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Inside the mind of the Letterpress Monster

Designer and printer Ian Gabbs new website, letterpressmonster.com, not only showcases his work, but also some of the printed ephemera hes been collecting for a number of years, including matchbox la...

16 h ago

The perils of getting naked with Sagmeister

When Sagmeister Inc chose to announce that it had become Sagmeister & Walsh, it must have seemed like a fun and appropriate idea to update the studios original naked mailer with a new nude shot f...

18 h ago 1 person likes this

Mawdsley shoots The Photographers Gallery

As reported by Design Week last month, North has created a new identity for The Photographers Gallery which launched as the London gallery reopened after an 18 month refurbishment two weeks ago. The ...

20 h ago

Sagmeister adds Walsh

Stefan Sagmeisters eponymous New York design studio has been renamed Sagmeister & Walsh with the addition of Jessica Walsh as a partner. A fact revealed in typical Sagmeister style with a naked p...

1 day ago 1 person likes this

I am a camera

Weve seen some odd student projects in our time here at CR, but this must go down as one of the oddest: two Kingston students created human photograms by swallowing 35mm film, then, erm, expelling it...

1 day ago

Zippy auditions for Scarface

From the archives of the Woolly Actors Guild comes hitherto unseen archive footage of puppet actors auditioning for some of the most famous roles in cinema, all in aid of Comic Relief Bet you never k...

1 day ago

Ah, my Doily News has arrived

In an effort to disguise the latest subscriber copies of advertising journal Lürzers Archive, which claims it is the "most stolen" magazine around, Coy! created a series of fake covers design...

1 day ago

Great New Music Videos

Lots of lovely music videos around at the moment - heres a selection of our favourites. First up, Romain Gavras does it again, this time teaming up with Kanye West and Jay-Z to create the promo for t...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

Nice publications

Time for one of our regular round ups of lovely printed publications. Included is the new issue of Centrefold magazine, the latest hardback graphic novel from Nobrow, an illustrated diary by Jon Burg...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

London Design Festival 2012

The London Design Festival has just announced details of the various exhibitions, projects, talks and installations (such as Keiichi Matsudas Prism, shown above), which will make up this years ten-da...

2 days ago

Andy Cameron

Andy Cameron, digital pioneer, co-founder of the Antirom collective, artist, teacher and, latterly, creative director at Fabrica and Wieden + Kennedy, has died unexpectedly. Cameron was a hugely infl...

3 days ago

Latest See Film Differently spots for VW

Director Ivan Zacharias has teamed up with DDB London to create the latest spots in the VW See Film Differently campaign, which purport that some of the most famous moments in movie history were neve...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

Wallpaper*s handmade custom covers

Wallpaper* magazine has approached almost 30 image makers (including Laurent Fetis and A2s Henrik Kubel, whose covers are shown above) and asked them to create a handmade cover image for its forthcom...

4 days ago

From Love to Bingo, cats and dogs set aside historical differences for soft drink and more nice work

Time for another round-up of the week in advertising: we kick things of with a nice use of stop motion from Brazilian agency Almap BBDO stitching together 873 Getty images to make a one minute film o...

25 may 12 1 person likes this

100 notebooks for dOCUMENTA

Over a year in the making, the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts notebook project has published its final volume to coincide with the opening of the thirteenth dOCUMENTA art festival in Germany next month... ...

25 may 12 1 person likes this

Barnbrook designs identity for Kievs Arsenale 2012

Barnbrooks identity for a new art biennale in Kiev is based around a bespoke and fluid open source typeface called MA VujaDe... Arsenale 2012, The First Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Art launched yes...

25 may 12 1 person likes this

Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary posters

On May 27 San Franciscos Golden Gate Bridge celebrates its 75th anniversary. Working with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservatory, agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners has created a suitably ...

24 may 12

Brand New Debris Quilt

While you would expect a conference on identity design to sport a half decent logo, the Brand New Conference has gone all out with "The Brand New Debris Quilt". It mixes Gotham, overlays and ...

24 may 12 1 person likes this

So, you want some ketchup?

The last animated short Yum Yum sent our way back in 2010 was about the perils of parallel parking. The focus of their latest film is that troublesome bottle of tomato ketchup that, no matter how muc...

24 may 12

A Balloon for Britain

We are struggling through the worst depression in living memory, with a new economic crisis emerging every day. Thank goodness someone has come up with an idea to lift all our spirits and encourage r...

23 may 12

CR June 2012 issue

The June issue of CR comes with a health warning. It contains content that readers of a nervous disposition and a love of classical typography may find disturbing. Things are going to get ugly. Skewe...

23 may 12

Rob Lowe at Kemistry Gallery

Rob Lowe aka Supermundane unveils a new direction in his forthcoming show at the Kemistry Gallery in London... Opening June 15, Lowes exhibition will include a series of abstract, large-scale paintin...

23 may 12

Hello? Is that the Red Cube gallery?

Sculptor Henry Moores former village phone box at Perry Green in Hertfordshire is to re-open as an art gallery – the Red Cube Of course, its not really a cube - the name is a knowing reference to Lon...

23 may 12

Pretty Ugly or plain ugly?

Poster for one of a series of weekly film nights run by artist Wim Lambrecht at college Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Gent from 2007 to 2008. Designed by Raf Vancampenhoudt with Joris Van Aken Skewed, stret...

23 may 12

ARC magazine lives!

The Royal College of Arts ARC magazine has come back from the brink with a suitably morbid new issue funded by a Kickstarter campaign. Still shaken from its own near-death experience, this makes for ...

22 may 12

Olympics ticket designs revealed

LOCOG has unveiled the ticket design s for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Designed by Futurebrand, the tickets incorporate Someones pictogram designs along with images of the venues Each tick...

22 may 12

The story of Pentagram

Pentagram Design celebrated its 40th birthday at the weekend (May 19). To mark the occasion, London partner Naresh Ramchandani created a charming film telling the story of the firms first four decade...

22 may 12

Hot off the press: newsprint publications

Theres been a veritable deluge of newsprint publications coming into CR towers in the last two weeks so thought wed share a selection with you... First up is the Frieze Projects newspaper. Frieze Art...

21 may 12

Brecht Vandenbroucke: Trial and Error

From Adventures of Robert Nothing Artist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke is showing work at the Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague this week. Expect dark humour delivered in bright colours, and ...

21 may 12

What do designers like to eat?

Last year, CRs Patrick blogged about how two features in our August issue mentioned the importance of "lunchtime arrangements" in studio culture, and many of our readers concurred. Now a new ...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

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