DDB NY’s new Hertz posters

They look like they might have been inspired by the work of Edward McKnight Kauffer. Illustrator Chris Gray and DDB New York executive creative director Menno Kluin tell us about the agency’s new campaign for Hertz…

Boobs, beer and burning hairdos

Filmmaker David Lynch has directed the video for his track Crazy Clown Time from his similarly titled debut album, and describes it as “an intense psychotic backyard craziness, fuelled by beer”…

Acousmatic Sorcery by Willis Earl Beal

We start the week with some more great new music packaging, this time for the debut album of Willis Earl Beal, who recently signed to XL after recording this album at home under his own steam.

A new vision for Microsoft

When distressed and wildly experimental typography were all the rage, Chris Ashworth made his name as an emerging UK print designer. These days, however, he is leading the creation of the Microsoft Windows Phone brand. Patrick Burgoyne reports on his new role and its connection to the introduction of a radical new design philosophy that Microsoft is adopting across its products

Personal appeal

The rise of digital media has seen subtlety replace shock in charity advertising, as agencies employ more personal approaches to engage potential donors

Revert to type

In 1991 , the emergence of new digital technologies was opening up the design of typefaces to a generation keen to push the limits of language and the very definition of what a font could be. Fuse, the experimental publication launched that year by Jon Wozencroft and Neville Brody, gave such designers a platform. As a new book brings together its 18 issues in one volume, Mark Sinclair reviews Fuse’s important, perhaps overlooked, contribution to graphic design

Woodcut

Artist Bryan Nash Gill creates relief prints from the cross-sections of trees which have fallen in the woods near his Connecticut studio

The monkey business

Clients want work that shifts products; creatives want to win awards. The agency’s job is to try and reconcile the two

One-click wonders

The growth of crowdsourcing websites like 99designs could mean an uncertain future for the graphic design profession

The whys & wherefores

From Ocado to Occupy, a good magazine starts out with a clear idea of its aims and readership. Otherwise, what’s the point?

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