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Edinburgh City Council’s deputy leader vows to put measures in place to prevent overcrowding at free events at the city’s Fringe. Read the original article on the BBC

The likes of Stella Vine, Damien Hirst, Rankin and Stephen Wiltshire (whose view of London is shown above) have all donated work for SpectrumArt 2009, an auction to raise funds for the Cornish charity working with those affected by autistic spectrum disorders Spectrum was formed in 1982 – originally as the Devon and Cornwall Autistic [...]

Last week saw CR stage our first event in Asia – Click Singapore, which brought together speakers from China, Japan, the UK and the host country to discuss the future of digital creativity Staged at Dempsey House – part of what was once a British Army barracks but that is now a complex of restaurants, [...]

This week, we want to know how you go about charging for your creative work… Tim Fendley, creative director at AIG, recalled the late Alan Fletcher’s advice on how to charge clients on the CR Blog in 2006: “Think of the right number and then double it. If the client doesn’t have a sharp intake [...]

Last week we put up a new PSA warning against drug driving on the CR blog, and remarked on the subtle approach used in the campaign, which avoided gruesome car crash scenes. By contrast, this PSA from Gwent Police, which illustrates the dangers of texting while driving, pulls no such punches.   The film, which [...]

This project was uploaded to our FEED section but we wanted to flag it up here on the blog too…  Plush toy maker Felt Mistress created stuffed, felt, plush versions of artist Jon Burgerman‘s Brooklyn Hipster characters and has taken photos of each of them for her Flickr page. The detail is wonderful so we [...]

Artist Rooms is Britain’s newest and best collection of contemporary work – and it is currently in galleries across the nation from Stromness to St Ives Dazed after leaving London first thing in the morning and landing before noon on an island that seems more Scandinavian than British, I ask the taxi driver taking me [...]

Objections to companies curating their own art exhibitions ring false – we’ve long been happy for big business to buoy up the art world The US’s high-brow newspapers do seem to live on a planet of their own. An article in the New York Times this week meditates on what it identifies as a new [...]

We seem to have relapsed into the asinine stylistic debate of the 80s. It should be about what we build, for whom and why This summer’s hullabaloo over the Prince of Wales’s latest architectural interventions may be seen as good, knockabout silly season stuff, and yet it is also depressing. Why? Because all this chatter [...]

There are more images of individuals around now than in any other point in history, yet portraiture has nothing to do with contemporary art Why does mention of portraiture make me snort with derision? For the sitter, to have one’s portrait painted is to indulge in a preposterous bit of self-aggrandisement, while to be a [...]