Creative Review articles from January 2007

Creative Review archives from January 2007

Editorial: January 2007.
January 8, 2007... Welcome to our special issue on interaction design. We thought we'd do it now because, according to some of the experts featured this month, pretty soon such a distinction is going to be irrelevant. Microsoft's principal researcher, Bill...

LETTER: Alan Fletcher.(Letter to the editor)
January 8, 2007... Last month we printed an array of tributes to the late great Alan Fletcher from his fellow designers. More have been added online at the CR Blog. Here is a small selection: My enduring memory of Alan Fletcher is when I was a student over 25...

New Spin on ICA Identity.(The Institute of Conterporary Arts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) celebrates it's sixtieth birthday this year. To help mark the occasion, and also to make the institution more welcoming and inviting, design studio Spin has created a new identity. "The use of its...

Live and Let Die-Cut.(Johnson Bank introduces commemorative stamps)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Apparently, 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first time John Lennon met Paul McCartney. We're not sure exactly what happened at this momentous event, but the Royal Mail have deemed it significant enough to warrant a special set of...

Tomato Gets Kinky in Milan.
January 8, 2007... Aspesi's new Milan store is the latest product of the 15-year working relationship between the Italian fashion brand and Dirk van Dooren of Tomato. Far from a traditional Milanese shop aesthetic, van Dooren's ideas saw him take influences...

Fundamentally PSB.(Pet Shop Boys)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Often tour programmes for bands follow a magazine format, bringing together images and articles from various sources. Farrow Design's tour programme for the Pet Shop Boys' current Fundamental tour, however, consists of text and images...

Diesel Gets Ready for Global Warming.
January 8, 2007... Once again, Diesel can expect some letters: their new ad campaign, with the tagline "Global warming ready" looks set to ruffle some ecological feathers when it launches in Dazed & Confused in early January. In each vision of a...

Trading Faces.(Mexican Blackletter)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Around the end of the twelfth century, Blackletter script (later coined Gothic script/minuscule during the Renaissance) was used throughout Western Europe. By the fifteenth century, with the invention of moveable type and the continued...

I was the Heart Hula Hoop girl.(Interview)
January 8, 2007... Impressed by her moves in Clemmow Hornby Inge's recent hula spot for Heart FM, Gavin Lucas tracked down San Francisco-based hula hooper extraordinaire, Christabel Zamor, to find out more about her hoop- tastic skills CR: What's your...

One to watch: Proud Creative.(Dan Witchell)
January 8, 2007... Proud Creative was formed in June 2005 when founder Dan Witchell left his role as creative director at on-screen branding specialist agency Kemistry. "I guess I got to a point where my entrepreneurial desire got too great and I felt like I...

Designing a Better Life.(technology and society)(Viewpoint essay)
January 8, 2007... "If I were to sum up interaction design in a sentence, I would say that it's about shaping our everyday life through digital artifacts - for work, for play, and for entertainment. Gillian Crampton smith reveals the principles of great...

Landmarks in Interaction Design.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... 1956 First TV Remote Control With a "flash of magic light", the Zenith Flash-matic became the world's first TV remote control. Like a cross between a hairdryer and a laser-gun, it "worked TV miracles" in conjunction with The Bismarck: a...

It All Seems So Simple.(Digit (United Kingdom))
January 8, 2007... Since first featuring in the pages of creative review back in july 98, digit has proved one of the interactive industry's survivors. having recently reached the ripe old age of ten, we invited them to share some pearls of wisdom that have...

1963 First Mouse.
January 8, 2007... Bill Moggridge's excellent book, Designing Interactions (MIT Press, #25.95), charts the development of the major leaps forward in computer technology, among them the mouse. Its invention is widely credited to Doug Engelbart, a former radar...

We've not met, but.(Interview)
January 8, 2007... In four years together as WeFail, web designers Martin Hughes and Jordan Stone have met just three times. And they don't meet their clients either. Via email, we asked them how this works CR: Good afternoon Martin, good morning Jordan. How...

Landmarks in Interaction Design: 1967 First ATM.
January 8, 2007... For many people, their first exposure to an interactive electronic interface would have been via the humble cashpoint. According to The History of Computing Project (www.thocp.net), ideas for automated bank- tellers had been around since 1939...

Landmarks in Interaction Design: 1971 First Arcade Video Game.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Manufactured by Nutting Associates in California, Computer Space was the world's first arcade video game. It can be seen alongside many other early games machines at the Science Museum's Game On exhibition, which runs until 25 February. The...

Screen resolutions.
January 8, 2007... Soon, says microsoft's principle researcher, bill buxton, we will use interactive experiences in as many diverse ways and as often as we currently use paper The future of interactive design has been with us since 1888, the date that...

Landmarks in Interaction Design: 1972 First Digital Watch.
January 8, 2007... Costing $2,100, the Pulsar P-1 became the world's first commercially available digital watch (or "time computer") when it was launched by the Hamilton Watch Company in January 1972. Only 400 were made, all of them in 18 karat gold. The...

Demand your type right.(evolution of computer fonts)
January 8, 2007... The technology exists to display fonts properly on screen, so why do so few devices manage it? Bruno Maag says its time to fight for our right to type Until about 1993, displaying type on the screen was fairly straightforward. Most...

Landmarks in Interaction Design: 1979-1983 The Lisa.
January 8, 2007... The Local Integrated Software Architecture, or Apple Lisa was developed in the late 80s as a general business machine that would employ the then-revolutionary concept of a graphical user interface. Users would be faced with an electronic...

Click to View.
January 8, 2007... Creative Review's second Click conference proved that online is fundamentally changing not just advertising work but the industry itself Patrick Burgoyne attends CR's Click conference while Gavin Lucas gets Social plus, Pick of the Month...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Shrigley's poster project.(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Earlier this year, an enticing message appeared on David Shrigley's website inviting people to send in details of a forthcoming event - a birthday party, a leaving drinks, a gig - and D Shrig would make a poster for said do. Pictured here is...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Typographic recruitment ads.
January 8, 2007... The way these ads were written meant they only really appealed to the narrowest of audiences. But then that's precisely why they worked: all the posters are recruitment ads for a new typographer at ad agency Lunar BBDO. The coded copy is...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Volume light installation.(John Madejski Garden, V&A Museum)(Brief article)
January 8, 2007... Forty-six luminous vertical columns have sprung up in the middle of the V&A Museum's John Madejski Garden. Each contains a speaker and hundreds of LEDs that change colour and create patterns in response to inquisitive visitors. Entitled...

BOOK REVIEW: Serialize.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 8, 2007... This is a great collection of serialised design projects: posters, magazines, flyers and record sleeves that retain continuous design elements through the use of typography, colour, layout, or variations of all three. It's surprising no-one has...

BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Street Jewellery.(Book review)
January 8, 2007... The "street jewellery" of the title refers to the highly collectible world of enamel advertising signs. Brought together in this extensive book are thousands of examples, dating from their heyday as marketing tools in the nineteenth and...

BOOK REVIEW: Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design.(Book review)
January 8, 2007... Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris have produced this compact but comprehensive guide to graphic design terminology, which covers more than 250 commonly used expressions. These include practical, conceptual and traditional terms alongside...

BOOK REVIEW: Great British Comics.(Book review)
January 8, 2007... With the UK comics scene currently awash with creative talent, Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury have brought together a timely collection of the best of British from the last 100 years of the art form (Thunderbirds story from TV Century 21,...