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Creative Review® Launches Bold New Brand Identity

Patrick 05/10/08, 18:54

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Creative Review® unveils its new brand identity which will advance our positioning across media platforms

Get your motor running… for Rock Band II

Gavin 03/10/08, 18:01

Remember the gravity-defying, car-surfing rock band that appeared in Passion Pictures‘ director Pete Candeland’s animated promo for the video game Rock Band? Well, the band is back but this time they take on members of a rival car-surfing, instrument-weilding bunch of rocking nutters for the craziest game of “chicken” you’ve ever seen… To promote the new edition of Harmonix’s game, of course, Rock Band 2.
Fasten your seatbelts!

Dieting with Alex Bogusky

Eliza 03/10/08, 16:25

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Advertising creatives are often known for their side projects, but Alex Bogusky, co-chairman at Crispin, Porter & Bogusky, has come up with a more unusual proposition than the norm - a diet book.

The City Shrinker

Mark 02/10/08, 11:36

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Ben Thomas‘ work invites close scrutiny. While many of his dioramas are packed with buildings, traffic or crowds, others offer a more sedate view of the world, of boats on a river, desks in a library, or of two men collecting leaves. But Thomas’ images aren’t crafted models, they’re in fact photographs from real life…

Live From New York: Click

Patrick 01/10/08, 14:09

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Creative Review is hosting it’s Click conference on digital advertising today in association with the Art Directors Club in New York. I’ll be blogging live from the event through the day..

Microsoft shows some Pride

Eliza 01/10/08, 10:49



Microsoft Pride ad, agency: Crispin Porter & Bogusky, production company: Hungry Man, directors: Bryan Buckley, Marcos Siega, Scott Vincent, Brian Billow

Microsoft hits back against the smugness of the Mac Vs PC ads.

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Obey and D*Face are exhibiting at the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris from 11-25 October

A lovely collection of pre-1962 colour photography from the US (link: Coudal blog)

Penguin books designer, Coralie Bickford-Smith, reveals her inspirations and approaches to her cover designs for a new Penguin series of ten horror books...

Do you wear a logo on your chest? Writer Neil Boorman has been sporting and Adidas logo on his chest for years and has just posted a film on YouTube documenting an attempt to get paid for his "advertising" work by the brand...

A group of young filmmakers have hit upon a novel way of raising production capital: they're selling end credit space. The idea is that for the princely sum of £1 (or $2) you get to see your name appear at the end of their film...

And with the arrival of the Turner Prize exhibition, comes the return of the Stuckist debate...

One off art pieces up for grabs by the likes of Anthony Burrill, Melvin Galapon, Siggi Eggertsson, James Joyce – at the SHOW OFF exhibition at London's Art Vinyl. Only two days of the show left!

I Love Typography's recent post on found type on Flickr has a few gems in it (link: Coudal blog)

Oxfam asks the public to write their own slogans on digital billboards

Dirty Diesel advertises its 30th birthday party with this film by The Viral Factory, directed by Keith Schofield

Noma Bar, the talented illustrator and caricaturist, is interviewed by the New Yorker (link: QBN)

The Independent's redesign: "elegance and discipline are out and verve and gusto are in". Mark Porter takes a critical look

Smoke & Mirrors is holding its 3rd annual 48 hours competition, where entrants are requested to write, shoot and edit a short film in 48 hours. The competition begins on October 10, entries must be received by October 8

Classic logos by Saul Bass. (Link: Designobserver)

In memory of Pink Floyd's Richard Wright: the great Echoes / 2001 A Space Odyssey debate. Just enjoy the synchronisation of Kubrick's film and some classic prog