Sleeves Received

The Wire’s Sleeves Received Tumblr was launched in summer 2011 in order to showcase examples of the kind of bespoke packaging and idiosyncratic sleeve art which emerges from the various underground/alternative music scenes reported on by the magazine

Jonathan Ive to be knighted

Apple’s designer Jonathan Ive is to receive a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List. Ive has said that he is “both humbled and sincerely grateful” for the award.

D&AD 50: 1966, British Rail

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, it’s the turn of Design Research Unit’s radically modern symbol for British Rail, first awarded by D&AD in 1966

It’s the CR Quiz of the Year

It’s coming to the end of another year in the wonderful world of visual communications. Time to test your knowledge of who did what in the CR Quiz of the Year.
We’ve divided the questions up into the months of the year. If you’re stuck for an answer, you can find them all by digging around either in this website or in your back issues of the printed magazine. Best of luck. Answers to be revealed in the New Year.

Benetton’s dove of peace

Benetton has announced the first project to be created under the auspices of its UNHATE foundation: a giant dove of peace sculpture covered in spent cartridges which will stand in the Libyan capital of Tripoli

CR’s Music Video Picks of the Year

Another end-of-the-year list for you: this time it’s the turn of music videos. Here, in no particular order, are ten promos that rocked CR’s world this year…

Record sleeves of the month

Following on from the Special Edition feature in our current, music-themed January 2012 issue of CR, here are some recent releases that demonstrate that the physical music product is still alive and kicking…

D&AD 50: 1965, Go to work on an egg

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, it’s the turn of Mather & Crowther’s Go to work on an egg campaign which started in 1957 but was first awarded by D&AD in 1965

The FWA People’s Choice Award 2011

What’s been your favourite new website this year? The FWA site is offering up its top 12 sites of 2011 for you to choose from in its annual FWA People’s Choice Award…

The double life of a typeface

The latest pocket familiar from Four Corners Books is Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda, illustrated by Mireille Fauchon. As with its books to date, design is paramount but, for this release, it’s the bespoke typeface Rudy that really shines

1 … 1,075 1,076 1,077 1,078 1,079 1,080 1,081 1,082 1,083 … 1,408

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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

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