The eerily beautiful world of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
We hear from the director and the film’s head puppet maker, Georgina Hayns, about the painstaking process of bringing one of the world’s most famous stories to life in stop motion
In this series we celebrate storytelling across advertising, VR experiences, TV dramas, podcasts and more
We hear from the director and the film’s head puppet maker, Georgina Hayns, about the painstaking process of bringing one of the world’s most famous stories to life in stop motion
The world of Philip Pullman’s epic adventure series has been brought to life in an eight-part drama co-produced by the BBC and HBO. We talk to Executive Producer Joel Collins about building alternate realities and creating a host of CGI creatures
Ahead of the release of his memoir, the poet discusses growing up in care, documenting his existence through poems when no one else listened, and poetry’s remarkable pop culture resurgence
We talk to puppet maker Andy Gent about working on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Fantastic Mr Fox, and how stop motion animation is in a golden age, much to his surprise and delight
Writer and director Christian Cantamessa reflects on 20 years of creating stories for games – including blockbuster title Red Dead Redemption – and discusses what the future could hold as the boundaries between traditional and interactive media blur
The Getty Images Hulton Archive houses over 80 million images in a vast warehouse in Canning Town, east London. It is overseen by Matthew Butson – we talk to him about why physical archives matter in our digital world, and the importance of storytelling
A survivor’s memories of the Rwandan genocide are recounted through hand-drawn animations in BBC and Netflix’s new series, Black Earth Rising
How Donald Trump, the Women’s March and social media have prompted a wave of books celebrating inspiring female role models
A master storyteller working across books, art and commercial projects, Oliver Jeffers is getting philosophical in his latest children’s title, Here We Are. We talk to him about how it was made.
From low comedy to high art, the humble gif has become a powerful storytelling device. Emily Gosling meets Adam Leibsohn, Chief Operating Officer of Giphy, the search engine powering a new medium
VCCP’s Voices campaign for building society Nationwide takes a radical approach to storytelling in advertising: all the scripts were written by poets, who deliver them straight to camera in a stripped back, soundtrack-free, intimate style
Vice TV channel Viceland has adopted an unconventional approach to promoting its content, with thought-provoking short films, striking visuals and “unbranded branding”
Released in March this year, the S-Town podcast from the makers of This American Life and Serial reimagines the way oral stories can be told. CR’s Salonee Gadgil speaks to its host and executive producer Brian Reed about the complexities of telling the story of John B McLemore in this new experimental format and attempts to uncover the secret to its success. (Warning: contains spoilers)
OK, enough with the brand storytelling. The campfire went out years ago. The audience got cramp from crossing their legs. You were only going to get away with the Jackanory stuff for so long. Everyone’s at the chatbot party now. Move on. It would be nice to end the article there. But we haven’t moved […]
My Golden Ticket, the new book from children’s publisher Wonderbly, takes young readers on a tour through Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory – and is a brilliant example of personalised storytelling using algorithms and one huge InDesign file. In 1964, Roald Dahl created one of the most bonkers and memorable children’s book settings of all time. […]
Tom Gauld’s new collection of cartoons examines the world of books, from their writing and publication, to how we read and talk about them. Mark Sinclair speaks to the illustrator about coming up with ideas, constructing visual jokes and how, even with a distinctly minimalist approach, there is always a story to tell Tom Gauld’s […]