Pentagram’s Domenic Lippa has unveiled a new identity and promotional material for D&AD’s 2009 Student Awards. The new work pixellates the familiar yellow pencil and uses elements of this effect across a new website and array of printed materials – including posters and briefing postcards – reflecting the organisation’s decision to take the contents of the Annual online…
World Press Photo of the Year 2008: Anthony Suau, USA, for Time. US Economy in Crisis: Following eviction, Detective Robert Kole must ensure residents have moved out of their home, Cleveland, Ohio, 26 March
US photographer Anthony Suau has won Photo of the Year at the 52nd World Press Photo contest. Suau’s winning photograph shows an armed officer of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department moving through a home in Cleveland, Ohio, following an eviction as a result of mortgage foreclosure. As jury chair MaryAnne Golon points out, the image is “a double entendre. It looks like a classic conflict photograph, but it is simply the eviction of people from a house…. Now war in its classic sense is coming into people’s houses because they can’t pay their mortgages.”
London-based design studio Airside has created the suitably green identity for Greenpeace’s Airplot! campaign to prevent a third runway at Heathrow airport.
In a nutshell, Greenpeace has bought a piece of land in the middle of the proposed runway site and, although the deeds can only have four legal owners (actress Emma Thompson, comedian Alistair McGowan, prospective Tory parliamentary candidate Zac Goldsmith and Greenpeace are named on the deeds), the organisation is inviting everyone to sign up for a piece of the plot in order to further the Airplot! cause.
Read on to see more images of the identity and also some of the images that Airside recently posted on its blog that reveal some of the ideas and sketches that gave birth to this identity, as well as work in progress images documenting the creation of the various graphic elements of the identity – including the bespoke typeface, made by printing letters and shapes cut from corrugated cardboard…
Quest for G for Gatorade, agency: TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles, Production company: @Radical Media, director: Tarsem
For your Friday afternoon pleasure, here is a selection of new commercials and music videos that have caught our attention of late. First up is a spot for Gatorade, directed by Tarsem, which looks to Monty Python & the Holy Grail for inspiration.
Studying graphic design at different universities, college friends Chris Gove and Robert Evans kept in touch via the postal service. Sending flyers, gig posters and offering each other advice on their own work, the pair developed a creative partnership thanks to a shared love of music, art and the receiving of mail. Three years ago they set up Telegramme, their design studio in east London. For CR, Kezia Clark met up with Chris and Robert at their place of work, in an old peanut factory…
2wice is a contemporary dance journal designed by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller. Always beautifully presented, its regular territory is a somewhat high-brow world of toned musculature and perfect posture. Not so the latest issue.
Marian Bantjes’ “serve” in her Layer Tennis match against Armin Vit, which featured in the first season
Kicking off today at 2pm Chicago time is the latest season of Layer Tennis, the online game which tests designers’ skills to the limit….
Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster and The Guardian’s infographics both appear in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year show which opens today at London’s Design Museum
When the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Show debuted last year it had a mixed reaction. ‘Good first attempt, but plenty to think about for next time’ seemed to be the consensus. This year’s exhibition opens today – CR went along to the private view…
An undoubtedly devastating aspect of climate change is rising sea levels. It’s also one that many people in the UK no doubt find hard to visualise; severe flooding (Boscastle, 2004) and coastline erosion (Holderness, on-going) likely being the closest we get to experience its potential impact. In Bristol, a public arts project that sought to highlight the impact of rising seas comes to an end tomorrow night. Projecting watermark lines onto various buildings across the city, artist Chris Bodle has no doubt made many people stop and think. Thanks to Ben for his initial post on Watermarks at Noisy Decent Graphics…
New York magazine. Art director: Chris Dixon
Last week, CR attended the first birthday party of the Editorial Design Organisation (first covered here on the blog) writes CR art director, Paul Pensom. The EDO is a group formed to champion editorial design and provide support for students wishing to enter the industry. MagCulture’s Jeremy Leslie is chairman for 2009 and he used the party to introduce the EDO DIY exhibition: a selection of tear-sheets from some of the most notable editorial design from the last year, as chosen by EDO members.
My Girls, Animal Collective, directed by Jon Vermilyea and Chad von Nau, production: Knowmore Productions
Here’s a selection of our favourite videos of late. First up is this video for the great new Animal Collective track My Girls, by Jon Vermilyea and Chad von Nau.
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
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
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
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
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
Kelly Grovier’s new book charts the artist’s persistent dialogue with classic and contemporary art
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
The Pentagram partner has created the titles for the acclaimed new Netflix show, which reimagines the Greek myths in a contemporary setting
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
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
We explore how the 90s, an era the UK looks favourably upon for its thriving culture, are continually inspiring a stagnated creative industry
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