Creative Review articles from February 2005

Creative Review archives from February 2005

ACROSS THE DIVIDE.(Editorial)
February 1, 2005... Creative Review is about visual communication, wherever it comes from. Advertising, graphic design, photography, moving image - it's all here. But although these areas of practice have similar goals, there are major differences between them....

Letter: WE NEED RIGHT TYPE.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... After reading your great January article on dyslexia [The Creative Dyslexic, see above] I came up with a brain-teaser for designers. How many text faces can you think of which follow dyslexia-friendly rules? The rules are: the lowercase letters...

Letter: SECRETS OF SUCCESS.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Re The Creative Dyslexic: There are many myths about dyslexia. The myth that dyslexics are naturally creative is one of the most powerful. Paula Carson, wisely, does not fall into this trap. However, she does not explore fully why so many...

Letter: CLEARLY SIMILAR?(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Re Clearly Better [January]: I hope I'm not the only reader to remark on the close similarity of Clearview, the alphabet recently approved for America's roads, to the face designed by Kinneir and Calvert for British motorways over 40 years...

Letter: TSUNAMI T-SHIRT?(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... In light of the recent events in Asia and the pathetic amounts of money proposed by the rich nations of the West, it got me thinking whether there was something we could do as an industry to raise some much needed cash. I am a graphic...

GRRR THE CLEAR EPICA WINNER.(GRR/Weston, Ganoff, Marini)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Wieden & Kennedy's Grrr ad for Honda was the clear winner of this year's film Epica D'Or at the pan-European advertising awards. Normally, the Epica D'Or is only arrived at after several hours of debate by the jury but, this time, Grrr...

GALLERY PLANS FOR TRANSPORT MUSEUM.(London Transport Museum )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Travelling round London can be the bane of every capital dweller's life, but there is no denying the excellence of the posters London Underground and London Transport (now Transport for London) have commissioned over the past hundred years to...

One to watch: Tappin Gofton.
February 1, 2005... If the name Tappin Gofton sounds familiar, it will be due to the strong reputations of the studio's founders: Simon Gofton previously hailing from Tom Hingston Studio; Mark Tappin from Blue Source/Blue Source Films. A mutual need for a...

FIRST SIGHT: I MADE GENE KELLY BODY-POP.
February 1, 2005... VW'S NEW GOLF GTI SPOT SEES GENE KELLY BREAKDANCE AND BODY-POP HIS WAY THROUGH A CLASSIC SCENE FROM SINGIN' IN THE RAIN. CHOREOGRAPHER SUPPLE TALKS TO GAVIN LUCAS ABOUT HIS KEY ROLE IN THE COMMERCIAL'S CREATION CR: How long have you been...

Graphics [dicuss].(Panel Discussion)
February 1, 2005... FOR THE SECOND OF CR'S DISCUSS SERIES OF DEBATES ON THE DESIGN INDUSTRY, HOSTED BY PENTAGRAM, WE BROUGHT TOGETHER PAUL COHEN OF MOTHER, TIM ASHTON OF ANTIDOTE AND ADRIAN SHAUGHNESSY TO EXAMINE THE SOMETIMES ROCKY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN...

Feed me now.(interaction design)
February 1, 2005... WHY INTERACTION DESIGN IS THE NEW CREATIVE FRONTIER. BY DIGIT'S SIMON MOTTRAM AND DALJIT SINGH Mention the words "interaction design" to a designer and they will usually assume you're talking about websites. Through the boom of the late...

FEED COMPETITION.
February 1, 2005... Creative Review and Digit have joined forces to launch a competition aimed at investigating how interactive design can be freed from the computer screen and incorporated into our everyday lives. We want you to consider how you might be able...

A graphic novel.
February 1, 2005... ITS FANS CLAIM THAT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL'S COMBINATION OF WORDS AND PICTURES CAN PROVIDE A RICHER NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE THAN TEXT ALONE. PUTTING THIS HYPOTHESIS TO THE TEST, IN 1994 TWO ARTISTS CREATED A GRAPHIC VERSION OF PAUL AUSTER'S STORY,...

TEN YEARS AFTER.
February 1, 2005... AKQA ARE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INDEPENDENT DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS AGENCIES IN THE WORLD. TEN YEARS SINCE TWO OF THE FOUNDERS MET THROUGH THE PAGES OF CR, THEY REVEAL HOW THE COMPANY HAS BRANCHED OUT BEYOND THE DIGITAL. BY MARK SINCLAIR...

