The Kioskafé: a new magazine shop and coffee bar from Monocle

The founders of Monocle have launched a new retail space, Kioskafé, outside London’s Paddington station. Part coffee bar, part newsagent, it aims to kickstart the print retail industry and promote great independent mags as well as more established titles.

Lovers: a new agency from YCN’s Alex Ostrowski

Former YCN Studio director Alex Ostrowski has set up a new creative agency, Lovers. We take a look at some of its recent projects, including visual identities for Blink Art and the Royal Court Theatre, some animated films for NSPCC addressing violence and sexual abuse and a new series of handbooks for The Scouts.

Music Videos of the Month

A giant game of musical chairs, a West Side Story dance-off with motorbikes, and a crazy evangelical preacher? Yep, they’re all right here in our Music Videos of the Month…

ustwo on new game Land’s End and designing for VR

Since June last year, the games team at digital product design studio ustwo has been working on a VR follow up to their smash hit Monument Valley. We spoke to lead designer Ken Wong and technical director Peter Pashley about the challenges of designing for the platform

“You need to create quite loud statements, even if they make some people uncomfortable”: Interview with Tamara Rojo of the English National Ballet

In honour of World Ballet Day, we’re republishing an interview with English National Ballet artistic director and principal dancer Tamara Rojo which originally appeared in the July issue of CR. Here Rojo discusses juggling dancing with directing, how she is opening the ENB up to its audience, and the challenges for ballet in the digital era…

How should we talk about breast cancer?

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The chances of survival from breast cancer increase significantly the earlier it is diagnosed so messages that raise awareness save lives. But how should those messages be expressed? Unlike most other cancer related advertising, breast cancer ads can often stray into being sexy and fun – because breasts themselves can be sexy and fun. Is this a helpful way to discuss cancer though?

Interior Designs

Good Housekeeping may not be up there with Nova and Twen in the Pantheon of 1960s magazine design, but, as a recent eBay purchase revealed, it had its moment, says CR art director Paul Pensom

Ikea in print: on successful catalogue design

Layouts are based on research gathered from Ikea’s annual home visits around the world. “These insights are then used by our in-house interior designers to develop our room layouts … so all of our rooms are inspired by real homes,” says Johan Wickmark, manager of Ikea communications. “Each catalogue production takes about 13 months from […]

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