The new poster campaign sees the characters (created by Bristol-based Aardman, of course) striking a pose with their usual attire swapped for more fashionable clobber. Wallace is seen above in a woollen Prince of Wales check grey two-piece suit by Paul Smith while Gromit wears a pair of Ray Ban [...]

The Kalmar Konstmuseum is a new space for contemporary art in southern Sweden and Stockholm-based studio Sweden Graphics were invited to design the identity and signage for the building. We asked Sweden's Nille Svensson to talk us through the project, which involved stencilling directly onto the building's walls… "The design [...]

Is this the best art direction in the world? DDB Johannesburg wins the Press Grand Prix at Cannes 08 with its campaign for Energizer In the April issue of CR, art director Paul Cohen lamented the state of art direction within advertising. According to Cohen, the profession is in decline, [...]

“Glory to the great October!” A Russian poster commemorating the 1917 Revolution, from Steven Heller's new book, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State In Iron Fists, an illustrated survey of totalitarian visual propaganda, Steven Heller offers an insight into the visual representations of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist [...]

Indecision - an interactive hyper-videoblog story by Rupert Howe Maybe you all know this already, but YouTube has recently added some new features to the site, under the rather dry title of YouTube Annotations, which allow you to add interactive commentary to your films. Another possibility is to add hyperlinks [...]

Stills from Digital Club's film, Mare Street E8, which the duo created using their Creative Futures bursary For almost 20 years, Creative Review has been encouraging the next generation of talented creatives through our annual Creative Futures scheme in which we celebrate the promise of a selection of emerging talent [...]

Illustration: Craig Ward After recently clocking up his tenth year as a designer, Ben Terrett wondered what had happened to his contemporaries over the same period. Were they happy? Did they earn enough money? Did things turn out as they'd hoped? In January 1998 I started my first permanent job [...]

Advanced Beauty is the name of a collaborative project curated by design studio Universal Everything and musician Freeform in which programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects are invited to collaborate on digital artworks influenced by sound. The first batch of artworks produced by Advanced Beauty are described by Universal Everything's [...]

Still from Radiohead, House of Cards video, directed by James Frost. Production company: Zoo Films. Technical director: Aaron Koblin. Post: The Syndicate Zoo Films director James Frost has created a stunning new promo for Radiohead track House of Cards, which has just premiered on Google. See the video here. In [...]

From Lean Mean Fighting Machine's Virgin Bets campaign, one of several that won awards at Cannes this year, making Lean Mean Interactive Agency of the Year. See the work here London's Lean Mean Fighting Machine won Best Interactive Agency at Cannes this year. We talk to Lean Mean's Dave Bedwood [...]

Toejam video for Brighton Port Authority, production company: Streetgang. Director: Keith Schofield Here's a selection of brilliant new music videos for your viewing pleasure. First up is the video for the first single from Norman Cook's new venture, Brighton Port Authority, which features guest vocals from David Byrne and Dizzee [...]

Wimbledon artwork by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey for HSBC. Ad agency: JWT London. Exec Creative director: Russell Ramsey. Creative director: Axel Chaldecott. Art director: Mark Norcutt. Copywriter: Laurence Quinn Following on from the blog post on Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls in New York, we have some more nature-based art for [...]

The hotels have lowered their prices, our livers are slowly drying out, and nearly a week has passed since the end of this year's Cannes Lions. So it's time to reflect: what can we learn about the state of the advertising industry based on this year's festival? Firstly, that it's [...]

The winners of this year's D&AD Student Awards were announced last night. Here's our pick… We loved this couch for couch potatoes by Charlotte Kingsnorth of Buckinghamshire New University which took First in the Furniture Design category. The brief, from Vitra, asked for "a sofa inspired by the new Vitra [...]

More from D&AD's New Blood show Jason Holroyd of Nottinghamshire Trent produced this beautiful laser-cut poster. Smaller versions of details from the poster made lovely business cards, jason.holroyd@hotmail.co.uk Poster by Kevin Murphy of Croydon, kevindanielmurphy@hotmail.com From a series of Penguin covers by David Jenkins at Norwich, jenkinsdave9@aol.com By Gil Cocker [...]

The Plymouth University stand at New Blood D&AD's New Blood show, featuring work from graduates from all over the UK, opened this evening. Here are some of our favourite projects… Photographer Will Edgecombe from Plymouth showed this project on the declining Cornish clay industry Poster by Tim Jackson of Nottingham [...]

Gorilla for Cadbury's Dairy Milk by Fallon London Well, it's all over for another year, after this evening's award ceremony in Cannes revealed the winners of the Film, Titanium and Integrated Lions, ending the speculation on the Carlton Terrace. Taking a Grand Prix in Film was Fallon London, whose Gorilla [...]

Tis the degree show season and, now that we have sent our July issue happily off to print, CR's editorial team is attempting to get out and about to as many of them as possible. First up, Central St Martins BA (hons) Graphic Design Among the highlights was this portrait [...]

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo. On guitar, Mr Sinclair Spectrum. On drums, Epson Printer. And let's not forget the legendary HP Scanjet on bass. We interview student James Houston, whose brilliant Radiohead video has been causing quite a stir… James Houston is about to graduate [...]

You know the story by now: highly original TV comedy series airs on niche channel and before you can say "rip off", a bunch of somewhat similar (but not similar enough to attract m'learned friends) commercials start appearing for all manner of rubbish. Perhaps it's a badge of honour - [...]

Hjalti Karlsson (left) and Jan Wilker at their studio. Photo: Elisabeth Smolarz Most design monographs follow a fairly predictable formula: in their beautifully produced pages, triumph follows triumph in a career of uninterrupted glory punctuated by pauses to pick up yet another award or admiring magazine profile. Not so Karlsson­wilker’s [...]

Is Not Magazine from Melbourne, Australia takes the form of a 2 x 1.5 metre poster laid out on a grid, a bit like a map. Find the contents box and it guides you to each article Objects As Magazines / Magazines As Objects is the title of an exhibition [...]

Students: good hair, nice togs, the future of the creative industry. For CR's Graduate Guide, 15 students set to graduate from LCC shared their ambitions and frustrations with lecturer Sarah Temple. Jonathan Ellery of Browns design studio (in green T-shirt) was also on hand of offer advice. All photography: Thomas [...]

Is the above from a new series of artworks by a contemporary designer, an explosion of scientific data, or a photograph of a strange creature discovered by deep-sea biologists? Well, while this most of the following images are just crying out to be placed on a T-shirt, they actually have [...]

Are publishers the new record labels? Barely a week goes by without news reaching us of some new lavishly packaged re-releases, while there seems to be a spirit of innovation in book marketing that has been sadly lacking in the music business. Chuck "Fight Club" Palahniuk's new book Snuff (out [...]