Cinematic trailer marks the return of Skins

Skins series 2 trailer, Director: Neil Gorringe. Art director: Alice Tonge. Production designers: Carl Sprague and Skyhook. Production company: 4Creative.
Skins, the Channel 4 teen drama series which is guaranteed to make you feel that your own adolescence was extremely banal and provincial, is back with a second series next month, and its return is marked by this moody, cinematic trailer. The film is directed by Neil Gorringe, who was also behind the first trailer for the programme, yet in contrast to the upbeat, party atmosphere of that trail, this one suggests that the lives of the Skins protagonists have got very dark indeed. CR talked to Gorringe about making the film.

Creative Review Among Design Museum Designs of the Year

CR is quietly chuffed to announce that two of our projects have been chosen for the Design Museum’s new Designs of the Year exhibition “showcasing the best work in architecture and design in the last 12 months”. The December Monograph (spread shown above) and Peter Saville’s sticker from our February issue will both be in the show.

Tony Blair’s New Identity Wins Wallpaper* Award

Among the highlights of this year’s Wallpaper* Design Awards, announced at a stylish (natch) dinner last night, is Lucienne Roberts’ letterhead and stationery for former British PM, Tony Blair

I Was The… title sequence director for Sweeney Todd

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…

Coversourcing Update

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?

James Bond And The Decline Of Western Civilization

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.

Thanks a Bunch

Not many design studios can boast an identity that incorporates work by Build, Carlos Segura, Paul Davies, Stefan Sagmeister James Goggin and Alexander Gelman…

Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest

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.

He’s Lost in Music

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.

A Work of Wonder

Who wouldn’t want to find a little room in their life for ‘a cyclopaedic and illustrated volume of arcane and commonplace wonders’?

A Taste of Honey

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

Eastern promise

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

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