The July issue of CR takes the theme of The Virtual World. In it we look at a range of issues concerning CGI, visual effects and making the virtual real. Our cover this month is by US illustrator Andy Gilmore

Diane Smyth looks at how the rise of CGI is changing the role of the studio photographer

Photographer Benedict Redgrove and the Happy Finish CGI team recreate an iconic building, the TWA terminal at JFK

Ben Fry, director of Seed Visualization, talks to Mark Sinclair about his work visualising complex data, including this map of every road in the US (above)

Photoreal CG humans, the ability to build Rome in a day... Gavin Lucas has the latest from the R&D departments of the world's largest visual effects and post production companies

Hellicar & Lewis create all their projects using open source software and then, on completion of each, they give it away...

David Crowley reviews new book, Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design, published by Mark Batty Publishers

CR's Eliza Williams reports form this year's PHotoEspaña festival

Daniel West finds that a lacklustre line-up at this year's TYPO Berlin conference is rescued by the story of the role of design in Obama's presidential campaign

And, for our Gallery prize we have a limited edition reprint of a classic 2Tone poster by David Storey and John "Teflon" Sims

This month's Monograph (for subscribers only) features images of some of designer Dominic Mallin's collection of Muhammad Ali memorabilia

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