Magma move beyond books

The Mr Pen puzzle toy by SOZ (£12.50) is just one of many products now available in Magma’s spanky new store at 16 Earlham Street, Covent Garden
Magma, every designers’ favourite bookstore, has launched a new store in Covent Garden – just down the road from its shop at 8 Earlham Street. However, the new premises, which opened its doors for the first time on Saturday at 16 Earlhan Street, will stock – not books showcasing cool projects – but the cool projects themselves…

Simpsonize Me!

We’re slightly slow on the uptake here at CR – in that Simpsonizeme.com launched about two weeks ago. But we’re making up for lost time: All of us at CR have spent some time this morning (some more than others) trying to find the right hairdo or eyebrow shape on the site which lets you see what you’d look like if you’d commissioned Matt Groening to produce your portrait…

When Kanye met Bonnie and Zach

For those of you that thought that Kanye West needed to lighten up a little after his tirade at losing out to Justice & Simian at last year’s MTV music video awards, here’s the proof that he does have a sense of humour after all. This promo for his latest single Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ turns out to be an ingenious meeting between the worlds of hip hop and folk, with Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy) and Zach Galifianakis taking leading roles. Give that man an award!

Designs on your phone bill

In a few weeks’ time, we’ll be presenting our annual round up of the best student work from the recent degree shows here in the UK. There’ll be a selection of work in the magazine and also on the blog. As a taster, here’s one project that caught our eye at the Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design show: Japanese student Maki Miura’s rather charming reinterpretation of the ubiquitous mobile phone bill…

MTV Goes In-House

MTV UK and Ireland unveils a re-brand this month based around a family of characters created by Norwegian illustrator, Kim Hiorthøy, through This Is Real Art

Living for the City

Overcrowding never looked so attractive. Appearing as part of the Tate Modern’s current exhibition, Global Cities, which is on display in the gallery’s vast Turbine Hall, is a series of intriguing “density models”

Pearson’s Language of Love

Following its previous series Great Ideas and Great Journeys, Penguin Books has released a new selection, this time on the theme Great Loves, which includes 20 titles from authors including Virgil, Casanova, Hardy and Freud

Forever studio

New creative start-up, Forever Studio, are so fresh that when they invited Creative Review to come and see them in their bright, south-facing studio off London’s Southwark Street, they didn’t actually have any work to show us

Hmmm… Interesting

Attending a conference where you have no idea what might happen involves a considerable act of faith, but Rob Mortimer is glad he took the risk

Airside do Glastonbury – The Movie DVD packaging

Cows, snogging and acid… Airside has created the packaging for Glastonbury The Movie
At a time when you can get online and simply download music and films, really it’s down to the packaging of albums and DVDs to make the tangible music or film product a viable option to the consumer.
With this in mind the creators of the classic 90s film, Glastonbury The Movie – which Mike Leigh notably described as a masterpiece – set about creating a monster of a DVD package so jam-packed with extras and previously unseen or released footage of good ol’ Glastonbury, that the film itself makes up just a fraction of the 36+ hours of content actually contained on the three discs, which come housed in a package devised and designed by Airside…

I Built The Sony HD carwash

Sony HD promises “High Definition Like No Other” in new spot, HD Experiment, shot by Pleix, in which a boufant poodle has a surreal valeting experience. We spoke to Artem SFX Supervisor Simon Tayler about building the set and clefting vintage cars in twain

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