The Alphabet Museum celebrates our greatest form of communication
The Lettering Arts Centre’s latest show features contemporary pieces of work based on the many iterations of the humble alphabet that have developed over the last 5,000 years
So you want to set up a design festival?
Following the first edition of the Birmingham Design Festival last month, we speak to co-directors Daniel Alcorn and Luke Tonge about not having a life for nine months, plane-related near disasters and giving the city’s creative community something to shout about
London’s disappearing signage transformed into typefaces
Some of Soho’s more quirky street signs have been preserved for posterity, in a set of seven typefaces designed to raise money for homeless charity The House of St Barnabas
The Bauhaus, but as fonts
Sketches and fragments of letters once hidden deep in the Bauhaus Dessau archive have been turned into five new typefaces released by Adobe
So you want to design a World Cup kit?
You might think designing a World Cup football kit was relatively straightforward. FIFA’s 92-page Equipment Regulations, published at the time of the 2014 event suggest otherwise.
Abram Games’ ingenious flickbook of Shakespeare’s complete works
Games’ daughter has made one of the late designer’s long lost inventions a reality, after discovering a dummy version of the book among his extensive archive of designs
Hope to Nope: 7 powerful designs for politics
From a graphic novel aimed at potential migrants to a flag marking the killing of an unarmed black man by US police, GraphicDesign&’s new book Hope to Nope features some powerful political designs. Here GD& examine seven notable examples
CR presents: The Annual 2018
The Annual is our showcase of the finest creative projects of the year, including advertising, design, digital and experiential work. See all the selected work in our new print issue and on our dedicated Annual section here on the CR website.
