Movie posters of the year 2023
Designer Daniel Benneworth-Gray returns to CR with his annual round-up of the best movie posters this year. Betcha can’t guess what’s up first..?
Designer Daniel Benneworth-Gray returns to CR with his annual round-up of the best movie posters this year. Betcha can’t guess what’s up first..?
Designer Daniel Benneworth-Gray delivers his list of the most creative, unusual and inspiring movie posters of this year
As A Clockwork Orange turns 60, and its movie adaptation turns 50, Daniel Benneworth-Gray examines the complex relationship between the book and the film, as expressed by the evolution of its covers over the decades
Every now and then a truly viral phenomenon comes along: here, Daniel Benneworth-Gray talks to advertising creative Stu Royall about how he turned a joke on Twitter into a book
Our design correspondent expounds on the pleasures of the quirky email newsletters that offer intriguing and often unexpected insights into the creative mind
It’s been another bumpy year for cinemas but that hasn’t got in the way of some beautiful movie posters being produced. Daniel Benneworth-Gray rounds up his favourites of the year
Creating a poster has proved the undoing of our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s computer – here, he offers some sage words of advice to help others avoid a similar calamity
As new picture book Aaron Slater, Illustrator is released, Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, creators of the Questioneers series for children, talk about the inner workings of the author-illustrator relationship
As the UK removes Covid restrictions, our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray examines what ‘freedom’ means when you’re essentially a hermit
After being given a shove via strangers on the internet, our design correspondent embarks on designing via tablet and uncovers a host of delights
Our design correspondent, Daniel Benneworth-Gray, may not have been able to travel anywhere lately, but that doesn’t mean our ‘new normal’ isn’t keeping him awake at night
As the UK entered a third lockdown last month, our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray found himself as his son’s teacher: a process that has proved educational for both father and son
It may have been a tough year for cinemas, but there’s still been plenty of excellent movie posters. Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray chooses his favourites
A new online shop is helping support local bookshops at a crucial time; and also providing Daniel Benneworth-Gray with an opportunity to make a list of his favourite design titles
When our design correspondent reached out to Twitter for advice on managing his contacts, he realised he had the perfect system already. Even if it made no sense, sometimes not even to him
Our design correspondent, Daniel Benneworth-Gray, has rediscovered a love of the printed page via his own bookshelves and quickly finds himself cutting and pasting for real
In 2011, our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray was a guest editor on CR’s Twitter feed. Here, he reflects on how the social media channel has changed in the intervening years
Before the arrival of the coronavirus, our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray found himself grappling with a broken hand, which sets off a chain of prescient thoughts
It’s January, and time for clear out. For our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray this means tackling the reams and reams of fonts that are clogging up his computer. Surprisingly, the job turns into something of a trip down memory lane
Faced with tiny budgets for imagery for use in his work, our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray has found a treasure trove on Flickr Commons. If you have the time to look
It’s been another glorious year for movie posters, which has seen illustration in particular rise to the fore. Here, CR’s design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his ten favourites of 2019
Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray reflects on the various terrors that can come with a phone call to a client
Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray has escaped work for a family holiday. Or has he…?
Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray has recently been drawn back into the world of comics. Here he muses on the difference they have made to his life, and his work
Our design correspondent ponders the differences between working from home compared to an office, and the perils of procrastination and small children
Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray ponders the value of a university education. Is his work suffering because he didn’t do a formal design degree?
Our design correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray attends the launch of Thin Ice Press, a common press reconstruction and letterpress housed at the University of York, and is enamoured by the alchemy of wood and metal and ink
Here’s some end-of-year eye-candy. Our columnist Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his favourite movie posters of the year
In his latest column, our correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray finds himself trying to explain his job, and in turn what design is, to his six year-old son
In this month’s column, our correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray finds himself suddenly smart-phone free. He expects being unshackled from the device to bring freedom, but finds he is unexpectedly bereft
In his latest column, our correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray expresses the agonies of writing the ‘about’ page on his website, and why the easy answer is to just keep putting it off
In his latest column, our correspondent Daniel Benneworth-Gray muses on the potentially paralysing effects of indecision, and the role it plays in his work
Our correspondent casts an envious eye over Michael Bierut’s ordered tower of completed notebooks and wonders if it’s time to rethink his more ‘eclectic’ approach
A nostalgia-fuelled quest to rediscover his old Myspace page leads our correspondent to ponder the impermanence of lives lived online
Comedy thrives on Twitter, thanks to its range of unique joke formats and structures. In constant flux, the platform’s humour is often hard to pin down – and all the more amusing for it
The art gallery can offer the freelance designer a quiet, contemplative space in which to work without distraction. Unless you start looking at the art. And the art is by John Stezaker, whose collages you really, really like….
