Pretty ugly

In 2007, CR’s Patrick Burgoyne wrote a piece for the magazine headlined The New Ugly. In it he suggested the emergence of a new wave of graphic design that knowingly broke the rules in an attempt to seize the attention of jaded audiences and respond to young readers. This month sees the publication of a new book, Pretty Ugly, that documents the work of a group of designers who share many of the attributes and aspirations noted in CR’s original piece. Patrick Burgoyne talks to the book’s editors, Martin Lorenz and Lupi Asensio of TwoPoints.Net, about where this movement has
come from and what its legacy may be…

Kelly’s Eye

Johnny Kelly’s Back To The Start film for Chipotle is enjoying success at awards all over the world, bringing deserved recognition for the director

Berenice Abbott

Photographer Berenice Abbott’s experiments with scientific imagery began in 1939 and culminated in her providing the pictures for a series of physics textbooks published by the Physical Science Study Project at MIT in 1958

Jason Hackenwerth

Beginning as an experiment with twisty balloons on subway station walls, Jason Hackenwerth’s work has evolved into huge organic objects, created using multitudes of balloons

Made of More

Made of More is an installation created for Guinness, which is now on permanent display at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. The sculpture also forms the centrepiece of a film, which tells the story of the Guinness brand

Beware the Uncanny Valley

Technology based on groundbreaking research allows CG studios to design ever more lifelike digital humans.But will they ever be completely believable?

When work became play

The Barbican’s new Bauhaus show reveals a more playful side to the serious minded German design school

Come, join the client side

Want a more satisfying career in advertising, where you can really make a difference? You need to move in-house

Magazine story

Fuelled by adrenaline and pizza, the Bloomberg Businessweek team had just ten hours to produce its Steve Jobs tribute issue. Here’s how they did it

#areyouseeingthis

It seems that no major movie can be released nowadays without an all-embracing multi-channel viral marketing campaign. But are these increasingly complex and costly productions merely preaching to the converted?

The art of the logo

Artists have been responsible for some of our most memorable logos and symbols: is it time to involve them again?

A cruel and unusual punishment

With their wild claims about ‘world-firsts’, staggering numbers of ‘media impressions’ and soaring user stats, case-study videos have become the bane of the advertising awards juror’s life. Fresh from this year’s judging marathon, James Hilton lists their worst crimes, brought to life by David Sparshott

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