Blue and white pottery revival?

Not one but two unrelated UK projects have come to our attention this week that look to celebrate and revive blue and white porcelain and pottery…

Keith Schofield Sony Bloggie spot and more nice work

For your Friday pleasure, here’s a round-up of nice ad work that’s passed through CR Towers this week. First up, director Keith Schofield turns a digital product presentation analogue in this spot for Sony’s new HD video camera, the Bloggie.

FWA Website of the Year Winners

The winner of this year’s FWA Website of the Year Awards has been announced, with We Choose The Moon, an online recreation of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon, taking the top gong…

Hvass&Hannibal at Kemistry

We profiled them as Ones To Watch back in our April 2007 issue – now Danish duo Hvass&Hannibal have opened their first London gallery show at Kemistry gallery in Shoreditch…

Toscani at The Edge

Oliviero Toscani holds forth on the privileged life of the designer at the DBA’s Edge event, much to Erik Spiekermann’s evident exasperation…

If You Could Collaborate

The fourth annual If You Could exhibition has opened: CR was lucky enough to have a preview of the 33 collaborative projects on show

Duffy in sharp focus

“My approach was always the same – obsequious toadyism”. BBC4’s Duffy documentary last night was a funny and honest portrait of London’s ‘other’ great photographer of the 60s

LPA’s Big Poster Challenge

Photography agency LPA, The Mental Health Foundation and Clear Channel Outdoor are offering creatives the chance to have their work appear on UK billboards this summer

Venville’s 44 Inch Chest

Ray Winstone stars in photographer and commercials director Malcolm Venville’s forthcoming debut feature film, 44 Inch Chest – and also in a rather scary prank phonecall message devised by ad agency JWT as part of the film’s marketing campaign…

Discovery’s turbo-charged idents

For its planes, trains and automobiles channel, Turbo, Discovery has created a series of idents that will be music to petrolheads’ ears

Hijacking the eye

New from James Pardey, the man behind The Art of Penguin Science Fiction, comes another online resource dedicated to the evolution of book cover design, The Art of Fontana Modern Masters