CR Blog Top Ten 2010
From wallpaper to gravestones, children’s bedrooms to the history of London, we round up the ten most popular stories on the Creative Review website this year
From wallpaper to gravestones, children’s bedrooms to the history of London, we round up the ten most popular stories on the Creative Review website this year
The rescue of the Chilean miners was one of the most uplifting (pardon the pun) stories of this year, and to celebrate it, London-based creative agency Unreal has created a limited edition set of bottles of Chilean wine, which they have sent out as an alternative Christmas present…
The employees of Oxfordshire-based web design and development company Torchbox used their iPads to deliver a festive Christmas message in the form of this film, entitled A Starry Night…
With just five days until Christmas, it is high time to share with you some of the delightful Xmas-related paraphernalia we have been sent at CR Towers over the last few weeks… First up, is a link to Mother ad agency’s Twitter feed, which has recently been converted to LappiLeaks, a dripfeed of shocking revelations about Santa and his elves in Lapland…
I still haven’t worked out whether this is good or bad, enjoyable or cringeworthy. I actually think it might be all of those things. I’m talking about agency Inferno’s self promotional Christmas campaign which sees two ladies, apparently both called Carol, hosting a live webcam Carol singing service at auntiecarols.co.uk
In a series of ghostly Vogue covers posted to LiveJournal, every 2010 cover in each edition is layered into a single image. The process reveals the gulf between the formulaic approach of the majority of editions and the more experimental nature of a select few
Never Judge…? at London’s StolenSpace Gallery turns the old book cover cliché on its head in an exhibition of jackets reinterpreted by contemporary artists and illustrators
Vaughan Oliver tells us about art directing the record sleeve of legendary filmmaker David Lynch’s debut solo electronic single, Good Day Today / I Know – which was released last week…
We’ve blogged already about interaction designers starting to get to grips with the Xbox Kinect. Here’s the ever-inventive Chris O’Shea with his prototype for a Kinect air guitar
Resembling a chart of international air traffic, Paul Butler’s world map of Facebook relationships visualises “the locality of friendship”. It’s a beautiful infographic, but does it tell us anything new? Butler is an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, according to the footnote in his recent post about the work, and his image is accompanied […]
A 135-feet-long cut-out billboard of Jack Black has appeared in London to promote the forthcoming Gulliver’s Travels film
Here’s a nice idea from Danish artist Jacob Dahlstrup: creating images using a tattooing machine on heavy watercolour paper