From reading more books to unsubscribing, CR columnist Daniel Benneworth-Gray presents a checklist to prepare you for the year ahead – as part of our New Year New You series of articles on how to kickstart your work life and creativity in 2018
If you have a bit of time on your hands (or indeed if you don’t, but are procrastinatively inclined), may I recommend a stroll down the infinite scroll of typesetting.co.
Artist Jeffrey Alan Love recently tweeted a sketch, simply captioned “illustrator’s funeral”. Leaning over an open casket, a mourner asks one final question of the deceased …
A saunter around the big city can work wonders for the mind and the transformation from designer to unhurried ‘flâneur’ is relatively simple: Go slow – and get lost
A freelancer’s working life has little regard for the traditional calendar. So how to get those daily markers back in place? Start watching TV
Even for the seasoned designer, colour can be a tricky visual language to master. So how best to start embracing its spectrum of possibilities?
Sharing work online can bring more than just ‘hearts’ and ‘likes’, but designers may need to start channelling their inner window-dresser in order to keep up
Self-employment can be liberating – but when you work from home there’s little respite when the demands and deadlines all come crashing in at once
New Year finds our man Dan in the mood for a thorough tidy up. Room to think, room to work … and an intimidatingly vast and empty space to fill
The Visual Telling of Stories is one of the strangest websites you might ever come across – out of joint and out of time, it contains some pictorial wonders
In his artwork for David Bowie’s last album, designer Jonathan Barnbrook provided the musician’s fans with a range of hidden elements to discover. Intrigued by the findings – and the theories behind them – our columnist finally opens up his own vinyl copy to see for himself
Being a designer allows you, temporarily at least, to inhabit the fascinating worlds of those you work for. Just be careful of the old inferiority complex.
While designing a book’s index allows for little creative expression, it’s a task that has its own rewards – turning a collection of pages into a working object
In which our correspondent gets all hot and bothered over his current favourite typeface and what to do when such infatuations start impacting your work
Tall, awkward and skinny: no, not your average graphic designer but the spine, key to a book’s structural integrity, but a bugger to do anything interesting
The work that goes into any design project is yours and yours alone. Unless, of course, your client asks to have a quick peek at it. Well, they were warned…
Ah, the smell of a good book – those printed pages are much more than just a visual experience, as our man reminds himself with some delving amid shelving…
It’s easy to lose hours in the stock image library, yet among all the corporate surrealism, there’s a common language here; a lexicon for the modern world
The three talks that featured on the closing day of this year’s Leeds Print Festival offered up some very different approaches to printed matter – from film journalist Danny Leigh’s eulogy on the film poster, to The Designer’s Republic’s Ian Anderson and letterpress master Alan Kitching showing how the media thrives today
More than just words and pictures, the best children’s books are complex objects made up of nuanced design decisions
Last night, just as World Book Day was coming to a close (yes yes, your child looked adorable), the winners of the third annual Academy of Book Cover Designers (ABCD) Awards were announced at a ceremony in a bar beneath the streets of Hoxton Square. Now in its third year, the remit of the Academy is simple: to celebrate the ten best covers of the year. Last night, these were chosen by people who understand book cover design: book cover designers.
Dinosaurs, dingbats and digital: in the creative industries, the 90s was the decade that changed everything
All those great ideas that don’t see the light of day – should we hide them away, show them off, or try to recycle them?
Christmas is a time for giving, receiving … and agonising over what to put on this year’s card. Letterpress anyone?