Perhaps the future, instead of being an unrecognisable place full of magic and wonder, is actually already here?...
Ragged Edge unveils sci-fi-style identity for Circa5000
Ragged Edge has renamed the business, which was previously known as Tickr, and produced branding that “reimagines an evil futurecorp as a force for positive change”. As the studio explains it: “It’s too late for business as usual, and it’s too late for another generic fintech brand.” Circa5000 originally launched in 2018 to offer a more ethical, planet-friendly investment platform....
Is it still possible for creatives to sell out?
“We’ve been trying to sell out for years. Nobody’s buying,” Jerry Garcia famously said. With increasing collaborations between artists and ‘the establishment’ is the notion of selling out obsolete? And did it ever even exist in the first place?...
Puppet models take to the catwalk in Vestiaire Collective’s new campaign
Vestiaire Collective’s new campaign film opens much as you’d expect any high fashion runway show to. Look a little closer, however, and you’ll find that the usual catwalk model suspects have been replaced by a collective of fashionable puppets, which are made entirely from pre-loved clothes. Created by Droga5 London, the campaign and its group of stylish sewn stars set...
Martin Parr brings his football fan photography to London’s Oof Gallery
Parr has spent decades photographing football, though turning his camera away from the pitch and onto the fans. According to Oof – the football mag that runs Oof Gallery – the show captures people “celebrating, commiserating, or just meditatively lost in the moment of following their team”. The exhibition features black and white images shot in Halifax, Hartlepool and Portsmouth…...
Martin Parr brings his football fan photography to London’s Oof Gallery
Parr has spent decades photographing football, though turning his camera away from the pitch and onto the fans. According to Oof – the football mag that runs Oof Gallery – the show captures people “celebrating, commiserating, or just meditatively lost in the moment of following their team”. The exhibition features black and white images shot in Halifax, Hartlepool and Portsmouth…...
Ace & Tate has launched a sunglasses campaign … with no shades
It’s a bold move for an eyewear business to create an ad campaign featuring absolutely no specs or shades, but the campaign is surprisingly evocative. It features pleasingly unretouched portraits of people screwing up their eyes as they’re caught in a beam of sunlight, accompanied by a simple tagline: Bring on the sun. Base Design’s partner and ECD Thierry Brunfaut...
Joni Majer’s minimal artworks are a celebration of nature
If you’re passing through London in the next month and have some plants to spare, it’s all the more reason to stop by Joni Majer’s new exhibition, I Came to Shake your Plant, hosted by Pocko Gallery. The Berlin-born artist is inviting visitors to take part in an exchange: bring a plant to display in the gallery and take away...
The unseen future of beauty
Lauren Bowker has been pushing the boundaries of materials for almost two decades, surprising and delighting audiences as she goes. Now, she’s turning her attention to the notoriously slow-moving beauty industry with her first direct-to-consumer brand...
Join our webinar on digital product design
Creative Review is hosting a webinar in partnership with Figma on March 29 at 11am BST, where we will discuss why design is vital to better brand success in the digital space. From Uber to Airbnb to Monzo, disruptive digital-first businesses have prompted a total rethink of how we engage with products, services and activities on a daily basis. The...
Duolingo wants to fix your dodgy foreign language tattoo
Launched just in time for World Tattoo Day on March 21, #TattooDuoOver has big ambitions to translate every single foreign language tattoo shared with Duolingo over the course of the next two weeks. Duolingo has launched the campaign with a playful film – created by BETC Paris and directed by Pierre Edouard Joubert – affectionately mocking anyone who’s ever decided...
Photographer Max Hayter explores the tension between city and country
Having spent much of his 20s “doing floristry, and furniture design, and waitering, and all sorts of bits and bobs”, Max Hayter realised that what he really loved was making images. “I never really knew it was a career,” he tells CR. Hayter started assisting fashion photographer Oliver Hadlee-Pearch, and a year in, just as Covid hit, he began thinking...