Design in Motion Festival (aka Demo), the world’s largest motion design festival, has opened submissions for its 2027 edition, inviting motion designers, animators and digital artists from around the world to submit work before the July 19 deadline. Returning on January 28 next year, the festival will once again turn public screens into an open-air gallery for moving image. For...
Spotify launches animated ode to concert-going obsessives
Spotify has launched a new US campaign to promote Reserved, its recently unveiled initiative designed to help dedicated fans secure tickets for their favourite artists’ live shows. Titled Great Lengths, the campaign is built around the insight that music fans will go to extraordinary measures to get concert tickets. It centres on an animated hero film that celebrates the deeply...
Inside Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane artwork
For an artist whose career has been endlessly mythologised, it’s telling that Paul McCartney’s latest solo record is concerned more with memory than legacy. Perhaps it’s simply a reflection of his advancing years, but The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which was released last month to widespread critical acclaim, finds McCartney looking back to where it all began – to Liverpool,...
How should marketers talk to the UK’s ‘lost generation’?
Marketers love to put us all into age brackets, but Gen Z is the most complex audience yet, requiring a diverse set of approaches, says Curious’ Nikki Fraser...
Tango revives its iconic slogan in nostalgic new campaign
At a time when the soft drink market is awash with challenger brands offering functional benefits, natural ingredients and novel flavour profiles, Tango is doubling down on its promise to not only quench your thirst but to obliterate your tastebuds in the process. Titled Wrecking Ball of Tang, their latest campaign, developed by VCCP, is designed to hammer home the...
Remembering Mitch Paone
Every morning during his one of his teaching workshops, before anyone read their brief or touched a laptop, Mitch Paone sat down at a Fender Rhodes we borrowed for the occasion and played some jazzy riff. The students stood around with their coffee not quite knowing what to do with this. Some smiled, some looked at each other with a...
How creativity is shaping modern indie video games
As the mainstream chases safe bets and legacy franchises, we speak to four independent developers who are doing things differently...
Kepler Interactive on gaming as a cultural force
As gaming, fashion, design and art continue to overlap, CR speaks to Kepler Interactive about the cultural influence of games and how the company is making space for new creative conversations through its print magazine, Reset...
New photobook offers tender portrait of queer Muslim life in France
In her new photobook, Made of Smokeless Fire, French-Algerian photographer Camille Farrah Lenain explores the complexities of queer Muslim identity through a strikingly empathetic lens. Published by Loose Joints, it is the culmination of a body of work developed in France that examines how faith, desire and cultural inheritance coexist within a social landscape where queer Muslim lives are… Source...
Cannes Lions 2026: All the Grand Prix Winners
When reflecting on the differences between the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and the Cannes Film Festival on his first visit to the former, actor Alan Cumming was concise: “It feels like people are a lot more crazy here.” While Cumming was of course speaking in jest, it’s hard to disagree – the combination of a European heatwave (meaning that...
Ikea turns furniture into football flags for World Cup campaign
You may have noticed there’s a World Cup going on. Even if you haven’t been avidly tuning in, it’s been hard to escape the tournament’s gravitational pull. Brands, of course, have been quick to get in on the action, with the competition having already sparked some clever (and some not so clever) marketing ideas. One of the most simple yet...
Sophie Green on a decade of documenting community
For over ten years, Green has documented overlooked communities. Here she speaks to CR about the people, places and traditions that have shaped her portrait of contemporary Britain...

