Tag: Creative
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![Black Girl Festival [@BlackGirlFest] Take Two](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/womensissue-ap-68-180x180.jpg)
Words By Mayran Osman On the 27th October 2018, BlackGirlFest opened the doors to their second year of the festival at Shoreditch town hall. The festival was founded by the trailblazers, Paula Akpan and Nicole Krystal Crentsil to give black women a safe space to learn, network and collaborate. This year BlackGirlFest teamed up with…
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![[@Sosa_Yande] wants to know ‘Where Are You Now’ on her new track](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/58A10C59-5A13-4305-8024-7F2E3F1BEA3E-180x180.jpeg)
Sosa Yande shares with us a story about loss and heartbreak on her new single ‘Where Are You Now?’ Sosa is not only a creative but a visionary, as she likes to sing with a creative imagery touch. On the track the songstress deals with the breakdown of her relationship with her lover. The pain of…
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![[@Henriquewooding] x Queens of Belles](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-23-at-13.31.15.png)
Creative director Henrique Wooding is back again with another creative collaboration; this time with the amazing company Queens of Belles. Queens of Belles is a hair company created by Jahnet O. Its main aims are to advocate and empower black women and their hair. They do this by creating natural looking hairstyles, such as afros, kinky…
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D&AD New Blood Shift London Talent doesn’t need a university degree, or A levels. Talent pours our pints, serves our meals and delivers our post. Talent works through the night, and dreams through the day. Talent says the unsayable and makes the unmakeable. Talent is relentless, unwavering, and indifferent. D&AD is looking to nurture the…
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The 24-year-old photographer, visual artist and an overall shining ray of talent has a way of turning raw pictures into mesmerizing art. ` Dotkidchavy‘s great eye easily transforms black bodies, often paired with nature in the background to a higher magical form of life. He mixes vibrant colours with dark skin, creating a rich contrast…
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![After a ‘Little’ wait [@OctavianEssie] is back again!](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1Octavian-180x180.jpg)
With new release ‘Little’, Octavian is 4 for 4 with the bangers. The French born rapper has released a much more uptempo effort in comparison to previous releases ‘Hands’ and ‘100 Degrees’. What is becoming ever more apparent every time Octavian drops a track, is that it doesn’t matter what the tempo or overall vibe the production…
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![Why we all need to join [@wrtinterns] #Unpaidunavailable protest](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/WRTinterns_01.gif)
‘More and more young creatives will be handed unpaid internships which in turn will generate Billions of pounds throughout the year for the British fashion industry ‘ – @unpaidunavailable It’s officially graduation season and with graduation comes the dreaded search for a job. The fashion industry is one of the most competive industries for graduates.…
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The Conference for Creators.. It’s been a while since there has been an event where we really get to see a good example of representation within the professional creative industry. It’s not often people of all levels in their career, all ethnicities, genders and so on, get to share the stage and share their story…
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On Sunday I had the pleasure of attending the Welcome to Wonderland Festival run and curated by the 24 year old rapper, singer, musician and entrepreneur Little Simz. In Welcome to Wonderland Little Simz takes the entire festival audience into her own world, inspired by the Alice in Wonderland tale and named after her album…
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Melanin Power The Victoria Secret fashion show in Shanghai had its ups and a load of downs. With models’ visas being denied and performances being cancelled there was a whole lot of mess. Anyway, that’s not the main focus of this post. We are here to celebrate the melanin that walked on that stage. This…