Europe’s literary classics get a tube seat-style makeover
Unlike the studio’s London Underground fabric designs, Wallace Sewell’s collaboration with Penguin Random House is for reading rather than sitting on
As, Not For exhibition celebrates black graphic designers
The show, held at Baltimore’s Maryland Institute College of Art, brings together work by African-American designers of the last 100 years – everything from Snoop Dogg album sleeves to Malcolm X movie posters
Notes from a smart-phone free life
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
Pentagram dazzles LDF visitors with war poem inspired installation
Created by Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa, Dazzle is a nod to the camouflage pattern used on Allied ships during the First World War – but with a suitably disorientating, typographic twist
London’s Bankside celebrates its “otherness” with new flag designs
The flags, created by local designers and artists including Alan Kitching, Morag Myerscough and NB Studio, will hang above Borough Market throughout this year’s London Design Festival
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
The CR podcast episode 11: On politics and graphic design
For this edition of the CR Podcast, Eliza Williams talks to designers Lucienne Roberts and Anthony Burrill about the role that graphic design plays in politics, from official political campaigning to grassroots protest
How Ray Harryhausen inspired a generation of poster designers
Animator and SFX artist Ray Harryhausen didn’t just create movie magic, he also fuelled the creation of some of the most vibrant posters of all time. A new book explores how his work kickstarted the imaginations of designers around the world
New show to feature protest art removed from Design Museum exhibition
The artworks – which made up a third of the Hope to Nope exhibition – will go on display alongside a curated selection of other political art, in protest against the museum hosting an arms company event earlier this year
Watercolour paintings come to life in platform game Gris
Players explore a world of living watercolours in Nomada Studio’s Gris – a narrative video game set in a dreamy illustrated world.
Changing freelance culture
How Casey Bird is hoping to improve conditions for freelancers with The Freelance Circle — a review platform providing advice for freelance creatives
From boxing to boccia: an illustrated introduction to the world of sport
Written by sports journalist Adam Skinner, new book Sportopedia has been brought to life with Mark Long’s charming illustrations of more than 60 different sports
