Together, Apart

Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce are the latest designers to join the exclusive Pentagram club: dissolving one partnership in the process, but joining another, more challenging collective.

The best ad agency in London?

Despite having only one oicial client, Channel 4’s in-house agency, 4 Creative, has built a reputation for consistently stunning advertising campaigns. By Eliza Williams

The Ultimate Product Demo

Remember when ads for petrol were a common sight on our TV screens? Esso’s Tiger? Reassurances that we could be sure of Shell? What with global warming and dodgy goings-on in the Third World, oil companies have been maintaining something of a lower profile of late, but a new BP campaign from Ogilvy London puts fuel back on the agenda.

Alan Fletcher Remembere­d

Alan Fletcher, one of the greatest designers that the UK has ever produced, died last month. Creative Review opened up an online book of condolences on our blog site so that the design world could say goodbye. Here, in tribute to Alan, we reprint a selection of the comments

Window to the Future

In a unique collaboration, Creative Review and Selfridges joined forces earlier this year for Shape of the Future. Seven of our Creative Futures winners and runners-up from last year were each given a week in Selfridges’ largest window. The brief was simple: create an installation around the theme of shape, building on the work of the previous occupant. This is what happened next…

Greetings Grapple Fans!

The Luchadore are Mexico’s famous masked wrestlers – Lucha Libre (which translates as “free fighting”) their hugely popular sport that first wowed crowds back in the 1930s.

I Did The music for Sony Paint

In Fallon’s eagerly awaited new Sony Bravia spot, Paint, 70,000 litres of the stuf explodes over a Glasgow estate. Peter Raeburn at Soundtree tells us about his crucial role on the commercial

Accept & Proceed

While CR readers may not be familiar with designer David Johnston’s name, his work for Red Design in Brighton has consistently featured in these pages over the last year or so. Before his two year stint at Red, art directing projects for clients such as EMI and MTV, Johnston worked in-house for Nike at their European HQ in Hilversum, Holland.

Works and Play

At London Metropolitan University’s Met Works centre, designers can grow their own 3D images, print in metal and create works that are as much about touching as looking. Sean Ashcroft reports from a unique creative playground

Reading the Classics

Penguin is celebrating 60 years of its Classics range – a series that has consistently set the standard for book jacket design. Steve Hare traces the Classics’ rich design heritage and reveals the future plans for one of publishing’s great imprints

Black and White Town

Later this month, an exhibition at London’s SEA Gallery will reveal the results of a simple brief given to 28 of the best designers working today to create an A1 black and white poster.

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