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All this week we are raising money for Comic Relief via the CR Blog. To kick things off, we have five UK one-year subscriptions on offer for a donation of £35 each. Usual price: £64
All this week we are raising money for Comic Relief via the CR Blog. To kick things off, we have five UK one-year subscriptions on offer for a donation of £35 each. Usual price: £64
We showcased the screenprinted CD packaging for Fred Deakin (Lemon Jelly) and Robin Jones (Beta Band, The Aliens) new collaborative project, Flashman only a few weeks ago. Now their first animated promo, for the digital single The Proposition, is ready to view…
Lots of lovely work to share with you this week. First up is a great fundraising website for children’s hospice Richard House in London. Designed by The Partners, the site allows visitors to create a unique ‘exquisite corpse’ print using drawings by 120 of the UK’s top illustrators…
Marking the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, new show The W Project features a wealth of work by female creatives including this marvellous series of restaged Mills & Boon covers by Alex Holder
Hungarian ad agency Laboratory Ideas have come up with a nifty desktop app that allows you to organise your computer as if it were a set of Ikea shelves
Chris O’Shea unveiled a new interactive installation at the Barbican in London at the weekend that enabled visitors to swap their bodies with their friends and then control their movements
We’re pleased to announce both the extension of the entry deadline for this year’s Illustration Annual, and details of two of its judges…
Illustrator James Jarvis has just published a colouring book through publisher of many a beautiful zine, Nieves…
A new advertising campaign for The Zimbabwean highlights the newspaper’s role in giving a voice to the people of Zimbabwe. The posters feature images taken by photojournalists who had worked in the country over the last two years
We’re knee-deep in research for our upcoming Top 20 logos issue and one of the things that has struck us so far is just how many of them were dreamed up when their designer was doing something else: travelling, playing cards, walking round an exhibition etc. So we wondered where and when you get your best ideas
The black, white and orange posters for Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting perfectly captured the film’s energy and grittiness. Twenty years on from their release, and with Trainspotting 2 out this week, we revisit our 2011 interview with the campaign’s designers, Mark Blamire and Rob O’Connor