Creative Review articles from August 2007

Creative Review archives from August 2007

EDITORIAL: July 2007.(Editorial)
August 2, 2007... Our extended A Month In The Life feature this month will, I hope, be the first in a series taking a detailed look at the lives of creative practitioners. Making work is a collaborative process so, although the piece is brought together under...

Coke Returns to Real Thing.
August 2, 2007... No more bubbles, no more drop shadows, no more extraneous detail: Coca- Cola has just unveiled a redesign of its famous can that heralds a major change in direction. Designed by Turner Duckworth, it is the first significant work to come...

PROFILE: Nathan Gale.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Creative Review is very sad to announce the departure of our art director, Nathan Gale. Nathan is moving to the West Country to concentrate on his own design studio, www.intercitydesign.com. Everybody at the magazine would like to wish him the...

Diesel Faces the Future.
August 2, 2007... Diesel is set to turn 30 next year. It seems that the fashion brand has already started celebrating, with a new advertising campaign shot by photographer Johan Renck launching this month on the back of a successful Spring/Summer 08 fashion...

MTV Goes In-House.
August 2, 2007... MTV UK and Ireland unveils a re-brand this month based around a family of characters created by Norwegian illustrator, Kim Hiorthoy, through This Is Real Art. Each of the five MTV channels - MTV1, MTV2, Base, Dance and Hits - has its...

Living for the City.
August 2, 2007... Overcrowding never looked so attractive. Appearing as part of the Tate Modern's current exhibition, Global Cities, which is on display in the gallery's vast Turbine Hall, is a series of intriguing "density models". The plywood...

Pearson's Language of Love.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Following its previous series Great Ideas and Great Journeys, Penguin Books has released a new selection, this time on the theme Great Loves, which includes 20 titles from authors including Virgil, Casanova, Hardy and Freud. The covers were...

One to watch: Forever Studio.
August 2, 2007... New creative start-up, Forever Studio, are so fresh that when they invited Creative Review to come and see them in their bright, south- facing studio off London's Southwark Street, they didn't actually have any work to show us. However, the...

I built the Sony HD carwash.(Interview)
August 2, 2007... Sony HD promises "high definition like no other" in new spot, HD experiment, shot by Pleix, in which a boufant poodle has a surreal valeting experience. we spoke to Artem SFX Supervisor Simon Tayler about building the set and clefting...

A month in the life of...Build.
August 2, 2007... This month's Creative Review is something of an experiment, the first in what we hope will be a series of special features taking an in-depth look at the day-to-day work of our readers. In future issues, we hope to look at the lives of...

Influences: Underground Magazine.
August 2, 2007... Underground ran for only five years, but it had a long-standing influence. We catch up with its designer Rod Clark CR: Could you explain what Underground was and who did it? RC: Underground was published by Eric Fuller (Sounds and...

Collaborator: Common-Wealth.
August 2, 2007... New York's Commonwealth enjoy collaborating with some of graphic design's brightest talent to create unique objects Zoe Coombes and her husband Francisco David Boira have been running their New York studio Commonwealth for just over one...

Recommended: Timothy Saccenti.
August 2, 2007... New York-based photographer Timothy Saccenti made his name documenting the Downtown music scene Photographer Timothy Saccenti's love of music has led him to specialise in creating portraits of recording artists such as Beans and James...

IN BRIEF: Rejected.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Every creative has a collection of treasured projects that failed to get past the client. For Build, one such rejected favourite was a series of press ads created to promote Channel 4's factual stream of programming. Build was asked to...

Collaborator: Generation Press.(Interview)
August 2, 2007... The relationship between printer and designer is a key, if fractious, one. We talk to GP's Paul Hewitt about managing it CR: What are the most important factors in creating a good working relationship between designer and printer? PH: To...

Partner: Nicola Place.
August 2, 2007... So what about the business side? Nicola Place reveals how Build approach some common concerns for design studios When Michael started the "A Month In The Life Of..." feature for this issue, a teaser was posted on the CR Blog which sparked...

Hmmm... Interesting.
August 2, 2007... Attending a conference where you have no idea what might happen involves a considerable act of faith, but Rob Mortimer is glad he took the risk It's extremely rare for people to attend an event where they have almost no idea what will...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Kwik-E-Marts.
August 2, 2007... To promote the forthcoming Simpsons Movie, 12 7-Eleven stores (11 in the US and one in Canada) have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, the local Springfield one-stop-shop owned by the charming Apu Nahasapeemapetilon in the cartoon series....

PICK OF THE MONTH: The Grand Tour.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Design consultancy The Partners is behind this innovative method of promoting the artistic wonders that lie within the walls of London's National Gallery. Instead of trying to lure people into the museum, the museum has been brought to the...

PICK OF THE MONTH: 4C.
August 2, 2007... 4C is a rather fine collection of work from a host of emerging creative talent: the result of a collaboration between Gum, Saatchi & Saatchi's global content division, and Cult-Geist, the creative network and cultural research company. The...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Be long a part.
August 2, 2007... Photographer Helga Steppan's new exhibition, Be long a part, is currently on show at the Man&Eve gallery in London. Alongside installation and moving image work Steppan is showing a series of fantastic images of her personal belongings...

BOOK REVIEW: The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... The essence of Jim Flora's art is referred to as "jazz music on paper" in this second collection of sketches, paintings, prints and magazine illustrations. These "lost works" were recently discovered in Flora's archives by author Irwin...

BOOK REVIEW: The Little Know-It-All.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... This compact volume packs an awful lot of information for designers into its 350 pages. Essentially a manual filled with the fundamentals of design practice, The Little Know-It-All looks to be an extremely useful guide for both students and...

BOOK REVIEW: Supersonic.(Book review)
August 2, 2007... This book can be seen as a big V sign to those who have mourned the death of the record sleeve in the face of the cold and deathly stare of digital music. Graphic design for music is still very much alive and Supersonic is a timely celebration...

BOOK REVIEW: Living Jewels 2.(Brief article)
August 2, 2007... Poul Beckmann's sequel to his previous Living Jewels book on beetles is in no sense a departure (seeing as there are over 330,000 species on our planet, it will take a fair few editions to chart them all). But Beckmann has again whittled his...

BOOK REVIEW: I'm A Real Photographer.(Book review)
August 2, 2007... Born in 1930, Keith Arnatt was effectively a conceptual artist up until the mid 1970s when he turned to photography. This book is the first comprehensive look at his art and includes 19 series of works, from 1974-2002: 160 images in total....