New Barnardo’s ad by BBH

Life Story, a new ad for children’s charity Barnardo’s from BBH London, highlights how people’s lives can change, no matter how they’ve begun, if they are given help and support.

Opinion: the 2012 Olympics artists posters

The 2012 Olympics artists’ posters come from a fine tradition of involving the visual arts in the Games, but they have left designers and illustrators feeling further frustrated and excluded

Exhibition: Ghost of Gone Birds

Dozens of artists have all created imagery celebrating extinct birds from the Great Auk to the Dodo. The show, entitled Ghosts of Gone Birds, runs at London’s Rochelle School until November 23…

London 2012 Olympic posters unveiled

A host of British artists, including Bridget Riley, Tracey Emin, Martin Creed, Rachel Whiteread, and Bob and Roberta Smith, have designed posters to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Any gold medal winners?

CDes gets go-ahead

The Chartered Society of Designers has received Royal permission to grant the designation of Chartered Designer, thus allowing it to go ahead with its controversial plans for professional certification in design. Will you be applying?

Red Bull Canimation competition

Red Bull’s Canimation competition offers UK animation students the chance to win internships at Aardman, The Mill and 12footsix

Protest via PDF and printer

As one commenter pointed out in our post on the newspaper designed for Occupy London, the visual material of protest is often rooted in the means of production available. Reflective of the fact that modern movements are organised online and on-screen, freetoprotest.org aims to offer graphic support to a host of different causes

Feliz Dia de los Muertos

The Day of the Dead is one of those holidays that seems to prove irresistible to illustrators. Vicky Newman just sent us this rather fine wooden badge to celebrate the November 1 festival

D&AD’s Low Carbon Annual

Last night D&AD launched it’s most sustainably produced annual to date: its carbon footprint is an impressive 82% smaller than that of last year’s edition…

Best Slogans: the experts’ view

As regular readers of the CR blog will be aware, we are devoting a forthcoming issue of the magazine to looking at the best slogans ever. We canvassed your opinions on the blog, and have now approached a panel of industry experts to give us their top five slogans. Here’s what they picked…

#CR500K: Five Saul Bass books to give away

To celebrate reaching 500k followers on Twitter, we are giving away five copies of Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design, kindly donated by Laurence King. The book contains a great list of quotes by Bass on the subject of working in the creative industry, and we’d like to hear your own personal favourites for a chance to win a copy