Gradwatch is back – and we want to see your work!
Our annual showcase of the best graduate talent is returning in 2025. Send us your work by July 11 for the chance to be featured by Creative Review
Building real community at SXSW London
Setting up Shop, a corner shop turned events space from Sparks agency and streaming channel GenBTV, managed to cut through the noise during SXSW London’s festival last week
The beautiful and brutal world of title design
Title design is in decline, though remains a powerful way of engaging audiences in film and TV. We talk to designer and filmmaker Filipe Carvalho about how the industry has evolved in the past two decades
Exposure: Lindsay Perryman
Working across photography and film, Perryman explores the complexity of identity and the Trans experience, making work that is “a gesture of love and care for their community”
Brooklyn Film Festival wants you to ditch your devices
Otherway’s new identity, positioning and campaign for the film organisation invites audiences to stop scrolling and start engaging
Mubi’s debut book is an ode to lettering in film
The global streaming, distribution and production company is adding to its growing offering with a new publishing arm, starting with an intricately designed book on type and lettering on screen
Are we witnessing the return of the inventive TV ad?
There has been a flurry of recent commercials that demonstrate that creativity in TV ads seems to be returning. Though they all have a noughties vibe too … why, asks Ben Kay
D&AD reveals the award-winning work for 2025
This year three Black Pencils were awarded to the design of the Paris 2024 Olympics, a surrealist music video for A$AP Rocky and an Excel spreadsheet-coded animation for Spotify
Story time: Why luxury brands are entertaining us
From Saint Laurent to the LVMH family, luxury brands and fashion houses are developing their own ‘prestige’ entertainment as part of a new wave of film-making
Birmingham Design Festival returns with a playful focus for 2025
The event’s seventh edition explores the theme of Play, with talks from the likes of Studio Dumbar’s Liza Enebeis, Chris Clarke from The Guardian and Aardman creative director Merlin Crossingham
Dougal Wilson creates silent films for Telstra
The Paddington director has shot a trio of black and white shorts asking cinemagoers to put their phones on silent
On and Zendaya team up on entertaining fake trailer
The Swiss sports brand’s latest ad stars the actor in an imaginary trailer directed by Nadia Lee Cohen for a make-believe film
Why creativity and crisis are inextricably linked
The process of creating something new is fraught with failure, doubt and often despair. But, take heart, for this is all part of the journey to getting the job done, says Richard Holman
Is it time to ditch the industry jargon?
Language has the power to create connections, but in the workplace it can just as easily build barriers. Is it time to ‘circle back’ and throw out the confusing language, asks Wonderhatch’s Penny Harrison
London Soundtrack Festival identity celebrates sound in motion
Baxter and Bailey created the branding for the new annual festival, which honours the art of the soundtrack across film, television and games
Channel 5’s brand refresh highlights its role in the cultural conversation
The public service broadcaster’s relaunch as 5 brings its linear and streaming offerings under a single brand for the first time, and is accompanied by its largest ever marketing push
Nils Leonard on cementing Uncommon’s legacy
Nils Leonard reflects on Uncommon Creative Studio’s expansion since joining Havas and how talent, and a wide variety of projects, from advertising to art to filmmaking, make the agency unique
Plains of Yonder on pushing the boundaries of title design
The two-person studio behind the White Lotus’ cult title sequences discuss what it takes to arrest audiences in the era of short attention spans
How animation can help us comprehend war
A new programme of films at the Barbican in London aims to showcase how animation can be used to “circumvent our defences” in thinking about war
Inside a changing production industry
We examine the current turbulence within commercial production companies now that the glory years of glossy film ads have come to an end
The community celebrating Welsh creativity
Clwb Creative Cymru is platforming Welsh creatives and fostering links across borders through a series of events, including a forthcoming showcase in London
The unstoppable force of Shadrinsky
We go behind the scenes with the creative duo that are bringing humour, absurdity and death-defying stunts into luxury fashion
Secret Cinema is offering its secret sauce to brands
The entertainment company has spent almost two decades bringing movie magic into the real world through immersive screenings. With the launch of a new studio serving commercial clients, can it do the same for brands?
How Martin Parr changed the way we see
Lee Shulman’s new documentary, I Am Martin Parr, offers a glimpse into the famously enigmatic imagemaker’s world and considers what his legacy will be