Typo London: see you next year?

Three days of top speakers from around the world playing to a (largely full) venue: in Typo London does the UK capital finally have the design conference it deserves?

Nice work for Chevy, Nike, Coke and more

Here’s our latest round-up of great new work that’s been sent into CR Towers. First up is a new ad celebrating Chevy’s 100th birthday, from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners…

TYPO London via Bermondsey, Halifax and New York City

At London’s first TYPO conference yesterday, the three afternoon speakers highlighted the benefits of having a good theme in place to anchor the talks. Designers Jonathan Ellery, Tony Brook and Michael Bierut tackled the wide-ranging term “places” in very different ways and it made for an encouraging start to TYPO’s London run

Pushing drugs

In the late 20th century, medicines became big business, with marketing budgets to match. Pharma, a new exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center in New York, will look at the role of Big Pharma in the evolution of graphic design and advertising

More nice publications

Our latest round up of very nice books that have landed on our desks includes self-published brand books, a type reference book, a couple of magazines, an artist monograph, the latest from Nobrow, and a hugely impressive new graphic novel by Craig Thompson…

Holy Flying Circus animations

I really enjoyed last night’s Holy Flying Circus on BBC4, the part-fact part-surrealist dramatisation of the furore surrounding the release of the Monty Python film, Life of Brian. It had some great animated sequences, too, that paid homage to the pioneering work of Terry Gilliam. Here’s how director Jim Le Fevre made them

Best slogans: your choices

We asked you to nominate your favourite slogans as resarch for an upcoming issue. Almost 200 of you responded: here, in no particular order, are some of the frontrunners so far

Street Installations by Miss Bugs

Street art duo Miss Bugs has created this series of artworks that are designed to blend in with a variety of backdrops around London, including advertising posters, murals and even postboxes…

Ocean Action film for Greenpeace

Director Jens Blank of Animate Me! sent us this short animation he created for Greenpeace which forms part of their ongoing campaign against the illegal fishing practices that take place inside the EU

OFFSET Festival announces 2012 line up

Dublin’s next OFFSET festival will take place over three days between 9-11 March 2012 and its organisers have just revealed to CR the event’s impressively international line-up of speakers…

Crouch. Touch. Pause. Engage

Coinciding with the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday, creative agency Rosie Lee and photographer John Ross take a close-up look at the sport

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