The New Face of Mencap

The UK’s leading charity for people with learning disabilities, Mencap, has just unveiled a new identity, created by Rare Corporate Design. The new logo for the organisation appears in a round speech bubble with an emphasis on the first two letters of the name, me. The rebrand also includes a new corporate typeface called Me that has been specially crafted by typography firm Fontsmith in consult­ation with members of Mencap to ensure the end product is of genuine benefit to an audience with learning disabilities…

A First UK Show For DELTA

© DELTA, courtesy of Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
In his first solo UK exhibition, Dutch artist DELTA is set to display a series of works at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London. The graffiti pioneer has gone from tagging the streets of Amsterdam to erecting huge relief sculptures that are equally at home in the urban environment as they are in the gallery. Quite removed from the ubiquitous “street art” aesthetic, DELTA’s pieces offer a coolly constructivist antidote to regular stencils meet pseudo-political sloganeering. Click through to see a few of the great pieces he’ll be showing at Elms Lesters from 6 to 28 June…

Are Design Graduates Motivated By Success, Passion or Money?

Students: good hair, nice togs, the future of the creative industries. All photography: Thomas Ball
For CR’s Graduate Guide, 15 students set to graduate from LCC this year shared their ambitions, frustrations and opinions with lecturer Sarah Temple. Jonathan Ellery of design studio Browns (in green T-shirt) was also on hand to offer advice.
Giving advice to design graduates used to be fairly straightforward (writes LCC’s Sarah Temple): remember you’re a person and not a portfolio. Mingle at design events. Just call up your favourite creative director. Avoid portfolios with zips. But these days, graduation is considerably more confusing and challenging for students. For this reason, LCC invited 15 design students to have a conversation about their hopes, ambitions and concerns as they graduate this summer. [The following article appears in our Graduate Guide, free with the current issue of CR]…

If You Want To Get Away With Murder… Buy A Car

Page from the end section of Rumble Strip, Woodrow Phoenix’s new comic book
Rumble Strip, the latest offering from acclaimed comic artist and writer Woodrow Phoenix is an illustrated narrative story highlighting the hazardous gambles that road users take – and pedestrians are confronted with – everyday. In Phoenix’s unique take on the comic book medium, there are no characters in the entire book; rather his sharp, densely inked graphics offer up a snaking ride via roads and motorways, through to a reimagining of his experience of a near fatal accident while driving on the M25 to Brighton…

A Little Bit Of CR At C4

The latest version of Channel 4’s Big Four sculpture incorporates a little bit of Creative Review – some of our printing plates, to be exact, along with those of various other magazines and newspapers

Stag Scaffolding Sculpture

Stag Scaffolding Sculpture by Ben Long at Oakmayne building site, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
Standing at a height of 35ft, in a dormant building site in south London, is artist Ben Long’s latest creation made entirely from conventional scaffolding components. Stag is part of an ongoing multi-disciplinary project, Great Travelling Art Exhibition, which also includes Long’s finger-drawings made in the dirt on the rear shutters of haulage trucks.

How Lois’s Esquire Cover Could Have Looked

In New York a couple of weeks ago I popped in to MoMa (well I queued up for ages and then fought my way in) where there is a small but nonetheless worthwhile show of George Lois’s famous Esquire covers. On a light table sat this transparency – a working mock-up of one of the most famous magazine covers of all time.

D&AD And Graphic Design: What Next?

While the advertising community was celebrating at this year’s D&AD Awards and rightly so (see results here), many designers looked on aghast. The reason? There are no D&AD awards in graphic design this year. Not one. Not a single yellow pencil was awarded in any of the graphics categories. Now what?

Lost: the D in D&AD

Hat-Trick Design was nominated for its Lest We Forget stamp in Graphic Design,
one of only two nominations in graphics categories this year
While an unprecedented six Golds were handed out at last night’s D&AD awards, the Graphic Design section produced just two nominations and no pencils. We asked former D&AD President, Michael Johnson, and Sean Perkins of North why they think graphics was so under-represented (last year seven Silvers and four nominations were awarded in the section) and what D&AD – and indeed the wider design community – should do to change this situation in the future…

D&AD Awards: The Gold Rush

Earlier this evening a record six Black Pencils were handed out in an unprecedented act of judicial generosity at D&AD’s 2008 Awards. Apple scooped two (making it the biggest single winner of the coveted Gold Award to date, with six since 1999) and it was a very good year for advertising categories, with The Partners’ Grand Tour initiative for The National Gallery picking up a Gold; and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and Projector Inc. also winning for online campaigns (no Graphics awards though, of which more here and here). Oh and that Gorilla made a brief appearance as well…

Chemistry can be fun

We were never that bothered by chemistry at school – the lab coat being such a tricky look to pull off and all – but maybe if they’d explained it like this we’d have paid more attention…

Hot & Cold in London

Hot and Cold issue three (boxed)
Hot & Cold is a collaborative art zine project created by Californian artists Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland. Each issue invites up to 20 artists – with more joining as word spreads – to participate in creating this hand crafted, limited edition zine. A new exhibition of their collected work has just opened in London…

1 … 1,338 1,339 1,340 1,341 1,342 1,343 1,344 1,345 1,346 … 1,407

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