Fontsmith brings its Brandfont service to life with new book series
The type foundry’s exclusively licensed font service has been reimagined in print form by Thompson Brand Partners, and offers a deep dive into its library of more than 500 fonts
The Crash: A chilling look back at the global financial crisis
Ten years on from the start of the ‘great recession’, Stephen McLaren’s new book revisits his photo series documenting the aftermath of the crash on the streets of the City of London
Europe’s literary classics get a tube seat-style makeover
Unlike the studio’s London Underground fabric designs, Wallace Sewell’s collaboration with Vintage Classics is for reading rather than sitting on
Berlin: The graphic novel that took 20 years to complete
Jason Lutes has spent the past two decades working on Berlin – an epic, 600-page graphic novel that follows the lives of Berlin residents in the years leading up to World War Two. We talk to Lutes about the process and the changing perceptions of the comic as an art form
Celebrating the artist behind Copacabana’s patterned pavements
A new book and exhibition from Place Press celebrates the pioneering work of Roberto Burle Marx – the landscape architect and artist who transformed Rio’s Copacabana district – and explores how creative thinking can transform our relationship with urban spaces
How I Work: Jessie Burton
Novelist Jessie Burton has recreated her writing space in the window of Heal’s in London as part of an exhibition for London Design Festival. We talk to her about how her real writing ‘shed’ influences her writing, and how she copes with both success and criticism
What it was like to give a demo to Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda’s new book Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process offers a deep dive into his life as a software engineer at the company. In this extract, Kocienda describes giving a demo of his iPhone keyboard design to Steve Jobs
Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
A new book by writer and regular CR collaborator Emily Gosling offers insights into the working practices of 56 of the world’s greatest creative thinkers, past and present
Taschen’s new book documents the making of Disneyland
Walt Disney’s Disneyland, written by architecture expert Chris Nichols, documents how a dusty orange grove in California was transformed into Disney’s world famous-theme park
Wood and Wood collaborate on poetry book
Art director Graham Wood has collaborated with his namesake, artist and poet Paul, to create 360 Degrees, a visually rich book of the latter’s poetry
Neasden Control Centre illustrates a children’s book
Born Bad is illustrated by Neasdon Control Centre and written by CK Smouka, and tells the story of a bad wolf turned good
Bored Tourists shows the mundane reality of #happyholidays
Documentary photographer Laurence Stephens’ photo series of hapless holidaymakers has been turned into a book. Here he discusses the inspiration for the project, and finding beauty in the sheer boredom that holidays can inevitably bring