Exhibition: The Haunts of the Poets

Middlesex University’s third year Illustration students (and staff) have created new work in response to the places that renowned poets have lived, boozed, loved and died in. The artworks are being exhibited, appropriately enough, at London’s Poetry Café until December 21…

CR in Liverpool: Cat and Fox Adventures

This month’s issue of CR features a survey of Liverpool’s thriving independent creative scene. We’re going to show more work from some of those featured here on the blog. Next up: Cat and Fox Adventures

The Illustrated Alphabet

The Small Print has just unveiled its latest project, The Illustrated Alphabet, for which it approached 26 of illustrators from around the world to each create an illustrated letter of the alphabet plus another artwork inspired by their particular letter…

Designed to kill

The Design Museum has announced the addition of 13 more design ‘classics’ to its collection, one of which is the world’s most prolific killing machine, the Kalashnikov AK-47 automatic rifle

CR in Liverpool: Horse

This month’s issue of CR features a survey of Liverpool’s thriving independent creative scene. We’re going to show more work from some of those featured here on the blog, beginning with illustrator and designer Horse

Epica 2011 grand prix winners

The UK won a very respectable 37 awards at this year’s Epica Awards – including a grand prix for this Landrover Defender poster by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R…

This is Liverpool

A stone’s throw from the multibillion pound developments of Liverpool One and the Albert Dock, a vibrant independent creative scene is thriving in Liverpool. Cr took a tour with one of our readers

Boom and her books

Whether big, small, fat or thing, the publications created by Dutch designer Irma Boom are seldom less than extraordinary. Eliza Williams meets her

New from old

Dentsu may have been founded in 1901 but its London outpost has one of the most radical new agendas in advertising

The decisive moment

Magnum Contact Sheets reveals what went into achieving the perfect photograph in the years before the digital revolution

December Hi-Res

KesselsKramer founder Erik Kessels has created an art installation featuring print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in 24 hours