Nick and Steve Tidball, the creatives behind TBWA’s floating house for Airbnb have launched an adventure clothing brand, Vollebak. Its first products, introduced with some mind altering online experiments, are a jacket designed for extreme conditions and a hoodie that claims to lower your heart rate…
Photographer and writer Alastair Philip Wiper’s new book for Bang & Olufsen offers a fascinating look at the company’s design history with 300 specially commissioned images
Beyond the obvious souvenirs, Transport for London’s licensing department has a history of supporting unusual, eclectic design projects and brand collaborations
The relationship we have with our homes and the appliances within them is changing. As more objects interact with us (and each other), it seems the house of the future is already
Branding agency MultiAdaptor has created a paper notepad and pencil that uses conductive ink to control an app for Google marketing service, Think With Google.
A new book from Moleskine surveys the work of Bob Noorda, the Dutch designer who along with Massimo Vignelli at Unimark helped pioneer the idea of the holistic brand image and the use of visual guidelines in identity projects
Department store Selfridges has teamed up with London company The Unseen to launch a collection of accessories which change colour in response to touch, heat, light, wind and air pressure. The company has also created a feather headpiece for a star sign-themed window display at the shop’s Oxford Street branch
Fans of print and vinyl would be wise to spend some time over at the Future Artefacts fair, which is being held in Shoreditch, London this weekend. But make no mistake, this is not an event for Luddites looking back longingly at the analogue age, but instead a celebration of how the physical object still has a place in our digital world…
Fans of Wagamama can now enjoy the restaurant’s Japanese-inspired cuisine as a takeaway. The packaging for the range, designed by creative agency Pearlfisher, comes in a series of stackable bowls
The Barbican’s new Charles and Ray Eames retrospective offers a fascinating look at the Eames’ visual communications and moving image work as well as their furniture and exhibition design. We pick out ten things to see, from slideshows to letters, sketches and magazine covers…
Kvadrat has become one of the most sought after names in textiles, thanks to the quality of its products and its collaborative approach with artists and designers. In our current ‘home’ issue, we talk to the company and studio Graphic Thought Facility about bringing its Danish sensibility to a wider audience
In this extract from our October issue, we take a look at how research into the changing way we live is inspiring Ikea’s new products – plus how the brand is hoping to refresh its image by working with fashion designers and social enterprises
The director reflects on the connection between his darkly personal photography work and his commercial films, and how the former has enriched his wider practice
Founder and creative director Christina Worner talks to CR about the motivations behind setting up the design studio and what she’s doing to creative a supportive environment for anyone who works with them
The purpose of brand strategy is to provide brands with direction and meaning. So why are agencies and marketers so eager to keep brands open-ended?
Two new typefaces promise a more digitally-friendly brand presence, visual cohesion, and legibility
We speak to Duolingo’s global head of social media Katherine Chan about managing the team behind its lauded social strategy and how people’s perceptions of brands are shifting in the era of individual clout
We talk to co-founder Fernando Musa about how the network is evolving with age, plus how he balances his unusual dual roles as chairman at David and CEO at Ogilvy Brazil
The mixed media ad by AMV BBDO illustrates how a lack of knowledge about periods can be a lifelong issue
CR speaks to Teemu Suviala, global chief creative officer at Landor, about how Harris is cutting through the political noise, and what lessons brands can take from her bold approach