Creative Review articles from December 2004

Creative Review archives from December 2004

EDITORIAL: BRAND BUSH WINS.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... There has been a good deal of hand-wringing in the design community following George Bush's Presidential Election victory. Some design noticeboards online have even contained discussions over whether the fact that Kerry didn't have a very good...

Letter: A WASTED TRIP.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Following the article in Creative Review [Seen, CR Nov], I decided to visit the Communicate exhibition at the Barbican. As the managing director of a design consultancy, I could hardly not go and visit an exhibition featuring the work of the...

Letter: HALF-BAKED CLIENT.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Forget Jonathan Ive, forget Steve Jobs. My design hero is the genius at Williams Murray Hamm who conceived the truly wonderful Jaffa Cakes packaging. And now those half baked people at UB have ordered a redesign [Pick of the Month, CR Nov]....

Letter: CARTY GOT IT RIGHT.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Reading the Home Game article [Whose ad is it anyway?, CR Nov], I must say, I didn't have a great deal of sympathy for Carty. You're doing work for a client and if they want it done a certain way then just make compromises and get it done....

Letter: THE WORD IS TYPEFACE.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Re the Comic Sans debate [CR Sept and Letters passim]: With the ongoing debate on whether there is an appropriate time to use Comic Sans, it seems to have slipped everyone's attention that the correct term is "typeface" and not "font" (in...

A STEP BACK IN TIME FOR NIKE.
December 1, 2004... In Retro Basket, a new print and poster campaign for Nike, DDB Paris employed the talents of eight illustrators and graphic artists, including three of the UK's most notable practitioners: Paul Davis, Julie Verhoeven and Billie Jean. The...

GRAFFITI CARPET BURNERS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... No, your eyes do not deceive you: several artists, including graffiti heroes Delta and Stash, have designed a selection of, yes, rugs. These woollen incarnations of graff and logo-style designs were recently exhibited at central London...

Winter Festival.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Following on from its successful summer event (CR July) the Central Illustration Agency is staging a Winter Festival in the courtyard of the City of London's Royal Exchange. From 6 December to 6 January, the work of 16 illustrators represented...

NEW TALENT HAS E4 STING IN TAIL.
December 1, 2004... "Once again, we have been massively impressed by the quality of entries. It just goes to show the amount of hidden, unrecognised talent there is out there," says E4 head of marketing Rufus Radcliffe about this year's E STINGS competition,...

ONE TO WATCH: MEGUMU KASUGA (YIELD).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... In an increasingly monocultural world, Japanese graphic design retains a welcome otherness. We first came across the work of Megumu Kasuga when he was at the Royal College of Art in 2001. At his graduation show, Kasuga exhibited Links, a...

WE WROTE THE HATE SONG.(Interview)
December 1, 2004... HONDA'S "HATE SOMETHING CHANGE SOMETHING" COMMERCIAL (KNOWN OFFICIALLY AS GRRR) IS ACCOMPANIED BY A RATHER CATCHY SONG. GAVIN LUCAS ASKS SEAN THOMPSON, ONE OF ITS THREE WRITERS, HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT CR: Is it true that the premise for...

POKE.
December 1, 2004... IN THE LATEST OF OUR SERIES OF STUDIO PROFILES WE FEATURE POKE, THEIR WORK, THE STUDIO THEY DO IT IN AND THE KIT USED TO MAKE IT. BY MARK SINCLAIR Three years ago, the founder members of a new, as yet unnamed digital design agency met...

STILL SOLVING PROBLEMS.(Royal designer for industry)(Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)
December 1, 2004... PEARCE MARCHBANK HAS JUST JOINED THE DISTINGUISHED RANKS OF THE RDI. GRAHAM VICKERS REVEALS WHAT GOT HIM THERE When Britain's best-known royal gongs are awarded, they rarely tend to go to designers. The men in suits who recommend...

A PABLO FERRO FEATURE.
December 1, 2004... STANLEY KUBRICK CALLED HIM A GENIUS: FOR OVER 40 YEARS HIS FILM TITLES, COMMERCIALS AND GRAPHICS HAVE BROKEN NEW CREATIVE GROUND. HELEN WALTERS MEETS PABLO FERRO Having a good idea is the greatest feeling in the world. It's better than...

