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Richard Murray: 1965 – 2010

Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 15 March 2010, 10:25

Richard Murray, co-founder of design consultancy Williams Murray Hamm, has died of skin cancer. He was 44.

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Driven by data: McLaren's new site

Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 12 March 2010, 17:47

Maybe it's the ungainly shadow cast by Jeremy Clarkson but the world of motorsport wouldn't be the first place we would look for stylish graphic design. A new site for F1 team McLaren Mercedes proves us wrong

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Dog Days Are Over

Posted by Eliza Williams, 12 March 2010, 11:28

Directing team Legs channels the fashionable shamanic vibe in this video for Florence and The Machine's Dog Days Are Over...

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Being a hipster doesn't always make you happy

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 11 March 2010, 11:57

It was never too soon for little Serge to learn the dulcet tones of his namesake

Unhappy Hipsters is a tumblr blog that's kept us highly amused for the last few days. Featuring imagery culled from various interiors magazines, it suggests that concrete floors, Eames chairs and moustaches don't always equate with personal well-being...

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The Small Apple

Posted by Gavin Lucas, 11 March 2010, 11:51

We've seen tilt-shift photography projects aplenty over the last few years, but The Sandpit – a time lapse, tilt-shift film of New York life by Sam O'Hare – caught our eye this week...

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YouTube and creative suicide

Posted by Gordon Comstock, 11 March 2010, 11:20

By purloining ideas from YouTube, ad creatives are conspiring in their own extinction, says 'Gordon Comstock'

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Face Off

Posted by Eliza Williams, 10 March 2010, 17:20

This delightful music video comes from new director Tom Kingsley, and was directed for Barcelona-based band Mujeres as part of the Diesel U Music project, which supports new talent in music and filmmaking...

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The new look BJP

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 9 March 2010, 14:44

The British Journal of Photography relaunched last week with an extensive redesign. It's much improved but does it rise to the editor's own challenge of becoming a beautiful photographic magazine?

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Heavy Pencil x 2

Posted by Creative Review, 9 March 2010, 11:05

This week sees not one but two Heavy Pencil (in association with the ICA) events – where some of London's most in-demand illustrators draw live to a soundtrack provided by DJs and live acts...

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iGlass mate? That'll be extra

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 8 March 2010, 17:50

Initially, we were a tad sceptical about the usability of the iPad. Then we saw Apple's first ad for it and realised that you simply need to place a sheet of glass in between your lap and the device. Easy...

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Britain Is - the competition launched by The Guardian and iStockphoto to find great photographs from around Britain has been judged and the winning images can be viewed here...
Logorama, the animated short directed by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain (formerly known as H5), picked up the Short Film (Animated) Oscar on Sunday night
3D print and the future of type looks good, courtesy of McSweeney's
Congratulations to H5 who won an Oscar last night for their Logorama film
Channel 4's Big Art Project is looking for art and design students and recent grads to create work for the 50-foot-high number four installed outside the broadcaster's HQ. Deadline: March 19
Northern Futures is a new award launched to celebrate to creativity in the north of England. The award is open to artists, designers and filmmakers aged 21-40 and born, living or working in the north of England. Deadline for entries is April 30
Opening on Friday (March 5) at Hamiltons Gallery in London is an exhibition of portraits by Irving Penn to coincide with the Penn exhibition currently at the National Portrait Gallery. The Hamiltons show presents images from Penn's Small Trades series, which includes images of butchers, fishmongers and chimney sweeps. Until April 24
Not only is CR 30 this month we also celebrate one year on Twitter today. Happy Twirthday @creativereview.
From Twitter feed to TV show, @shitmydadsays makes it to pilot, starring none other than William Shatner. Tweeter, Justin Halpern, has co-penned the script
Create an ad for Doritos in their King of Ads competition and you could bag £200,000 and see your advert on TV...
Type fans in London can book a place on a new London Lettering Tour of East London, organised by Type and taking in various type-related sites and architectural typographic works
Anthony Ausgangs, celebrated "lowbrow" artist has created the cover for MGMT's latest album, Congratulations. Here Ausgang talks of how the influence of Saturday morning cartoons has now been replaced with that of video games
Wired and Adobe's new digital magazine concept (unveiled at TED). It's a tablet prototype built on Adobe AIR and developed with Condé Nast
Celloglas provided the Highbuild varnish on this month's Creative Review cover, along with the Cellofoil finish used on the CR logo