Changes to the CR website

It’s been nearly six months since we launched our new site. Now we have a better understanding of how people are using it, we are making a few changes…

A gentle reminder…

Over on the Flickr forum, outrage abounds at a rather unsubtle tweak to the logo

The London Book Trade

Photographer Mike Tsang’s exhibition, The London Book Trade, is currently showing at The Biblion Gallery, Mayfair and captures the esoteric world of dealers of rare and antique books

And for our subscribers this month…

Last month, CR magazine subscribers received their issue in a card envelope that could be turned into a handy binder. This month, everyone gets a print from the Photography Annual…

Exhibition for Shelter

Leo Burnett ad agency has commissioned a set of cards featuring artworks by leading artists and designers that will be sold on behalf of UK homeless charity Shelter…

Maker Difference: pop-up letterpress studio

Maker Difference is one of the events we picked out in our London Design Festival highlights blogpost from last week so I decided to pop along to check it out yesterday afternoon…

Dove Love and more nice work

Here’s a selection of the ads and music videos that we’ve enjoyed watching at CR Towers of late. First up we see Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne create some dove love for Foster’s Pure Blonde beer…

i-Design tomorrow

If anyone is in London tomorrow (24 September) and has some time, Malcolm Garrett’s i-Design conference has a great line up of speakers

Neighbour chucks TV out of window for NME

Neighbour’s new campaign for music magazine NME’s new TV channel (shot by Jason Tozer) celebrates one of rock’n’roll’s great cliché’s: throwing a TV out of a window…

Heavy Pencil is One

Heavy Pencil, the ICA’s monthly drawing event, is one year old next month. And they’re having a free party to celebrate where the likes of Andrew Rae, Ian Stevenson and Anthony Burrill will be drawing, live, for your pleasure

D&AD Annual(s) 2009

The new D&AD Annual launched yesterday at the London Design Festival. The members’ edition, art directed by Peter Saville and designed by recent graduate Luke Sanders, is to be followed by a version that will go on general sale next year, published by Taschen