Gin and geometry

United Creatives have produced a rather beautiful label for Dodd’s Gin, inspired by trigonometry, geometry and engineering diagrams

Being Human

A new creative agency is taking the know-how of the design team behind Little White Lies and Huck magazines and applying it to global brands

A strange consistency

Branding wants continuity; advertising wants originality. Reconciling the two is the conundrum of the industry says our man on the inside

The digital pamphleteers

As a vehicle for subversion and satire, the single-page microsite devoted to one issue is fast becoming a new form for the polemical essay

Portraits from a war

Jo Metson Scott’s photographs of soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq war reveal the courage it takes to do so. Wayne Ford reviews her new book of the work

VirusFonts release Doctrine

Doctrine, the latest typeface from Jonathan Barnbrook’s VirusFonts, has its roots in an unlikely source…

Feed the news machine and watch it twist your words

Colors magazine’s News Machine takes your tweets and puts them through the modern media mangle. Built to launch issue #86, Making the News, potential news generators can see it in action at the International Journalism Festival in Italy

Morag makes the CR Annual cover

The cover image for this year’s Creative Review Annual (out this week) was created by Morag Myerscough in her inimitable hand-crafted style. See how she did it

Create your own 3D projection mapping on Tokyo skyline

Creative director Tsubasa Oyagi has conjured a dazzling interactive website for Japanese property developer Mori Building that allows users to create their own virtual light show, projection-mapped onto a miniature model of Tokyo

Past present

So-called ‘austerity’ graphic design was a trend in this year’s CR Annual. Nostalgia has long played a part in graphic design, but is it becoming more prevalent? asks

Going to plan

Christian Borstlap is exactly where he always wanted to be – doing what he loves for a living, and spreading his distinctive brand of creativity. By Anna Richardson Taylor

PR the hell out of it

With ad campaigns increasingly turning to PR tactics, what effect is this having on agency creative departments and the skills of those who work there?

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