Fashionably graphic
New book Graphic Design For Fashion probes the curious relationship between the graphic designer and the fashion world, articulated through branding, packaging, look books and invitations
New book Graphic Design For Fashion probes the curious relationship between the graphic designer and the fashion world, articulated through branding, packaging, look books and invitations
Yesterday we posted a story on the furore surrounding the logo for the Rio 2016 Olympics, which was unveiled on New Year’s Eve. Today we take a closer look at the work itself.
E4 has built a reputation for creating epic trailers for each new series of teen drama show Skins. Usually these contain enough sex, drugs and general yoof antics to make anyone over the age of 25 feel a bit fusty, but for series 5 they have taken a more enigmatic approach…
Nothing like a good logo controversy to kick off the New Year: the emblem for the 2016 Rio Olympics was unveiled on New Year’s Eve and immediately ran into accusations of plagiarism
A visit to packaging studio Something Else, and a conversation with founder Daniel Mason about his favourite materials and why he likes them
Tony Brook of Spin kindly invited us into his home to reveal the extent of his admiration of the work of Dutch designer Wim Crouwel.
A visit to Open’s studio and interviews with two of co-founders Hugh Frost and Holly Wales
A new exhibition at London’s Halcyon Gallery sees Mauro Perucchetti reimagine the US head of state as a PEZ dispenser, while Franz Xaver Messerschmidt personal sculptures are part of New York’s Neue Galerie’s retrospective of his work…
There’s a lot of trust imbued in Laura Pannack’s photographs. Her subjects, often young people and teenagers, are depicted in quiet contemplative moments, seemingly giving little away.
Caroline Robert took an unusual route into graphic design: via mathematics. “I’m a former scientist,” she says. “I got my degree in mathematics but at that time I was really into photography so I decided to re-orient in graphic arts.”
Every now and then at CR we come across a new piece of creative work that makes us all smile.