Creative Review articles from April 2005

Creative Review archives from April 2005

EDITORIAL.(Editorial)
April 6, 2005... First it was Leo Burnett, then Grey, followed by McCann Erickson. One by one, the advertising world's big boys have finally realised that there is no future in mass producing dull, predictable work for dull predictable clients. As...

Letter: Digital Ideas Open to All.(Letter to the Editor)
April 6, 2005... I enjoyed the piece wondering where advertising would be without design [February]. I have always been very puzzled by how protective traditional (advertising) creative teams are with their ideas, or more importantly, where their ideas came...

Letter: Recycle Your Phones Here.(Letter to the Editor)
April 6, 2005... As a representative of leading recycling company Eurosource, I was delighted to be part of the recent Red Nose Day Recycling Appeal launch. Eurosource has pledged to recycle old mobile phones and empty inkjet printer cartridges to raise funds...

Letter: Job Centres Don't Understand Us.(Letter to the Editor)
April 6, 2005... I am a recent graduate of a visual communication degree and, like many others, am now working my way through placement after placement eventually hoping to get enough experience to land myself a job in the industry. Sometimes I'm lucky enough...

Saville's No to New Order.(Peter Saville)
April 6, 2005... Peter Saville talks fondly of Factory, the unique environment where he created some of his best covers for bands Joy Division and New Order. "That organisation, or disorganisation, lasted 14 years with no profit- oriented agenda... We were a...

Designs on a Charitable Cause.(Book Review)
April 6, 2005... In a mere two and a half months, an initial conversation about creating a book to help raise money for the tsunami relief effort in Asia has become reality. (A Book) Designed to Help aims to do exactly that. As a result of the...

Call for entries.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... Absolut Vodka built a real igloo in Manchester; Mircrosoft covered Manhattan with butterflies; Adidas suspended two footballers high above the streets of Tokyo for a spectacular game of football. Whether you consider these campaigns to be...

The Curse Continues.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... In December 2001, Creative Review reported on The Cursing Stone of Carlisle, a sculpture bearing a 700 year-old curse, issued by the then Archbishop of Glasgow against the Border Reivers. The Reivers were warring clans and families living on...

One To Watch: Sanderson Bob.(Biography)
April 6, 2005... Sanderson Bob is Bob Sanderson: a one-man studio run by a former designer and art director at The Designers Republic. "I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do after TDR," says Sanderson. "I decided to leave my job and found myself dancing...

I Toppled The - Bravery's Dominoes.(Interview)
April 6, 2005... New York band The Bravery's video for their debut single, Honest Mistake, features a spectacular domino-toppling sequence. Gavin Lucas speaks to champion toppler, Robert Speca who made it happen CR: Your specialist skill is toppling...

Process: Posters for Golden Wonder.(Golden Wonder Ltd.)
April 6, 2005... JWT creative team Hugh Todd and Adam Scholes take us through the creation of their copy-free posters for Golden Wonder, from initial brief to final artwork THE BRIEF "Golden Wonder approached us with a brief to launch a new product:...

A Life in Type (part one).(Interview)
April 6, 2005... Matthew Carter is the world's leading type designer. In the apt setting of the St Bride Printing Library, editorial designer Simon Esterson talks to him about his 50 years in the industry. Continued next month Simon Esterson: You are one...

Words & pictures.
April 6, 2005... New book, Graphic Poetry, features a series of visual interpretations of the work of modern poets. Does this engender a richer, deeper experience, or does it simply make the poems hard to read? asks Paula Carson "The word illustrate...

The Big One.
April 6, 2005... Cape Town's Design Indaba continues to attract speakers of the highest calibre From humble origins, Cape Town's Design Indaba has established itself as the world's hot design conference to speak at. Previous invitees, enthused by their...

Competitions: Creative Futures.
April 6, 2005... Creative Review wants to give young talent the chance to shine in our Creative Futures scheme. We are looking for the most talented young people from ten categories in visual communications. Our panel of leading creative industry figures will...

Competitions: Mirrorball Tenth Anniversary.
April 6, 2005... The Edinburgh International Film Festival's music video and commercials stream is seeking submissions for this year's event - its tenth anniversary. Work may be submitted on either VHS or DVD. For full details, see www.edfilmfest.org.uk ...

Competitions: Feed.
April 6, 2005... Creative Review and Digit want your ideas on how interactive design can be freed from the computer screen and integrated into everyday lives. How can you improve an interface or product by incorporating intelligent use of technology? The...

More Than a Beauty Show?(Association Of Photographers)
April 6, 2005... In attempting to represent the best in contemporary photography, the AOP Awards have much to compete with, says Mark Reddy What is the role of the Association Of Photographers? It is obviously a forum to discuss, advise and aid the...

Pick of the month: Ashes and Snow Nomadic Museum.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... From the outside it looks like a container depot, but in reality it is an extremely innovative gallery space. Ashes and Snow is a travelling exhibition of photographs by Gregory Colbert. To house it, Colbert commissioned Japanese architect...

Pick of the month: French Connection campaign.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... French Connection's dwindling sales are forcing the brand to take a different tack. Hence these soft, squishy landscape posters, with slingbacks doubling up as birds and butterflies and green frilly knickers as rolling fields: so much...

Pick of the month: Complacency Kills by Joe Sacco.(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... The Iraq war heralded a new reportage style that was in its infancy during the 1990 Gulf war: TV journalists embedded within frontline battalions. Armed with pen and ink, comic book artist Joe Sacco's approach to reportage is naturally a more...

Pick of the month: Jamie's School Dinners.
April 6, 2005... (Fresh One Productions/Channel 4 Television) Watching Jamie Oliver sweat as he forces veg down the throats of 21,000 ungrateful schools kids is compulsive TV. Scenes of kids quailing at the sight of asparagus spears mingle with Oliver...

Pick of the month: Live ads.
April 6, 2005... Theatre producer Adam Spiegel inspired the name The Worst Fucking Idea I've Ever Heard In My Life: a night of live theatre and, uniquely, live ads, performed in aid of Comic Relief. Agency Leo Burnett teamed up with the producers of musical...

Pick of the month: Ready-Made Ads.(expenditures for television advertising)(Brief Article)
April 6, 2005... Advertising is an expensive business. Many smaller companies simply don't have the funds to compete. Thanks to an idea from director Herman Poppelaars and Ewoudt Boonstra at KesselsKramer however, a mere E499 can buy you a ready-made TV ad....