Creative Review articles from December 2008

Creative Review archives from December 2008

Time for digital to stand up.(Editorial)
December 5, 2008... There's nothing like a whiff of controversy to liven up a conference. At this year's Flash on the Beach event in Brighton (reviewed by Andy Polaine on page 58) Jonathan Harris sent delegates away with a bit of a flea in their ear. ...

WHAT'S ON: V&A Forever.(Victoria and Albert Museum)(Brief article)
December 5, 2008... Universal Everything has created a new installation, Forever, which is on show in the John Madejski Garden at the v&a from November 21. Created in collaboration with Karsten Schmidt and Simon Pyke, the work consists of a large videowall...

WHAT'S ON: Richard Woods at Works/Projects.(Brief article)
December 5, 2008... For the inaugural exhibition at new Bristol-based gallery Work Projects, artist Richard Woods will show a new installation. Woods is renowned particularly for his hand-printed wood-block printed floors and his use of graphic signage, as can...

WHAT'S ON: Satoshi Minakawa.(Brief article)
December 5, 2008... The Japanese love of car customisation forms the subject matter for photographer Satoshi Minakawa's exhibition at The Printspace Gallery in east London. While the cool kids in Tokyo look on such customisation, which is most popular in the...

BOOKS: Penguin on design.
December 5, 2008... Four seminal visual arts texts have been republished as part of Penguin's ongoing project to honour its design heritage Four classic 'must read' books on visual communication have just been reissued as part of the Penguin on Design...

BOOKS: Three D: Graphic Spaces.
December 5, 2008... Three D: Graphic Spaces charts the current trend for three-dimensional illustration in contemporary graphic design and attempts to unpick the reasons behind this shift towards creating 3D models and set-ups from all manner of different...

BOOKS: Playful Type Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts.
December 5, 2008... In Playful Type, former Type Directors Club chairman James Montalbano suggests that lettering is in fact the opposite of type design. While type creates letters that must work under a wide range of applications, lettering is dependent on a...

WEBSITES: Diaroogle.
December 5, 2008... Finding a public toilet in an unfamiliar city is now a matter of greater convenience - thanks to loo-finding site, Diaroogle.... Diaroogle is a site set up for "the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public...

WEBSITES: Halloween Candy Code.
December 5, 2008... From Californian site cockeyed.com comes the Halloween Candy Code - a set of marks drawn in chalk outside houses so that other kids know whether a particular house is worth trick or treating, thus ultimately saving time by targeting only the...

WEBSITES: Behind the Candidates.
December 5, 2008... Suffering from US election withdrawal symptoms? Worried that you backed the wrong guy? For those still in need of that daily fix of Presidential politics, Behind The Candidates delves into the murky world of advisers, donors and campaign staff...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Adam Hinton.
December 5, 2008... Adam Hinton's Anti-Sex Trafficking campaign for the Home Office was selected for our Photography Annual last month. Unfortunately, a production problem led to his images being mis-cropped. We wanted to take this opportunity to show the images...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Photography Annual 08.
December 5, 2008... There were a number of captioning errors in last month's Photography Annual. This was On page 44 Alex Telfer's Enfance et Partage image (cat no. 2.158) was wrongly credited to Peter Turner. Full credits: Photographer: Alex Telfer. Client/Ad...

COMPETITION: The NHS needs you.
December 5, 2008... The UK's National Health Service was launched 60 years ago with the help of a cartoon character called Charley. Created by renowned animators Halas & Batchelor, Charley and his family explained the fledgling service to the nation in the...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: 42 Below Campaign.
December 5, 2008... The Glue Society The Glue Society in Sydney has created a series of artistic happenings for New Zealand vodka company 42 Below. Images recording these playful artistic acts were then used to form the basis of an ongoing print campaign....

TYPOGRAPHY: Very Elle magazine.
December 5, 2008... Non-Format With so many photographers and stylists working for both editorial and advertisers, fashion magazines are finding it impossible to create a distinct tone of voice through their imagery. Instead, it is typography that is...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Grace Jones album.
December 5, 2008... Tom Hingston Studio Image has always been an integral part of Grace Jones' music career, her visual identity being almost as important as her voice. As a former model and muse to the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Robert...

Killer apps.(handheld computers)
December 5, 2008... Amuse your friends... and make serious money. The iPhone's dedicated 'apps' offer a unique opportunity for both designers and developers, as Gavin Lucas reports Give an iPhone owner half a chance and they will immediately launch into a...

Design & sustain-ability.
December 5, 2008... In the second of her series on sustainability, anna gerber charts the history of design and environmentalism, examining the role of the designer as maker and producer The Environment A brief history of histories, theories & politics...

Designing a legible city.(Mike Rawlinson)(Interview)
December 5, 2008... Visually, Southampton is a bit of a mess. Heavy bombing in the second world war and some brutal urban planning have left a fractured and confused city. Enter City id. The Bristol-based firm specialises in addressing the ailing visual...

FALLON: THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
December 5, 2008... It's been a pretty good first ten years for Fallon, London. The agency is regularly described as the best in London, if not the world. Endless trips to the awards podiums for Sony, Skoda, Cadbury and more have been matched with genuine...

Sam Potts: design fit for superheroes & other stories.
December 5, 2008... Brooklyn's family friendly Park Slope district is home to a rather unusual shop. The sign outside offers 'sidekick placement services' and promises that 'dastardly plots will be foiled'. Inside, goods on sale include large tins of gravity,...

I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. And I'm just about sick to death of it.
December 5, 2008... TBWA\Media Arts Lab's I'm A Mac campaign was initially met with near rapt enthusiasm by the fan base (to call them 'customers' hardly seems enough). As groovy, dressed-down Mac Justin Long gently patronised nerdy, buttoned-up PC John...

Food for thoughts.(brainstorming sessions)
December 5, 2008... Next time you're preparing for that killer pitch, you might do well to lay off the biscuits and bring along a nice plate of chicken to the brainstorming session instead. Dr Kevin Hilton, of the Centre for Design Research at Northumbria...

Falling trends.
December 5, 2008... Financial crisis, global economic meltdown, the world on the edge - the rather large hiccup in the world's money markets recently provided headline writers with some pretty meaty material. But the world's art directors, picture editors,...

A more mature approach?
December 5, 2008... The unscrupulous among the advertising community have tended to look upon charity accounts less as an opportunity to help those in need and more as a chance to help themselves. Charity campaigns have often been taken on with the express...

Of bleeps and squeals.(e arts festival )(Report)
December 5, 2008... Shanghai's Olympic-scale eArts Festival took over the city, bringing outdoor digital art to the masses. Chris Gill reports Sprawling over a city of 20 million, the second Shanghai eArts Festival took art to the masses in a brave...

The war of images.
December 5, 2008... The Pentagon has a rather insidious phrase to describe the latent power of the image in modern warfare. TV clips and photographs of the Shock and Awe campaign that rained down on Iraq in 2003 were called 'force multipliers'. The meaning is...