It’s been five long years since Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album, Damn, was released. Since then, the rapper has curated and helmed the Black Panther film soundtrack, headlined Coachella and won a bunch of Grammy Awards. He has also, much to the disappointment of diehard K Dot fans, remained elusive on the prospect of another record. A semi-announcement for Lamar’s fifth...
Kendrick Lamar marks his return with a deepfake-themed music video
It’s been five long years since Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album, Damn, was released. Since then, the rapper has curated and helmed the Black Panther film soundtrack, headlined Coachella and won a bunch of Grammy Awards. He has also, much to the disappointment of diehard K Dot fans, remained elusive on the prospect of another record. A semi-announcement for Lamar’s fifth...
Kendrick Lamar marks his return with a deepfake-themed music video
It’s been five long years since Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning album, Damn, was released. Since then, the rapper has curated and helmed the Black Panther film soundtrack, headlined Coachella and won a bunch of Grammy Awards. He has also, much to the disappointment of diehard K Dot fans, remained elusive on the prospect of another record. A semi-announcement for Lamar’s fifth...
New animation The Feelings addresses mental health in frontline workers
The film is a collaboration between creative agency McCann Health, production company Jelly and animation directors Niceshit. While it takes a cutesy, singalong approach, it aims to raise awareness of the serious difficulties that emergency workers face, and how this can affect them day-to-day if they don’t seek support. Each of the characters represents some of the feelings that workers...
Patrick Osborne on pushing the boundaries of craft
We speak to the director about his recent experiments with real-time animation, and how technology more widely helps fuel his creativity...
Cossette creates new identity for the World Anti-Doping Agency
Cossette’s new identity brings a more contemporary and coherent look to WADA, which was formed in 1999 as the global regulatory body of doping-free sport. It intends to provide a unifying style to the organisation, which has an extensive network of stakeholders, from scientists to athletes, to sporting bodies and governments. To achieve this, Cossette focused its designs on “the...
Cossette creates new identity for the World Anti-Doping Agency
Cossette’s new identity brings a more contemporary and coherent look to WADA, which was formed in 1999 as the global regulatory body of doping-free sport. It intends to provide a unifying style to the organisation, which has an extensive network of stakeholders, from scientists to athletes, to sporting bodies and governments. To achieve this, Cossette focused its designs on “the...
Dancing plague afflicts the public in music video for La Jungle
Over two years into a global pandemic, you might think we were fed up of viruses by this point, but the latest video for La Jungle sees a new plague inflicted upon us, which takes the form of an insatiable need to dance. The video contains shades of the Daniels’ seminal promo for Turn Down For What by DJ Snake...
Ankorstore’s new identity blurs the lines between physical and digital retail
Founded in 2019, wholesale online marketplace Ankorstore aims to make it as easy to start a shop as making a website, providing a platform where independent retailers and brands can meet and trade. Today, it works with roughly 250,000 retailers and over 20,000 brands. The company approached Pentagram partner Angus Hyland and his team to create a new strategy and...
Ankorstore’s new identity blurs the lines between physical and digital retail
Founded in 2019, wholesale online marketplace Ankorstore aims to make it as easy to start a shop as making a website, providing a platform where independent retailers and brands can meet and trade. Today, it works with roughly 250,000 retailers and over 20,000 brands. The company approached Pentagram partner Angus Hyland and his team to create a new strategy and...
Why the creative industry needs Channel 4
With the UK Government planning to privatise the 40-year-old broadcaster, CR speaks to current and former C4 employees about what makes it special, and the unique role it’s played in pioneering creativity...
New Lacoste campaign emphasises the brand’s ageless style
Created by BETC, the new campaign features unusual pairings of people, who have met by chance yet find themselves in the same outfits. A skater is shown in the same bucket hat as a little girl; a young guy is shown in the same bright pink Lacoste polo shirt as an older woman; and a man and woman exchange glances...

