Seven New Ads To Watch

We’ve a cracking selection of new ads to share with you this week, including work for Líbero, Ikea, Ibis, Dove, Nokia and Cadbury. First up though, is this amusing spot for Booking.com…

CR February 14 issue: illustration special

Our February issue is an illustration special including our pick of this year’s Pick Me Up artists, BBH’s Mark Reddy on illustration in advertising plus what an agent can do for you. And: designing sounds for cars, the future of news and what we can all learn from Paul Smith

Craig Ward: Pagan

Typographer Craig Ward’s first solo exhibition, which opens in New York today, explores Pagan dialect and the ancient wood-burning technique, pyrography. We spoke to Ward about mastering the craft and his interest in Old English…

What’s On

CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead including Jessica Eaton’s cube photography in London, Leeds Print Festival, Warhol, Lynch & Burroughs at The Photographers’ Gallery London, Tom Eckersley: Master of the Poster iat LCC, Printing Sheffied, The Design of Understanding at St. Bride’s in London, and Herbery Bayer at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin …

Spheric Dialogues by James Jarvis

While his spherical characters are perhaps the most simple to execute on paper, James Jarvis’ first book of their philosophising tackles some of the more complex questions in life

Guardian gives Eyewitness over to Guinness

In today’s print edition of The Guardian, the regular ‘Eyewitness’ centre spread is given over to nine images from Guinness’ latest advertising campaign, Made of More

Aitor Throup on creating Damon Albarn’s Everyday Robots video and artwork

This week, Damon Albarn announced the release date for his first solo album. Titled Everyday Robots, it is out on April 28. To whet our appetites, Albarn has released the video for the album’s first single, and the cover artwork, both created by artist and designer Aitor Throup. We talk to Throup about what inspired the project.

Print and Paste and Anthony Burrill

Anthony Burrill is the latest artist to contribute to Manchester’s Print and Paste billboard project with a poster made up of individually printed giant woodblock letters

Guardian interactive celebrates 100 years of aviation

It’s one hundred years today since the world’s first scheduled plane service left Tampa, Florida for St Petersburg. To mark the occasion, The Guardian has published an interactive piece mapping thousands of global flight routes.

Deborah Sussman, an L.A. Woman

As a designer, Deborah Sussman has been shaping the graphic landscape of Los Angeles since the 1960s. On the eve of the first exhibition dedicated to her early work, she talks to CR about her relationship with this unique city

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