Zeitgeist: Katie BretDay
Katie BretDay is one of the winners of the Zeitgeist awards in CR’s Photography Annual 2018. The awards recognises rising stars of the photography world; artists who have captured the mood and our imaginations this past year
How I Work: Konstantinos Dimopoulos
When games studios want to create convincing worlds, they turn to Konstantinos Dimopoulos, who’s designed everything from a sunken city filled with Lovecraftian horror to a cyberpunk capital. Here’s how he brings real-life rules to fantasy environments
How I work: Colourist Jean-Clément Soret
Colourist Jean-Clemént Soret has worked his magic on everything from Black Mirror and 28 Days Later, to the John Lewis Christmas ads. Here he explains why working with colour is like “tuning an instrument”
Why we love the colour of the year
With everyone from Pantone to Dulux claiming they can predict colour trends, we delve into the phenomenon of the ‘Colour of the Year’ to find out what it really means, and what it can tell us about creativity and culture
Living Coral is Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2019
Kiss 2018’s Ultra Violet goodbye. Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2019 is an “animating and life-affirming coral hue”
From the crawl to the cantina: how Star Wars was designed
The wild success of Star Wars often overshadows the vast creative effort that went into making it. A new book from Taschen explores how its characters, costumes, worlds and props were created
How We Work: Raw Color
As the name suggests, colour is a central focus for Dutch studio Raw Color. CR spoke with founder Christoph Brach to find out how experimenting with vegetable pigments kickstarted a career that spans design, photography and art direction
BBC launches music and audio app with branding by Mother Design
BBC Sounds brings together all of the broadcaster’s audio content in one app, which has been branded by Mother Design to reflect the “human” side of listening
The indie mag going beyond gaming’s “white guy with a gun” image
Indie print mag A Profound Waste of Time is challenging the “pageantry” of mainstream games media, instead using design and illustration to explore how people think and feel about the games they play
A decade of Apartamento
Indie mag Apartamento has made a fine art out of going through the keyhole, tapping into our curiosity about how other people live. A new book brings together a decade of its photography – including some truly bizarre homes
England Rugby rebrands to reflect the sport’s spirit
Onwards has overhauled England Rugby’s branding, using big type and textures borrowed from the playing field to reflect the reality of the sport
The Centre Pompidou targets tourists with souvenir campaign
Paris’s Centre Pompidou has borrowed a few tricks from the souvenir trade, recreating itself in miniature to appeal to Eiffel-obsessed tourists