Creative Review articles from February 2006

Creative Review archives from February 2006

Editorial.(Office buildings of graphic designers)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... We don't like to let people into our offices here at CR Towers. They just get disappointed. You might imagine something from the pages of Wallpaper*: think again. Every available surface is covered in paper; stacks of books grow like...

Letter: Brazilian Lessons For All.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... The January issue of Creative Review finally made it to Melbourne and within it the article by Gustavo Piqueira, In Search of Brazil. Although I enjoyed the article and its feisty approach I feel I should point out that his whole assumption...

Letter: In Praise of Content.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Hats-off to the team at Centaur for putting together the cute little book housing two years' worth of Showcase material from CR. I usually purchase the D&AD annual as a record of a year's worth of good design but as they have chosen not to...

The UK's Favourite Adman.
February 1, 2006... John Webster, who has died while jogging near his Hertfordshire home, was one of the architects of modern British advertising. Coming into the business at a time when British advertising was staid and bland, Webster was one of a new wave of...

Grey's Tough Questions for AOL.
February 1, 2006... It takes a particularly brave client to approve an advertising campaign which discusses the harm that their product can do, but that's precisely what Grey's new work for internet provider AOL sets out to do. Eschewing the wars over...

Top Talent Fires Up E STINGS.
February 1, 2006... A self-immolating matchbox dog; Kung Fu Frisbee and killer TVs - this year's crop of E STINGS winners certainly didn't disappoint. "We were once again hugely impressed with the quality of the entries. Every year stuff comes in that you...

We shot to the music.
February 1, 2006... United Visual Artists are best-known for their stunning and technically innovative on-stage visuals for live acts such as Massive Attack, Basement Jaxx and U2. Gavin Lucas met the studio's Joel Gethin Lewis and Dave Ferner to talk about the...

One to watch: Simon Ratigan.
February 1, 2006... Simon Ratigan's path to directing was unconventional. "I left school and decided to do a degree in hotel management," he says. "I wanted to design experiences for people, so that from the moment you arrive at the hotel or restaurant you're...

The Observer: Crit.
February 1, 2006... This month our panel discuss the redesign of The Observer, the latest of the broadsheet newspapers to adopt a smaller format CR/ The past two years have seen a spate of newspaper redesigns in the UK: should we applaud their investment in...

Euro stars.
February 1, 2006... It was a case of the wonderful and the weird at this year's Epica Awards. Patrick Burgoyne reports There will be few arguments over the choice of Abbott Mead Vickers' noitulovE spot for Guinness (16) as this year's Epica d'Or for best...

Return to sender.
February 1, 2006... In 1998, illustrator Harriet Russell began testing the lengths that Royal Mail will go to deliver our mail. She talks to Eliza Williams about her new book of the project In an era of disillusionment with the postal service, it's cheering...

Jarvis in Wonderland.
February 1, 2006... Vortigern's Machine is the first full-length comic book from illustrator and toy designer James Jarvis. He talked to Mark Sinclair about creating a modern day adventure story, his drawing process and where the project may lead next To say...

Type design awards.
February 1, 2006... Presenting the winners and runners-up in Creative Review's inaugural Type Design Awards, honouring the finest new typefaces from around the world Welcome to the first Creative Review Type Design Awards. The Awards were launched to honour...

Type design awards: Display single.
February 1, 2006... Winner: Bello Bello is a big, bold brush typeface for headline point sizes. It features a wide range of ligatures and start and ending swashes. Both are automatic in Bello Pro, which is a cross-platform OpenType font with many OpenType...

Type design awards: Display Family.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Winner: Plume Plume was inspired by italic typewriter fonts of the 1920s. The typeface family currently consists of three weights - regular, italic and bold, and more are planned in the future. The fonts have an extended character set to...

Type design awards: Text family.
February 1, 2006... Winner: FF Nexus Between 1988 and 1994 Martin Majoor designed FF Scala and FF Scala Sans. The idea behind FF Scala was to design a serif, humanistic typeface from which a sans serif version would be derived. Majoor called it "two...

