Diana Markosian’s series Santa Barbara is a thing of questions and contrasts. Part-staged narrative, part-documentary project, the photographer worked with a casting director, a group of actors and a scriptwriter from the 1980s soap opera Santa Barbara (which she watched while growing up) to reenact the final days of her family life in post-Soviet Russia, and the beginnings of her...
Jamie Hawkesworth’s British Isles
The photographer travels around his homeland in his new book. He talks to us about rediscovering home turf and the lengths he went to in capturing it The post Jamie Hawkesworth’s British Isles appeared first on Creative Review....
BBC Creative launches Tokyo Olympics 2020 promo
A year later but still as eagerly anticipated, BBC Creative has launched its Tokyo 2020 Olympics trailer titled Let’s Go There, ahead of the channel’s coverage, which kicks off next month. Created in-house with the help of Nexus Studios and director collective Factory Fifteen, the spot sees Tokyo taken over by the Olympics with street signs, shops, arcades, Gashapon parlours,...
Volkswagen depicts common road fears as horror movie posters
The new ad campaign, which launches the VW Tiguan car, is based on research in Australia, which revealed that 79% of drivers in the country have some kind of road anxiety. Parallel parking proves the most horrifying, with a full 59% of those spoken to saying they feared performing the manoeuvre. Other fears including navigating giant roundabouts or merging onto...
The Journeys Issue is out now!
More than 18 months into the global pandemic, many of us are dreaming of going on a trip – an opportunity to see new faces, smell new smells and have different conversations. Yet the pandemic itself has been something of a journey, forcing us to come up against limitations and consider what we want from life. It’s ideas like these...
Lance Wyman’s US Bicentennial lettering is now a typeface
The lettering was originally designed by Wyman in 1976, as part of a proposal for the American Bicentennial – celebrating the country being established as an independent republic. Prior to this, Wyman was perhaps best known for his work on the Mexico City 1968 Olympics Games, and it seems that his Bicentennial lettering also owes a debt to this project....
How Smiley can inject emotion into a brand
In 2022, the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, spanning almost every sector imaginable. According to CEO Nicolas Loufrani, the secret of licensing the brand’s IP so extensively without diluting its impact is simple: creativity. “It’s...
How Smiley can inject emotion into a brand
In 2022, the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, spanning almost every sector imaginable. According to CEO Nicolas Loufrani, the secret of licensing the brand’s IP so extensively without diluting its impact is simple: creativity. “It’s...
How Smiley can inject emotion into a brand
In 2022, the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, spanning almost every sector imaginable. According to CEO Nicolas Loufrani, the secret of licensing the brand’s IP so extensively without diluting its impact is simple: creativity. “It’s...
How Smiley can inject emotion into a brand
In 2022, the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, spanning almost every sector imaginable. According to CEO Nicolas Loufrani, the secret of licensing the brand’s IP so extensively without diluting its impact is simple: creativity. “It’s...
How Foundation empowers creatives to make money
As part of our series on creative businesses set up during the pandemic, we speak to Foundation, the auction platform for digital art and NFTs about how their digital-first approach is working for them The post How Foundation empowers creatives to make money appeared first on Creative Review....
Enter the weird and wonderful world of Robert Strange
Animator and director Robert Strange realised he had a talent for the moving image after making music videos for bands he was playing in. “I’ve always loved music videos, so after trying to be an actor and a guitarist for years I realised it was way more fun to do something you’re actually good at,” Strange tells CR. “I made...







