Freaks and Geeks
Philadelphia-based illustrator Andy Rementer owes as much to nurturing employers as to his graphic design background
Philadelphia-based illustrator Andy Rementer owes as much to nurturing employers as to his graphic design background
Benetton’s Colors magazine was born in 1991. As it grew up, it shocked, provoked and charmed, but now it’s just mildly interesting
The ubiquity of smart phones means that, finally, location-based services are going to have their moment. If we can make them a bit more exciting
A new book catalogues the posters created during the May 68 protests in Paris, introduced by an artist who was at the heart of the movement
Designers for Japan is a collective of designers, photographers, art directors and imagemakers from around the world. Its aims are to offer support to peers, colleagues and friends in Japan, aid disaster relief and to act as a forum for anyone wishing to look at how visual communications can help in future disasters, wherever they may be.
At the inaugural World Basketball Festival, a four-day celebration of the performance and culture of the game held at Harlem’s famous Rucker Park, Nike let kids practice and learn signature moves from NBA pros. Players Kevin Durant, Rudy Gay, Andre Iguodala, and Deron Williams were on site at the specially-built Film Room to improve the children’s technique.
The Nike+ platform was expanded upon by agency R/GA with the launch of the Nike+ GPS app which enables runners to track and log their progress and broadcast the data via Facebook. As useful as this sounds, there were some additional elements to the new app that made the whole experience more personal.
Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam’s Write the Future spot for Nike brilliantly captured the excitement of the build up to the World Cup in South Africa last year, making it the stand-out advertising of the tournament.
To help raise money for London’s children’s hospice, Richard House, The Partners collaborated with over 100 of Britain’s top illustrators in an unusual project based around the parlour game ‘exquisite corpse’, which invites players to create a section of a drawing before passing it onto others to complete.
Death To The Death Penalty was launched in October 2010 to help promote Amnesty International’s campaign to abolish the death penalty in the 58 countries around the world that still have it.
The Museum of London launched an iPhone app in May 2010 which cleverly brought its extensive art and photographic collections out onto the streets of the UK capital.
For the first time this year we are recognising the importance of a great client to producing great work.