How to brand a place
Today’s place branding is about much more than logos. Rachael Steven talks to five experts about the challenges and complexities of designing visual identities for countries, cities and neighbourhoods
How creativity and design is used to define the identity of cities and places
Today’s place branding is about much more than logos. Rachael Steven talks to five experts about the challenges and complexities of designing visual identities for countries, cities and neighbourhoods
Across the UK, neglected and once run-down urban areas are being transformed with the arrival of co-working spaces, housing and ‘cultural hubs’. We speak to experts about the challenges agencies face when branding new developments and how they approach the process
If you want to change perceptions of a city, country or continent, words are either the best or worst place to start, writes Nick Asbury
The world is packed with wonder and variety, but genuinely original tourism ads are few and far between. Mark Tungate tracks down some of the most innovative campaigns of recent years
Making new places – which work for both existing and future communities – is a hugely complex task. As part of our series in partnership with British Land, we brought together a cross-section of creative roles to talk about how they work together on the challenges
Sustainable design studio Upcircle used refurbished furniture, empty coffee sacks and felt flags to turn Pop Brixton into a “Viking longhouse”
We look at how Dundee’s home-grown design scene has helped attract the V&A Museum and the impact that creativity is having on the Scottish city’s longstanding social deprivation issues
We talk to Emma Cariaga and Roger Madelin of developers British Land about the thinking behind Canada Water, a new town centre for south-east London
Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten’s Old Father Thames series explores the “infinite variety” of stories the river has to tell – everything from the mudlarks of Victorian London to the annual swan upping ceremony
The Manchester Design Manifesto is an ambitious long-term programme to put design at the heart of the city’s future. Kasper de Graaf outlines the plan and explains the role that creativity has played in Manchester’s ongoing regeneration
What does it mean to be a graphic designer in America today, particularly if you were born in another country? Karlssonwilker’s Jan Wilker, discusses his adoptive country and how it influences his work with Adrian Shaughnessy
In this episode of the CR podcast we discuss the topics covered in the Place issue including city branding, how one ad agency is helping transform Paris and a design manifesto for Manchester
From Rio to the River Tay, an issue of Creative Review dedicated
to how creativity is making, changing and documenting places