Sanky’s Call to Arms

For the new D&AD call for entries, this year’s President, Sanky, has come over all, um, presidential, offering a global address on the importance of creativity (and of D&AD, natch)…

Penguin 75: the stories behind the covers

A new book reveals some of the secrets behind Penguin’s cover designs by including candid interviews with both designers and authors. We have five extracts from the book that shed light on the particular ins and outs of creating the perfect cover

Illustrated Tarot cards from Pictoplasma

PicTarot is a new pack of cards released by Pictoplasma which includes a 38 page booklet and 78 7x12cm cards, of which 26 are lovingly illustrated by a host of international artists including Gary Baseman, Ian Stevenson, Fons Schiedon, FriendsWithYou, Julia Schonlau, Motomichi Nakamura and Genevieve Gauckler…

Creative Review Granimator pack series

Ustwo, the digital user interface design and app-developing company, asked Creative Review earlier this year to curate a series of artist packs for its Granimator iPad app. We said yes. Now they’re ready to download and play with…

Skoda gets mean

Skoda reinvents its previous Cake ad in a new TV commercial that aims to promote the Fabia’s new, ‘meaner’ side…

Von’s Animals box set

Since debuting in his solo show at the Espeis Gallery in New York in 2007, UK artist Von’s Animals series has featured as a CR Monograph; on the catwalks of Milan; and in a Liberty of London campaign. Now the series is released as a handsome box set (and CR also has one to give away)

PwC: New name, new image

PricewaterhouseCooper, one of the ‘Big Four’ professional service networks, has undertaken a radical rebrand of its identity, with the intention of modernising its business image

Wonder Woman

With her first book, I Wonder, Marian Bantjes hopes to rekindle the art of ornament and the illustrated text

Come in, we’re Open

OPEN studio is more than just a space in which young designers and illustrators work. It’s a hub of critique, support and collaborative thinking

When innovate can mean imitate

While iPad magazine apps shouldn’t ape their printed versions,
they would do well to take influence from the way we navigate them

The island of inspiration

Visitors to Naoshima, a small island off the south coast of Japan, are surrounded by art. You can even spend the night in one of its galleries

What we ask from a photograph

Peter Bialobrzeski’s images of the interiors of Sowetan shacks provide more questions than answers. But isn’t that the point of photography?