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Awww... Hello Leonard
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 18 March 2010, 15:00
A new set of stamps to mark 150 years of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home tugs on the heart strings with images starring the likes of Leonard here
Record sleeves of the month
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 18 March 2010, 13:52
Having gone through a bit of a patch where no-one sent us any CDs or records at all (we got download links to download the music instead for a bit), thankfully, the joy of physical music product is upon us once more...
The AV Studio
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 18 March 2010, 10:25
The AV Studio show is a collaboration between 14 designers; seven from Bath Spa University and seven from UWE in Bristol. The students have taken over an old audio visual shop in Bath, creating work in response to objects that might have been sold there when it was open.
Fresh, Fresher, Freshest, Freshershist
Posted by Eliza Williams, 17 March 2010, 17:42
Old Spice's advertising of late has used the tried-and-tested path of irony in an attempt to shrug off its fusty image. This new global campaign for the deodorant from Wieden + Kennedy Portland continues in the same amusing vein...
Beat Takeshi Kitano at Fondation Cartier
Posted by Eliza Williams, 17 March 2010, 15:12
Beat Takeshi Kitano may be best known internationally as a filmmaker, but a new exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris shows off his skills as an artist...
If Hot Chip was a boyband...
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 17 March 2010, 13:13
The video for Hot Chip's I Feel Better track - directed by comedian Peter Serafinowicz - offers a glimpse at what a performance by the band might be like if they were a synchronised-dance-happy, four-piece boyband...
Folding Plug wins Design of the Year
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 17 March 2010, 11:40
The innovative Folding Plug designed by South Korean student Min-Kyu Choi has won the top prize in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards...
Tea time in Bristol
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 16 March 2010, 12:25
Illustrators Peskimo and Chris Dickason have teamed up to put on a tea-time themed exhibition opening this Friday March 19 at Start - a new shop and exhibition space in the heart of Bristol...
David James: Out of Print
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 16 March 2010, 10:16
Designer and art director David James has steadfastly refused to step into the limelight, until now. An online exhibition presents his 20-year portfolio for the first time
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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| Great magazine shops in London as compiled by MagCulture's Jeremy Leslie and contributors to his site. Useful resource... |
| Monotype just launched The Creative Companion Library – a comprehensive (to say the least) selection of 2433 fonts including Frutiger Serif, Malabar, Palatino Sans and Soho |
| The Digital Media faculty at Kingston University has an appropriately handsome and functional site, courtesy of Studio Tonne... |
| Christoph Niemann's latest Abstract City blog sees him reinterpret the visual language of Google Maps |
| 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 |
