Mother launches art space with Peter Blake show
Mother advertising agency is branching out into the art world with a new gallery
CR Annual Best In Book: Find It and Balloonacy
The current issue of CR features The Annual, showcasing the best work of the past year. Nine projects have been chosen for our Best in Book section, the ultimate accolade. We are featuring each of them in a series of posts with additional content to further explain each project. In this post, see how Dare’s Find It app will help you locate your tent at Glastonbury and the stats behind Poke’s Balloonacy project
D&AD Awards 2009: Music Videos Judging
In our fourth interview with this year’s D&AD awards judges, Eliza Williams talks to James Frost of the Music Videos jury. Frost, who created Radiohead’s stunning House of Cards promo, discusses the standard of work entered this year, how the economic climate has affected production budgets, and the reaction he’s had to that video…
CR Annual Best In Book: The Nine Inch Nails Interactive Stage
The current issue of CR features The Annual, showcasing the best work of the past year. Nine projects have been chosen for our Best in Book section, the ultimate accolade. We are featuring each of them in a series of posts with additional content to further explain each project. In this post, see how Moment Factory created an interactive extravaganza for Nine Inch Nails’ last tour.
Beautiful Losers
“The nerds are the dispossessed who will inherit the creative earth.” Mike Mills in Beautiful Losers
The Evening Standard Says Sorry
In anticipation of its relaunch next week, The Evening Standard has launched this surprising new campaign, which aims to firmly distance itself from the newspaper’s previous incarnation.
D&AD Awards 2009: Viral
In one of five interviews with jury members from this year’s D&AD Awards, Eliza Williams talks to Viral jury foreman Michael Lebowitz, of Big Spaceship
Form: Matt Rowe website
Matt Rowe has written songs for the likes of the Spice Girls, Amy Winehouse and Sophie Ellis Bextor
Ogilvy London: HotWheels ads
Ogilvy London has created a series of charming posters for Mattel’s series of children’s toy cars, HotWheels
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris: The Zimbabwean ads
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris has created this ambient outdoor campaign for The Zimbabwean, a newspaper produced by a group of exiled Zimbabwean journalists
Next Year’s Colours
The choice of colour is a big decision in any design project. Mark Sinclair talks to colour expert Beatrice Santiccioli who has helped answer this thorny question for clients such as Apple and Nike
London Life in CR June
After David Hillman’s recent D&AD President’s Lecture, the main topic of conversation was not Nova or The Guardian, but a magazine that lasted just 18 months and went out of business over 40 years ago. London Life was put together by a dream team of the top editorial talent of the day including Duffy, Terence Donovan, Gerald Scarfe, David Puttnam as managing editor and a young jobbing illustrator called Ian Dury (yes, that one). CR’s next Monograph will feature 16 spreads and covers from this rare magazine.
Creative Review’s Annual Awards 2025 are officially open for entries
One of the most respected and trusted awards for the advertising and design industries are back for 2025. Run, don’t walk to get your entries in before the Early Bird Deadline on 25 October
How to scale your design business
Growth is a dream for many businesses, but it comes with challenges. Daisy Crowder, brand and marketing director at design recruitment agency Craft, offers advice on how to navigate the change and keep staff on side
Cultivating community with Ganni
The Danish luxury fashion label has spearheaded the characterful evolution of Scandi style. Here, chief brand officer Priya Matadeen discusses its approach to collabs, the pressures of being a responsible brand, and how Ganni Girls grew from a hashtag to a badge of belonging
Why are brands apologising so much right now?
Brands are saying sorry at a more rapid rate than ever. CR’s advertising columnist Ben Kay delves into why sorry is no longer the hardest word and whether this is an effective strategy for winning audiences
How Guinness embraced social
By loosening its approach to advertising, and engaging with its audience directly, the drinks brand has transformed with the times and won a whole new set of fans
Tracing Banksy’s art history remixes
Kelly Grovier’s new book charts the artist’s persistent dialogue with classic and contemporary art
How Lego creates meaningful brand experiences
We speak to Lego’s VP of global brand development Alero Akuya about the brand’s rare ability to straddle the physical and virtual worlds with ease – whether through its immersive new art exhibition in Paris or collaborations with Epic Games and Nike
Matt Willey brings a human touch to Kaos titles
The Pentagram partner has created the titles for the acclaimed new Netflix show, which reimagines the Greek myths in a contemporary setting
A visual history of movie posters
A new book from Reel Art Press collates the first comprehensive history of film posters. We explore why they remain an underappreciated area of cultural design
The Monthly Interview: Rob Lowe, aka Supermundane
Mark Sinclair talks to the artist and designer about his new book, Lost Ordinary Magic, and the importance of recognising the power of simplicity and the everyday wonders that surround us
Unravelling adland’s obsession with 90s nostalgia
We explore how the 90s, an era the UK looks favourably upon for its thriving culture, are continually inspiring a stagnated creative industry
Building the visual world of Fontaines DC
The band’s surreal new album visuals explore a darker, more grotesque side of romance. We speak to the creative team behind the campaign about challenging the visual tropes of rock music