I Was The Art Director

Jean-Michel Bertin speaks to Gavin Lucas about his role as art director in the prank-filled video for Justice vs Simian track, We Are Your Friends

iwant

“We love the name iwant and use it without a space, as if it’s being said too quickly by a spoilt child,” says John Gilsenan, one half of the eponymous Stoke Newington-based design studio.

To See And Be Seen

New York design studio 2×4 combine a rigorous process with a refreshing desire to make their mark beyond the parochial world of their graphics peers

Young and Why Not’s Blackpool Tower

Why Not Associates and artist Gordon Young have continued their fruitful creative partnership with these typographic climbing walls in Blackpool.

Graham Wood

You may have got used to seeing bright young things profiled on this page in previous issues of Creative Review: youngsters at the start of a promising career. This month’s One To Watch is rather different.

Class Action

A design initiative in New York seeks to improve literacy rates in some of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods. Mark Sinclair spoke to the people behind a groundbreaking project that puts the school library at the centre of an ongoing educational reform programme

Flash Grows Up

Website design is dominated by one software application – Flash. Sean Ashcroft explains how its eighth and latest version is shaping our online experiences, for better or worse

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