Running A Design Studio: The Boring Stuff

As part of our special feature on one month in the life a graphic designer in this month’s CR, Build partner Nicky Place addresses the less glamorous aspects of running a studio

Underground Press

Underground magazine, issue 2, May 1987
The current issue of Creative Review focuses on a month in the life of Michael C Place/Build. As part of the piece, we asked Michael to cite an important influence on him as a young designer. His answer: Underground, an independent music magazine that ran for 13 issues from 1987. We tracked down its art director, Rod Clark to find out more about the magazine.

Chemical Brothers, Dancing Fish

To create the promo for new single, The Salmon Dance, the Chemical Brothers turned to the team that created the award-winning video to their track Believe back in May 2005. Directed by Dom & Nic of Factory Films, the promo for The Salmon Dance sees a young guy waking up to the sound of a muffled beat. As he wanders through his rather roomy pad, he realises the noise is coming from his aquarium. It’s at this point that the fish start talking, beatboxing and rapping…

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

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