Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge

Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill
Getty Images recently joined forces with London’s popular weekly short film evening Short & Sweet to launch a competition for filmmakers to create a short inspired by, and using visual content from, its enormous archive, housed at the Hulton Archive. Laurie Hill scooped the top prize for his film Photograph of Jesus, shown above.

Charity Ads: A More Mature Approach?

Kids Company by AMV.BBDO. Art direction/ design: Paul Cohen. Copy­writer: Mark Fairbanks. Photography: Thom Atkinson
The unscrupulous among the advertising community have often tended to look upon charity accounts less as an opportunity to help those in need and more as a chance to help themselves. Is a more mature approach emerging?

Sam Potts

Design fit for superheroes and other stories: Patrick Burgoyne meets well-read New York designer Sam Potts

Falling trends

Financial crisis, global economic melt­down, the world on the edge – the rather large hiccup in the world’s money markets recently provided headline writers with some pretty meaty material

Fallon, the next ten years

It’s been a pretty good first ten years for Fallon, London. The agency is regularly described as the best in London, if not the world

Designing a Legible City

Bristol’s City ID is redesigning the way we experience urban areas. Its latest project, for Southampton, hopes to put the UK city firmly back on the map for residents and visitors alike

The war of Images

The Pentagon has a rather insidious phrase to describe the latent power of the image in modern warfare

Of bleeps and squeals

Shanghai’s Olympic-scale eArts Festival took over the city, bringing outdoor digital art to the masses. Chris Gill reports

New Silkscreens

All the prints featured in this edition of Monograph are untitled works in progress. They are all one-off silkscreens, hand printed on hot pressed Fabriano paper.

Very Elle, Very Cool

Non-Format give French bi-annual fashion magazine Very Elle a bold new look

Charity ads: a more mature approach?

The unscrupulous among the advertising community have often tended to look upon charity accounts less as an opportunity to help those in need and more as a chance to help themselves. Is a more mature approach emerging?

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…