Creative Review

Coralie Bickford-Smith has had something of a double career. On the one hand she is a book cover designer with Penguin. She has been at the publisher for 17 years, working with Penguin's art director Jim Stoddart, and has created many distinctive titles for the brand, perhaps most significantly its Cloth Bound Classics series.Alongside this work, she has also written and illustrated three books. The first, The Fox and the Star, was a huge success on its release in 2015, winning the Waterstone's Book of the Year award. Bickford-Smith's books feature exquisite illustration and design, making them charming for both children and adults.With all this success, you might think Bickford-Smith's career has been a dream. Yet in her conversation with CR's editor Eliza Williams on the podcast she also discusses the difficulties she had finding her way into being a designer, and other challenges – including a dread of public speaking – that she has had to overcome along the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

In recent years, Catherine Hyland has established herself as a creator of enigmatic, often magical images that explore different communities around the world.She has twice been a winner in the Creative Review Photography Annual – initially in 2018 for her series Rise of the Mongolians (commissioned by WeTransfer), which looked at a sumo wrestling group in Mongolia, and also in 2019 for The Traces Left Behind, her ongoing project exploring the lives of a group of North Korean defectors in London.Here, she talks to Eliza Williams about getting started in photography, developing her distinctive style, and the challenges of bringing a project together when everything seems to be going wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this special edition of the CR Podcast, CR Editor Eliza Williams is joined by Associate Editor Rachael Steven and Staff Writer Aimée McLaughlin to discuss which have been their favourite Christmas spots this year, and which ones deserve to go in the dumper.Subscribe to the CR Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2kufPU4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the CR Podcast, we talk to photographer Sophie Ebrard about her creative highs and lows. Read about Sophie's photo series I Didn't Want To Be A Mum: http://bit.ly/2kOFV4eSubscribe to the CR Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2kufPU4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the CR Podcast chats with James Sadri of Led by Donkeys, talking about his best and worst moments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CR Editor Eliza Williams talks to renowned author and artist Oliver Jeffers about his creative process and the highs and lows of his career Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The CR podcast episode 26: Droga5's David Kolbusz and Neil Heymann at Cannes Lions 2019 by The Creative Review podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to puppet maker Andy Gent about working on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Fantastic Mr Fox, and how stop motion animation is in a golden age, much to his surprise and delight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a week when the D&AD Festival has seen three speakers pull out due to a row over speaker fees, we discuss the value of creative awards and festivals for the industry and beyond Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the CR podcast we discuss the feasibility of a 4-day work week, the future of personalisation and the curious case of Neil the cyborg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Nadav Kander prepares to pick up the Outstanding Contribution gong at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards later this month, we talk to him about his life in photography Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chemical Brothers are world renowned for their incredible concert visuals. We talk to the band’s Tom Rowlands and director Adam Smith about their two-decade collaboration and the importance of making imagery that moves people Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this edition of the CR Podcast, we talk to Jacqui Davies, producer of new film Ray & Liz, in which director Richard Billingham recreates his iconic photographs of his childhood as a feature film Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode CR's Eliza Williams interviews Patrick Burgoyne, who joined CR as staff writer in 1993 and has been Editor of the magazine for the past 20 years. As he steps down, he looks back on his time at CR and how publishing has changed over the years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this edition of the CR Podcast sees CR's Eliza Williams in conversation with artist Pete Fowler. We look back at Fowler's career, from his early inspirations to how the industry has changed over the past three decades Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our last episode of the year CR Editors Patrick Burgoyne, Eliza Williams and Rachael Steven look back at 2018. They talk about the creatives projects which stood out to them and discuss the trends we've seen in the creative industry this year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Christmas season is in full swing, so CR has gathered creatives Dave Buonaguidi and Richard Denney to review this year's crop of Xmas ads. As you might imagine, they take no prisoners Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CR's Eliza Williams spoke to Sagmeister about his new book On Beauty, present a compelling case for why the beautiful – which is all too often seen as something frivolous – should be at the heart of design projects Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss a few topics covered in The Place issue, an issue dedicated to how creativity is making, changing and documenting places. We discuss the changing face of Paris, travel advertising and a recent manifesto launched in Manchester which puts design at the heart of its public services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the CR podcast, Patrick Burgoyne, Eliza Williams and Rachael Steven discuss television branding in light of new identities revealed by the BBC and Channel 4 earlier this month. The team then goes on to talk about failure and overcoming creative adversity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.