O2 Lights the Way

A trip to the O2 Arena is very much a brand experience – thanks in part to wayfinding signage developed by HOK Sport Architecture, the firm responsible for designing the arena itself

I Made The bunnies bounce

In Fallon’s latest blockbuster commercial for Sony Bravia’s Colour Like No Other campaign, directed by Frank Budgen, brightly coloured model rabbits hop about the streets of New York. We caught up with animation director Darren Walsh about his role on it

Plus ça Change…

Philip Meggs’ classic text, A History Of Graphic Design, now has a contemporary, updated rival. But, as Anna Gerber discovers, even in the graphic arts, the more things change, the more they stay the same

Vinyl Stickers – The New Wallpaper?

Wall sticker set by Nagi Noda
Domestic is a French company that has been commissioning image makers to create designs and illustrations which are made into vinyl sticker packs under the product name Vynil…

Celebrate Water

Celebrate Water poster by Matt Willey & Giles Revell
Carrie Hodson-Walker, a recent graduate from the University of Lincoln, curated a non-profit social design initiative as part of the final year of her course. She invited several international designers and illustrators from across the world to donate poster designs on the theme, Celebrate Water…

How I’d Sink American Vogue

Picture this: Anna Wintour has resigned. The sheer effort of keeping an immaculate bob and an unfeasibly large pair of sunglasses in place 24 hours a day has finally taken its toll. In a move that has shocked the fashion industry, American Vogue has appointed as her successor graphic-designer-turned-artist Scott King. For his first issue in charge, King decides that Vogue should have an anti-war theme. Oh, and it should also be free…

Wilson’s Last Project

Pennine Lancashire identity (detail) on black background
As the tributes following his untimely death made clear, Anthony H Wilson played an enormous role in the rejuvenation of North West England. Although he will rightly be remembered principally for his part in placing Manchester at the heart of popular culture, the final months of Wilson’s life were devoted, with his partner Yvette Livesey, to helping an area just to the north of the city. The project was also to be the last product of what has been one of the great creative partnerships, that between Wilson and designer Peter Saville. We talked to Saville about the project and heard from the people behind the creation of Pennine Lancashire.

London gets inked

A sculpture, created by Asylum, swims alongside the Thames in Mother’s new campaign for TV show London Ink
Massive tattooed figures have recently invaded London, as part of a new ambient ad campaign by Mother. The sculptures, which have currently taken up residence by Tower Bridge and also at Victoria Station, form part of a campaign for new Discovery Real Time reality show London Ink.

Beattie vs Beefeater

Dangerous business this advertising. Beattie McGuinness Bungay’s latest campaign for Ikea nearly ended up with an unfortunate creative being locked up in the Tower.

The 6 Faces of CR

The October issue of Creative Review features six different cover images, drawn from the winners of our Photography Annual. The photographers featured are, top row, left to right: Giles Revell, Matthew Georgeson, Julia Fullerton-Batten
Second row, left to right: Nadav Kander, Richard Bailey, Nick Georghiou.
As this is a double issue – a normal issue plus, turn the magazine over and start again from the back for the Photography Annual – each copy effectively has two covers (the issue cover and the Photography Annual cover). To confuse things further, and to make the most of some of the great work featured inside, we have produced the issue in three different versions. All three are available on the newsstand so you can choose the one you like best. Or, who knows, even buy them all…

Illustrators Give Economist Campaign New Face

Seymour Chwast’s ad for The Economist: Chwast was one of six illustrators brought in by agency AMV.BBDO in a radical departure from previous work for the magazine
There are few advertising campaigns as renowned or as revered as that created for The Economist by AMV BBDO. The beautifully-written, white out of red lines have become a classic of the genre. But what’s this? A new Economist campaign, in black and red? Using illustrations? Is this the end of an era?

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