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Obey George Orwell

Gavin 14/04/08, 16:00

Animal Farm book cover by Shepard Fairey

Penguin Books has commissioned Shepard Fairey of Obey to create two new book covers - for two George Orwell classics: Animal Farm and 1984.

The Somnambulists

Mark 22/02/08, 16:28

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Princess Tolstoya, 1800-1873

Edinburgh-based photographer Joanna Kane’s latest book, The Somnambulists, is a series of rather unconventional portraits. While at first glance the images appear to be intimate studies of various sleeping figures they are, in fact, recent photographs of life and death masks that are between 150 and 200 years old.

Coversourcing: for your votes

Patrick 16/02/08, 08:58

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Although submissions are now closed, you can still vote on the ideas submitted for our Coversourcing competition to design the UK jacket for Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing book

BIG book

Gavin 13/02/08, 18:37

Big book cover

Alessandro Esteri of Italy-based company Hand Made Group has made a collection of what most of us would undoubtedly deem to be rubbish into a small book. Just for fun…

Designs of the Year Opens

Patrick 13/02/08, 12:04

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The Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show (or, rather the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year as we are obliged to call it) opened last night. CR was there with somewhat rubbish digital camera in hand…

Guerrilla Advertising on the streets of Tokyo

creativereview 21/01/08, 14:06

Guerrilla Advertising Japanese edition

A new Japanese language edition of Guerrilla Advertising: Unconventional Brand Communication (written by CR’s Gavin Lucas, art directed by Mike Dorrian and originally published by Laurence King) has just been published by Tokyu Agency Inc in Japan…

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A trailer for Marc Craste's beautiful new film Varmints has been released online

Christoph Niemann has a new blog, Abstract City, on the New York Times' site. His first post is a rather sweet illustrated tale of his sons' infatuation with the NY Subway

What the @&$?!! is a grawlix? Hoefler and Frere-Jones explain all (link: DO)

Non-Format reveal a nice new site, updated with lots of new work. Check out the FAQ section for everything you need to know about Jon and Kjell and their working process

South Carolina not "so gay", apparently...

Shepard Fairey auctions the original artwork for his Obama poster for charidee. Current bid: $60,000

The Museum of Notebooks. There's some lovely stuff here... (link: Coudal)

Noel Gallagher opens his rather large mouth once again... this time proclaiming that the new Oasis album cover art has been created by "the most expensive graphic designer in London". That's Julian House, according to Gallagher

"Ad agencies borrow from artists who borrow from advertising. Isn’t it great when things just work?" The NYT looks at the creative industry's most notorious cycle of influence...

Another chance to see Iain Follett's beautiful collection of stamps that made up our January 08 edition of Monograph (free to subscribers of CR)

A vast archive of vintage Russian advertising posters

Don't Panic has launched a competition to design a character for new PS3 game LittleBigPlanet. Deadline: August 4

Smoke & Mirrors post-production is sponsoring Blitzkrieg Bop, an exhibition at Man & Eve gallery in London, featuring work by Peter Saville, Ian Davenport and more

Designer and art director Matt Willey recently published an animation on YouTube which documents every single decision made in laying out a magazine feature

Comic Sans, applied well? Armin Vit thinks he's spotted the one good application of the typeface graphic designers love to hate (link: DO)