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Australian agency The Glue Society has created a music video to encourage applications to an internships programme, plus more great work from Feed

The video, to a track by The Bumblebeez, aims to attract interest in a programme run by the V Energy Drink to offer internships at some of Australia’s leading creative companies. See the video on our Feed section here

Also on Feed, a bizarre and beautiful film from 3D artist Hugo Arcier (watch it here)

And this magazine for TopShop by Claire Huss (full story here)

And another magazine, Revista Deluxe from Brazil (see here)

And a Ben & Jerry’s campaign from Singapore (see the rest here)

More new work added every day

Steve Hare alerts us to the recently published Penguin editions of six classic non-fiction texts, each using a rare image from the Magnum archives as a wraparound cover. The design sees the barcode and title/author information placed on the spine – a removable sticker ensuring that the cover image remains as powerful as possible…

Cover of A Man on the Moon (with sticker removed)

“Our starting point was trying to dress six classic works of American reportage in cutting-edge design that properly reflected their style and substance, to bring them to the attention of a whole new readership,” writes Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Publishing Director, Rowland White, on Penguin’s website. 

 “When that became a collaboration with Magnum, it suddenly was impossible to imagine doing it any other way. The Penguin Magnum Collection was a partnership that immediately felt right.”

All six editions are out now (see, here, for the listing on the Penguin website).

Harry Handyside’s video for Monkey track, Pigsy in Space, won a First at D&AD’s Student Awards. A nice use of tights

Last night at the D&AD Student Awards, two graduate teams collected the Student of the Year prize – one from Berghs School, Sweden and another from Central St Martins in the UK. 18 Firsts were also awarded. Here’s a selection of the winning work…

In the advertising category, Johan Riddarström, David Lundgren, Hampus Mattsson of Berghs School Of Communication in Sweden gained a First with their campaign for Blyk, which saw them install an interactive hoarding outside the London-based agency, Mother. Check out the video detailing the campaign, here.

Also in advertising, Carren O’Keefe and Devon Hong of the Miami Ad School, Hamburg won with their rather, er, seedy press campaign for PJ Smoothies. Not sure if the bruised banana is that funny…

For eBay, in the Viral category, Petra Muda and Harri Leppala, also of Berghs School, created an innovative mobile phone application called Find It where users can send an image of anything they want to find to the auction site and it will look for the best match.

To encourage participation, the team set up a challege whereby users were awarded points if eBay returned no results to their requests – the person with the most points won a stash of eBay vouchers. (They also received one of the two Student of the Year awards given out.)

Homeless charity Crisis sponsored the Direct Mail section in Graphic Design and awarded two Firsts – to Chris Lurcook, Laura Beard, Victoria Fannon of the University of Gloucestershire, and Paul Johnson of Northumbria University. The campaigns both took an ironic look at the experience of homelessness (see Johnson’s photo essay mailout and the UoG team’s postcard – “PS Be glad you’re not here”).

Some nice packaging emerged from Homebase sponsored category in Graphic Design with Vicky Barlow of University College Falmouth (work shown below, top) and Stuart Sutch of the University College for the Creative Arts at Epsom, both gaining Firsts.

Martin Batt, Anders Godal of Central Saint Martins won in the Brand Identity category, with Me.inc.

Micheline Mannion of Central Saint Martins was named as the other Student of the Year, for her Faber & Faber book cover designs which incorporate the publisher’s new Print on Demand service to enable buyers to create a personalised cover.

Her designs for the The Faber Film List series use a “digital scroll” mechanism (like the one used on the iPhone) to choose the particular title a customer wants to order. The coloured bar (akin to the line made by a highlighter pen) then picks out the specific title of the book on the cover.

Adam St John and Meghan Fredrich from the Chicago Portfolio School picked up a First for their 15 For 15 website. Users can bid on the chance to spend 15 minutes in conversation with a “great mind” from the creative industry. The project came from a brief to help raise funds for the 15 Below Project.

Christian Söderholm, Dennis Rosenqvist of Hyper Island in Sweden won a First for their TAG player for the BBC. The nifty device allows people to ‘tag’ TV clips and upload related content and share it with friends. More on that, here.

