New identity for League Against Cruel Sports
ASHA has worked with the charity to clarify its purpose and give it a new positioning
Patrick Burgoyne
Patrick is the Editor of Creative Review
Good enough to eat? Jessica Dance’s Comfort Food cushions
Knitted illustrations of some of our favourite foods in Dance’s trademark woolly style
X-Rated: adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s
A new book surveys posters designed to “arouse urgent desires that could only be satisfied by a seat in the stalls”
Interabang creates Royal Mail Stamps celebrating UK toys
Oh the nostalgia! A new set of ten stamps ‘captures classic toys that encouraged creativity and inspired millions of young minds’
Twitter through Trump’s eyes
The Washington Post has created Trump’s Feed, a Twitter account that replicates the ‘filter bubble’ through which the US President sees the world
Giles Revell’s Cartographic Colour project
The photographer’s latest exhibition and book takes a forensic approach to the flower bed in a graphic exploration of colour combinations in nature
HP enlists creative and scientific community to help imagine life on Mars
An ambitious year-long programme, HP Mars Home Planet will use virtual reality to simulate what a human population of one million could look like on Mars
Ikea’s spoof instructions for creating your Game of Thrones cape
SMFB Oslo responds to news that the Game of Thrones costume designers used Ikea fake fur rugs to create outfits for some of its characters with instructions on how to make your own
David Byrne In The Round
David Byrne is wearing white. White tracksuit top, white jeans, white socks, white trainers. He is sitting on a sofa in a hotel room and the sofa (can this be a coincidence?) is also white. His shirt bucks the trend by being black; rimless glasses hang from the top buttonhole. His silvery hair isn’t white […]
3D and the Art of Massive Attack
As a graffiti artist and painter, Robert Del Naja was the obvious choice to handle the visual direction of the band he co-founded, Massive Attack. As the band’s popularity grew, so did the scale and ambition of their sleeve artwork and live shows, both conceptually and in terms of process and presentation. This month sees […]
Be careful George!
Art director, graphic designer, and all-round advertising legend George Lois comes with his own slogan. Well, it’s more of an anti-slogan really, yet it has followed him around his entire life. “I kid around that when I was a baby in a crib, God or Michelangelo’s hand came through the ceiling on a dark and […]
Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel
In its meticulous creation of the State of Zubrowka, Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a typographic treat. The film’s lead graphic designer Annie Atkins was responsible for every graphic prop in the movie. We spoke to her about her work CR: How did you get into working in film? I worked […]