Artist James Stanford reimagines Las Vegas’s iconic neons
The Vegas native is repurposing the city’s neon signs and landmarks by layering original photographs to create striking digital mosaics
Slack’s hashtag logo gets a refresh by Pentagram
The new look, which has been designed by Pentagram Partner Michael Bierut, is the first major change to the tech company’s branding since it was founded in 2013
Behind the scenes with stunt performers
A new photo series by art director Gem Fletcher and photographer David Ryle explores the world of stunt performers
ITV ads show it’s more than just I’m A Celeb
Uncommon Creative Studio has unveiled cinematic ads for ITV, which play on ideas of archetypal characters to remind viewers that the channel can do drama too
D&AD’s noticeably pencil-free festival identity for 2019
Village Green has been tasked with creating the look and feel of this year’s festival, opting for a mixture of 2D and 3D abstract letterforms and a bold colour palette
Exposure: Leslie Zhang
Photographer Leslie Zhang explores Chinese identity, drawing from memories of growing up in the country and Eastern iconography of the 80s and 90s. Art Director Gem Fletcher speaks to the Shanghai-based artist about his work
Truth Project ad aims to create a conversation around child abuse
The new ad for The Truth Project, which is part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, uses a subtle speech bubble effect to express the difficulty that many victims and survivors have around sharing their experiences
A physical version of Photoshop layers for by:Larm festival identity
Each year, illustrator Frode Skaren and graphic designer Rune Mortensen devise a fun new identity for this Oslo music festival. For this year, interchangeable wood-cut boards create a physical version of a digital image file
The Guardian brings the world’s internet use to life in animated feature
The newspaper explores the quirks of digital life around the world, in an animated piece that recreates WhatsApp in India, Google in China, and Cuba’s ‘el paquete semanal’
Sailing race SailGP ditches nautical clichés with typographic identity
Design studio GBH.London has created the branding for the new high-speed sailing competition, incorporating a distorted word mark and an unconventional colour palette
Patternity explores the patterns of the planet for new Vintage Classics series
Five science classics have been treated to unique new covers, thanks to a collaboration between Vintage Classics and the pattern-focused design studio
David LaChapelle shoots colourful campaign for Kenzo
With vibrant, futuristic clothes and backdrops to match, the brand’s new campaign is a fashion-lover’s dream
ITV to launch new idents each week in 2019
A new project, ITV Creates, will see the channel broadcast idents by 52 artists over the course of 2019
Snowflakes, your Army needs you, says new Karmarama campaign
Karmarama’s latest recruitment campaign for the British Army “focuses on how the Army sees beyond stereotypes to spot young people’s potential”
Apple goes colour-tastic in new ad
Rupert Sanders has directed Apple’s latest ad, which sees swarms of colourfully dressed parkour fans vault and twist their way across a city, in a bid to emphasise the colour quality of the Liquid Retina display on the iPhone XR
How BBC reimagined Watership Down for the small screen
We speak to production designers Painting Practice about setting the TV adaption apart from the notoriously graphic film version, and why we should treat it more like a drama than a traditional animation
Photography review of the year 2018
We look back on the highlights of our coverage of photography throughout 2018 on Creative Review, including a visit to the Polaroid Originals factory, Ami Vitale on pandas and an interview with Alex Prager
Record sleeves of the year 2018
Our favourite album art from 2018 – including a dystopian collage for Beach House, a striking photographic cover for Baloji and a funky set of sleeves for Roisin Murphy
Movie posters of the year 2018
Here’s some end-of-year eye-candy. Our columnist Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his favourite movie posters of the year
Magazine covers of the year 2018
It’s been a highly politicised year for editorial design, with everything from Facebook’s data controversies to – of course – Trump gracing the covers of magazines far and wide. We’ve teamed up with Coverjunkie to bring you our top ten covers of 2018
The Photography Annual 2018: issue out now
In the CR Photography Annual we celebrate the best images of the year, those who make them and those who commission them. Winners of our yearly photography competition are showcased in this issue
Music videos of the year 2018
From pole-dancing bodybuilders to the inner life of feet, 2018 had its fair share of stand-out music vids. Here’s CR’s top ten
Book covers of the year 2018
It’s been another bumper year for book cover design. Here’s CR’s top ten from 2018
Ads of the Year 2018
Here are the ten ads that surprised and delighted us the most in 2018