A design system for Sainsbury’s
Luna combines both visual guidelines and design solutions for common tasks across Sainsbury’s digital products and services. What are the benefits and challenges of introducing such a design system?
Designer vs Developer #24: Designing a progressive web app
In this episode of the Designer vs Developer series, Google Design Advocate Mustafa Kurtuldu discusses the process of designing a progressive web app, designing for speed, creating icons and more
The CR podcast episode 14: Making, changing and documenting places.
In this episode of the CR podcast we discuss a topics covered in The Place issue including the place branding, how one ad agency is transforming Paris and a design manifesto for Manchester
Paris gets greater
A hugely ambitious project, involving 68 new Metro stations, seeks to expand our idea of Paris beyond the old city and into the suburbs. Eliza Williams talks to Rémi Babinet, of advertising agency BETC, about what the changes might mean for the city
On transforming London’s neglected spaces
As a hybrid between property developer and social enterprise, Make Shift is overhauling London’s neglected places and reopening them to local people. CR met with Make Shift Managing Lead James Leay to find out why the model works
How Manchester is putting design at centre of its future
Manchester City Council and Design Manchester have announced plans to create a Manchester Design Manifesto to help transform the city
The CR podcast episode 12: Can creativity save the British high street?
For this podcast, Fortnum & Mason’s Customer Experience Director Zia Zareem-Slade and Yard Creative co-founder Steve James-Royle join Eliza Williams to look at the problem’s facing Britain’s high streets and whether design and creativity can help
Lucienne Roberts explores the meaning of ‘nice’
A provocative poster created by graphic artist Oddly Head provided the starting point for Lucienne Roberts’ residency at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography
Sónar at 25: festival of the future?
Sónar is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, while its creative conference offshoot Sónar+D is now in its sixth year. As part of our creativity in music series, we visit the festival to see whether its work hard, play hard culture is worth the hype
The power of brand: the fintech challenge
As fintech is maturing entrepreneurs and legacy institutions will have to take a brand-led approach to user experience, says Territory Projects’ Lee Fasciani
D&AD New Blood Award Winners 2018
The winners of the D&AD New Blood Awards for 2018 have been announced. This year saw 194 Pencils awarded, including four White Pencils and just one Black, for a project addressing social housing created for the Nationwide and Shelter brief
Naresh Ramchandani on doing a bunch of things reasonably well
Are you a slashie? An art director/designer/illustrator/more besides? Possessing the skills to do many things is handy, but there’s satisfaction in just one thing, done