Coca-Cola at the Design Museum

To celebrate its 125th anniversary, Coca-Cola has just opened a new display on the history of its visual identity at the Design Museum in London

Illustration and longevity, an interview with James Joyce

Today, commercial illustrators have to walk the tightrope of doing work for clients in order to earn a living whilst carefully managing their output and exposure to best ensure a long and commercially viable career as an artist. It’s a tricky balancing act, as illustrator James Joyce reveals

BMB NY’s Information Blanket for Unicef

Beattie McGuinness Bungay in New York has created a new product, the Information Blanket, that aims to offer vital health information to new mothers while also being used as a swaddling blanket.

CR June issue

CR’s June issue is out, with an in-depth look back over the work of BBH and Sir John Hegarty, contrasting approaches to imagemaking from the handmade to the latest CGI and the tricky business of sustaining a career as an illustrator

New HBO True Blood Campaign

BBDO New York has created a new online campaign to promote the release of the True Blood series 3 DVD. Designed to test the knowledge of the show’s greatest fans, the site allows users to zoom into an online film to search out and answer clues related to the series.

Show us your worst

It’s #GuestEd week on the Creative Review twitter account and today Nick Asbury of Asbury & Asbury is in the hot seat. He wants to take the opportunity to extend an interesting invitation to CR readers: to show us your worst work…

John Sibbick’s Flesh and Bone

In his first collaboration with London-based publishers Nobrow, illustrator John Sibbick deftly displays his skill at rendering a huge range of wild animals with a pen.

The Wall’s Sausage Dog Returns

A new ad for Wall’s Sausages by Saatchi & Saatchi London sees a man adopt a surreal method of saying thanks when his wife serves up his favourite meaty snack for tea.

Helsinki wants to… see something else

Student Elissa Erikson organised a campaign to replace the advertising on 21 bus shelters in Helsinki earlier this year with the message: “I want to see something else.” In response, site owners JCDecaux asked designers to create new work for each space

TOTAL sleeve by Peter Saville and ParrisWakefield

Peter Saville and Howard Wakefield of design studio ParrisWakefield have collaborated on the artwork of a new compilation of music by Joy Division and New Order called TOTAL, due for release on June 6 from Rhino…

A2/SW/HK’s custom headline font for Wallpaper*

Wallpaper* magazine’s editorial staff went to India to create content for their new Reborn In India June issue. To help give the magazine a special indian flavour, a new headline font was created by Geetika Alok in collaboration with A2/SW/HK. Here’s a closer look at the resulting typeface…