DIY Concorde

Design firm PostlerFerguson has created Olympus, a 1:1 model of one of Concorde’s engines, which will be on display in the window of Selfridges until October 22.

Elsewhere Dances To Motorola’s Tune

Remember David Elsewhere? The “web famous” nerdy guy with the amazing body-popping routine? Poke has enlisted his, err, unique talents in the service of a new phone from Motorola…

The Dying Art of Mumbai Taxis

One of Mumbai’s most distinctive sights – the intricately decorated, battered old taxis – are on their way out. A new law, to come into force later this year, will mean that sights like this will become a thing of the past…

Google or Gogola?

Following on from the Kyoorius Design Yatra conference I’ve been spending a few days in Mumbai where, last night, I spotted these enterprising individuals in the city’s Bandra district…

D&AD Online

For the first time in its history, D&AD has put its Annual award winners online. The site is designed by KentLyons, and will be available for everyone to view for the first month, after which it will only be open to D&AD members. Catch it while you can…

Branding Metallica

Metallica’s new logo, designed by Turner Duckworth, is based on the band’s original version
from 1981. TD also designed the identity and packaging for the new album, Death Magnetic
“I was worried that as music fans are so into credibility,” says designer David Turner, “if people knew that an agency that worked for Waitrose were doing Metallica, it might make the band look uncool. But Lars [Ulrich, from the band] said that was bollocks and that they just wanted the best people to do this.” Turner Duckworth talked to CR about their latest project: branding the rock beast that is Metallica…

Of All the People in All the World

A performer from Stan’s Cafe theatre company stands behind the rice mountain that represents the
population of the USA: one grain = one person
Visual artists love statistics. Remember the vast population models at Pentagram’s Global Cities show at the Tate Modern last year, which were themselves preceded by artist Abigail Reynolds’ card representations of violent crime statistics? Well now the world is being broken down and totted up again, in a new show in Birmingham that uses grains of rice to represent the 6.7 billion of us on the planet. Stan’s Cafe theatre company are behind Of All the People in All the World, a touring exhibition where a whopping 112 tonnes of rice has been used to replicate a whole range of statistics. Click through for a few examples and for details on the show, then check out the whole Flickr set for the project, here.

What is Graphic Design?

A simple enough question? Well… not that simple it seems. This revealing (not to say amusing) vox-pop film made last year by Studio Pip & Co. in Australia, shows that our beloved artform still has some work to do in the sphere of public awareness. “Wanky, trendy crap”? A “load of slosh”? Some of it, certainly, but full marks have to go to the guy in the shoe shop who comes up with a pretty accurate (and diplomatic) answer…

Nokia India Ad

This ad’s playing a lot on Indian TV right now – from Wieden + Kennedy’s Delhi office. For me it captures well the fact that in India there’s usually a human being doing jobs done in the West by machines or objects eg signs at Mumbai airport are virtually non-existent, but there’s always a bloke on hand to tell you where to go.

Kyoorius Design Yatra Days 2&3

Warning: Do not believe everything this man says. Erik Kessels by Inge Schout
This year’s Kyoorius Design Yatra came to a conclusion here in Goa yesterday with some inspiring words about sustainability, and a hint of controversy, Plus, why Erik Kessels is a big fat fibber…

Nice work

Hovis commercial, agency: MCBD, creatives: Danny Hunt, Gavin Torrance, production company: Rattling Stick, director: Ringan Ledwidge
Here’s the latest round-up of interesting advertising work that has passed through CR Towers recently. First up is the most recent piece of ‘event advertising’ to hit our screens – the new ad for Hovis, directed by Ringan Ledwidge, which has garnered an inexplicable amount of coverage on TV and in the press. For what, we’re not sure – it’s well directed, but the plot of the ad, which is both a homage to Hovis’ longevity and to its advertising heritage, feels rather hackneyed. But nostalgia is a powerful tool in advertising these days, and the advert is also a history of Britain over the last 122 years. It is therefore suitably long – running at one second per year. See it for yourself above.

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