Johnny Kelly: The Seed

The paper craft trend continues in this film for Adobe by animator Johnny Kelly, who joined the roster of directors at Nexus shortly after we featured him as One To Watch in our September issue last year.

Me, myself and I

Why do graphic designers find themselves so fascinating?
Michael Johnson investigates the new wave of ‘me-projects’

Hope and Hokum

The political cult of personality didn’t die with Stalin, as
David Crowley discovers in a new book of campaign posters

Customized

Dekotora (or Art Trucks) refers to the Japanese trend for lavishly decorated lorries, bedecked with chrome and all manner of lights

Let’s form a committee….

  I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” So said GK Chesterton. I once sat on a committee. We met weekly and nothing ever got done. In the wake of Boris Johnson scrapping the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Advisory Panel, I was fasci­n­ated to read about his new Design […]

Lambe Lambe

Hand-set letterpress posters once covered the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Gallery owner Baixo Ribeiro explains how he is attempting to revive this dying art by working with local artists on a new book

Jonathan Harris: Only Connect

In his review of the Flash on the Beach festival in December’s issue of CR, Andy Polaine reported that US designer Jonathan Harris had caused quite a stir.

Ho Ho Ho! 2: The Laughter Continues

Those Christmas cards/e-cards just keep on coming… here’s some more we’ve received at CR Towers from all you lovely people out there. First up is illustrator Mr Bingo, courting a little Christmas controversy with his Osama bin Laden themed Xmas card.

Close exhibition

Jason Tozer’s series of bubbles that he shot for CR form part of an extensive exhibition of work from the photographer that opens in January next year at London’s theprintspace gallery. Close will also feature detailed studies of ice, smoke, solder and water droplets, with prints of the work available to purchase from blanka.co.uk…