Still from the new Ford Mondeo spot, Desire, which aired for the first time last night. If you missed it, click here to watch it

In Desire, Bikini Films’ latest spot for Ford (which screened for the first time during the Champions League final last night), a host of superfluous old cars are lifted heaven-ward by bunches of colourful baloons. We find out how the ad was made as SFX supervisor Mark Mason of Asylum describes his role on the commercial…

Fallon ad agency takes the old adage that the way to our hearts is through our stomachs to extremes in its latest spot for Skoda, directed by Gorgeous Enterprises’ Chris Palmer.

The spot sees the car lovingly recreated as a cake and before you ask, cookery fans, we at Creative Review have the list of everything that went into it…

Ben Terrett of The Design Conspiracy and Noisy Decent Graphics reviews last night’s
Pentagram D&AD President’s Lecture

Last night saw the much anticipated Pentagram D&AD President’s lecture. A packed young audience, as much as 1,200 people, nine Partners on stage, more in the audience and your humble correspondent sat down at the front memorising every word for you lot.

1. Nancy Hellebrand, Marion in a Bed Sitter, July 1974 © Nancy Hellebrand

How We Are: Photographing Britain, currently on show at Tate Britain, celebrates nearly 170 years of British photography, from 1840 until the present day. The exhibition explores our relationship with the medium and the ways in which the camera has been used as a tool for recording, assessing and evaluating both information and our own culture.

If you’re a regular reader of CR you probably know that our very own Gavin Lucas has collaborated with CR’s art director, Nathan Gale, (who is also one third of design studio Intercity) on a book project: Badge/Button/Pin (CR May)…

Detail from the cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Cover by David Pelham (1972)

As part of Penguin Books’ 70th anniversary celebrations in 2005, a study day was held at the V&A that brought together distinguished Penguin designers, art directors and typographers John Miles, Romek Marber, Jerry Cinamon, Derek Birdsall, David Pelham and Jim Stoddart. The intention was to examine the changing attitudes to cover design over some five of the seven decades in which Penguin has been the world’s best known and best loved publisher. The talks, and some 250 cover illustrations, have subsequently been turned into a paperback, Penguin by Designers, and we present an exclusive extract from the book here on CRBlog: the full transcript of the talk given by designer David Pelham who started at Penguin in 1968.