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playfulness
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2014Photography: Fun portraits of bubblegum-blowers by Emily Stein
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2020Is playfulness the creative tool we’re not making the most of?
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2016Playfully nude characters in Laura Berger’s charming illustrations
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2017Playing the fool, it’s Best of the Web!
Identity
2024Ottolenghi introduces playful cut-outs and joyful illustrated faces in a refresh on the brand’s classic identity
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2019Where are my glasses? Illustrator Ji Hyun Yu encourages you to find her lost specs
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2017Why choose the career ladder when there’s a climbing frame?
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2014Nicer Tuesdays: a look back at last night's evening devoted to pranks
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2022Rémi Volclair’s type designs are charged with an irresistible playfulness
Identity
2016The Yarza Twins design playful branding for an abandoned bread factory
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2012Fun, funny and funnier! The cam-whoring self-portrait twists on famous photographs
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2017The irreverent spontaneity of Stefan Marx’s markmaking
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2018PlayLab, Inc. says it doesn't “want to do the same thing twice” in its practice
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2014Great, playful Studio Hato-designed tool for year six kids to express themselves
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2014Meet the designer subverting internet art and having fun with it, too
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2024The View From Tokyo: embracing imperfection and humour with heta-uma
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2014Our favourite cartoonist Christoph Niemann has a brand new website!
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2018Tessa Mackenzie’s week-long caseroom residency at SWG3 “re-introduced an element of play” to her illustration practice
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2018Nathan Hackett's playful illustrations explore relationships between humans and their surroundings
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2022Ibby Njoya on the importance of finding your inner child in your practice
Motion
2023From viruses to Bitcoin, Carlos Miranda’s playful animations are a sign of the times
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2024Finding your Happy Place: How play and experimentation unlock inner calm
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2012William Strobeck: My Lovely Mess
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2016Seeing double: Loewe's surreal, playful AW16 collection shot by Jamie Hawkesworth
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2026All Hell Bricks Loose
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2013Superb silliness from Aakash Nihalani's Sum Times series of interventions
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2010Make the Logo Suckier
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2025What do architecture school, giant bouncy castles, and Post Malone have in common? PlayLab.
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2014Oliver Hadlee Pearch's playful shoot for Arena Homme+ is cooly nostalgic
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2016More bonkers and surreal selfies from Izumi Miyazaki
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2023Esme Lower on her larger-than-life illustrations of bold feminist characters
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2019Studio Lowrie's design of essays on the built environment is playful, serious and intellectual
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2023Rejecting restraints: Mike Nigra on combining typographic anatomies
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2011Damp Gnat: Wonderputt
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