PJ Harvey’s new album features art direction from long-term collaborator, Michelle Henning. In an exclusive interview, the artist and designer tells us how she looked to heraldry to make the visuals for the record, experimenting with drum-painting and cyanotype along the way – and discusses her previous work for Harvey’s Let England Shake release.
A monthly selection of the best of the internet by Marieke Dekker, a strategist at SuperHeroes Amsterdam.
We’ve got a bizarre but brilliant selection of music videos to share with you this month, starting with this short film created for Cate Le Bon by artist Phil Collins. I don’t really know what’s going on in it, but I know I like it.
Intrigued by the great work on display at the Polish Book Institute’s stand at the London Book Fair, art director James Jones began tweeting some of his favourite covers. We asked him to collect together some of his highlights to share on CR.
Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most influential illustrated books in the world. In print since 1858 it has gone through 41 editions, evolving alongside our knowledge of the human body. While artist Henry Vandyke Carter’s role in its conception has been eclipsed by his more celebrated co-author, it is his pioneering work that shapes how the book exists today.
A new film from Glasgow design studio O Street and production company Pretend Lovers documents the fascinating craft of roadlining – painting traffic instructions on roads using molten plastic and a steady hand
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its production, Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth’s reissue of the NASA Graphics Standards Manual is now available to purchase. Originally created in 1974 by New York studio Danne & Blackburn, the document was used to guide the design of every aspect of NASA’s new identity, based around its ‘worm’ logo.
Five of Beatrix Potter’s best-loved children’s books are to receive a makeover this summer, with covers and endpapers created by leading UK and Irish fashion designers including Henry Holland and Orla Keily.
In partnership with Cape Town creative conference Design Indaba, we are highlighting the work of South African creatives on our blog over the next few weeks. First up is Amy Slatem, an illustrator based in Port Elizabeth and one of Design Indaba’s 2016 Emerging Creatives
Speaking at creative conference Offset on Saturday, visual designer and director GMUNK (Bradley Munkowitz) spoke about projection mapping, experiments with light, using social media to catalogue his inspirations and his fascination with OpArt…
The three talks that featured on the closing day of this year’s Leeds Print Festival offered up some very different approaches to printed matter – from film journalist Danny Leigh’s eulogy on the film poster, to The Designer’s Republic’s Ian Anderson and letterpress master Alan Kitching showing how the media thrives today
The advertising business is a “mess”, according to a new book-cum-manifesto by Sell! Sell! London’s Vic Polkinghorne and Andy Palmer. In the following extract, they offer six ways to make it better.
One of the most respected and trusted awards for the advertising and design industries are back for 2025. Run, don’t walk to get your entries in before the Early Bird Deadline on 25 October
Growth is a dream for many businesses, but it comes with challenges. Daisy Crowder, brand and marketing director at design recruitment agency Craft, offers advice on how to navigate the change and keep staff on side
The Danish luxury fashion label has spearheaded the characterful evolution of Scandi style. Here, chief brand officer Priya Matadeen discusses its approach to collabs, the pressures of being a responsible brand, and how Ganni Girls grew from a hashtag to a badge of belonging
Brands are saying sorry at a more rapid rate than ever. CR’s advertising columnist Ben Kay delves into why sorry is no longer the hardest word and whether this is an effective strategy for winning audiences
By loosening its approach to advertising, and engaging with its audience directly, the drinks brand has transformed with the times and won a whole new set of fans
Kelly Grovier’s new book charts the artist’s persistent dialogue with classic and contemporary art
We speak to Lego’s VP of global brand development Alero Akuya about the brand’s rare ability to straddle the physical and virtual worlds with ease – whether through its immersive new art exhibition in Paris or collaborations with Epic Games and Nike
The Pentagram partner has created the titles for the acclaimed new Netflix show, which reimagines the Greek myths in a contemporary setting
A new book from Reel Art Press collates the first comprehensive history of film posters. We explore why they remain an underappreciated area of cultural design
Mark Sinclair talks to the artist and designer about his new book, Lost Ordinary Magic, and the importance of recognising the power of simplicity and the everyday wonders that surround us
We explore how the 90s, an era the UK looks favourably upon for its thriving culture, are continually inspiring a stagnated creative industry
The band’s surreal new album visuals explore a darker, more grotesque side of romance. We speak to the creative team behind the campaign about challenging the visual tropes of rock music