30th March 2010
The new look Creative Review (yoinked from CR's post - get their side of the story there...)
Last month, every designers favourite magazine and monthly news source, Creative Review celebrated its 30th year in print. To celebrate this milestone, the CR team decided to give the whole magazine a refresh. The new creative review is smaller in size, thicker in stock and for the first time in a long time, chock full of articles that aren’t just a summation of the past month’s blog posts.
Over the last 6-12 months, i’ve personally (and it’s been pretty much the same feeling for everyone in the Manifest studio) thought that each month’s Creative Reviews have been disappointing. Nothing we can’t and haven’t seen on Aisle One, It’s Nice That and FormFiftyFive. The new CR changes that and with the better, smaller format (to paraphrase CR Editor Patrick Burgoyne) gives a sense of permanence and provides what print alone can do. Seriously, you need to pick one up to truly appreciate it.
My one gripe is the logo. Is it a bit too zeitgeist? A bit too cool and now? Or is that the point? It’s certainly not what they were aiming before with Franklin (although at the time, everyone was using geometrics & gothic fonts). It seems a bit… last minute.
Get the full low down on the redesign here and then get yourself subscribed.
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I agree on the staleness of CR for the last 12 months, I just cant get to grips with this logo its too Penguin Books circa 1984 for my liking.
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