Creative Review articles from January 2009

Creative Review archives from January 2009

AGENDA: Cover story.(Editorial)
January 5, 2009... When Tristan Manco got in touch with us with images of Xiru Gravuras, a new book of woodblock prints by Brazilian illustrators and artists from the Choque Cultural gallery (see p28) we knew what this month's cover had to be. The book was...

WHAT'S ON: Moving pictures.
January 5, 2009... After 37 years at its Great Newport Street premises, London's Photographers' Gallery has found a spacious new home The Photographers' Gallery in London has moved. After 37 years of being split between two galleries on Great Newport Street,...

WHAT'S ON: The Cover of a Book...: Arnolfini, Bristol.
January 5, 2009... Currently on show at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol is The Cover Of A Book Is The Beginning Of A Journey, an exhibition focusing on artists' books. These are not just any old artists' books, however, but specifically ones that "offer sets...

WHAT'S ON: Ron Arad: Centre Pompidou, Paris.(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The Centre Pompidou in Paris is holding a retrospective of the work of designer and architect Ron Arad. Well-known for his use of sinusoidal (look it up), elliptical and oval forms, Arad's work is often now sold as art pieces. Amongst his...

TYPOGRAPHY: From block to byte.(Interview)
January 5, 2009... Artist and typophile Mark Kusek has spent years collecting wood type. Now, most of his collection is available digitally You may have noticed our guest typeface in this issue: if wood block is your thing, check out Wood Type Impressions...

TYPOGRAPHY: FlipFont.
January 5, 2009... Up until now, typophiles have had to suffer the indignity of manufacturer-supplied fonts on their mobile phones. Now Monotype Imaging and Vodafone have conspired to launch FlipFont, a new service that lets mobile users download new fonts to...

TYPOGRAPHY: Type samplers.(Romesh Naik has collection of type samplers dating )(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Stuttgart-based art director Romesh Naik has an impressive collection of type samplers dating from the late 19th Century onwards. "Many of those old specimens have real treasures inside which we have to discover," Naik tells us. "I find it...

TYPOGRAPHY: Links.
January 5, 2009... Effra light Effra regular Effra bold Effra heavy Effra New from Dalton Maag, the Effra font family, by Swiss designer Jonas Schudel, is named after the river that flows through Brixton in South London....

GRAPHIC DESIGN: The Seed film.
January 5, 2009... Johnny Kelly The paper craft trend continues in this film for Adobe by animator Johnny Kelly, who joined the roster of directors at Nexus shortly after we featured him as One To Watch in our September issue last year. The Seed follows the...

FURNITURE DESIGN: Fleeting Seating project.
January 5, 2009... Sid Lee Fleeting Seating: The Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection is a self- initiated project by Montreal and Amsterdam-based creative agency Sid Lee. It was spearheaded by Louis-Thomas Pelletier, who, on becoming a creative...

3D DESIGN: Glenfiddich Barrel Art.(Johnson Bank has created its single malt whiskies to mature in the barrel)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... johnson banks In an unusual commission, the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland approached design studio johnson banks to create a series of artworks illustrating the length of time it takes for its single malt whiskies to mature in the...

COMMERCIALS: Diesel films.
January 5, 2009... Legs/Farfar, Stockholm Advertising gets more mysterious every day as evidenced by this website for Diesel, featuring a series of surreal films. Most bizarre of all is the opening short, The Rise and Fall of Pete the Meat Puppet, which...

Design & sustain-ability:pt3.
January 5, 2009... Knowing the story of what we buy, from raw material to rubbish dump, might make us more responsible consumers, says Anna Gerber in the last of her sustainability series You are reading this article in Creative Review. Do you know how...

It all began with a word.
January 5, 2009... And the word was Uniqlock. This little moniker, and of course the nifty gadget it signified, took the ad world by storm just over a year ago. And yet, to the uninitiated, Uniqlock is surprisingly hard to explain... At least not without...

BARNEY BUBBLES: A true pop artist.
January 5, 2009... Barney Bubbles is a cult hero. During the seventies and early eighties he created some of the most iconographic record sleeves, label logos, and music-related visuals of that or any other era, for the likes of Elvis Costello, Ian Dury,...

Lambe Lambe.
January 5, 2009... Hand-set letterpress posters once covered the streets of Sao Paulo. Local gallery owner Baixo Ribeiro explains how he is attempting to revive this dying art by working with local artists on a new book Hidden behind a store in the Vila...

CREATIVE SOCIAL SHANGHAI: Shanghai scene.
January 5, 2009... Old trainers and new freedoms: Patrick Burgoyne reports from Creative Social Shanghai on a rapidly changing city Ensconced in the creative conference circuit bubble, one city can become very much like another: depart boutique hotel, arrive...

SOLDIER: Conflicting views.
January 5, 2009... Suzanne Opton's controversial billboard portraits of serving US soldiers have impressed, bewildered and outraged In August this year photographer Suzanne Opton unveiled her latest series of portraits on a range of billboards across various...

ME-PROJECTS: Me, myself and I.
January 5, 2009... Why do graphic designers find themselves so fascinating? Michael Johnson investigages the new wave of 'me-projects' Over fifteen years ago a shockwave was sent through graphics as designers put two fingers up to the 'big...

TWEE SOUNDTRACKS: Change the record.
January 5, 2009... Twee, acoustic, folksy music accompanies practically every second ad on TV at the moment. When, we ask, will it end? Joining our discussion: Dan Stevens, a director at Darling Department, one of London's foremost music...

MIKE DEMPSEY: Let's form a committee.
January 5, 2009... I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of Committees." So said GK Chesterton. I once sat on a committee. We met weekly and nothing ever got done. In the wake of Boris Johnson scrapping the Lesbian, Gay and...