Creative Review articles from April 2008

Creative Review archives from April 2008

COMMENT: We're not complaining but.
April 2, 2008... Last year, Creative Review staff were lucky enough to attend conferences in Cannes, Havana, Monterrey and Goa. A few weeks ago, I was at the Design Indaba in Cape Town. Just before Xmas I met someone who organises a conference in Mar Del Plata,...

Stanley Donwood exhibition.
April 2, 2008... The artist famed for his work with Radiohead is showing an exhibition of new paintings at the Tokyo Gallery + btap A rtist Stanley Donwood will be exhibiting a series of new paintings, alongside a number of other works, at the Tokyo...

EXHIBITIONS: Optronica.
April 2, 2008... Optronica - Hybridations Sonores & Visuelles at Le Cube in Paris explores the synergy between music and visuals and includes work by Addictive TV, Brian Kane and Thomas Newton. Until July 26, optronica.org Copyright: Centaur...

EXHIBITIONS: Design & The Elastic Mind.
April 2, 2008... Design & The Elastic Mind, MoMA, New York. Excellent exhibition exploring how design can be used to help us understand conceptual advances in science. Until May 12, moma.org Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

EVENTS: Real Architecture lecture series.
April 2, 2008... Real Architecture lecture series, Tate Modern, London. Series of talks presenting new architectural projects by leading practices, including one by Herzog & de Meuron and a Building Workshop from Renzo Piano. Various dates, April 1-29....

BOOKS: Brands A-Z: Muji.
April 2, 2008... A visual history of the celebrated 'no-brand' brand Mujirushi ryohin" translates as "no brand goods" and it was with this philosophy that the Seiyu Supermarket first launched its Muji line of products in Japan in 1980. Based on the...

BOOKS: What Colour is Your World? Bob Gill.
April 2, 2008... This charming book is back in print after 40 years and it remains a beautiful evocation of the freedom in being an artist. Bob Gill of 60s design pioneers Fletcher/Forbes/Gill began writing children's books when he left the studio but you can...

BOOKS: Area_2: 100 Graphic Designers.(Bibliography)
April 2, 2008... T he curatorial premise behind Phaidon's second Area book remains as simple and as effective as the original: ask ten well-known graphic designers to pick ten studios they think have been doing the most creative work over the last five...

WEBSITES: What type of car is it?
April 2, 2008... From the evolution of a car company's logo to the corporate typeface that officially represents it, it's all on cartype.com Founder of t26 type foundry, Carlos Segura, loves cars just as much as he loves type. His website cartype.com is...

PRODUCT SHOT: Creative papers.
April 2, 2008... 1. Sirio Color E18 by Fedrigoni. fedrigonicartiere.com 2. Zanders Spectral available in 18 colours of the light spectrum. zanders.com 3. Veritas from Curtis Fine Papers comes with various unique options to ensure security such as...

FORM EXHIBITION: Marcus Tomlinson.(Brief article)
April 2, 2008... Photographer and filmmaker Marcus Tomlinson's latest exhibition is at the Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris. Form features a series of duratran images and also a film that Tomlinson worked on with London- based studio, Glassworks, which is...

ART, ADVERTISING: The Pattern of _ m _ hr - Tota Hasegawa, Tomato.
April 2, 2008... Tota Hasegawa was commissioned to create this artwork by the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo for the recent exhibition, Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art, part of a series of exhibitions at the museum that began in...

ART, ADVERTISING: Skins mailer - 4Creative.
April 2, 2008... The Original Article is a set of 82 mailers which each contain an original prop used in the making of the second series of Skins, the Channel 4 teen drama series. Sent to fans and competition winners, the props are presented in clear,...

ART, ADVERTISING: Trekinetic Wheelchairs - Ogilvy London.
April 2, 2008... Ogilvy London has created this ambient campaign for Trekinetic, a company that specialises in making all-terrain wheelchairs. With an extremely limited budget, the agency decided to target potential customers in a surprising way, by...

ADVERTISING, INTERACTIVE: VW Passat posters - Grabarz & Partner.
April 2, 2008... The VW Passat's brake assist system "makes dangers less dangerous" according to a new series of print ads created by Hamburg-based agency Grabarz & Partner. Potentially hazardous obstacles in the road are rendered as fluffy toys in a...

ADVERTISING, INTERACTIVE: Karen Alder website - Peter and Paul.(Website overview)
April 2, 2008... Sheffield-based design duo Peter and Paul have created a new web-site for make-up artist Karen Alder. As the site beautifully and simply demonstrates, Alder has worked with some of the most iconic women in showbusiness, including Kylie...

