By 2014, Manchester’s famous Cornerhouse centre and Library Theatre Company will be based in their new, aptly named site, HOME. But the nascent arts organisation already has a new identity system, courtesy of Glasgow’s O Street studio
Party’s promo for Japanese channel Space Shower TV featured animated sperm dancing to viewer-chosen tracks, and when it came to sourcing the raw material for the production, the all-male team did it by hand
A trip down Sony’s memory lane and the life of an Anchor butter kitchen are among adland’s offerings this week
Following its successful inaugural run last year, the Cheltenham Design Festival is back this April, with another ambitious line-up of design luminaries and thoughtful discussions
Alexander Chen combines music, coding and design to create charming interactive experiences, one of which turned the New York Subway system into a musical instrument
London studio Proud Creative show and tell their work on the brand identity of Chris Ward’s new Shoreditch barbers, Huckle The Barber – and reveal how typographic inspiration came from an unlikely source…
They’re used to creating magazine and album covers but now Angelique Piliere and Lee Owens (aka illustration duo Revenge Is Sweet) have set up their own luxury silk scarf label called Jour Blanc…
Photographer Tom Groves has been following the world of competitive table football since 2010 and his forthcoming book, In the Box, offers a glimpse of this little known, but passionately played, sport
Bowie stories, it seems, are like London buses today: two seem to have come at once. Here’s a look at a specially commissioned typographic Bowie print to which over 100 designers contributed…
The video for the second single to be taken from David Bowie’s The Next Day album, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), is directed by Floria Sigismondi and stars Tilda Swinton as a slightly unhinged Mrs B
Whilst researching a feature for the current London Underground 150 special issue of CR, we spoke to Eiichi Kono who, in 1979, fresh from completing an MA at the Royal College of Art, was taken on by design agency Banks & Miles to work on updating Edward Johnston’s eponymous typeface for TfL…
Gregory Bonner Hale (GBH) has created the graphic identity for Miss Kō, a new Asian fusion restaurant in Paris that sports a Phillipe Starck interior which GBH describe as “a place where cultures collide, fantasy rules and nothing is what it seems”…
We explore how the worlds of design, advertising, gaming and illustration are responding to accessibility needs
Diversity, equality and inclusion have been hot topics in the creative industries in the past few years, but are we really making any progress? We discuss in the latest episode of CR’s podcast
Sound, tactile materials and new technologies are all being used to help bring the visual storytelling of comics to life for blind and partially sighted people
AMV BBDO’s campaign for COPI shines a light on sewage spills in UK waterways with the help of a faecal-inspired font
Since losing his sight at the age of 19, the filmmaker has gone on to write and direct his first feature film, shoot a Super Bowl ad for Google, and set up a non-profit to help the next generation of disabled creative talent
Speaking to experts in architecture and design, CR looks into how accessible wayfinding has improved by subtly tapping into other senses, and what it needs to do to be truly inclusive
The UK’s largest animal welfare charity has launched a vibrant, flexible identity by JKR, along with an upbeat campaign created by AMV BBDO that asks for a little respect
In a consumer landscape that favours virtue, with audiences that will call out bad behaviour at the drop of a hat, courting controversy is a risky move. But brands can still use it to their advantage
The chef, TV personality and The Bear actor has launched a line of pantry staples that lovingly references classic food packaging design
Studio Frith is behind the creative direction and design of the reincarnated magazine, which is exploring desire in its many forms and complexities today
Mette and Rolf Hay have spent the last two decades elevating everyday objects. Here, the husband-and-wife founders discuss how Hay continually pushes boundaries while sticking to its democratic design values
In the first of a new interview series, Anna Higgs talks to Glenn Kitson about combining a career as an ad director with being a ‘meme lord’, and his strategies to stay centred and fresh in a world which can often just want more of the same