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Driftwood: The AA's summer pavilion
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 3 July 2009, 16:30 Permalink Comments (1)
The Architectural Association has unveiled its latest Summer Pavilion: designed by third year Danecia Sibingo, its undulating form now sits outside the AA in London's Bedford Square
Javier Mariscal's Villa Julia
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 3 July 2009, 15:53 Permalink Comments (0)
At the Milan Furniture Fair in April, Magis launched a cardboard playhouse designed by the Spanish designer, Javier Mariscal. Now available in the UK as part of the Mariscal: Drawing Life exhibition at London's Design Museum (more on the show itself, next week) "Villa Julia" is a bijou residence with some handsome cladding work and its own garden tap. Viewing recommended...
D&AD Student Award winners
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 3 July 2009, 13:38 Permalink Comments (0)
Harry Handyside's video for Monkey track, Pigsy in Space, won a First at D&AD's Student Awards. A nice use of tights
Last night at the D&AD Student Awards, two graduate teams collected the Student of the Year prize – one from Berghs School, Sweden and another from Central St Martins in the UK. 18 Firsts were also awarded. Here's a selection of the winning work...
Read moreReturn of the Evian babies
Posted by Eliza Williams, 3 July 2009, 11:21 Permalink Comments (1)
Brighton Graphics and Illustration degree show
Posted by Creative Review, 2 July 2009, 21:13 Permalink Comments (15)
CR was amid the gently steaming crowd at the opening of the University of Brighton Graphic Design and Illustration show last night, just off London's Brick Lane. Here's a few highlights
According to mediauk.com, CR is now the fourth most popular UK magazine on Twitter, with 11,500+ followers. If you're on Twitter, and haven't yet signed up to follow our tweets, you can do so, here. Our Neil does a fine job linking to some very interesting things and the best bits from the CR blog.
The Get Involved Poster Show
Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 2 July 2009, 16:46 Permalink Comments (2)
All the posters created during club-night Get Involved's three year tenure at central London venue, The Social, have been reprinted for a new exhibition at Concrete Hermit...
More Nice Publications
Books, Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazine / Newspaper
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 2 July 2009, 11:40 Permalink Comments (1)
Kanye West's golden stage show
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 1 July 2009, 16:08 Permalink Comments (3)
We happen to know that Mr Kanye West is a frequenter of the CR blog and has linked to some of our choicest bits via his excellent site. So it's nice to be able to return the favour with these mock-ups of what you can expect to see if you have tickets for Kanye's European tour. We're guessing keywords in the brief for the stage set may have included "gold" and "shiny"...
Red Wires: New Economist ad
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 1 July 2009, 16:00 Permalink Comments (3)
The Economist is to debut a new commercial on 3 July which seeks to reach out to a younger potential readership. Red Wires, from agency AMV.BBDO and directed by Tom Carty (he of Guinness Surfer fame), stars wire-jumper Florent Blondeau walking through a city on a series of red wires.
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| Legendary photographer Weegee (d.1968) talking about his work on the streets of NYC. (Link: Coudal blog) |
| Persepolis 2.0 is a reimagined continuation of Marjane Satrapi's celebrated comic book, charting the recent post-election events in Iran (link: Eye mag blog) |
| Everyone Starts Somewhere is a mini-exhibition at D&AD New Blood, featuring very early work from well known designers such as Mark Farrow, Nick Bell and Michael Johnson. Check out Simon Waterfall's Dungeons & Dragons game, created when he was 16! |
| Saatchi & Saatchi's New Directors Showcase for 2009, which was revealed last week at the Cannes Lions festival, is on YouTube |
| Picasso paints with light for LIFE magazine in 1949. Beautiful stuff |
| Marketing Week Live Our sister publication Marketing Week is running the UK's first event on the brave new world of integrated marketing from June 30 to July 1 at Olympia |
| GBH talk at Typo Circle GBH show their favourite ten jobs from the past ten years at a Typographic Circle talk on June 25 |
| David Henckel designed a T-shirt for CR a few years ago. Now the Slade-schooled artist and illustrator has a spanky new website and today launches his first solo London show at the Coningsby Gallery |
| Straight8 is making its annual appearance at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival on June 26. Tickets can be bought online in advance |
| Star Wars' top ten buildings as chosen by the Architects' Journal |
| The Mill's new iPhone app, Mill Colour allows you to play around with the colour of your photos - to get a feel for post production-style colour grading |
| Rubik's Cubes as you've never imagined them. Some of these versions look painfully hard indeed (link: Coudal blog) |
| New Rail Alphabet is a revival of the British Rail typeface designed by Margaret Calvert in the early 1960s. Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK has produced six weights, numerals and italics in collaboration with Calvert |
| The BBC's New Music Shorts competition has extended its deadline for entries until midnight 6 July. The challenge is to make a music video for a Metronomy or Florence and the Machine track (the winning entrant will be commmissioned on a 5K budget) |
| This is a pretty cool wedding invite from "Jill & Matt". (Link: Coudal blog) |
| Escape Studios is offering a range of summer short courses for school leavers interested in getting into visual effects or games design |
| Offset The three day creative conference will be in Dublin from November 6 to 8 and has a great speaker line-up |
| What is a magazine? Asks Jeremy Leslie |
| Dick Bruna of Miffy fame, designed these lovely stamps for the Netherlands in 1969 (link: QBN) |
| The Beatles get the Rock Band treatment. Released on 9 Sept on Xbox/Playstation/Wii and set to feature 45 tracks |
| Corbis has a new website, boasting several new rights-managed photo collections and instant image previews |
| Pixar vs Dreamworks. Haha. (Link: Coudal blog) |









