This year, the UK’s monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates her Platinum Jubilee – marking seven decades of her rule. It’s the third Jubilee enjoyed by the Queen, with other milestones including the Silver Jubilee in 1977 marking 25 years on the throne, Gold in 2002 for 50 years, and Diamond in 2012 for 60 years. She’s the first monarch to...
Metamorphic dancers take flight in HAAi’s music video
Electronic music producer and DJ HAAi has released a new music video for Baby, We’re Ascending, a euphoric track created with Jon Hopkins taken from her introspective debut album of the same name. The dancing figures at the centre of the music video have a mythological feel to them, owing to their part-bird, part-human appearance, as well as the way...
How CEOs make an agency creative
We chat to CEOs Chris Kay at Saatchi & Saatchi and Ajaz Ahmed at AKQA about what it means to drive forward creativity at top agencies — and how they balance that with the ‘business’ side ...
New exhibition at the Modernist gallery finds life in old slide film
Out of Time is a project devised for the Manchester Modernist Society by Bill Mather, after he stumbled upon a stash of slide films from the 1970s discarded in a haberdashery shop in Timperley, Greater Manchester. “Sometimes you go looking for one thing and you find another,” says Mather. “I found these slide films in a bag under some polyester...
Dionne Kitching on why play is better than perfectionism
The Manchester-based artist tells CR how embracing the element of chance, and stopping the endless quest for perfection, restored her love of illustration and gave her work a new lease of life...
CNET’s new identity is inspired by the golden era of journalism
Since launching in 1994, US media brand CNET (an abbreviation of Computer Network) has become a trusted source for reporting and advice on all things related to technology and digital culture. As tech has evolved over the last two decades to influence almost every aspect our lives, the media company decided to expand its coverage and advice to what matters...
Why Ustwo became employee owned
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...

