Question of the Week 21.07.09

In the second of our series of questions penned on our appropriately pared down, no-nonsense whiteboard, we want to know how the recession is treating you…

Follow the Monsters: the final task

To coincide with our August Bumper Summer Book O’ Fun issue, we challenged CR readers to find five of Stefan G Bucher’s Monsters which were secreted about the CR website. If you have reached this page it either means that (a) you have found all five or (b) you cheated, but you wouldn’t do that […]

Shynola directs Coldplay

Shynola has directed this super charming video for Coldplay’s rather blah new single, Strawberry Swing.

Graduate shows 09: New Designers

Last Friday, CR visited New Designers where students graduating in visual communications courses were showing work. It was a decidedly illustration-heavy crop this year and with a lot of strong pieces around. Here are a few of our favourites…

Style and substance?

When it comes to creating fashion images, it’s the photographer who gets the fame and most of the glory. But a new show at London’s Photographers’ Gallery suggests that credit should perhaps be shared

Coke: a simple story

Patrick Burgoyne talks to Pio Schunker, the man behind the recent creative renaissance at Coca-Cola, and wonders whether its return to simplicity will be followed by other brands

Data driven type

Belgian agency, Happiness Brussels, just uploaded a great film to our Feed section: two typographers, a programmer and a racing driver collaborating to create a font by tracking the movements of a car…

Inside Cog’s studio

London-based Cog Design made this film for us of a typical working day in their studio. Plenty of design… and plenty of tea and cake.

All memorials have the potential to harm

The Manifesto Club campaigns against the hyperregulation of everyday life and their new book, Attention Please, documents the use of prescriptive safety signage that, far from alerting people to imminent danger, merely highlights the absurd policing of ordinary people doing ordinary things…

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