Bartle, Bogle, Bowie and Hegarty?
He gave us The Man Who Sold The World, but was a brief stint in the advertising industry key to David Bowie’s illustrious career? And just imagine the heights he could have reached if only he’d stuck at it
The Bank Job TV promo
Directed by design collective National Television through Not To Scale for 4Creative, the animated promo for Channel 4’s new, nightly game show, The Bank Job, draws inspiration from classic title sequences by Saul Bass and Otto Preminger…
A newspaper for the times
This week the Occupy London movement published the eighth edition of its newspaper, The Occupied Times of London. We talked to one of the paper’s designers, Tzortzis Rallis, about how the paper is produced, the aesthetics of protest and how corporate branding played a part in visualising the aims of this new political force
D&AD 50: 1967 Chemstrand
To mark its 50th birthday, D&AD is delving into its archive to highlight significant pieces of work that have featured in the awards. We will be publishing one a week. This time, we have a press ad from the 1967 annual written by a promising young copywriter named Charles Saatchi
CR Annual: last chance to enter
The extended deadline for the 2012 Creative Review Annual is Friday 13 January. If you’d like to enter your work into our showcase of the best in visual communications, you have until then
Opinion: the Design Museum Shop identity
The Design Museum Shop has a new identity. Build’s friendly, fun scheme has been superseded by Spin’s elegant, pared back approach. Graphic design in microcosm.
Spin thread a line through the Design Museum Shop
London studio Spin has redesigned the identity of the Design Museum Shop and its range of own brand products, using a single line as the central graphic device
Robot by Lem, Klimowski and Schejbal
Published by SelfMadeHero, Robot presents a comic book reworking of two short stories by Polish science fiction author, Stanislaw Lem, by artists Danusia Schejbal and Andrzej Klimowski
Nike says Make It Count
Nike has launched a campaign for the new year, suggesting that we all step up and ‘Make It Count’. The campaign stars a number of the UK’s top athletes making personal pledges for 2012. It then encourages everyone else to join in on Twitter, by announcing their own goals via the hashtag #makeitcount.
Tokyo Type Directors Club Award winners 2012
Why Not Associates and Gordon Young have scooped the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Type Directors Club Awards 2012 (the third time the UK studio has won it in the awards’ 25 year history) for the Comedy Carpet project which we featured in our October issue…
Red Bull Canimation: the winners
Red Bull’s Canimation competition gave student and non-professional animators the chance to win internships at top animation studios Aardman, The Mill and 12foot6, state of the art animation software and a chance to be featured on Channel Four as well as in cinemas nationwide. Here are the winners
Ronald Searle: ‘graphic satirist’
Before I even knew what illustration was, I loved the work of Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91. To call him a ‘cartoonist’ somehow doesn’t do justice to one of our great satirists, artists and chroniclers of the best and very worst of life
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