Stompy is a new wine subscription service offering curated selections based on individual tastes. The branding was led by New York-based creative agency &Walsh, which came up with the naming – based on the traditional wine-making practice of grape stomping – and the wider visual identity. The wordmark is a far cry from the sweeping handwriting and traditional serifs once...
How Finisterre is paving the way for sustainable brands
Founder Tom Kay tells CR how he went from persuading bank managers to take sustainability seriously to running a much-loved clothes brand with a mission to get more of us to connect with the sea...
McDonald’s takes its anti-littering mission to Belgium
Earlier this year, we covered a McDonald’s campaign in Norway, which highlighted the problem of littering in Norwegian cities. In a bold move, the ads featured photos of McDonald’s packaging discarded on the ground, alongside the message ‘Take away your take away’. Hot on the heels this campaign is Belgium’s take on the theme, created by TBWA, which puts bins...
DixonBaxi creates new branding for reopened London venue Koko
In a flurry of recent nostalgia for the heyday of ‘indie sleaze’, it seems fitting that one of London’s most prominent epicentres of that eyeliner-laden, American Apparel-bedecked ‘scene’ has just reopened: Koko. The Camden live music venue and nightspot, once known as the Camden Palace and home to indie clubbers throughout the mid-00s, has undergone a £70-million restoration (the site...
How design played a part in Labour’s win in Lewisham last week
The results of last week’s local elections in the UK painted a complex picture of the state of politics in Britain, revealing significant shifts and surprises but little sense of a clearcut direction of travel. This was not the case in the London borough of Lewisham, however, which was soundly secured by Labour, with the party winning every seat and...
Cephas Williams launches campaign to take Black creatives to Cannes Lions
The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, which brings together advertising agencies, clients and tech companies to celebrate advertising and marketing creativity via awards, talks and networking, returns in-person this year for the first time since 2019, and as a result, despite the ongoing impact of the pandemic, it is likely to be a busy year at the event. While it...
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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards
The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...
The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards
The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...
The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards
The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...
The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards
The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...
The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards
The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...