I’m going to be blogging from Shanghai for the next couple of days as I’m here for the latest Creative Social gathering of creative directors from (mostly) digital agencies from around the world. We’re staying here at the Ruijin hotel - former Communist Party guest house, now chic hotel where a beer costs £10 and copies of Mao’s Little Red Book in each guest room have been supplanted by golf magazines and Fortune
Breda, 1953
Advertising agency KesselsKramer has published the latest in its In Almost Every Picture series. Each book in the series documents a body of photographs of one subject. Usually found imagery of persons unknown, and never intended for public display, the images are intimate, often banal and always strangely fascinating. The seventh book in the series continues the theme but with one difference - its subject is still alive.
Jason Tozer’s been at it again. His photographs of bubbles, presented here on the CR blog, formed one of our most popular posts. Now he takes a (very) close look at water drops.
Four seminal visual arts texts by Bruno Munari, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag and
John Berger have been republished as part of Penguin’s ongoing project to honour its
design heritage.
A Partridge in a Pear Tree, by HelloVon
Christmas is, as most blog-readers around the world know, a time for giving and, we hope, receiving presents. However, there are, of course, those not fortunate enough to be sat indoors perusing the world wide web and its many wares, for whom Christmas represents a miserably cold and lonely time of year: homeless people. It is with those less fortunate than themselves in mind that the big-hearted folks at London-based design agency Studio8 Design have cooked up a festive art event, The 12 Days of Christmas, to raise money for the UK’s premier housing and homeless charity Shelter…
“Do you want to say anything now Tony? You want to sing a song? He says he wants to sing a song.” Two of adland’s more ‘colourful’ characters, Tim Mellors and Tony Kaye, gave a talk to the M&C Saatchi creative department last week…
Kapitza, the design studio of sisters Nicole and Petra Kapitza has just released a book for all you geometrophiles out there. Geometric: Graphic Art and Pattern is chock full of 264 coloured and black and white patterns with 100 pattern fonts on an accompanying CD…
Fallon London’s Gorilla spot for Cadbury’s was the most awarded commercial in the world in 2008 according to the Gunn Report
All the winners from this year’s advertising awards ceremonies have been counted and verified, and the results of this year’s Gunn Report are in.
Before the Euro, Dutch money was the most beautiful in the world. A new Five Euro coin, designed by artist and architect Stani Michiels, is a worthy successor to a great tradition
‘Tis Christmas morn. The family is gathered around the hearth, eager for some Yuletide amusement. “I know,” you cry excitedly, “let’s all do my 1000 piece Steven Meisel jigsaw.”
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What could be an interesting box set artwork-wise is set to be released to celebrate Factory Records’ 30th anniversary
“Gloves, it has been decided, make a reader paw at pages, with more potential to rip them.” Students get hands-on experience of rare illustrated books (link: DO)
Ben Terrett’s blog has lots of good advice for designers on how to cope with the recession, with some intelligent input from industry figures
The Central Illustration Agency now has an online print shop. Work by Johnny Hardstaff, McFaul, Tom Bagshaw and Sir Peter Blake features.
Shepard Fairey discusses his Obama poster with the Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell
Annex Films just posted up a short film, Remembrance Day by David Tennant, commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day
Barack Obama has put up behind-the-scenes photos from his election night up on Flickr
The winner and two runners-up of Smoke & Mirrors’ 48-hour film competition are now online
“Game over, mmmOK?” South Park digests the post-election “change” forthcoming in the US
How might Obama’s win affect UK politics? asks Jeremy Paxman - to UK Hip Hop star Dizzee Rascal. That’s “Mr Rascal” to you, Paxman
Artists Emily Forgot, Sam Ratcliffe and Elliott Young have all signed up to new creative consultancy-cum-artist agency, Thick & Thin. All three artists will exhibit work from 7-21 November in London to help launch the startup…
Meat Water is new range of flavoured water with added protein. Flavours include English Breakfast, Dirty Hot Dog or Beef Jerky. Yummy. It launched at an art event (not a food and beverage event) in Cannes earlier this year…
Keith Schofield’s video for BPA’s Toejam has been reworked South Park stylee (link: Promo News)
The Guardian has a list of the top ten magazine covers of 2008. Weirdly CR has been overlooked
Behind the Candidates is a neatly designed site revealing the people behind the Obama and McCain camps