Out of the Shadows: MacDonald Gill

The first major retrospective of designer and architect MacDonald Gill’s work opens in London next month. We spoke to Gill’s family about curating the show and why his work has received so little recognition until now.

Illustrating Paris Life

Earlier this month, the mayor of Paris handed over 1,000 of the city’s municipal signs to Japanese illustrator Kanako Kuno in order to display 50 different images of Les Parisien’s at play

Reasons to be Creative

An impressive line-up of coders, designers, typographers and illustrators are heading to Brighton next weekend for annual web design conference Reasons to be Creative.

Secret Cities

Photographer Andrew Brooks and curator Andry Brydon’s latest Secret Cities exhibition explores hidden and neglected spaces in Dutch city Sittard-Geleen.

Secret Cities aims to connect local residents with their communities and show parts of cities that are rarely seen and often long forgotten.

A hirsute pursuit

Quite simply, Magic Beard by Ben Garvin is one fantastic beard-based animation

CR September issue: Gradwatch 2013

Eight top graduates are profiled in our September issue – each has a page with which to introduce themselves to the creative world, and we also take a look at some of their best work to date. It’s the CR Gradwatch class of 2013

Re-designing Lolita

New book Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl explores the challenges of creating a cover for Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel and features new interpretations from 80 graphic designers.

Tiny Pencil 2.0

Graphite artzine Tiny Pencil’s second issue is a comic-themed collection of mini-zines featuring artwork by 25 illustrators.