Imgembed: what and who is it for?

Imgembed styles itself as the “new standard for fair, online image use”, hoping to combat the online ‘theft’ of images. Will it prove to be a genuinely useful service for photographers and photography-users alike? asks photo agent Lisa Pritchard

TBWA compresses films into code for festival campaign

Believe it or not, the above image is an entire film squeezed into a unique visual code. It is part of a campaign created by TBWAChiatDay New York for the Brklyn Film Festival to drum up interest and ticket sales

Simon Cowell and friends feature in new Wilfrid Wood show

If you read our feature on sculptor Wilfrid Wood in the July 2008 issue of Creative Review (read it here), you’ll know that he’s a big collector of outsider art. That he’s showing almost 50 new sculptural works at London’s KK Outlet while the gallery simultaneously hosts an exhibit of painter John Croft’s work is no coincidence…

The business of Acumen

In 2001, Acumen became one of the first of a new breed of ‘impact investment’ companies providing investment in the developing world. Twelve years on, johnson banks has designed a new identity for the organisation and collaborated on a manifesto for the work it does in tackling world poverty

What would the designer say?

Suffering from designer’s block? Well, The Designer Says might be the answer – it’s a small book packed full of musings from some of the industry’s finest

Global Rich List: how do you measure up?

The Sunday Times has just published its annual Rich List. If you didn’t make it in, don’t feel too bad as you’re probably much better off than you think you are – relatively. Don’t believe us? Use Poke’s Global Rich List to find out how you measure up against the world.

The Evian babies are back. Again.

Love them or hate them, the Evian babies are back for yet another ad campaign from BETC featuring the Live Young strap line…

5 Under 30 photography competition

The Daniel Blau Gallery in London has launched a competition to find five emerging photographers under the age of 30 to be part of a group show this July

Frost* opens up Sydney Living Museums

Sydney studio Frost* has designed a new brand for the twelve properties managed by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, which will now be known collectively as Sydney Living Museums

Cover versions: when less is more

Print publishing’s uncertain future is spelled out in the difference between a range of recent book covers that say too much, and others that are content to let the design speak for itself