Mac Hits Back

Apple has responded to Microsoft’s I’m A PC commercial with a dig about the amount of money its rival spends on advertising…

The Atheist Bus

“There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” It’s a refreshing, if unusual, statement for the side of a London bus and if the organisers of the Atheist Bus Campaign raise enough money (you can donate here), they hope to run their message on 30 buses in the capital for four weeks early next year. Launching today, the campaign (which has, unsurprisingly, received support from professor Richard Dawkins and The British Humanist Association) aims to “counter the religious adverts which are currently running on London buses and help people think for themselves”. Fair enough. But as to how enjoying life bears any relation to a bendy bus is a question that might even stump prof. Dawkins.

Do You Speak Pompey?

Jodie Silsby, a recent graphic design graduate of the University of Portsmouth and D&AD New Blood winner, has mapped her beloved city by its slang, renaming each street in the Pompey dialect…

And the (UK MVA Awards) winners are…

The winners of the 2008 UK Music Video Awards, were announced at a ceremony hosted by comedian Adam Buxton at the Odeon West End cinema in London’s Leicester Square on Tuesday night. But before the show, Buxton kickstarted the event with a video of his own making (shown above), in which President George W. Bush (and his Treasurer, “Curtis 50 Cent”) discuss the financial crisis in music video. David Knight, who recently wrote a piece for CR on the state of the promo industry, was at the event and reports in detail on his site promonews.tv. Click through for the list of winning work…

Pepsi To Leave ‘Em Laughing

Pepsi is redesigning its globe logo. According to Ad Age “A ‘smile’ will characterise brand Pepsi, while a ‘grin’ is used for Diet Pepsi and a ‘laugh’ is used for Pepsi Max.” Yikes.

The Banks Have Some Explaining To Do

After monumental errors, nosediving share prices and the humiliation of nationalisation, the banking world has changed forever. So will their corporate identities and advertising adapt to fit the new realities?

Despot Birdhouses

A birdhouse based on Mussolini’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in King’s Wood, Kent in England
Super Kingdom is an art installation with a difference: each of the pieces on show in King’s Wood, near Ashford in Kent, is a fully-functioning animal house. They just happen to be based on a selection of infamous dictators’ palaces…

1HUND(RED) Converse shoes on show

Further to our post about new book Art & Sole the other week, the latest project to marry art with sneakers can be explored at the Converse store on London’s Carnaby Street – which is currently hosting an exhibition of sneakers designed by 100 different image makers for the Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists programme…

What Would You Like To Ask D&AD?

Garrick Hamm of Williams Murray Hamm has just taken over as the new president of D&AD. On the 20 October, CR will be interviewing him about his plans for the coming year. Following the debate engendered here and here after this year’s D&AD Awards, we have decided to give readers the chance to submit questions for Hamm which we will ask on your behalf

Gideon Baws

We were immensely sad to learn today of the death of Gideon Baws from animation directing team Shynola.

Keane on Korean Art

Particularly eager fans of musical beat combo, Keane, will know that their third album, Perfect Symmetry, is out today. But on opening the album packaging, the band’s three members don’t appear quite as normal in the photography within…

100 Years of the Roundel

Roundel artwork by Alicia Framis. All images courtesy the artists and Transport for London
To celebrate 100 years of London Underground’s iconic roundel emblem, Art on the Underground has commissioned 100 contemporary artists to create artworks based on the symbol.