Possi Ville (billboard image shown), a project from Borja Diego, Javier Iñiguez de Onzoño Martín and Alex Katz of the Miami Ad School in Madrid won a First in Integrated Communication for a brief set by the Co-operative, which is, according to the tagline, “good for everyone” (hence anything is Possi Ville…). More about the project, here.

Madeleine Sargent’s environmental design work for Hamley’s, featuring a full circus apparently tramping past a red curtain (in the shop window) also gained a First. Madeleine is a gradute of Middlesex University.

There were two Firsts in Music Videos. XL Recordings provided the Monkey track, Pigsy in Space, and Harry Handyside of Chelsea College of Art and Design and Anastasia Afonina, Chris Lee, Mel Hsieh and Sam Pilling of Central Saint Martins scooped the top award.

Watch Handyside’s video, here, and the CSM team’s work, here.

Handyside’s spot is particularly amusing – aptly entitled 15 Denier, it features a selection of people with tights on their head, gurning involuntarily as the near-invisible fabric is pulled over their face. A classic party trick (or indeed armed robbery aid). Brilliant.

See all the nominations and winning work at http://studentawards.dandad.org/2009/.

Regular readers of the CR blog may recall us posting about London club-night Get Involved‘s posters in the past. Each month Get Involved approached a different designer or illustrator to create the poster, meaning the night amassed – over its three year tenure at central London venue The Social – a legacy of lovingly designed promotional materials.

Actually, I’ve got a confession to make – Get Involved, is one of my extra-curricular projects. I couldn’t resist commissioning artists and image makers whose work I admire to create the posters for my little club night and that’s why the artists to get involved (excuse the pun)  include well established image makers such as Anthony Burrill, Build and Jon Burgerman – but also lesser known, up and coming artists such as Roo Walton, Ali Graham and Lazy Oaf.

Now, for the first time, all the Get Involved posters are being reprinted as archival art prints (available to buy in strictly limited editions of 10 at £20 unframed)  at and exhibited at London’s Concrete Hermit Gallery where contributing artist James Joyce and design duo Crispin Finn will be offering limited edition Get Involved prints for sale exclusively through the gallery.

Here are a selection of Get Involved posters from the show:

by TwoPoints.Net

by Richard Hogg

by Lazy Oaf

by Sam Muir

by Dave Oscroft

The above artwork by James Joyce was originally created for a promotional postcard for Get Involved and for the August 2007 event poster. Now, especially for this exhibition, it has been printed at approximately A2 size in a strictly limited edition of 25 numbered and signed Giclée prints.

Crispin Finn’s hand screenprinted poster for the last Get Involved party held at The Social back in December last year was produced in an edition of just 45. Some were given out along with compilation CDs on the night and the remaining posters are being sold at this exhibition. Buyers of the print will receive a free Get Involved compilation CD.

Also being exhibited for the first time is a selection of photographs taken at Get Involved by top rock’n’roll photographer Dean Chalkley:

The Get Involved Poster Show opens tonight and runs until 31 July at Concrete Hermit, 5a Club Row, London, E1 6JX

Opening times: 10am – 6pm Monday – Saturday (except Bank Holidays)

The people have spoken, and they liked the old Hartford Courant, before the paper’s hasty redesign last summer in the wake of significant staff cuts. And the paper has listened, reverting to the traditional horizontal placement of the nameplate and scrapping the wee “.com” that the redesign had appended. “The horizontal nameplate really gives us more flexibility for story play and more variety from day to day,” Melanie Shaffer, design director at the Courant, told Poynter Online’s Sara Dickenson Quinn. “(The vertical nameplate) just started to seem a little limited—not a lot of options for how to play the page.”

In an online poll described by Jeff Levine, the Courant‘s new senior vice president and director of content, as “not scientific,” readers were asked to weigh in on three possible front-page designs, including one liberally accented with a hue that we’d describe as “USA Today Blue.” Almost 95% of readers favored a return to a more traditional layout. Many respondents used the poll to provide additional feedback to the paper, weighing on issues ranging from the positioning of features, local news, and Dilbert (a staple of the business page) to the reformatted TV listings. More than one commenter mentioned the Titanic and deck chairs. “The masthead is the least of your worries!” advised commenter Al. “You should concern yourself about the paper’s content—ever since you featured a front-page article on Outhouses, your paper has gone downhill.”