The History Trees at the Olympic Park

Pentagram has just blogged about its involvement in helping to realise artists Ackroyd & Harvey’s ten typographic tree rings, which have been installed at the Olympic Park in London

Olympukes 2012

In 2004 Jon Barnbrook’s foundry VirusFonts reinterpreted the Olympic pictogram in a series of designs that “acknowledged the complex contradictions of the modern Olympics.” Launching today, a new range of Olympukes symbols has been created to reflect on London 2012

Specsavers ad uses Korean flag error to comedic effect

Following on from yesterday’s blog post on Olympics ambush marketing, a number of our Twitter followers have alerted us to this masterstroke by Specsavers, who were very quick to respond to the recent Korean flag mix-up by LOCOG…

Zebra Face on the telly

Ten years since we first followed his adventures in an eponymously titled illustrated tome, Kid Acne’s hip hop-loving Zebra Face character is back, this time in a series of animated adventures which will air on Channel 4 from tonight…

Manchester Literature Festival’s Golf Sale campaign

Manchester design studio Mark has created a Golf Sale inspired marketing campaign to promote this year’s Manchester Literature Festival which will take place from October 8-23 in various venues throughout the city…

Let the ambush commence!

With the opening ceremony just one day away, the Olympic-themed advertising is hotting up, even from brands who are not the official sponsors

OFF LIFE call for submissions

Launching this September, OFF LIFE is a new comics anthology that will be distributed in shops, bars and galleries in London and Bristol. If you’re interested in contributing work to the publication, read on

Infographics to aid The Girl Effect

Commissioned by the Nike Foundation in support of The Girl Effect, London design studio Accept & Proceed created a series of infographic flyposters and handouts that were distributed at the London Summit on Family Planning held two weeks ago…

Nike’s ultra green GS football boot

As part of it’s Better World program, Nike’s GS (Green Speed) football boot, limited to just 2012 pairs, is its greenest shoe ever. London design studio Accept & Proceed was commissioned to create a press pack to showcase it… Only eleven of these press packs were made, with one of them going to Brazilian striker […]

3D Lenticular: the evolution of the gif

Brooklyn-based trio The Saline Project are best known for creating music videos for the likes of Eminem, 50cent, and The Cure. Now a new art project sees them looking to evolve the gif format to something they’re calling 3D lenticular…

Mother creates film for MS charity Shift.ms

Mother and director Michael Pearce have created a short film, Gallop, for multiple sclerosis charity Shift.ms, which sensitively explores the impact of a diagnosis of MS through the story of a burgeoning love affair…

CR August 2012: Olympic Special Issue

Creative Review’s August issue is an Olympic-themed special issue with 40 pages of features that look to explore the past and present of the Games to mark the opening of London 2012…

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