The ads as they appear in the latest issue of Creative Review

It would appear that not all publicity is good publicity after a furore has broken out over the latest Dr Martens poster campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi, which features a selection of rock legends in heavenly poses wearing the boots. The campaign, originally approved to run as a one-off in Fact magazine, has caused heated blogging debate online and ultimately led to the shoe brand deciding to fire Saatchis. And Creative Review has inadvertently gotten caught up in the maelstrom by including the ads in our latest issue, after one of the creatives submitted the work…

The Serif Fairy meets a frog (who’s actually a P and a Q set in Shelley Andante Script)

The Serif Fairy is in a bit of a typographical predicament. It’s nothing to do with her kerning, her leading, or even her italicised “O” for a head – it’s, in fact, far worse. She’s gone and lost one of her wings and can no longer perform her magic…

There are two Gold-winners at this year’s D&AD Awards: R/GA’s Nike+ prroject (website shown top) and an ad campaign for the Misereor charity for war orphans from German agency Kolle Rebbe (above)

You can generally gauge the value of a prize by the amount of complaints it provokes. If no-one moans about who won and who shouldn’t have, then you have the worst result of all – irrelevance. The D&AD Awards are always relevant.

This year’s D&AD Awards were announced last night. With astounding speed (OK, we got tipped off beforehand) we gathered the thoughts of a panel of leading industry figures on this year’s winners and the organisation’s current status in the creative community

It’s pretty easy to be cynical about branded messages these days. But we’ve been looking at a new message-sending tool, Get The Message, created by Glue London to help promote The Royal Navy and – perhaps surprisingly – using it is enormous fun…

To celebrate Star Wars’ thirtieth anniversary, the new issue of Empire magazine has 30 different covers featuring characters from the films. We’re going to go out on a limb here and predict that this one (above) will be the best-seller