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Illustration Annual cover: the making-of film
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 12 July 2010, 11:52
Jane Stockdale and Sean Freeman created the cover for our Illustration Annual using a large letter ‘i' and an infinity mirror. Here's a short film of how they produced the cover image pretty much straight from the camera...
New Designers 2010
Posted by Eliza Williams, 9 July 2010, 16:57
New Designers, a showcase of graduate design work across furniture, product, interiors, graphics and illustration, is on until Sunday at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Here is some of the stand-out visual communication work that's on show...
CR Reader Survey: I Wish I'd Known That
Posted by Mark Sinclair, 9 July 2010, 10:27
We're in the midst of degree show exuberance here in the UK, but with more graduates looking for fewer jobs than ever before, we want to know what advice you would give the new grads setting out? Colleges, how do you help them adjust? Employers, how do you help recruits get up to speed?
The brief return of Paul Arden
Posted by Eliza Williams, 7 July 2010, 12:10
The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase at the Cannes Lions festival had an unusual presenter this year... Paul Arden. The legendary creative, who died in 2008, appeared as a spookily realistic 3D hologram. CR finds out how it was done...
Wallpaper* August issue - with CR designed cover
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 7 July 2010, 11:36
Our copy of Wallpaper* magazine's August issue (The Handmade Issue) arrived in the post today – sporting a front cover that we designed ourselves here at Creative Review...
Illustrated observations of Amsterdam life
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 7 July 2010, 10:44
When New Zealander Toby Morris relocated to Amsterdam a couple of years ago to work at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy as a studio artist, he decided to document Amsterdam's peculiarities each day in an illustrated journal...
Adidas Live Quest Paintings
Posted by Eliza Williams, 6 July 2010, 16:47
The World Cup is drawing to a close this weekend, but if you'd like a lasting commemoration of the tournament, Adidas and 180 Amsterdam may have just the thing...
HP Hit Print
Posted by Eliza Williams, 6 July 2010, 15:10
Remember the HP Printer film that we featured as part of our graduate coverage last year? Well one year on, its creators, Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth, have created a sequel...
The Helvetica killer
Posted by Creative Review, 6 July 2010, 11:44
Bruno Maag is so enraged by Helvetica that he has designed a typeface aimed specifically at wiping it off the face of the planet. He explains his hatred in the latest of SEA's Naturalis booklets
FriendsWithYou's inflatable fun
Posted by Eliza Williams, 5 July 2010, 14:31
Miami-based artist duo FriendsWithYou travelled north to Toronto recently, to take part in the Wish Come True Festival. They created an inflatable town in the centre of the city, plus much more.
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