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Ever wondered how awards are made? Those lucky enough to win Best in Book in CR’s Annual each receive a rather handsome typographic trophy. Here’s how they are made by the good people at Berry Place
Ever wondered how awards are made? Those lucky enough to win Best in Book in CR’s Annual each receive a rather handsome typographic trophy. Here’s how they are made by the good people at Berry Place
CR’s May issue is our biggest of the year, sharing its 200-plus pages with the Annual 2014. The main issue includes features on The National Film Board of Canada’s interactive arm; an extract from Unit Editions’ Manuals 1; plus interviews with Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide creative director, Pablo Del Campo, and Annie Atkins, the graphic designer on Wes Anderson’s film The Grand Budapest Hotel
Visitors to Tate Modern can’t fail to miss the subject of the gallery’s latest blockbuster thanks to some supergraphics created by Cartlidge Levene. A timelapse film shows how the studio’s largest signage to date was applied to the gallery for the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition – while Ian Cartlidge explains how they did it
Today’s advertising round-up features campaigns for Powerade, the NHL Playoffs, and the Renaissance Photography Prize as well as charity ads for the National Austism Society and St John Ambulance. We open, however, with an amusing anti-bullying spot from VH1…
Illustrator Von’s latest solo exhibition, Elsewhere, opens at KK Outlet in London next week. We spoke to the artist about the show, his creative influences and balancing commercial and personal work…
Graphic art fair Pick Me Up opened at London’s Somerset House last night. As usual, there’s far too much work on show to capture in a single blog post but here’s a few of the projects that caught our eye…
A team from Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Club in the US has found a series of previously unknown digital artworks created by Andy Warhol for Amiga Computers in 1985 and stored on floppy disks
This striking spot from Nike India features 1,440 cricketers and demonstrates the love for the sport in the country, whether you be adult or child, amateur or professional…
London’s Serpentine Galleries have teamed up with Comme des Garçons to develop their own fragrance which is, apparently, “light, yet deceivingly complex”. The bottle features artwork by Tracey Emin
CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead including Paris Photo in LA, Hyères Festival of Fashion & Photography, Introduction to Letterpress with New North Press in London, Motion Factory behind-the-scenes animation exhibition in Paris, publishing symposium Art-Information at the ICA, and Off Life’s #QuickDraw Live event in London…
A new quarterly magazine for The Times’ Times+ membership aims to offer an insight into the newspaper’s news gathering process and is designed and art directed by Design by St
The Design Museum has announced the category winners in the 2014 Designs of the Year Awards, which include the Portable Eye Examination Kit (PEEK) in the digital section, The Seaboard Grand piano keyboard in product and James Bridle’s Drone Shadows project in graphics