ADVERTISING, INTERACTIVE: Four Feet From A Rat comic - Mother.
April 2, 2008... Four Feet From A Rat is a new comic created by the Mother advertising agency, which will be distributed over four issues of Time Out magazine over the course of 2008. All four issues will then be published as a graphic novel at the end of...

EDITORIAL DESIGN: MAP magazine redesign - Studio8.
April 2, 2008... Matt Willey and Zoe Bather of Studio8 originally designed MAP magazine back in 2005. They were responsible for the first issue before handing over templates to MAP art director Matt Ball. To celebrate the magazine's third anniversary, Studio8...

EDITORIAL DESIGN: THE magazine - MadeThought.
April 2, 2008... The second issue of THE magazine, published quarterly by trend analysts and brand consultants The Future Laboratory, has once again been designed by MadeThought. From a clever fold-around cover, to the type- as-image standfirsts, THE exudes...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Not For Commercial Use - Build & Generation Press.
April 2, 2008... The Not For Commercial Use project came about, according to design studio Build, following "a drunken conversation about the possibilities of design in the hands of a sympathetic printer, and of print in the hands of an understanding...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Process samples - Nirvana Solutions.
April 2, 2008... Creative productions house Nirvana Solutions has commissioned a series of a5 material and process samples from 12 leading designers which it will mail to potential clients each month. The idea is to create pieces of work showing off the...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Lightness of Being - Chris Levine.
April 2, 2008... cr has covered the work of light artist Chris Levine on several occasions recently - both in the magazine and on our blog. His collaborations with Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones have led to memorable images but it is perhaps a solo...

FILM: DVNO video - Justice.
April 2, 2008... Justice's latest video, for track dvno, marks a return to the graphic styling that appeared in the band's previous promo for d.a.n.c.e, a film that saw directors Jonas and Francois walk away with the best video gong at last year's mtv Europe...

Monsters toys and flying vinyl: presenting our EStings winners for 2008.
April 2, 2008... Monsters - some scary, some kind of cute - were the big theme in what e4 head of on-air Neil Gorringe hailed as "another fantastic year for our EStings competition". Now in its fourth year, EStings once again prevailed upon CR's...

Felice Varini: Architecture as Canvas.(Biography)
April 2, 2008... Felice Varini was born in 1952 in the town of Locarno, on Lake Maggiore in the Italian speaking south of Switzerland. "I had a wonderful childhood in both town and country," he says. "On the one hand, lakes, rivers, mountains, and on the...

Andrew Diey wants your world to sound better.
April 2, 2008... We are surrounded by sounds. Sounds that tell us what to do, tell us when something is dangerous, when something is working correctly, when it's not. Much of this sonic information is absorbed subliminally, and taken for granted. In...

Troika: Simplicity, playfulness & an essential desire for provocation.
April 2, 2008... Most readers will be familiar with the buzzing sound heard in headphones or over the stereo just before a mobile phone close by starts to ring. This is the sound of electro-magnetic interference - annoying to most, but for Sebastien Noel, an...

Oi! Art ponce! Ponce this up for me!
April 2, 2008... Too many people involved in advertising have no understanding of what art direction is, the job it's meant to do or the process of doing it. As a result there is a complete lack of respect for an integral part of the advertising process. ...

DESIGN CONFERENCES: Overblown Conceptually thin with nothing to say.(Conference notes)
April 2, 2008... For anyone who loves going to design conferences, we live in remarkable times. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of them. A design conference always seems to be just starting or finishing some where in the world. It would be quite possible...

10x10 Ten streets by ten teams of architects to house 100 poor families.
April 2, 2008... Mrs Jonkers has four children. For the past ten years, like thousands of others in South Africa, she and her family have been living in a shack - in her case, in the Mitchell's Plain township near Cape Town. But by the time you read this,...

DESIGNS OF THE YEAR: A good idea.
April 2, 2008... We took three designers around the Design Museum's new Our panel: Tony Brook of design studio Spin, Simon Piehl from design consultancy Bureau for Visual Affairs and Mark Holmes from furniture design and manufacturing company...

IDENTITY DESIGN: The mouse that roared.(Reprint)
April 2, 2008... Armin Vit applauds johnson banks' playful identity work for Microsoft's new, rather cumbersome sounding awards If you've never heard of the (deep breath) Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions Creative Awards it may most likely be...