Spot The Art Reference

Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed this canvas tote bag for art supply shop Cass Art. So, here’s a little Christmas quiz: how many of the well-known silhouetted art works can you name?

Ho Ho Ho!

Every December at CR we are lucky enough to receive an array of wonderful cards and, in more recent years, films wishing us a Merry Christmas (while also deftly demonstrating the creative talents of the senders). Here is a selection of our favourites so far from this year… plus a few other Christmassy things that are going on around London. First up is this charming little film from AKQA London.

Kerr|Noble Go Separate Ways

After 11 years of working together, Frith Kerr and Amelia Noble are closing their design studio, Kerr|Noble

What No Gorilla?

IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, puts a new twist on THAT Cadbury’s commercial…

The Designer’s Review of Books

Designer, academic and writer Andy Polaine has set up The Designer’s Review of Books, a blog dedicated solely to examining both the content and production values of some of the design publications vying for your attention (and hard earned cash)…

CR January Issue

CR’s January issue is out on 17 December. Go here to find out all about how our cover artwork was made in Brazil, read on for details of this month’s magazine

Warp Release On The Hour

Alan Partridge, Peter O’Hanraha-Hanrahan, Kevin Smear, Rosy May… just some of the characters that were originally created for Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci’s satirical On The Hour radio show – the show that paved the way for the TV series The Day Today and which first graced the airwaves on BBC Radio 4 way back in 1991. Now, for the first time, the radio show’s two series have been released on CD through Warp Records…

Victor & Susie: a snail tale made of type

Victor and Susie is a new children’s book from design studio Brighten the Corners, illustrated entirely from type. The story concerns Victor – a snail with a hole in his shell – and Susie, who decides to help him get better…

CR January: Made in Brazil

The artwork for our January issue cover was produced at Gráfica Fidalga in São Paulo, one of the city’s last remaining letterpress workshops. Here it is on press. Read on to find out how it was done

CR Annual: Extended Deadline

Don’t panic – there’s still time to enter the Creative Review Annual. We have extended the deadline to 16 January. All details are here

McDonald’s New Packaging – Lovin’ It?

Over the next two years, McDonald’s will roll out its new packaging to 13,900 ‘restaurants’ in the US and thereafter to another 117 countries worldwide. But will it ‘change the way the world feels about eating McDonald’s food’?

Ian Stevenson prints

Something to bring cheer on this cold December morning – some new prints from UK illustrator, Ian Stevenson, that have just become available on Pictures on Walls. Limited to 50 editions each – get them while they, at least, are hot.

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