The French artist and director discusses building a practice rooted in experimentation, and why analogue craft has taken on a whole new significance in the age of AI...
Winners of the 2026 V&A Illustration Awards announced
The V&A Illustration Awards is a free-to-enter, biennial competition that aims to celebrate excellence in the field. It was first established in 1972 and celebrates artworks made for the UK market by artists across the globe, as well as the work of UK-based illustrators. This year’s competition received over 1,600 entries covering work made in 2024-25. The diversity of the...
Sporting CP unveils refreshed identity to mark 120th anniversary
Redesigning football club crests is a risky business. For every recent success story there is an absolute horror show that fans would rather forget. Often, the best redesigns are the ones that know when not to reinvent the wheel, instead refining a familiar motif to create something more coherent and better equipped for the modern game. That appears to be...
The Conversation: Can design reshape American identity?
As America turns 250, we speak to leading creatives about the power of design to reinterpret national symbols at a time of deep political and cultural division...
Design in Motion Festival opens submissions for 2027 edition
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...