Nike iD London Studio Opens Tonight

Nike iD’s new two-floor studio, in London’s Nike Town
Sneaker-heads in London will be aware that tonight is the night that Nike iD’s new and permanent studio opens within Nike Town situated at Oxford Circus. Nike iD, in case you don’t know, is a service Nike’s been offering since 1999, where punters can use an interface on the nikeid.com website to select different colour and material combinations to customise their choice of sport shoe – which will then be made up as per their design and shipped to the customer…

Love Will Tear Us Apart Again, and again, and again…

You’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the T-shirt, bought the trainers and the re-releases – are you ready for another Joy Division-related retail opportunity? Of course you are, you need The Art Of Love Will Tear Us Apart, a poster featuring everything you ever wanted to know (and more you never knew you wanted to know) about THAT song…

Sarah Ginn & Mandy Smith

They’ve just bagged their first job in advertising, at Wieden + Kennedy’s London office, but Sarah Ginn and Mandy Smith only met for the first time just over a year ago

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…