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Apple’s Song finds right pitch

Apple and TBWA’s Christmas ad is a touching tale of a teenager making a special gift for grandma – using a bunch of Apple products of course

CR Annual: extended deadline

There’s still time to enter the Creative Review Annual, our showcase of the best work of the year in visual communications. Extended deadline: Jan 23

What does ‘being African’ look like?

For 20 year’s Garth Walker’s i-Jusi magazine has explored the visual culture of modern South Africa, inviting designers and artists to respond to key questions about the society they live in. In this Design Indaba film, Walker talks about the magazine and its aims

Football marks 1914 Christmas ceasefire

The football world has marked the 100th anniversary of the famous 1914 Christmas truce on the Western Front with two different sculptures, one in the UK and one in Flanders

Viktoria Modesta fronts new Born Risky campaign for C4

As part of Channel 4’s ongoing Born Risky campaign, a new promo for singer Viktoria Modesta will be aired during the final of ITV’s The X Factor this Sunday. Aimed as a stylish antidote to the ideals of the modern pop world, Modesta’s prosthetic leg is a difference that C4 hopes will challenge viewer’s perceptions

N for Napoleon

Napoleon is a name so loaded with associated imagery that for the design of a new biography, Penguin art editor Isabelle de Cat looked to avoid images of bicorne hats and battles – and instead referenced some intriguing symbols of the French emperor’s own invention

Ads of the Week

We’ve got a bumper round up of great ads to share with you this week, including a smattering of Christmas work, a few charity pieces, and a really quite silly film for Skittles. First up though, Kevin Bacon stars in an ad for CR…!

Taking Pictures #2: Photography from Tate Modern, Joan Fontcuberta, Paddy Summerfield, Sylvie Huet & more

The second installment in our regular pick of photography includes Conflict, Time, Photography at the Tate Modern; Joan Fontcuberta’s Stranger Than Fiction at the National Media Museum; Paddy Summerfield’s new publication Mother and Father; Devils Eye Spring by David Doubilet; Sylvie Huet’s new book A Story of Bears; and some beard’s made from ferrets by Troy Goodall…

The soundscape of New York

What does New York sound like? And what does the sound of New York look like? London-based art director and designer John Davies’ latest project attempts to capture the music of the city’s Manhattan neighbourhoods in physical form

Christina Broom – suffragettes and soldiers

Next year the Museum of London Docklands will stage an exhibition of the work of Christina Broom, thought to be the UK’s first female press photographer. From 1903, her work documented life in the capital, recording both the suffragette movement and the experiences of the soldiers on the home front during the First World War

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