Creative Review articles from February 2007

Creative Review archives from February 2007

Editorial: February 2007.(Editorial)
February 5, 2007... This, in case you hadn't noticed, is a somewhat different issue of Creative Review. We have invited the advertising agency, Mother, to be our very first guest editors. Mother recently marked its tenth birthday: a decade of iconoclasm. So we...

S4C Rebrand Does Wales Proud.(Proud Creative)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Last month, we named design studio and brand specialists Proud Creative as One To Watch. This month their largest project to date is unveiled: a new identity and channel branding for Welsh TV channel, S4C. Proud has been working on the...

Oliver Revives Lost Art.(graphic designer Vaughan Oliver)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Best known for his emotive sleeve designs for bands such as Pixies and Cocteau Twins on the independent music label 4AD - and more recently Scott Walker and TV on the Radio - graphic designer Vaughan Oliver and his studio, v23, have...

Eno Illuminates Selfridges.(Brian Eno's Luminous)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... The Ultralounge, Selfridges London's space for special projects, is set to host a unique installation by ambient music pioneer and sound and light artist, Brian Eno. From next week, customers at the Oxford Street store will be able to...

Designed to Kill.("Chicago: an investigation into the many myths surrounding contemporary Israel" features israeli bombs)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... This range of seemingly mundane objects conceal a deadly secret. They are all bombs or, rather, re-creations of bombs made by the Israeli Police Force's Bomb Disposal Unit and based on designs used in actual attacks. The models are housed in...

Happiness Reigns at Epica.
February 5, 2007... Given the Epica awards jury's track record, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam might want to clear some shelf space. In each of the previous three years, the winner of the Epica D'Or for commercials has gone on to win the Cannes Grand Prix as well...

One to watch: Aylin Deniz.
February 5, 2007... The work of Turkish designer Aylin Deniz first appeared in Creative Review in our fashion-themed showcase just over a year ago (CR Nov 05), following a recommendation by Tomato's John Warwicker. In fact, the work that we showed in that issue, a...

We made skoda giggle.
February 5, 2007... Parv Thind and Joseph Mount talk to Gavin Lucas about their role creating the sound for Fallon's latest Giggle Spot for Skoda CR: What's your job title/profession? PT: Sound engineer/sound designer. JM: Assistant sound designer....

The world remixed.
February 5, 2007... Paul Belford has joined this is real art, as the company moves into advertising as well as design. His first project: a subscriptions mailer for a certain well-known creative magazine This is Real Art is branching out. No longer content...

Can You Make Our Logo a Little Bigger?
February 5, 2007... The sponsorship of exhibitions is big business. Mark Sinclair visited several to see how far corporations have muscled in on our experience of art While the symbiotic relationship between artist and patron is centuries old, in recent...

PICK OF THE MONTH: 100 Years of Magazine Covers.
February 5, 2007... This exhaustive book by Steve Taylor (the first employee of The Face magazine and the man who launched Arena with publisher Nick Logan and art director Neville Brody) looks at how the magazine cover has forged a unique role in contemporary...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Jarvis promo.(Jarvis Cocker)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... "Where we off to then love?" asks Jarvis Cocker - solo singer turned cabbie - in his unmistakable Sheffield twang at the start of his video for Don't Let Him Waste Your Time, directed by Dougal Wilson. Establishing that his passenger's...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Bailey's website.
February 5, 2007... The good old-fashioned battle of the sexes forms the basis of this website and set of online films created by BBH for Bailey's. Featuring the characters first introduced in the Bailey's Served Chilled campaign in 2005, the films revolve...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Tom Gauld comics.(Three Very Small Comics series)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... If you missed Tom Gauld's hilarious Gardening story in the The Guardian last year then, fear not, as it's to be included in the third installment of his Three Very Small Comics series, released next month (detail from Gardening shown, 4&5,...

BOOK REVIEW: Typo China.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 5, 2007... The Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich Plakatsammlung's series of slim Poster Collections are proving to be a real hit: offering up monographs of individual designers' works (such as the excellent Armin Hofmann and recent Catherine Zask volumes)...

BOOK REVIEW: Thinking Visually.(Mark Wigan)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 5, 2007... Graphic tearaways NEW have got their grubby art directing hands on this first installment in Ava Publishing's new series of illustration- centric guides. In addition to exploring the "basics" of the subject (drawing processes, composition,...

BOOK REVIEW: CD+DVD Packaging.(Book review)
February 5, 2007... RotoVision, #30 Written and compiled by communications agency Loewy, this collection of CD and DVD packaging will appeal to those who take pride in their materials, textures, folding and finishing techniques as much as their sleeve...

BOOK REVIEW: Beijing: Theatre of the People.(Ambroise Tezanas )(Brief article)(Book review)
February 5, 2007... Photographer Ambroise Tezanas began photographing Bejing in November 2001, after it was chosen as the host city for the 2008 Olympic Games. He returned there at the same time each year until 2005 to record the developments to the capital....

BOOK REVIEW: Advertising: New Techniques for Visual Seduction.(Book review)
February 5, 2007... In Advertising: New Techniques for Visual Seduction, Uwe Stoklossa aims to explore the science behind advertising, to look at how advertisers play with our perception of images in order to drive home their brands' messages. To do this,...