Hasta La Ideas

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…

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

If you would like to submit work for possible inclusion in Creative Review, please contact Gavin Lucas on gavin.lucas@centaur.co.uk. You may send jpegs, pdfs or tiffs of work via email but please note that we cannot accept zipped files or files larger than 5mb via email. Alternatively, you may submit work on CD or DVD or send us printed materials. Moving image work can be sent either on DVD or tape (VHS or Umatic, PAL or NTSC). Please also include some brief background material about the project concerned and credits.

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