If you love Toronto, these prints are perfect for you

Tomorrow evening in Toronto, creative consultancy Sovereign State is launching its new print series State Goods with an event at the Gladstone Hotel. Here’s a sneaky peek of some of the lovely artworks that will be on show…

Stephen Collins has some comics for you

Great cartoonists and comic book artists can capture the complexities of life in a few drawn panels. British illustrator Stephen Collins adds in a fantastic ear for dialogue and an uncanny ability to pick up on contemporary mores to make some of the funniest work around. His new book features 100 of his best strips to date

Six New Ads To Watch

Up this week are new spots for Philips, Ryvita, Vorwerk, The Syria Campaign, and a new ‘lyric speaker’ which looks set to make home karaoke even more fun. First up though, is this sweet new spot for Thomson holidays, set to a soundtrack of Bohemian Rhapsody by William Shatner…

The making of Horst: Photographer of Style at the V&A

The V&A’s new show, Horst: Photographer of Style, looks back at sixty years of work by the master image-maker Horst P Horst, who made his name at French Vogue in the 1930s. But with no vintage prints of Horst’s magazine work available, the museum had to enlist the help of a specialist printer and the Condé Nast archives to get back to the original Kodachrome transparencies

Separate Cinema: 100 Years of Black Poster Art

A new book from film poster collector John Duke Kisch presents 100 years of black film posters, charting the evolution of African-American cinema and changing attitudes towards race…

Portraits with strangers

Remember the dreaded school portrait? In a new project, currently taking place in Sydney, The Glue Society’s James Dive is asking strangers to come together and relive these formal portraits in the name of art…

F-F-F-F-Fashion: CR October issue

The October issue of CR is a fashion special with features on the future of the shop, fashion and film, the influence of Instagram, one of our readers’ favourite labels, Folk, and how the humble carrier bag has become a collectors’ item

Free Rotring mechanical pencil with CR subs

We know you love a nice drawing implement, so for this month only, anyone taking out a subscription to CR will receive a Rotring mechanical drafting pencil absolutely, positively free. Fits behind all sizes of ear

David Abbott memo warns of future adland mediocrity

“A giant ad factory where quantity is more important than quality”: sound familiar? In an internal agency memo from 1994, the late, great David Abbott warns of the dangers of practices that have now become all too common in the ad industry…

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