Johnny Kelly creates films for Cheerios that remind us all to be kind
Johnny Kelly and Cheerios enlisted the help of nearly a hundred puppets to encourage kids to be more kind – to themselves and everyone else
Leanne Shapton paints watercolour covers for Thomas Bernhard reissues
Faber & Faber has released a set of five Thomas Bernhard novels, accompanied by a series of abstract covers created by Leanne Shapton
Vintage ski manuals and scrapbooks turned into London mural
Artist Jimmy Turrell and designer Richard Turley have turned an unwanted eBay lot into a giant mural, sorting through over 1,000 bits of ephemera to create the piece
Does architecture need more graphic design?
Dutch designer Hansje van Halem is changing how we experience the buildings around us, using tiles, 3D installations and patterned facades to personalise churches and housing blocks. CR finds out if it’s time to give graphic designers a chance at architecture
Lego Wear’s new shop looks empty – but it’s got a secret
It’s all white walls and blank space in Lego Wear’s pop-up store in London’s Soho. Until you open Snapchat that is…
How I Work: Amanda Johnstone-Batt, Framestore Rides
Rollercoasters are no longer all about the corkscrew and loop-the-loop. They’ve become rich interactive experiences that use AR, VR and CGI to immerse riders in the story. Amanda Johnstone-Batt, CGI Supervisor on Framestore’s Rides team, tells CR what it takes to make them work
How design is opening up the gaming experience
As the first mass-market games product for disabled people, the Xbox Adaptive Controller is reconsidering who gaming is for, and how they experience it. Microsoft designer Chris Kujawski tells CR why it’s the highlight of his creative career
West London’s punk background peeps through in KCAW identity
The Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend is marking its second edition with a rebrand by AH-KB, which draws on the “cultural layers” of the borough
Netflix updates its ident for a more “cinematic experience”
A newly animated N will now appear before all of the streaming service’s original programming
How We Met: Friends With You
The founders of art collective Friends With You, Arturo Sandoval and Samuel Borkson, explain how they’ve kept a close friendship and creative partnership going for the past 20 years
They Live’s alien-exposing magazine comes to life
Craig Oldham has designed and edited a new book exploring the legacy of John Carpenter’s They Live – published as a recreation of the subliminal message-filled magazine featured in the film
How We Met: GraphicDesign&
Together, Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright have made books about maths, politics and nuns’ habits, as part of a mission to explore graphic design’s place in the world. And none of it would have happened without a chance meeting through an ex-boyfriend