Design in the front line
Designers could help the world collectively rise to the challenge, but only if we wrench our creative faculties free from their recent history as servants of industry, pawns in a game that spawns the conspicuous consumption that is now clearly causing ecological overshoot.
The YouTube Dilemma
YouTube provides inspiration to creatives, but it also leaves young directors vulnerable and agencies open to accusations of plagiarism. What’s the solution?
CR Taxi: Meet The Artists
In this exclusive CR film, Manohar and Samir Manohar Mistry discuss the development of Mumbai taxi art and the design they created for CR’s April issue
D&AD Awards 2009: Graphic Design
Judging for the 2009 D&AD awards was held at London’s Olympia. Here Eliza Williams talks to Alan Dye, chair of the Graphic Design panel
Said Why Eggs? exhibition: 26 Alphabets by 26 Artists
We love a typographic artwork here at CR, so we feel duty bound to tell you about the curiously titled Said Why Eggs? exhibition, curated by East End Arts Club…
D&AD Awards 2009: Viral Judging
In our final interview with this year’s D&AD awards judges, Eliza Williams talks to Big Spaceship’s Michael Lebowitz, the foreman of the Viral jury. Lebowitz discusses the semantics of the term “viral”, the evolution of the digital industry and the fact that, while still in its infancy, there’s already a sense of maturity emerging within the field…
D&AD Awards 2009: Music Videos
Director James Frost talks about his time on the judging panel for the D&AD Music Video category and the impact of directing the video for Radiohead’s House of Cards
D&AD Awards 2009: Illustration
In one of five interviews with jury members from this year’s D&AD Awards, Eliza Williams talks to Illustration chair Marion Deuchars
D&AD Awards 2009: TV & Cinema
Eliza Williams talks to Dave Trott, who was one of the judges on this year’s D&AD Awards jury for TV & Cinema
Come And See James Jarvis
On June 9 we’re hosting a talk by illustrator, vinyl toy pioneer and well known purveyor of potato headed people, James Jarvis.
Bodhi of Work
Open now at the Bodhi Gallery in Brick Lane is Power in Numbers showcasing the work of 50 up-and-coming print artists…