Black Panther poster from 1969, reworked from an earlier version published in the BP newspaper.

As Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Emory Douglas was responsible for the party’s striking agitprop posters and its newspaper’s political illustrations. His revolutionary art, collected in a new book edited by the artist Sam Durant, spoke of the social conditions and institutional racism within the US that the Black Panther Party had been born out of.

TBWA\Chiat\Day is gaining a reputation for producing seriously strange, but seriously funny, ads for sweetie brands Starburst and Skittles. The latest from the agency is featured in the May issue of Creative Review (and can be viewed above on YouTube), and sees a bizarre singing stranger approach two guys in a bus station after hearing that they are partaking in the new flavour Starburst sweets, Berries & Cream.

We asked Jeremy Leslie to select the most interesting magazines on show at Colophon2007, the international conference for independent magazine makers. Here are his choices…

Apple wins design award – not exactly shocking news these days. But how about this: Apple has won Creative Review’s first Design Studio of the Year award, but NOT for its products.

This award is for its graphics and packaging.

Linder, Untitled Photomontage, 1978, Courtesy the artist & Stuart Shave Modern Art

Fancy a trip down memory lane? The Secret Public, currently on show at the ICA in London, takes us on a journey into the art, design and music of late seventies and eighties Britain, revealing just how influential this period has been on our contemporary cultural landscape.

Cover from Jonathan Barnbrook’s upcoming monograph

Well, it worked so well with Non-Format that we’ve decided to do it again…
Send in your questions, we’ll put them to Mr Barnbrook