Apr 21

CR May Issue/The Annual

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CR May issue cover, issue side. Photography: Luke Kirwan

The double, May issue of CR features nearly 100 pages of the finest work of the past year in The Annual, plus features on design for the London Olympics, advertising and YouTube, the amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik and, we hope, lots of other interesting thing too…


Cover, Annual side


The Designers Republic’s special issue steel cover for Autechre album, Quaristice, was one of our Best In Book selections. Warp and tDR have produced so much great work that this seemed a fitting endpoint for a great client/designer relationship


More spreads from The Annual


Will designers remember the London 2012 Olympics as fondly as they do those of 1968, 72 and 84? Not without an improved tendering process and a strong creative director, says Mark Sinclair


Inspiration? Rip-off opportunity? Eliza Williams looks at the effect of YouTube on advertising


The amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik


Beatrice Santiccioli colours your world – she may even have chosen the colour of your Mac


Airside is ten, but it nearly wasn’t. Gavin Lucas interviews Fred Deakin


Rick Poynor on Milton Glaser, artist


James Pallister reports from the Colophon magazine festival


Do we need 128 versions of the same typeface? David Quay responds

This month’s Monograph (for subscribers only) features Dixon Baxi designer Aporva Baxi’s collection of Nintendo Game & Watch games, shot by Jason Tozer

The May issue of CR is out on 22 April. Or you can subscribe, if you like…

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Mar 25

CR April Issue

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Rick Poynor looks back over two decades of the Designers Republic plus, Spanish type case art, Alison Carmichael and our very own Mumbai taxi – all in the April issue of CR

April is our special issue on type and typography and all things letter-related. As detailed here, our cover features a Mumbai taxi covered in typography specially designed for the issue (watch an interview with the artists here)

We also have a profile of hand-lettering artist Alison Carmichael, whose work has a ribald charm that is proving very popular with ad agencies (hence the punning headline)

And a feature on the recent Art of Lost Words show in which selected designers and illustrators each based a piece on a word that is fast disappearing from the English language

Plus, from Barcelona, Jordi Duró and Meri Cuesta reveal how the remarkable ingenuity of Spanish printers gave rise to a unique form of modernist design

And Rick Poynor’s aforementioned tDR piece (which, in part, draws on his intro for the ill-fated, never-published-despite-what-they-said tDR book), which stretches over six pages and follows up our exclusive revelation that the studio had closed its doors earlier this year

Our subscriber-only Monograph this month features Synthesis, a series of organic forms created by Jeff Knowles

The April issue is on sale from 25 March. Next month: The Annual

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Feb 17

CR March Issue

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The March issue of Creative Review is out on Wednesday 18 February and has features on Jan von Holleben, Self Help Graphics & Art, Harry Beck, Crispin Porter Bogusky and more…

Our Work section features This Is Real Art’s website for charity Reprieve’s anti music torture website, Airside’s green identity for Greenpeace’s Airplot! campaign to prevent a third runway at Heathrow airport, Marco Brambilla’s collaborative installation with production company Crush that appears in the lift in New York’s Standard Hotel and Frost* Design’s art direction of Futu magazine

Features include a look at opinion-dividing advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky

How Harry Beck came close to repeating the success of his iconic 1933 schematic of the London Underground – for the Metro in Paris in the late 1930s

The latest collaboration between artist Gordon Young and design studio Why Not Associates sees the installation of 14 sandblasted tree trunks in a West Sussex library…

LA’s Self Help Graphics & Art provides a focus for Chicano culture, but its future is under threat…

Flying dogs and disappearing people: we profile German photographer Jan von Holleben

Plus, in Crit, Michael Johnson asks why we still use Freehand

And we ask a selection of advertising folk what their predictions are for the big prizes at this year’s slew of advertising awards, and also have a look at why Creative Circle awards are generating a buzz among the UK advertising fraternity at the moment…

It’s out on Wednesday 18 February. Please excuse the iPhone photography

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Jan 19

CR Feb Issue

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CR’s February cover, illustrated by Letman

The February issue of Creative Review is out on Wednesday 21 January, with features on Luke Hayman, Letman, Indian advertising, The Guardian’s new home, The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and more…

Our Work section features first sight of the logo for Condé Nast’s forthcoming Love magazine, Dougal Wilson’s puppet-tastic video for Coldplay and Spin’s identity for Argentina’s PROA gallery

Features include an interview with Pentagram’s Luke Hayman in which he reveals the secret of his success – CR, of course (ahem)

A profile of Job Wouters, aka Letman, hand-lettering artist extraordinaire and brother of our former Creative Future, Roel. Job also designed our cover this month, which carries on our theme of basing the design around a listing of that month’s content. Also, our guest typeface this issue (as seen here) is Dessau Pro Stenzil Variant by Gábor Kóthay, distributed by Fountain

How The Guardian’s editorial design has grown, almost accidentally, into an all-encompassing visual language for the paper, which now includes signage at its new home (by Cartlidge Levene)

A look at why The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, shunned by the mainstream gallery world, has given street art a home

And an examination of the role that advertising can play in ensuring that India doesn’t repeat the mistakes of the west in the face of growing consumerism

Plus, in Crit, we have all the usual discussion and comment including a look at advertising’s love of pain

And the all-important findings of our research into studio snacking and listening habits

Plus, subscribers will notice a change to Monograph this month. We are now using this rather beautiful Stephen Sultry Grey cover stock

Inside this month we feature Paul Belford’s collection of vintage Bollywood posters

And here’s the back cover with a key to the various pens that Letman used to design the front

It’s out on Wednesday 21 January. Enjoy.

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