can enhance storytelling whilst achieving commercial success, pointing toward a more visually diverse future for cinema.
Photography
Exploring how social media algorithms have created a visual monoculture in travel photography, filtering diverse global destinations through identical aesthetic lenses.
Graphic Design
In our visually saturated world, the most memorable posters often whisper rather than shout. Simple typographic design is experiencing a renaissance as designers discover that restraint creates deeper connections than complexity, offering clarity and intimacy in spaces overwhelmed by visual noise.

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