The Ultimate Deck

Cardistry stars and acclaimed magicians Dan and Dave introduce a set of art driven playing cards

A bewitching collaboration between branding agency Stranger & Stranger and renowned magicians Dan and Dave, the Ultimate Deck is a set of 54 playing cards a year in the making. Each card in the deck features a custom illustration that relates to the card’s suit and number, all with a slightly macabre twist for a deck that’s as artistically driven as it is fun to …

Jason Holroyd’s “Like a Rolling Stone”

An artistically riveting tribute to Bob Dylan's hit song projected in motion and in a vibrant new book

Winning Creative Review’s Best in Book category as part of their esteemed Illustration Annual 2011, designer Jason Holroyd clearly knows how to make the paper medium an enticing experience. But it was actually Holroyd’s genius music video for the Bob Dylan classic “Like A Rolling Stone” that grabbed our attention. Using an overhead projector—or as he puts it, “technology of the time”—Holroyd performs an elegant …

Design Indaba: John Maeda

Our interview with the RISD president on the changing nature of design and the long process of becoming a successful leader

John Maeda, pioneer of programmatic design, delivered the closing address at South Africa’s premier conference on creativity, Design Indaba. He spoke to the crowd about the nature of code in art (“Programming is not very complicated, it’s just very boring—It’s what you can do with coding that matters more than programming itself.”), the vagaries of the term “design thinking” and the importance of redesigning leadership. …