Type design awards: Custom Single.
February 1, 2006... Honourable Mention: UOS Titling A sensitive reinterpretation of Baskerville in one weight for the University of Sussex. In November 2005, Blast won a Brand Identity Award at the Design Effectiveness Awards for the new University of Sussex...

Type design awards: Custom Family.
February 1, 2006... Winner: Channel 4 The Channel 4 font is intended to be youthful and is aimed at the 20-40 year-old age bracket. The brief from the channel asked for "a font that will only be seen on Channel 4. The new font needs to be absolutely clear...

Type design awards: Revival/extension Family.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Winner: Andrade Andrade was inspired by the typographic work of the eighteenth century Portuguese designer, Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo (1670-1735). Figueiredo's book Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar (printed in...

Type design awards: Non-Latin Family.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Winner: Nour & Patria Invented by a monk in around 405 AD, Armenian has its own 39-letter alphabet. LA-based Hrant H Papazian devised the twin typefaces, Nour & Patria, as a means of integrating Armenian with Latin type. "It enables a...

Type design awards: Ornamental.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Honourable Mention: Trust Me 97 Tony Blair's familiar toothy grin is employed to satirical effect in the Trust Me 97 typeface: numerals use his wife Cherie's smile. In time, more designs will be added to the Trust Me family, with...

Hidden Cameras.
February 1, 2006... A new festival in Lianzhou hopes to give further exposure to the wealth of emerging Chinese photographic talent. Wayne Ford reports Less than a decade ago there were a mere handful of photographers from China with truly international...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pixar: 20 Years of Animation.
February 1, 2006... Is there anyone who dislikes Pixar? It seems the animation studio, winner of 18 Oscars, can do no wrong, charming young and old alike with its savvy mixture of sophisticated CGI and biting wit. Fitting then that its artistry has been recognised...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Building The Times.
February 1, 2006... How to cover up the unsightly goings-on at a building site while, at the same time, advertising the shiny new edifice that is soon to take shape there? Easy, just get world-famous photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot a set of pictures of...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Orange Paint commercial.
February 1, 2006... Paint porn: we love it. This spot may be very simple, but it's one of the most watchable things on TV right now. No gags, no special effects, no story even, just lovely, viscous streams of colour poured from a great height. "It was a very...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Shanghai.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Already snapped up by agencies AMV and M&C Saatchi, Shanghai is the cool alternative to the dreaded PowerPoint. Seriously, Soft's Flash- based desktop application is essentially a tool for creating high quality presentations (which cleverly...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Glamour DVD.
February 1, 2006... Glamour magazine, with its incredibly popular mix of celeb gossip and fashion tips, may not seem the most obvious source of innovative filmmaking, but check out Glamour Reel Moments. It's a DVD of five short films based on stories penned by...

BOOK REVIEW: Tumulus.
February 1, 2006... This beautifully presented book by new publisher invisible inc is a collection of work by British photographer John Miles. Containing 50 black-and-white photographs, the book is an introduction to a darkly funny and creepy world, where suburban...

BOOK REVIEW: Whatever You Think Think the Opposite.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... In his follow-up to the bestselling It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be, ex-Saatchi & Saatchi executive creative director turned gallerist, Paul Arden, offers up more tips for finding our way through the minefield that is...

BOOK REVIEW: Introducing.
February 1, 2006... In our increasingly competitive industry, self-promotion has become a vital tool. Business cards, letterheads, special gifts and gadgets - all are used to set the tone of a company and to (hopefully) make it stand out from the rest....

BOOK REVIEW: Mome 2.
February 1, 2006... Aiming for the literary fiction market as much as the comic buyer, Mome is a timely quarterly that offers up new work from some of today's most interesting comic artists. Edited by Fantagraphics main man Gary Groth, and longtime comics...

BOOK REVIEW: Wayshowing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... As a guide to "environmental signage", Per Mollerup's handsome volume of international signage systems certainly warrants attention. Mollerup's accessible and often tongue-in-cheek style, along with the attractive design of the book and...