Creative Review Monograph
CR says:
In June 1995 Creative Review became the ï¬?rst magazine to launch a free monthly editorial CD-Rom. Back then, CD-Rom was an exciting new publishing medium. We were able to use it to give our subscribers access to commercials, music videos, sound toys and all kinds of other interactive content. It cost a small fortune but, while we were able to ï¬?nd sponsors to help support it, the disc became a very valuable means of encouraging people to subscribe to the magazine. Now, of course, the kind of content our CD provided is ubiquitous. YouTube has a thousand times more content than all of our CDs put together and it’s completely free. What is less easy to ï¬?nd is beautifully produced printed content. Which is why we have decided to launch Monograph, a 20-page A5 booklet. Every month, subscribers will receive this new publication absolutely free.
Each month it will feature a different project or collection of creative work. The ï¬?rst issue, which went out with September’s CR, featured highlights from the poster collection of Spin creative director, Tony Brook.
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This is such a great little booklet, a good one for them to start with. You have picked my favourite spread, really love the one on the left. It actually inspired me to get a little collection together myself. I have recently bought five posters from the Netherlands, they are on their way in the post at the moment. Will share some photos when I get them.
Yeah! these posters are great. Where did you find them ?
They are from an art dealer. There are 4 posters for the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, all from the ’60s by Wim Crouwel/Total Design, and one for an annual art show called documenta. They were from the private collection of one of the previous directors of the Museum. They didn’t sell at a recent auction and I snapped them all up for an believably good price.
Some really beautiful posters in the booklet, really enjoyed looking though it. Would love to get hold of some Crouwel posters myself.