We speak to the studio’s CEO, Carsten Wierwille, about its journey from being founder-run to becoming an Employee Ownership Trust, and how it hopes to inspire other creative businesses to do the same...
How BBC One’s new idents were made
BBC One’s new idents position the channel as the glue between us all. “We wanted to show how the channel connects us all in some way, whether you tune into BBC Breakfast each morning, EastEnders in the evening or simply tune into Eurovision once a year,” the BBC Creative team told CR. The idea of making connections led to the...
Leo Burnett India uses wall art to help educate girls about periods
Leo Burnett India has created a series of murals in remote Indian locations that aim to help educate girls about puberty and periods. The campaign, The Missing Chapter, was created with sanitary product brand Whisper (known as Always in the UK) as part of its Keep Girls in School initiative, which looks to change the fact that one in five...
D&AD awards five coveted Black Pencils in its 2022 ceremony
AD handed out its awards, which celebrate the very best creative work across advertising and design, via two digital award ceremonies which took place on May 25 and 26. Hundreds of the industry body’s much-prized Pencils (which now include Wood, Graphite, Yellow, White and Black Pencil awards as well as special categories such as Side Hustle, Future Impact and Collaborative)...
Wieden + Kennedy London hosts an exhibition of photography from Ukraine
The images featured at the agency are curated by Kateryna Radchenko, director of Odesa Photo Days Festival, who is currently working with photographers at the frontlines in Ukraine. The work is displayed on digital screens, meaning it can be regularly updated with new images from photographers on the ground. The 16 featured artists are Yurko Dyachyshyn, Andriy Lomakin, Volodymyr Petrov…...
The creative potential of 3D billboards
The humble billboard is evolving as creative uses of 3D imagery are being used to sell everything from movies to video games to sneakers. Here, Alex Wilson, ECD at brand experience agency Amplify, examines what they offer for brands...
The apps fighting food waste
In the face of both climate and financial crises, we look at how companies are harnessing technology to reduce the staggering amount of food that gets thrown away, and whether tech alone is the answer...
B&Q launches enigmatic new poster campaign
Shot by photographer James Day, who is known for his work for the New York Times, New Yorker and Wallpaper, the new B&Q ads are simple yet beautiful. Each features a mobile phone with a B&Q product bursting from it, including paint, a roll of wallpaper and a bloom of flowers. The only text accompanying this is the brand’s web...
A new exhibition spotlights Magnum photographers’ commercial work
Founded 75 years ago, Magnum Photos is steeped in photographic tradition, and its members are heralded in particular for their documentation of everyday life from multiple angles, whether seemingly mundane street scenes or highly charged warzones. Foam in Amsterdam, which is staging an exhibition of Magnum photography, is the first to admit that even the cooperative’s members rarely promote the…...
A photographic portrait of contemporary Paris
Paris is going through a period of rapid change and expansion. We talk to the photographers who are documenting this shift, who aim to show a vision of the city that reaches beyond its romanticised image...
A sticker pack of gifs for African Pidgin phrases
To mark African Union Day today (May 25), pan-African social media platform NewComma has created a sticker pack of gifs based on African phrases. The gifs are housed on Giphy, and serve to announce the integration of Giphy for the NewComma web app. Each is based on a word or phrase in Pidgin English, a mixture of English and local...
Instagram’s new identity is all about the ‘squircle’
While it hasn’t been subjected to the same level of scandal and critique as its parent company Meta (aka Facebook), the sheen seems to be wearing off social media’s one-time golden child, Instagram, as users are drawn to the less curated world of video-first platforms such as TikTok. It’s in this context that the social media giant has unveiled a...