What would the designer say?

Suffering from designer’s block? Well, The Designer Says might be the answer – it’s a small book packed full of musings from some of the industry’s finest

Global Rich List: how do you measure up?

The Sunday Times has just published its annual Rich List. If you didn’t make it in, don’t feel too bad as you’re probably much better off than you think you are – relatively. Don’t believe us? Use Poke’s Global Rich List to find out how you measure up against the world.

The Evian babies are back. Again.

Love them or hate them, the Evian babies are back for yet another ad campaign from BETC featuring the Live Young strap line…

5 Under 30 photography competition

The Daniel Blau Gallery in London has launched a competition to find five emerging photographers under the age of 30 to be part of a group show this July

Frost* opens up Sydney Living Museums

Sydney studio Frost* has designed a new brand for the twelve properties managed by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, which will now be known collectively as Sydney Living Museums

Cover versions: when less is more

Print publishing’s uncertain future is spelled out in the difference between a range of recent book covers that say too much, and others that are content to let the design speak for itself

Storm Thorgerson

The death of very few graphic designers would make headline news on the BBC, but Storm Thorgerson, who passed away yesterday aged 69, wasn’t just any designer. Adrian Shaughnessy explains how Thorgerson raised the bar for the profession … and then set fire to it

Young Creative Chevrolet Arts Talk

Someone’s Simon Manchipp will be presenting his work and taking part in a Q&A session with CR’s Patrick Burgoyne on April 23 as part of the Young Creative Chevrolet Visual Arts Talk series. We have ten free tickets for CR readers if you’d like to come

Book: Bodies. 6 Women. 1 Man

Working closely with the photographer, design studio Tappin Gofton has designed a book of Nadav Kander’s Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man – the series of photographs of naked human bodies which we blogged about last December…

What a BA jumbo jet is made up of

From toilet rolls to teaspoons, British Airways loads thousands of individual items on to each jumbo jet before it takes to the skies. Fifty BA employees created an image of a giant plane made up of these items on the floor of an aircraft hangar

Cardboard boxes that really help the homeless

Cardboard boxes have long been associated with homelessness. However, agency Publicis London, working with charity Depaul UK, has come up with a clever way of flipping the association from a negative one to a positive one…

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