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For almost 20 years, Creative Review has been encouraging the next generation of talented creatives through our annual Creative Futures scheme in which we celebrate the promise of a selection of emerging talent in visual communications.

This year’s crop of Futures were selected by the CR editorial team – our only criteria were to find indiv­iduals or teams who we feel have an extremely bright future ahead of them and who are indicative of the future direction of the industry.

Just before Christmas, each of our selected Futures gave a talk at one of three Creative Futures events. We invited everyone coming along to the talks to bring a piece of work with them – an image, some text, even a piece of music. We then asked each of our Futures to produce a new piece of work responding to the experience of being selected for the scheme, giving their talk and to the work brought along. These projects were funded by a bursary provided to each Future by CR and PlayStation. Over the next week or so we are posting up the resulting pieces of work plus documentaries on each Future, made for us by Fallon. Here are two new pieces of work by Kate Moross…

As the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony gets under way, designers Jonathan Barnbrook and Pedro Inoue are urging the creative community to make its voice heard at website Remember Tibet. But do such projects ever achieve anything other than to make the contributors feel better about themselves? CR asked Barnbrook about his aims for the site…

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?

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…

Mark Blamire of Blanka has reprinted 250 copies of Wim Crouwel’s classic late 60s poster, Vormgevers. But the lack of original artwork and a desire to respect the original posters led Blamire on a long and winding road to eventual success…