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Director Alex Turner of Infinity Productions has shot a great new commercial for Drench - the water brand whose debut TV ad featured a dancing Brains (from Thunderbirds) puppet. The new commercial, written by Clemmow Hornby Inge, features some talented jazz hamsters, known collectively as ...
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Vincent has directed a new branding package for MTV, to promote the channel's month of shows that celebrate the end of the year...
The brightly coloured sequences, a selection of which are shown together in the Vimeo film above, will be used as stings and animation ...
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Being based in offices overlooking London's busy Oxford street, it certainly hasn't escaped our notice here at CR towers that Christmas is nearly upon us. And, as ever, it's great to see enterprising creative types creating lovely cards and other seasonal treats for fans of their work. Here ...
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Design studio Brighten the Corners has created a set of three posters entitled Inbox which showcase a selection from 10 years’ worth of incoming emails. And the posters don't simply show off the positive or amusing ones messages - but also the angry, the confused, the dull and the absurd... ...
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For the UK edition of Jaron Lanier's new book, You Are Not A Gadget, Penguin approached young designer Olly Moss to come up with a concept for its cover...
Lanier's book, which is published in January by Penguin's Allen Lane imprint, sets out to challenge the notion of whether the digital ...
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Using around 3,000 still images, Andersen M Studio has animated an extract from Maurice Gee's novel, Going West, for the New Zealand Book Council...
Colenso BBDO commissioned Andersen M Studio to create the stop-frame animation, which took around eight months to complete. The film was ...
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The Epica 2009 results have been announced today with the Epica d'Or in the film category going to Saatchi & Saatchi London's T-Mobile Dance ad (still shown above) which featured a flash mob of synchronised dancers descend on the concourse of Liverpool Street Station...
Winners of the ...
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Customers and friends of online book shop Counter-Print will soon be getting a rather lovely poster in the post - courtesy of a collaboration between New Creative and illustrator Robert Hanson ...
Detail from the illustration
" Team is currently printing the poster in black and ...
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Philippe Apeloig (soon to be profiled in CR) won the Overall Award at this year's International Society of Typographic Designers awards for his Théâtre du Châtelet poster campaign
ISTD judge Freda Sack said: "Philippe Apeloig often creates special display typefaces for his work – this ...
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Angela by Alex Daw
Opening tonight, Wieden + Kennedy London's new exhibition space, The Cole, plays host to a debut show from young artist Alex Daw...
W+K has developed its new multi-functional events space in The Old Truman Brewery in east London as part of its own extensive workspace ...
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Leeds-based agency Propaganda has produced a haunting animated short in tribute to Sophie Lancaster, the young Goth who was kicked and beaten to death by a mob in August 2007 in Bacup, Lancashire...
The two minute animated film (still shown above) - which depicts Sophie and her ...
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You hear nothing from him for months, then he's all over the place. After his impromptu Soho gig last week, Tony Kaye will be talking about his inspirations this Friday in London
“A Day in the Life of Tony Kaye” - A Journey into his Mind is the first in a series of Design Inspiration ...
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Among the many theories advanced by Neville Brody at his D&AD President's Lecture last night was that 80s popsters Haircut 100 are responsible for the decline of popular culture in Britain today...
Brody placed the exact point at which he became disillusioned with popular culture at ...
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Bristol's Soma Gallery is five years old. To celebrate, it is staging a show of some of its most popular artists, with works available for sale through the online shop
Soma's Fiona Hamilton explains that "As Soma was five a couple of months ago, we thought, to do justice to the ...
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Henry Rosen (left) and Harvey Stemmer (centre) were arrested for bribing basketball players, January 25, 1945. All images: © Weegee/ICP/Getty Images, and courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery
Opening today at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London is an exhibition of photographs by Weegee of ...
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Founded five years ago by Alun Shooter and Matt Bagnall, Cambridge-based agency The District now employs six other staff - including recent arrival Tom Lovell who, regular CR readers may recall, is one of the graduates we profiled in our September issue this year. We ran a piece on the ...
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Le Recyclage de Luxe Show
Mother London has launched the Le Recyclage De Luxe Show, a new Stella Artois TV channel that airs via YouTube...
The channel is set in 1960's France, and is in keeping with the retro style that Stella introduced via billboards and TV earlier ...
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Root is behind the design of a website and print work for new luxury luggage label, H by Harris, set up by London stylist, Harris Elliott...
hbyharris.com sees London-based design studio Root take control of the branding and art direction for Elliott's new venture, which then carries over ...
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CR's December issue looks back at the year in visual communications, plus features on surrealism, the Illustrative festival and much more
This is the first time we've done that magazine staple, the year in review. We start off with a look back at the stories that cuased the most debate ...