HALF EMPTY, OR HALF FULL?
December 1, 2004... STRICTER ALCOHOL AD RULES MAY MEAN BETTER WORK. BY PAULA CARSON Some of the best advertising ever produced in the UK has been for alcohol clients. "In the much less fitness-obsessed, less abstemious days when I started in the business,"...

THE CLIP ART CRITIC.(Get Your War II)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Helen Walters on US political cartoonist David Rees' new book Before the recent American presidential election, David Rees promised that should John Kerry be elected, he would promptly stop making his satirical cartoon strip, Get Your War...

A SENSE OF PLACE.(GraficEurope 2004)
December 1, 2004... Paula Carson is pleasantly surprised by this year's GraficEurope In my experience, design conferences are usually a bit of a let-down. There's loads of potential - all that cutting-edge talent piled into one venue - but nothing terribly...

COMPETITION CORNER: THE ANNUAL.
December 1, 2004... Creative Review is now accepting entries for The Annual, our showcase of the best work of 2004 in advertising, graphic design, music videos, new media, illustration and photography from Britain and beyond. For more information, email...

COMPETITION CORNER: THE NEW MUSIC AWARD.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The Performing Rights Society has launched a #50,000 award for the creation of new music in the UK. Anyone can enter, from any discipline. The #50,000 is not a cash prize but will, in effect, go towards the creation and performance of a new...

COMPETITION CORNER: D&AD STUDENT AWARDS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Design in-store graphics to make Topshop THE top shop; Repackage The Sanctuary beautifully in steel; Invent an interactive installation for the new Wembley stadium; Write a snappy radio ad for Snappy Snaps; Or answer any one of the 29 briefs...

ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGNS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM AMV.BBDO, BARTLE BOGLE HEGARTY, EURO RSCG, LONDON Recent anti-smoking ads have prompted an estimated 32 per cent of attempts to kick the habit. That's one million people; 11 per cent more than GPs managed to persuade. How? A...

SMOKING JACKETS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM SMOKING JACKET Meanwhile... busily trying to undo all the good work on the part of anti-smoking organisations is this nifty product from new company, Smoking Jacket. As the name implies, it's a simple cardboard package that you...

MOTHER TOILETS ILLUSTRATION.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM IAN STEVENSON Toilet scribblings are a truly unique medium with efforts ranging from the wise and insightful to the deranged and obscene. Pub regulars can exchange witticisms on the walls, pride in their football team via a cubicle...

AMERICA (THE BOOK).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM PENTAGRAM NEW YORK The Daily Show on the Comedy Central channel in the US is an Emmy-award winning news parody presented by comedian Jon Stewart. It's a quick- witted, satirical look at contemporary American culture and this new...

SOCK.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM DUCKWORTH FINN GRUBB WATERS Fed up with spending loads of cash on awards schemes and not winning anything, advertising agency DFGW decided to spend the money on something else - a short film. The film is about two struggling actors,...

LIFE ON BOARD PROJECT.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FROM MVBMS FUEL EUROPE, AMSTERDAM After a spoof documentary and a short film with Robert Downey Jr (CR April 04) Volvo and Fuel Europe continue their efforts to take the car brand into more "emotional" territory with the Life On Board...

REVIEW: THE BEST OF NEWSPAPER DESIGN.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Rockport, #34.99 For a supposedly "international" newspaper design competition, it might be considered a little strange to give 564 awards to publications from the US, while handing out a mere 390 to publications from the rest of the...

REVIEW: EARTHSONG.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Phaidon, #35 When the daily stresses of city life become too much to bear, this huge book would be useful to have to hand, or rather, have open on a nearby desk. Capturing the most beautiful unspoilt areas of the planet, Earthsong...

REVIEW: PARIS IN STORE.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Thames & Hudson, #12.95 From the title and front cover, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this book was a collection of pictures of chic Parisien boutiques. Flick through the pages, however, and it soon becomes apparent that the Paris...

REVIEW: MATCHIBAKO.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Mark Batty, #8.99 As Japan moved towards being a industrialised power in the early part of the twentieth century, the influence of Western culture and economic values on its traditions could be seen in even the smallest of commercial...

REVIEW: THE 1970S SCRAPBOOK.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Pi Global Publishing, #14.95 Wotsits, Hula Hoops, Chipsticks, Ringos and the lunch-box favourite, Monster Munch were all launched in the 1970s; truly the decade of the crisp. So much so, in fact, that this most humble of snacks warrants...