Creative Review articles from January 2008

Creative Review archives from January 2008

EDITORIAL: January 2008.(Editorial)
January 2, 2008... Grupo W is an interactive advertising agency. They work for clients including Nike and Unilever. Their work is seen by millions worldwide. And they do it all from a small city in Mexico that I'd never heard of until I saw them speak last week....

A Taste of Honey.(Droga5 and Smuggler comstructed online shopping website Honeyshed)
January 2, 2008... For those agencies and clients that are still nervously dipping their toes into digital media and branded content, wary of its true value, a new website launched this month by US ad agency Droga5 and production company Smuggler seriously ups...

Eastern promise.(Interview)
January 2, 2008... As its economy booms, India's advertising industry is soaring, and a graphic design community is finally emerging. Eliza Williams talks to the country's most exciting creative talent about what the future holds For a designer or...

Uniqlo: a history.
January 2, 2008... 1984 Opens a unisex casual wear store in Hiroshima called 'Unique Clothing Warehouse', later shortened to Uniqlo. 1991 Ogori Shoji becomes 'Fast Retailing'. 1994 Over 100 Uniqlo stores operating throughout Japan. 1997 FS adopts...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Hans Brinker campaign.
January 2, 2008... With all this talk of saving the planet it's good to see that some people have been quietly operating on reduced carbon emissions for years - even if they didn't quite realise it at the time. Amsterdam's Hans Brinker Hotel, typically candid...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Guess Who?(book review of Guess Who? : The Illustrations of Noma Bar)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 2, 2008... Israeli illustrator Noma Bar depicts the faces of the famous using only a few lines, colours and drawn objects. But the key to the success of the London-based artist's work is how the objects he assembles to create each face immediately...

PICK OF THE MONTH: A5 Light and Motion.(Audi UK gives contract to Peter Saville)
January 2, 2008... Paul Swift has a fun job. He's a "precision driver" and can, presumably, drive fast cars extremely precisely. But his skills don't end there and have, in fact, just been used to help create a series of limited edition prints in praise of...

PICK OF THE MONTH: London Transport Museum.
January 2, 2008... Design has been placed quite literally at the centre of the reopened LTM, with a new exhibition space dedicated to showing the wide range of artwork, signage and posters (Abram Games' efforts from 1976, 11, and 1947, 12) commissioned by...