Advertising on wheels.
February 1, 2005... MARRYING ARTISTIC FLAIR WITH TECHNICAL INGENUITY, FELIX AUBLET PIONEERED THE PECULIARLY FRENCH MEDIUM OF "LA PUBLICITE QUI ROULE". BY ALAIN WEILL Designer/architect Felix Aublet was born in Tunisia in 1903. Following the family tradition...

Design's Tale of two cities.
February 1, 2005... Julian Morey travels to France with some of the UK's best designers On a mid-November morning, a group of UK designers including Vaughan Oliver, Zip, Studio Output, Abake, Friendchip, Stylorouge, LSD, Form, Martin Andersen and myself,...

Competition corner: WEST MIDLANDS ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT SCHEME.
February 1, 2005... Light House, in partnership with Screen West Midlands, and animation companies Screenburn and The CharacterShop, are launching a new initiative that will provide work placement opportunities for talented new animators with these regional...

Competition corner: YCN DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION AWARDS.
February 1, 2005... Up for grabs are placements at leading agencies, financial allocations and visibility on the YCN Annual. There are 18 briefs to choose from. See www.yccnonline.com Deadline: 18 March Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and...

Competition corner: D&AD STUDENT AWARDS.
February 1, 2005... Answer any one of 29 briefs for leading brands in the D&AD Student Awards. Choose from projects in radio advertising, packaging, graphic design, commercials, print advertising and many more. See www.dandad.co.uk Deadline: 25 March ...

HASBRO MONOPOLY COMMERCIAL.
February 1, 2005... FROM DDB, LONDON Disarmingly simple ad that keeps you guessing to the end. Top Dog opens with a shot of a West Highland Terrier, on a street, chewing at an old boot. Next up, a top hat blows along the road. Spying it, the dog abandons...

GOOGLE ONLINE LIBRARY PROJECT.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Google is currently working with five of the world's biggest libraries, scanning literary treasures so that users worldwide can access them via the internet. Around a million books from Oxford University's world- renowned Bodleian Library's...

COCO DE MER PROMOTION.(Honey & Bunny )(Movie Review)
February 1, 2005... FROM V23/JOHN MIDGLEY/12FOOT6/ALL OF US The self-styled "world's most luxurious sex boutique", Coco De Mer, has made its first film. As you might expect, it's a little saucy. Honey & Bunny tells the everyday story of two young ladies who...

EVERY - SERIES.
February 1, 2005... FROM IDRIS KHAN Idris Khan's appropriation of other people's photography may sound like nothing more than a cheeky bit of copyright infringement, but in replicating selections of images and overlaying them, one on top of another, Khan...

CNN CAMPAIGN.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... FROM HUNGRY MAN This fun campaign for CNN promotes the newsgroup's 24 hour news website CNN.com. The aim of the ads is to show how people interact with the channel on a daily basis - specifically, in this instance, at the workplace....

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY ADS.
February 1, 2005... FROM CDD While the world rallies to help survivors of the tsunami in Asia, work continues among members of the advertising industry to challenge the Third World debt situation by promoting the Make Poverty History campaign. Leading...

REVIEW: VINYL WILL KILL!(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Vinyl Will Kill! IdN, $39.95 Many illustrators, cartoonists and comic book artists have been tempted by the chance to see their characters in three dimensions. This book, from IdN in Hong Kong (the spiritual home of the artform),...

REVIEW: DIGITAL RETRO.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... DIGITAL RETRO Ilex, #19.95 The Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Atari ST and Commodore 64 are all names that conjure up memories of a much simpler digital age. Before the ascent of Microsoft and Intel, these different models were in...

REVIEW: KISS AND SELL.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... KISS AND SELL Ava Books, #24.50 Bark's design works very well but, unfortunately, it's rather let down by some of the work inside this book. The main problem seems simply to be an absence of outstanding examples of visually...

REVIEW: THE ART OF NOIR.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... THE ART OF NOIR Overlook Books, #21.99 This vast collection of posters and promotional material from the high period of Film Noir (roughly, the late 40s to late 50s) is compiled by Eddie Muller, a certified Noir expert (cover shown,...

REVIEW: PUT ABOUT.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... PUT ABOUT Book Works, #16.50 "This is a chord. This is another. This is a third. Now form a band." Sniffin' Glue, the punk fanzine invoked this DIY attitude that suited both its published form and the music it lauded. This critical...