Royal Stitch Up

Cliff, Brian May, that kid that won Britain’s Got Talent, step aside. The real star of this year’s Royal Variety Performance is a piece of graphic design…

Make Your Own Xmas

Make Your Own Xmas, 2008, © Bob and Roberta Smith, Photo: Sam Drake, Tate Photography
This year’s Tate Christmas Tree, which is designed each year by a different artist, is by Bob and Roberta Smith and aptly reflects the ecologically minded times that we now live in. The tree is made from timber, bicycles and lamps, and is interactive, with visitors asked to provide pedal-power to illuminate the tree.

Next Year’s Colour?

According to Pantone, next year’s colour is Mimosa or, PANTONE® 14-0848, as it’s known to its friends..

Shumeng Ye and the Book of Warriors

Shumeng Ye’s Book of Warriors, in which a pair of Chinese trainers is packaged with a book of photographs, has become a cult hit in Europe. She tells CR how she did it

Do not try this at home

Daito Manabe, a Japanese artist and programmer suffers for his art in his latest project: the catchily named “electric stimulus to face – test 3”. Via a range of strategically placed electrodes, Manabe’s face is made to twitch in time with one of his own digital compositions. While admiring the captivating effects this produces, it does you a slightly itchy nose and we in no way recommend trying to have a go yourself. (Link: Andrew Sullivan).

Kari Piippo in Chaumont

Lahti Poster Museum 1975-1990 anniversary poster, 1990
Opening tonight at Les Silos at the Maison du livre et de l’affiche in Chaumont, France is an exhibition of posters by the Finnish graphic designer, Kari Piippo.

Pete The Meat Puppet And More Nice Work

Pete The Meat Puppet film for Diesel, directed by Legs. Agency: Farfar, Stockholm
Here is a selection of the more interesting advertising work that has passed under our noses at CR of late. First up is a frankly bizarre film that is one of a series of shorts that feature on this new Diesel website. New York/LA directing team Legs are behind all the films, including Pete The Meat Puppet, which features one of the catchiest songs we’ve heard on an ad for a long time. Yet somehow it seems unlikely that this song will make it into the charts.

Don’t Forget Your Inner Child

Abbot Mead Vickers.BBDO has created three new print ads for the V&A’s Museum of Childhood which continue in the illustrated style the agency established last year with a series of ads that went on to be included in this year’s CR Annual…

Food for Thoughts: Studio Survey

Following Mark’s previous post on new research into the foods and music that are most conducive to creativity, there was a suggestion in the comments that it would be interesting to find out what designers and creatives currently do. So go on then, tell us…

Food for thoughts

Next time you’re preparing for that killer pitch, you might do well to lay off the biscuits and bring along a nice plate of chicken to the brainstorming session instead…

And the BTACA winners are…

CR attended the British Television Advertising Craft Awards last night and witnessed Fallon’s Play Doh ad for Sony Bravia win in no less than four categories: Best Animation, Best Direction, Best Model Making and Best Use of Recorded Music (joint winner with Here Come The Girls ad for Boots by Mother). Play Doh also won The Panalux Award For Best Crafted Commercial Of The Year.
Read on to find out who won what…

National Geographic Rides The Vomit Comet

This week National Geographic airs a series of new idents in which a physical, 3D manifestation of its yellow frame logo and various other objects float around in zero gravity. The idents, created by agency, Brothers and Sisters were specially commissioned to promote and brand the National Geographic Channel’s forthcoming Space Week event (starting Sunday 4 January) – and were shot in zero gravity conditions in a G-Force One plane (a specially adapted Boeng 727 – the same kind of plane used by NASA to train astronauts) high above the Nevada Desert…

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