Saatchi & Saatchi’s Naked Ambition
Chris Palmer has directed this saucy little viral to help encouarge aspiring directors to enter this year’s Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase. The film stars a porn director who longs to be in advertising…
Record sleeves of the month
Time for our latest selection of choice record sleeves and this month we’ve got releases by Orlando Weeks, D/R/U/G/S, Vadoinmessico, and Cymbals…
Tom Hingston Studio’s Don’t Think DVD packaging
Today sees the DVD release of Don’t Think, Adam Smith’s highly praised film of a 2011 Chemical Brothers concert at Fuji Rock in Japan. Tom Hingston Studio designed the release’s cover artwork using a doctored NY street sign…
Eltono: Line and Surface
A new book, published by Stickit, celebrates the work of street artist Eltono, who has painted his unusual, geometric art on the walls of cities all over the world…
Go and tweet the joy machine
Hellicar & Lewis unveiled their latest digital installation, The Hello Cube, at Tate Modern earlier today as part of a series of events centred around the gallery’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition. Visitors can tweet @thehellocube to dictate the patterns and shapes which appear on a huge screen, and you can even do it (and see your efforts) remotely
Mind’s new look for Villandry
Mind Design is currently working on a re-brand for Villandry, the restaurant, foodstore and bakery with branches in London and Bicester. The scheme is based on five shapes which refer to traditional brasserie menu frames
Do Look Now: BFI competition winner
BFI Publishing and CR are pleased to announce that Benio Urbanowicz, a third year student from Kingston University, is the winner of our competition to design a cover for a 20th anniversary edition of the BFI Film Classic on Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now
Late Victorian crowdsourcing
Kraft Foods has set up a new company to manage its global snack foods business – and, inevitably, the name has been crowdsourced. The result is ‘Mondelez’, and it is already attracting the usual mockery online. But the idea of crowdsourced brand names is nothing new
CR April issue: Fuse and more
Creative Review’s April issue includes a ten-page special issue on Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft’s highly influential publication, Fuse, plus charity ads get personal, Marina Willer, experimental books, the most beautiful tickets you ever saw and lots more all wrapped up in a cover by Mr Brody himself
Maximum stacks
New York studio Triboro has designed a series of oversized match boxes featuring photographs of ‘smokestacks’ from the Greenpoint, Brooklyn area. On each the image of industrial power is paired with a rather limp-sounding piece of motivational jargon
Pick Me Up opens
Last night we popped down to the opening night of Pick Me Up, this year’s instalment of the annual graphic art fair which takes place at London’s Somerset House. It’s on until April 1 but here’s a brief selection of some of the work we liked
Tuft: a room made of tape and carpet
Numen/For Use has unveiled a new installation in a church in Pula in Croatia. Tuft, a construction made from tape and lined with red tufted carpet, is suspended four metres in the air and by all accounts is pretty soft and bouncy inside
Creative Review’s Annual Awards 2025 are officially open for entries
One of the most respected and trusted awards for the advertising and design industries are back for 2025. Run, don’t walk to get your entries in before the Early Bird Deadline on 25 October
How to scale your design business
Growth is a dream for many businesses, but it comes with challenges. Daisy Crowder, brand and marketing director at design recruitment agency Craft, offers advice on how to navigate the change and keep staff on side
Cultivating community with Ganni
The Danish luxury fashion label has spearheaded the characterful evolution of Scandi style. Here, chief brand officer Priya Matadeen discusses its approach to collabs, the pressures of being a responsible brand, and how Ganni Girls grew from a hashtag to a badge of belonging
Why are brands apologising so much right now?
Brands are saying sorry at a more rapid rate than ever. CR’s advertising columnist Ben Kay delves into why sorry is no longer the hardest word and whether this is an effective strategy for winning audiences
How Guinness embraced social
By loosening its approach to advertising, and engaging with its audience directly, the drinks brand has transformed with the times and won a whole new set of fans
Tracing Banksy’s art history remixes
Kelly Grovier’s new book charts the artist’s persistent dialogue with classic and contemporary art
How Lego creates meaningful brand experiences
We speak to Lego’s VP of global brand development Alero Akuya about the brand’s rare ability to straddle the physical and virtual worlds with ease – whether through its immersive new art exhibition in Paris or collaborations with Epic Games and Nike
Matt Willey brings a human touch to Kaos titles
The Pentagram partner has created the titles for the acclaimed new Netflix show, which reimagines the Greek myths in a contemporary setting
A visual history of movie posters
A new book from Reel Art Press collates the first comprehensive history of film posters. We explore why they remain an underappreciated area of cultural design
The Monthly Interview: Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane
Mark Sinclair talks to the artist and designer about his new book, Lost Ordinary Magic, and the importance of recognising the power of simplicity and the everyday wonders that surround us
Unravelling adland’s obsession with 90s nostalgia
We explore how the 90s, an era the UK looks favourably upon for its thriving culture, are continually inspiring a stagnated creative industry
Building the visual world of Fontaines DC
The band’s surreal new album visuals explore a darker, more grotesque side of romance. We speak to the creative team behind the campaign about challenging the visual tropes of rock music