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Browsing Folklore

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Hastings Castle. Identity by Clare and Charlie Noon, UK
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Marketing & Branding

The Typefaces Reviving Heritage Branding

Folk culture, fantasy and a renewed appetite for ancient history are converging into a typographic design language that treats heritage and craftsmanship as a living visual currency rather than a historical reference.

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Technology

Internet explorers

US – The Internet of Mysterious Things is a new children’s book that helps readers to unravel the science behind connected technology using an interactive narrative consisting of numerous augmented levels.

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Marketing & Branding

Ride or die

Paris – Kenzo’s short film Sun to Sun is like a Harajuku Quadrophenia, with its modern adaptation of Japanese folk tale Momotarō.

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Marketing & Branding

Occult Enchantment

As fantastical fables and tales of escapism continue to dominate popular culture, designers are harnessing the power of magic and myth in 21st-century life.

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Fashion

Spreading his wings: Pugh creates living folklore in fashion ritual

New York – For his first New York Fashion Week event, designer Gareth Pugh staged a multimedia spectacle that paid homage to British folklore and fantasy.

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Technology

Foresta Lumina

Magical moments are Moment Factory’s modus operandi. Whether it be the visual effects for Arcade Fire’s latest stadium tour or making airport waiting time less dull at Los Angeles, viewers are guaranteed to be transported by their technological wizardry and finesse. But its latest venture took the Canadian company out of its comfort zone and into…

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Culture & Media

Magical mystery tour: Forest turned into fairytale woodland

Coaticook, Québec – Experiential agency Moment Factory has transformed Le Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook into a mystical woodland.

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Design

Parallel lines: Designers explore Polish folklore

Parallel lines: Designers explore Polish folklore

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Europe

Lucid dream: Tapestries explore the moments after waking

Helsinki – The latest exhibit from Finnish-born, Amsterdam-based graphic designer and artist Kustaa Saksi features woven jacquard textiles reflecting a person’s mindset after waking up.