Hasta La Ideas

Creative Review’s bumper July double issue includes an extra 60 pages of great work in our Illustration Annual plus features on Chris Milk, the Coca-Cola archive, Cass Art and Friends With You

Congratulations to everyone featured in our Illustration Annual, especially to our Best in Book winners, three of which are shown here

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Elsewhere in our special double issue, Eliza Williams meets Chris Milk, the director behind such interactive extravaganzas as Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown site and The Johnny Cash Project

We take a look at the 10-year designer/client relationship between Pentagram’s Angus Hyland and Cass Art’s Mark Cass and their mission to “fill this town with artists”

Mark Sinclair delves into the remarkable Coca-Cola archives, uncovering early brand manuals, Coke’s first African-American spokesperson and some unlikely celebrity endorsements

Gavin Lucas interviews the ever-joyful Friends With You as their latest installation opens in New York

And LogoLounge‘s Bill Gardner sifts through thousands of submissions to bring readers the most significant trends in logo design from the past 12 months

In our Crit section, the London Transport Museum’s Claire Dobbin traces the role of the River Thames in London Underground’s advertising down the years

Rick Poynor enjoys the British Library’s Out of this World show on sci-fi

And Eliza Williams reports from the PhotoEspaña festival where, this year, it’s all about the portrait

And for subscribers only, our Monograph booklet features Stephen Wragg’s fantastic Walking Men project

Thanks to Peter Grundy for this month’s cover design (the i is for illustration in case you were wondering), which has both a white and a silver foil courtesy of Celloglas and is printed on Rives Design Bright White 350gsm, supplied by Antalis McNaughton

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