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Adidas Olympics campaign by 180 Amsterdam. Creatives: Dean Maryon, Paulo Martins, Carlos Furnari. Photographer: Gus Powell

As the September issue of Creative Review is a student work special, featuring our favourites from this year’s crop of graduates, we were unable to put our usual amount of great new work in the magazine. Instead, we will be putting up posts of new work regularly online over the next few weeks. Here is the first, featuring some of the best advertising that has passed through CR Towers lately. First up, in honour of the Olympics, here is some print work from 180 Amsterdam for Adidas.

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Compos­ition, c. 1921. Courtesy UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design

No movement in art has found more favour with designers than the short-lived creative revolution that became known as Constructivism, writes Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Why should a design movement so strongly identified with a nation and a moment in history so remote from, and apparently irrelevant to, most of our lives speak so clearly to us? Is it just a question of nicking the style and ditching the politics?

BA Terminal 5 ad, taken on August 4, agency: BBH London, creative director: Mick Mahoney, creatives: Brad Woolf and Dan Bailey

After its nightmare launch of the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport earlier this year, British Airways has some serious image management to do. Enter its new series of ads, from BBH in London, which cut right to the chase with the tagline ‘Terminal 5 is working’.

Reprieve, the legal action charity founded by Clive Stafford Smith, helps prisoners who are facing execution, particularly those who are outside the reach of the law because of the ‘war on terror’, including those incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. This Is Real Art has been working with them in order to raise awareness, making this short film among other things…

Viva La Vida video by Hype Williams

While some bands may scrabble to get one video made for a new single, Coldplay have two official ones for new single Viva La Vida, directed by Hype Williams and Anton Corbijn respectively. But are either of them any good? We’re not sure…