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Great New Videos

Eliza 04/07/08, 12:26



Toejam video for Brighton Port Authority, production company: Streetgang. Director: Keith Schofield

Here’s a selection of brilliant new music videos for your viewing pleasure. First up is the video for the first single from Norman Cook’s new venture, Brighton Port Authority, which features guest vocals from David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. Directed by Keith Schofield (who also directed the excellent promo for Supergrass track Bad Blood), the cheeky video shows how you can put censorship bars to good use. Quicktime here.

Grass Art

Eliza 02/07/08, 16:16

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Wimbledon artwork by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey for HSBC. Ad agency: JWT London. Exec Creative director: Russell Ramsey. Creative director: Axel Chaldecott. Art director: Mark Norcutt. Copywriter: Laurence Quinn

Following on from the blog post on Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls in New York, we have some more nature-based art for you, this time by UK artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey. They have created this artwork, their first piece to be used in a commercial context, for HSBC as part of the bank’s partnership with the 2008 Wimbledon Tennis Championships, which, in case you haven’t been paying attention, are currently taking place. JWT London is the agency behind the campaign.

New York Waterfalls

Eliza 01/07/08, 18:31

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Governers Island Waterfall by Olafur Eliasson, Photo: © Bernstein Photography

After wowing audiences at the Tate Modern in 2004 with his epic installation, The Weather Project, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has turned his attention to New York, where he continues his interest in natural phenomena in this series of four enormous waterfalls that he has created across the city.

Reflections on Cannes 08

Eliza 27/06/08, 17:04

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The hotels have lowered their prices, our livers are slowly drying out, and nearly a week has passed since the end of this year’s Cannes Lions. So it’s time to reflect: what can we learn about the state of the advertising industry based on this year’s festival?

D&AD Student Awards

Patrick 27/06/08, 13:59

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The winners of this year’s D&AD Student Awards were announced last night. Here’s our pick…

Degree Shows 08: Free Range

Eliza 25/06/08, 15:37

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Shadow Narratives by Jon Hunt, University of Derby BA (Hons) Photography

Free Range is at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London showing graduate art and design shows from colleges all over the country until July 21. When I visited, I saw photography shows from the University of Westminster, Nottingham Trent University, University of Derby, and City of Westminster College. Here’s a selection of highlights from the shows…

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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)