Your 100 Minutes of Havana Is Up!

Following on from our initial post on 100 Minutes of Havana last week, CR attended the Secret Wars-style battle event between a crew of artists selected by Monorex and a gang of illustrators selected by Intercity…

A Private View

FUEL keep a sketchbook. They put funny things like this in it
A new book reveals the scribbles and sketches contained in the most personal of a designer’s possessions: their notebook…

About The Male Phenomenon

A few weeks ago, on his magCulture blog, Jeremy Leslie reviewed issue 1 of Manzine, a monochrome, fanzine-style exploration of “the male phenomenon”. My copy has been read avidly now by most of us here at CR so we decided to track down Manzine’s editor, Kevin Braddock to find out a bit more about the publication…

Have iPhone, Will Jam…

Those among you with iPhones and iTouches probably know all about the myriad apps available that can add to the functionality of your Apple devices. What you may not know is that there are enough musical apps to start your own band – as demonstrated rather slickly by London based girl band, The Mentalists, in this viral created by London agency, Wax…

F**k Off Fairey

Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop, the feature-length spin-off from his wonderful political comedy The Thick Of It, is using this rather nice Fairey-inspired teaser poster

Harry Beck: The Paris Connection

 
Detail from Harry Beck’s 1951 Paris Metro map design (which was rejected by the city’s transport authorities). Used by kind permission London Transport Museum
The Royal Mail recently commem­orated one of the UK’s greatest works of visual infor­mation design when Harry Beck’s London Underground diagram was included for the first time on a British postage stamp writes Mark Ovenden. The impor­tance of Beck’s rectilinear, topologic 1933 diagram is widely recognised and praised by graphic designers. Many wonder why Beck never extended his ideas outside London. The answer is, he did – to the nearest major subway network to London: Paris.

Meet Mr Chicken

You may not know his name but you will certainly know his work: Morris Cassanova (aka Mr Chicken) designs and makes signs for most of the fried chicken shops in the UK. In an extract from her book Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie, Siâron Hughes meets him

And The Creative Circle Winners Are…

DDB’s Harvey Nichols ads, shot by Giles Revell and starring Wallace & Gromit (which we blogged about in August last year), received the Creative Circle’s Platinum award last night as well as gold awards for Best Poster, Best Portrait Poster, Best Landscape Poster and Best Poster Campaign
CR was at the Creative Circle awards last night to eat fish and chips, quaff champagne, see DDB’s Wallace and Gromit starring campaign for Harvey Nichols win big, and see Dave Trott enter the Creative Circle Hall of Heroes…

straight 8 Needs You!

Connections, a 2008 straight 8 film by Steve Oram & Nick Lear
Entries are now open for this year’s straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to discover if anything will have come out…

Design Indaba Blog: 10×10 One Year On

Last year Patrick reported on the progress of 10×10, the social housing project launched by Cape Town’s Design Indaba with the aim of approaching ten of the world’s best architects to help build 100 new homes in the Freedom Park district of Mitchell’s Plain, one of the many townships that make up the vast area known as Cape Flats. On Saturday, Luyanda Mpahlwa, the architect behind the first series of houses to be built for the project showed the 2009 Indaba guests some finished examples: one of which, shown above, is now a new home to Mrs Jonkers and her family; the first inhabitants of Mitchell’s Plain to see the benefits – and illustrate the potential – of the 10×10 project…

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