New Audi ads focus on the details

Back in May, BBH London released an epic two-minute ad for Audi exploring the Le Mans driving experience. Now the agency returns with a series of much shorter spots for the car brand – five ten-second animated ads that aim to express how much good stuff is squeezed into the small Audi A1…

CR Illustration Annual on Flickr

The current issue of CR features all the selected work in our Illustration Annual. But we have now made all the entered work available to view as well

Will Twitter kill the focus group?

Ad agency creatives and designers have long bemoaned the influence of focus group research on their work. But perhaps those days will soon be gone

Julia art directs Elephant

London-based design studio Julia has recently completed a rehaul of the art direction of visual culture magazine Elephant, designing a bespoke typeface in the process…

Trollbäck’s TED conference opening titles

Trollbäck + Company’s titles for the 2011 TED conference in Edinburgh feature everyday objects, some as big as a plane, some as small as a microbe all rendered as black, shiny 3d shapes that build up in the animation, giving the viewer a shifting cross-seciton view of each object…

Soviet Telegraph Agency posters

As an extension to its exhibition of Soviet TASS news agency posters from World War II, the Art Institute of Chicago has launched a Tumblr that will update daily with examples of these handmade propaganda efforts

Lot Lot festival posters

Behold the flame-headed man versus the robot and the mad scientist: just a few of the details in a series of escapist posters designed for electronic music festival, Lot Lot

Introducing: the Lovies

From the good people who brought you the Webbys comes The Lovie Awards, ‘honouring the best of the European internet’

Amnesty TV launches with identity by Anthony Burrill

Amnesty TV launches this Friday online. Created by a team that includes producers and writers from News Wipe and the Inbetweeners, as well as the illustrators Robert Thompson and Modern Toss, it aims to “use popular satire and entertainment to reach grass roots audiences”. The new channel features an identity created by Anthony Burrill.

Tramlines festival identity and campaign

Tramlines is a free, ticketless music festival in Sheffield that boasts seven outdoor stages, 70 venues and a line up of more than 650 performers. Now in its third year, the festival has a brand new identity, typeface and marketing campaign courtesy of Sheffield-based design studio Peter & Paul…