What’s On

CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead including Barbican Weekend on technology for self expression, illustrator Rob Bailey in Manchester; Reasons to be Creative conference in London; Rick Poynor on concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houédard in New York; Paul Shaw on W.A. Dwiggins and David Hughes on the lost Guinness artwork, both at St Bride in London; photographer Robert Adams in Paris; and Mark Denton’s final ‘big chat about advertising’ in London…

Streetmuseum app updated

First launched in 2010, the Museum of London’s Streetmuseum app has just been updated with 103 new locations. And to mark the update, a series of ‘hybrid’ images showing historic and contemporary views of the capital has also been released

Dutch National Opera and Ballet: two art forms, one identity

From this month De Nederlandse Opera, the Dutch National Ballet and The Amsterdam Music Theatre will operate as one organisation, the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, with a new identity created by Lesley Moore. We talk to the studio’s co-founder Alex Clay about the project

Street Child World Cup Sweepstake

The Street Child World Cup is a football tournament and conference taking place in Rio de Janeiro in March. Teams of kids from all over the world will take part, and to help raise money for the charity, commercials director David Mills is holding a sweepstake within the UK ad industry. Read on to find out more about taking part…

Happy birthday Lilla

Being an illustrators’ agent can be a tough business – all that negotiating, chasing payment and deadlines and worrying about your artists. But it has its benefits at least once a year

The Creatures of Adland

An ‘obstruction’ of creative directors? A ‘delusion’ of creatives? A ‘grid’ of graphic designers? The Creatures of Adland attempts to coin collective nouns for the creative industries

Save the Children ad features real-life birth

A powerful new ad for Save The Children features footage of a real-life birth shot in Liberia in a bid to raise awareness of the million babies each year that die on their first day of life, and the need for trained midwives.

Kaboom!

In order to emphasise the ‘dramatic taste sensation’ of its new Flavour Shots products, herb and spice brand Schwartz exploded sacks of condiments in time to a delicate piece of music composed especially for the ad by MJ Cole. We talk to the key creatives behind the ad about how it was done.

Inspiring Curiosity

The BBC’s new iWonder platform offers an immersive online learning experience for tablet, mobile and desktop users. We spoke to Andy Pipes and Chris Sizemore of BBC Knowledge and Learning about creating a responsive, engaging and cost-effective resource for a new kind of storytelling

Design in the Raw

Barber Osgerby’s Design Museum show celebrates the magic of manufacturing by ‘pausing’ objects mid-way through being made

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