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
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
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
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
An innocuous black frame does the hard work in this great ad for the British Army
It’s a pleasure to be travelling off on holiday but, as most designer’s know, leaving the inbox behind isn’t that easy
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
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
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)…
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…
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