CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead including Radiohead’s in-house artist Stanley Donwood at Hang-Up Gallery in London, Publish and Be Damned fair visits Plymouth, Viviane Sassen fashion photography retrospective in Edinburgh, Go Hard or Go Home with street art at the Rag Factory in London, MAAD Pyjamas design fair in Singapore, and graphic artist Craig Redman’s colourful portraits in Amsterdam …
Danish design duo Hvass and Hannibal have created a cheerful identity system for the children’s department of Copenhagen’s central library, Hovedbiblioteket.
Joshua Distler, the US designer behind the LiveSurface image template library is today launching Context, a new application that offers designers the chance to see their latest projects rendered on objects in real time, as they work
Little Black Book founder Matt Cooper has teamed up with ad creatives, illustrators, animators and design studio Freytag Anderson to launch a sustainable childrenswear brand, The Fableists.
If MTV’s annual music video awards show is a celebration of the promo as a vehicle for star power, the UK MVAs are all about honoring it as an art form, as the winners at last night’s award ceremony amply proved.
Stockholm creative agency Doberman has designed a mental health first aid kit to raise awareness of mental illness in Sweden.
SHOWstudio has unveiled another series of projects in its The Sound of Clothes series – this time, the sounds of four fashion studios have been sampled to produce four different audio tracks and accompanying animations
Hatch Show Print, the legendary Nashville letterpress print shop, is to have its first UK exhibition at the Chelsea Space in London
Manchester branding agency Creative Spark has re-opened its Little Print Shop of Horrors – a collection of horror-film themed prints which will be sold online to raise money for charity.
A new double exposure photography app, Dubble, lets users shoot and upload images then matches them with a random stranger’s…
In a Kickstarter-funded tribute to his late father, designer Paul Sahre hoped to relaunch a model Saturn V rocket from his childhood. Instead, he nearly got arrested. Helen Walters relates a tale of paranoia and poignancy
Dog-grooming range Wildwash has launched its first advertising campaign, a print campaign featuring men perfectly styled as dogs. Bow-wow.
Brands are saying sorry at a more rapid rate than ever. CR’s advertising columnist Ben Kay delves into why sorry is no longer the hardest word and whether this is an effective strategy for winning audiences
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
Kelly Grovier’s new book charts the artist’s persistent dialogue with classic and contemporary art
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
The Pentagram partner has created the titles for the acclaimed new Netflix show, which reimagines the Greek myths in a contemporary setting
A new book from Reel Art Press collates the first comprehensive history of film posters. We explore why they remain an underappreciated area of cultural design
The Autumn 2024 issue of Creative Review looks at the brands and individuals who are pushing creativity forward on their way to the top
Mark Sinclair talks to the artist and designer about his new book, Lost Ordinary Magic, and the importance of recognising the power of simplicity and the everyday wonders that surround us
We explore how the 90s, an era the UK looks favourably upon for its thriving culture, are continually inspiring a stagnated creative industry
The band’s surreal new album visuals explore a darker, more grotesque side of romance. We speak to the creative team behind the campaign about challenging the visual tropes of rock music
As the &Walsh founder launches her agency’s new offshoot Type of Feeling, she discusses why typography’s ability to evoke emotions makes it one of the most powerful tools at a brand’s disposal
Kinda Studios is tapping into the emerging field of neuroaesthetics to help creatives and brands make more impactful work that benefits people’s wellbeing