Ron Galella: Paparazzo or Artist?

Can paparazzi photography be art? This is the question raised by two new exhibitions of work by US ‘paparazzo extraordinaire’ Ron Galella, which are showing as part of this year’s PhotoEspaña festival

Intel’s Museum of Me

First there was the Facebook Book, and now we can view our social media content in the form of a virtual museum exhibition…

British Heart Foundation kids party packs

The British Heart Foundation has commissioned design studio hat-trick to design a kids party pack that would promote healthy fun for kids whilst communicating health messages to parents.

Michael Faraday School: a lesson in regeneration

Cartlidge Levene is behind a new wayfinding system for a regenerated school in Southwark in London. The work includes a series of visual ‘shopfronts’ to each of the classrooms and a range of playful signage

Record Sleeves of the month

Time for a fresh round up of fantastic record sleeves. This month the selection of sleeves feature a gouache painting by Kazuki Takamatsu for Memory Tapes, tiny humanoid sculptures by artist Tessa Farmer for Amon Tobin, and beautiful photography by Sølve Sundsbø for Friendly Fires…

CR Bursary: Tom Darracott

Designer and imagemaker Tom Darracott is the first recipient of a CR Bursary, our new initiative supported by Blurb which will provide funding for personal projects by promising creatives

Ouch.

Photographer Kate Peters’ new show, Yes, Mistress, opens this weekend in London. Her subjects are dominatrices, their clients, and some of their tools of the trade

God Save McQueen film

Babette Pauthier has directed an animated short for Alexander McQueen that features a kaleidoscopic array of insect-like imagery created from different fabric patterns

If Copenhagen is Open…

With the Danish capital declaring itself ‘cOPENhagen’, the city joins ‘I amsterdam’ and ‘LondON’ in the trend for word-within-a-word logotypes. But where else might benefit from this touristic wordplay?

Kai and Sunny boxed print editions The Flower Show

Kai and Sunny’s latest exhibition, The Flower Show, is set to open later this week at East London’s StolenSpace gallery. The duo has given CR a sneaky look at the A3 limited edition box set that will be released as part of the show, containing five letterpressed images from the exhibition.

Planet Suite

After years of pursuing digital perfection, photographer Jenny van Sommers’ latest project uses some distinctly old-fashioned techniques to realise a long-held obsession with our solar system