Susan Swindells wins Guardian student photographer prize
Newcastle College graduate Susan Swindells has been named Student Photographer of the Year at The Guardian Student Media Awards
Newcastle College graduate Susan Swindells has been named Student Photographer of the Year at The Guardian Student Media Awards
Photographer, music video director, musician and former partner at design company Hipgnosis, Peter Christopherson, sadly passed away on Wednesday in his home in Bankok, Thailand, aged 55…
To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of ITV’s Coronation Street soap opera, Central Station (the Manchester art and design studio that created bold, colourful painted artork for the likes of The Happy Mondays and Factory Records in the late 80s and early 90s) has created 25 portraits of well known ‘Corrie’ characters…
Lots of lovely work to share with you in this week’s round-up. Firstly, a new interactive video for Au Revoir Simone from director Eli Stonberg, which allows you to colour in a haunted house scene online…
In the second of our studio visit films, we visited the South London studio of independent letterpress printer, Kelvyn Smith, as he prepared for the Reverting To Type letterpress exhibition taking place in London’s Standpoint Gallery in December…
In a particularly strong year for the UK, Aardman Animations’ work for Nokia, M&C Saatchi’s campaign for Dixons, and Brothers & Sisters’ Streetmuseum app for the Museum of London scooped a grand prix at the recent Epica Awards, along with Fred & Farid Group Paris’s ‘red’ posters for Wrangler
Kelvyn Smith runs his own letterpress workshop in Kennington, South London. We visited it to find out more about his practice…
In a promotion for French telecommunications company Bouygues Télécom, DDB Paris recently devised a way to take your Facebook profile offline…
Documentary films about the textile industry are not exactly the staple of this site but we’ll make an exception for French director and designer Benoit Millot’s lovely film about linen
Martin Rack’s Design Made in Germany site has won the top prize in the first Web Fonts Awards, organised by Monotype Imaging
The students of Pendleton Sixth Form Centre, Salford City College have been at it again – tackling the tricky job that is designing the CR cover. As with the fruits of last year’s project, we picked some of our favourite efforts
I’ve sifted through recently arrived publications to pick out a handful of projects that each make smashing use of illustration. First up is illustrator Mark Long’s Who Ate All The Pies? – a 28 page, A5 book which features a selection of football chants and illustrations…