Creative Review’s writers and editors gather to discuss the burning issues in the creative industry today (plus some nice photography and illustration projects)

The CR podcast episode 1: #MeToo, protest art, Joel Meyerowitz and Chris Ware

For a special edition of the podcast, themed around Cannes Lion CR’s Eliza Williams speaks to adam&eveDDB’s Richard Brim and Leo Burnett’s Chaka Sobhani about the best ads of the year

The CR podcast episode 6: Richard Brim and Chaka Sobhani discuss Cannes Lions 2018

The CR podcast episode 9: The Guardian's Francesca Panetta on what makes a great VR experience

Gaming has often been somewhat overlooked by the cultural canon but, says Darren Wall – designer and publisher of a series of books on gaming design under the imprint Read-Only Memory – its contribution to design and popular culture is finally beginning to be acknowledged.

The CR podcast episode 10: We speak to Darren Wall who designs and publishes books about gaming

We speak to designers Anthony Burrill and Lucienne Roberts about the Design Museum's Hope to Nope show, the role of graphic design in politics and protest, and the power of visual communication.

The CR podcast episode11: Protest and political graphic design

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.

CR Podcast Episode 13: Television branding and the concept of failure

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.

The CR podcast episode 14: Making, changing and documenting places

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

The CR podcast episode 16: The 2018 Christmas ad review

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

The CR podcast episode 18: Illustrator Pete Fowler

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.

The CR podcast episode 19: Patrick Burgoyne on 20 years as Editor of CR

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

The CR podcast episode 20: Jacqui Davies on producing Richard Billingham's film Ray & Liz

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

The CR podcast episode 21: musician Tom Rowlands and filmmaker Adam Smith

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

The CR podcast episode 22: photographer Nadav Kander

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

The CR podcast episode 23: In which CR writers discuss the future

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

The CR podcast episode 24: on the value of design awards and festivals

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

The CR podcast episode 25: In conversation with puppet maker Andy Gent

The CR podcast episode 26: Droga5's David Kolbusz and Neil Heymann at Cannes Lions 2019

CR Editor Eliza Williams talks to renowned author and artist Oliver Jeffers about his creative process and the highs and lows of his career

CR podcast episode 27: The best and worst of Oliver Jeffers

This week, the CR Podcast chats with James Sadri of Led by Donkeys, talking about his best and worst moments.

The CR Podcast Episode 28: The best and worst of James Sadri of Led by Donkeys

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/2kOFV4e

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The CR Podcast Episode 29: The best and worst of photographer Sophie Ebrard

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.

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The CR Podcast Episode 30: The best and worst of the 2019 Christmas ads

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.

The CR Podcast Episode 31: The best and worst of Catherine Hyland

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.

The CR Podcast episode 32: The best and worst of Coralie Bickford-Smith

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