Sweeney Todd’s chair, as seen in the film’s title sequence, directed by Richard Morrison
Tim Burton’s film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Johnny Depp as the all singing, all dancing, throat-slashing protagonist, opens this weekend in the UK. The title sequence, created by production company Th1ng , follows a dripping trail of blood from Sweeney Todd’s chair, down to the basement where the pies are made and beyond…
The entries are starting to come in for our Coversoursing competition to design the UK jacket for Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing book: including this great one from Richard over at AceJet. Can You do better?
A new set of extra-long British stamps featuring covers from the James Bond novels has been issued by the Royal Mail today. Designed by A2/SW/HK each one features four cover designs of the same novel, getting progressively more populist – some might say tacky – as they progress from left to right.
Not many design studios can boast an identity that incorporates work by Build, Carlos Segura, Paul Davies, Stefan Sagmeister James Goggin and Alexander Gelman…
Left to right: Caroline Clark of lovelyasatree.com, Nat Hunter of Airside and Sophie Thomas of design studio thomas.matthews who have come together to form Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest
“We have high ambitions: the entire creative industry needs to be shaken up and sorted out,” says Sophie Thomas, one third of newly formed social enterprise, Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest (who feature in our January issue, out now). The new initiative, which launches this month, aims to provide a one-stop-shop for creatives seeking information on sustainability issues and how their working life affects the environment.
Image of Andrey Bartenev’s disco installation, a version of which will be shown in Soho next week
Set to brighten up a no doubt chilly Monday morning in London’s Soho next week is a multi-coloured installation by Russian artist Andrey Bartenev, on display at the Riflemaker gallery. Bartenev’s piece, which will be viewable from the street, is a brightly coloured work called Disco-nexion and is based on the glass tunnel containing 50 LED spheres (with the words “connection lost” orbiting each one) that he showed last summer, as Russia’s representative at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
Who wouldn’t want to find a little room in their life for ‘a cyclopaedic and illustrated volume of arcane and commonplace wonders’?
For those agencies and clients that are still nervously dipping their toes into digital media and branded content, wary of its true value, a new website launched this month by US ad agency Droga5 and production company Smuggler seriously ups the ante
As its economy booms, India’s advertising industry is soaring, and a graphic design community is finally emerging. Eliza Williams talks to the country’s most exciting creative talent about what the future holds
The latest batch of live action idents for Welsh channel s4c by Proud Creative all feature elements which respond to the voice of the channel’s announcer–thanks to the code-writing skills of directors Minivegas. We spoke to Luc Schurgers and Daniel Lewis about the project
Trying to describe the type of work that Roel Wouters creates isn’t entirely straightforward. His projects deftly cross all the categories that aid definition
Born Akesson: 02.05.79, Katrineholm, Sweden; Mankovsky: 22.09.79, Gdansk, Poland. Education Both: Graphic Design & Advertising, Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm. Based London. Work history Akesson: MADE, Leo Burnett, London; Scholz & Friends, London & Berlin; Fallon, London Mankovsky: Fallon, London. Contact samuel.akesson@fallon.co.uk; tomas.mankovsky@fallon.co.uk
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