Activists at Climate Camp 2007 march on BAA’s Heathrow offices. The ‘shields’ feature images of a cross-section of the world’s population. Photo © Kristian Buus
Climate Camp provides an opportunity to examine design activism in action. Jody Boehnert attended this year’s event and reported back for CR.
For the special Christmas edition of their creative get-together, Glug, Ian Hambleton (of Studio Output) and Nick Clement (Made Studio) have launched a seasonal competition. Creatives are invited to respond to the statement, “All I want for Christmas is…” to be in with a chance of winning some rather tasty prizes.
It’s been a while since we posted up some fresh-looking musical packages and what with everyone (at last!) talking about “renewing value in music releases” we thought now was a good time to show a few things that have caught our eye recently for one reason or another…
One of several new British Airways outdoor ads. Photography: Adam Hinton
Still buzzing from absorbing the wealth of great photography collected together in our Photography Annual, we spotted a brand new, photography rich, campaign for British Airways that features shots by one of the photographers featured in said Photography Annual, Adam Hinton…
This Saturday, Anthony Burrill will be ensconced in the Concrete Hermit gallery in London, signing copies of his new book of postcards, YES. That’s YES as in the title of the book. Not that we’re not exclaiming an affirmative “yes” ourselves, of course. Click through for further details and a bit more of his art.
A big thank you to everyone who came down to the launch of our Photography Annual exhibition at the Print Space gallery in London last week. Photographer William Pine made a nice little film of the event (above) and TPS has also sent us a few pics from the night. Best In Book photography from the Annual will be in the gallery until November 19.
Alfred E. Neumann, MAD magazine’s jug-eared mascot is the latest in a long line of parodies of Shepard Fairey’s classic Hope poster of Barack Obama. Turns out that the image adorning the latest issue of the mag, #495, is actually Fairey’s favourite…
Match Day, Bob Stanley’s 2006 collection of UK football programmes, has just been published as a pocket edition, making it even easier to flick through the printed glories of yesteryear while on the terraces. The book is, again, designed by FUEL and features 450 examples from the post-war period to the start of the Premiership in 1992. It’s a lovely antidote to the glossy corporate brochures served up at football matches today.
The American National Exhibition, Kaiser Geodesic Dome, Moscow, 1959
David Crowley, curator of the V&A museum’s current Cold War Modern show, reveals how design provided the battleground for much of the bitter East-West competition that emerged from the late 1940s onwards.
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Illustrator James Joyce has a spanky new website, courtesy of design studio Proud Creative
What could be an interesting box set artwork-wise is set to be released to celebrate Factory Records’ 30th anniversary
“Gloves, it has been decided, make a reader paw at pages, with more potential to rip them.” Students get hands-on experience of rare illustrated books (link: DO)
Ben Terrett’s blog has lots of good advice for designers on how to cope with the recession, with some intelligent input from industry figures
The Central Illustration Agency now has an online print shop. Work by Johnny Hardstaff, McFaul, Tom Bagshaw and Sir Peter Blake features.
Shepard Fairey discusses his Obama poster with the Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell
Annex Films just posted up a short film, Remembrance Day by David Tennant, commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day
Barack Obama has put up behind-the-scenes photos from his election night up on Flickr
The winner and two runners-up of Smoke & Mirrors’ 48-hour film competition are now online
“Game over, mmmOK?” South Park digests the post-election “change” forthcoming in the US
How might Obama’s win affect UK politics? asks Jeremy Paxman - to UK Hip Hop star Dizzee Rascal. That’s “Mr Rascal” to you, Paxman
Artists Emily Forgot, Sam Ratcliffe and Elliott Young have all signed up to new creative consultancy-cum-artist agency, Thick & Thin. All three artists will exhibit work from 7-21 November in London to help launch the startup…
Meat Water is new range of flavoured water with added protein. Flavours include English Breakfast, Dirty Hot Dog or Beef Jerky. Yummy. It launched at an art event (not a food and beverage event) in Cannes earlier this year…
Keith Schofield’s video for BPA’s Toejam has been reworked South Park stylee (link: Promo News)
The Guardian has a list of the top ten magazine covers of 2008. Weirdly CR has been overlooked