The Guardian ad campaign

Guardian marketing director, Marc Sands, gives us a client-side view of the development of Wieden + Kennedy’s current ad campaign for the newspaper

Key magazine cover

Dirk Barnett, art director of the NY Times’ Key magazine, reveals the process behind John Maeda’s current cover design for the title

James Jarvis YOD toy

James Jarvis explains the processes involved in designing, making and marketing his latest vinyl toy

Chair Heaven

Many is the time that we at Creative Review have lusted over a Vitra chair or two (or 20), so Project Vitra, a book, designed by Cornel Windlin, which celebrates 50 years of the design firm’s history, was eagerly received

Material Wealth

As access to print and manufacturing processes increases, the sheer wealth of materials out there for the designer to choose from can appear daunting at times

DLR public art programme

James Goggin of Practise and Ceri Lewis of Modus Operandi reveal the process behind creating branding and an identity for a new initiative from the dlr

Richard Hawley singing avatar

Corporation Pop’s Dom Raban talks us through the making of a Second Life avatar for the musician Richard Hawley

Film Beats Paper

Works on paper were overshadowed by moving image projects at September’s Illustrative Berlin event, says Daniel West

Chicago Spire Identity

An invite to a launch event shows off the logo for Chicago Spire, devised by Third Eye Design
In our November issue, out this week, we reported that Third Eye Design has created the identity and website for architect Santiago Calatrava’s latest project, Chicago Spire. We only showed one screengrab of the website in the magazine so we thought we’d show a little more of the project here as Third Eye Design has been responsible not just for the identity and site – but for creating all print work – from brochures and books through to business cards and letterheads and also conceiving and creating the advertising…

Inside Dougal Wilson’s sketchbooks

Drawing from Dougal Wilson’s storyboard for Bat For Lashes’ What’s A Girl To Do? video
As part of our Work in Progress special issue of Creative Review, which is out now, advertising and music video director Dougal Wilson revealed the complex storyboards that he creates for his films.
The issue includes preparatory drawings for Wilson’s video for Jarvis Cocker’s Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time and his Wave ad for Big Yellow Storage, and here we reveal his storyboard for the promo for What’s A Girl To Do? by Bat For Lashes. As the stills from the video (included below alongside Wilson’s storyboards) show, his drawings are a remarkably accurate guide to the finished shots.

Mimi Mollica: The Dakar Road

Mimi Mollica is a photojournalist whose work appeared in the CR Photography Annual last month. Here, he talks about this latest project, documenting the building of a new Autoroute in Dakar, Senegal, that will transform the lives of those who live around it and travel on it

BTACA 2007 Results

Chris Palmer’s BTACA award-winning Baking Of… ad for Skoda
It was a celebratory evening for Chris Palmer at last night’s British Television Advertising Craft Awards, held at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel. The director walked away with the Best Direction gong for his witty Carlsberg spot, which reunites some of England’s greatest footie players to create “the best pub team in the world”, and also saw his Skoda Baking Of… ad win three awards, including the most coveted, Best Crafted Commercial of the Year.

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