Screen Dreams

The Barbican’s ambitious new show is great fun but does it still make sense to talk of ‘digital’ creativity as a separate mode of production? asks Antonia Wilson

Creative Collaborators

Producing great CG images is a team effort  needing close collaboration between photographer, CGI house and agency creatives. We asked  some of the leading CG specialists for their  tips on how to get the best out of the process 

Full points

Celebrating type in design with full stops from the Monotype collections

Ark magazine

The history of Ark magazine, the Royal College of Art’s student publication which ran from 1950 to 1978, is explored in a new book put together by the college’s critical writing in art and design programme. Here, professor David Crowley and the book’s editorial team reveal how Ark attempted, despite its flux of content and staff, to stay abreast of rapidly changing times

Reframing the action

An innocuous black frame does the hard work in this great ad for the British Army

Future in Your Hands

Our nostalgic obsession with the handmade  stems from a desire to play it safe, says  Carl Burgess. Digital imagemaking, in contrast,  is risky, exciting and allows us to talk about  our world today and our hopes for tomorrow 

Material Design

With the launch of its new guidelines, will Google’s design finally catch up with the excellence of its products? asks AKQA’s Nick Turner

New type

Our latest round up of new and noteworthy type designs, projects and events includes a look at McDonald Gill’s lettering for military headstones, a custom typeface for the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and a new book from Unit Editions exploring type and image…

Spot the Stop!

Our latest edition of Monograph, free with subscriber copies of CR, features 15 full-stops from typefaces in the Monotype archive. How many typefaces can you spot? (Bonus points for the designer’s name and year)…

Remember when Levi’s ads were great?

Levi’s has a new ad out. Set to an uplifting pop tune, it feels like a journey through some of the brand’s best ads – there is a nod towards Laundrette, to Dangerous Liasons, even to BBH’s classic Nick Knight print ads featuring older models. Yet rather than making this the greatest Levi’s ad ever, by echoing these classic ads this spot just makes me miss the jean brand’s advertising glory days…

The making of the Barrowland Park album pathway

Arranged like records on a shelf, artist Jim Lambie’s ‘album pathway’ in Glasgow lists the names and dates of thousands of bands that have played the city’s famous Barrowlands venue since 1983. Russ Coleman, the sculptor who worked on the Comedy Carpet in Blackpool, tells us how he turned his hand to coloured concrete

1 … 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 … 1,407

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Cultivating community with Ganni

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

How Guinness embraced social

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

How Lego creates meaningful brand experiences

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