Hannah Blackmore: CR Bursary winner

Thanks to the good people at iStock, Creative Review is awarding £1000 to the graduate of our choice to pursue a personal project of their choosing. We have chsoen Hannah Blackmore of LCC to receive the bursary

Object Abuse at KK Outlet

Can you turn a fruit crate into a bicycle mudguard? Can a brick be re-purposed as a pair of book ends? Yes, is the answer – as KK Outlet’s new exhibition, Object Abuse, attests….

The party people

Five of Japan’s top creative and technical talents have come together to launch Party, a new ‘creative lab’ with offices in Tokyo and New York…

Ron Arad’s Curtain Call

Designer Ron Arad’s new Curtain Call installation at the Roundhouse in London consists of 5,600 silicon rods which form a curtain 18 metres in diameter…

James Huse

A fresh graduate of Kingston University’s Graphic Design and Photography course, James Huse has an impressive range of photographic, graphic, and interactive design projects in his portfolio…

Matt Craven

As a boy, Matt Craven developed a taste for escapism and magic. Cycling along the Humberside coast provided relief from his home town of Grimsby and the faded seaside glamour of nearby Cleethorpes, but since turning to art both these places have provided him with plenty of inspiration…

Hannah Blackmore

Hannah Blackmore’s photography and film work documents the overlooked, the unexamined and the forgotten. In Vacant, a series of photographs taken for her degree at the London College of Communication, she focuses on the many closed shopfronts in her hometown of Ramsgate…

Lu Sisi

Lu Sisi hails from Inner Mongolia in China but has lived in Glasgow since he arrived there to study Visual Communications at the Glasgow School of Art in 2007. His short stop-frame animated films caught our eyes and ears, edited perfectly, as they are, to invariably rhythmic soundtracks…

Fleur Isbell

Equally at home with paper and ink as she is working on screen, Fleur Isbell’s design approach often combines the two within a single project. Rather than seeing analogue and digital as separate disciplines, both media are, for her, simply platforms from which to explore and play…

The in-house designer: agent of social change?

A new book, Own Label: Sainsbury’s Design Studio 1962–1977 highlights the role played by the supermarket’s design team in modernising British attitudes to food and how its work reflected underlying social upheaval. The following is an exclusive extract from Emily King’s essay that opens the book, published by FUEL next month…

Wake up and smell the cardigan

Andrew Cracknell’s history of adland’s creative revolution recalls a time when clients trusted agencies to do great work: where did it all go wrong…