Making sparks fly
Ideas are woven together in this seamless ad for wool
Ideas are woven together in this seamless ad for wool
A freelance designer can spend a great deal of time not actually designing at all. Still, there’s always the stationery
The heyday of influential Swiss design journal Typografische Monatsblätter is examined in a fine new book from Lars Müller Publishers
Next week sees the inaugural Festival of Marketing in London. As part of the programme, CR has helped put together Punch, a day devoted to creativity and the impact of digital technology. CR readers can get 20% off tickets
Simon Schmitt, formerly of Sid Lee Amsterdam and AKQA, has recently joined London agency 101 as creative director. We talk to him about why he made the move, and what excites him about advertising right now…
Central Saint Martins graduates have produced a series of illustrations highlighting facts about human decision-making to promote economist Noreena Hertz’s new book, Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Decisions in a Confusing World.
The Tory faithful attending this week’s party conference will be able to purchase a range of Margaret Thatcher merchandise designed by Spring
The world’s largest film camera, designed by photographer Dennis Manarchy, is being displayed alongside large-scale portraits as part of a project documenting the diverse cultural heritage of the USA. At 35 ft long, the camera is capable of producing 6 ft long negatives, and 24 ft high portraits in sharp, super high-res quality…
CR’s pick of exhibitions, design events and creative activities for the week ahead, including a variety of new exhibitions at the Museum of the Image in the Netherlands, global activities as part of The Big Draw, Mass Oberservation at The Photographer’s Gallery in London, work from the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington at Open Eye in Liverpool, Edinburgh Printmakers Open Doors Day, the 2013 Tokyo Photo fair, and a 35 ft long camera on display in Chicago.
In the inaugural post of a new weekly series, we offer up Creative Review’s first Ad of the Week (cue trumpets). This week the ad that most impressed us is a new spot for Nike Turkey from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, which features a human printing press. We talked to the ad creatives and the director, James Frost, about how it was done…
Since winning two gold medals at last year’s Olympic Games, athlete Mo Farah has become one of Britain’s best known sports stars. We asked creative agency four23 about their work designing a visual identity for the record-breaking runner.
Johnnie Walker has released a new set of posters as part of its latest Keep Walking campaign. The ads are striking, in part because of how they signal a new, more youthful direction for the brand, but also because of their use of a style of poster ads that has grown increasingly popular over the last few years, a look I like to call ‘shouty elegance’…