Creative Review articles from July 2006

Creative Review archives from July 2006

Editorial: Football themed ads.(Editorial)
July 3, 2006... It seems incredible to relate now, but there was a time when you never saw a football-themed ad on the TV. The closest we got when I was growing up were the brief homoerotic moments that Kevin Keegan appeared to be sharing with Henry Cooper...

Letter: Churchill Was Team Effort.(Letter to the editor)
July 3, 2006... Your First Sight article [CR June], which lists the D&AD Award winners, mistakenly credited Nick Bell Design as the sole Yellow Pencil winner for the Churchill Museum. Given that the design of the Churchill Museum was creatively directed by...

Young and Why Not's Blackpool Tower.(Gordon Young)(Why Not Associates)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Why Not Associates and artist Gordon Young have continued their fruitful creative partnership with these typographic climbing walls in Blackpool. Previous projects such as the Flock of Words typographic pavement in Morecambe (CR Annual 03) and...

TiRA and Build Make GP Journal Feel Better.
July 3, 2006... This is Real Art (TiRA) has collaborated with Michael C Place of Build to revitalise The Practitioner, CMP Information's magazine aimed at GPs. The brief was to make the journal look modern, take into account the perhaps surprising statistic...

I crushed the vodaphone desks.(interview with Dave McNulty)(Interview)
July 3, 2006... Dare's "Dangerous" Dave McNulty speaks to Gavin Lucas about his desk- crushing duties on Vodafone's new online "Who needs a desk?" campaign CR/ What's your job title? DM: Creative video effects designer at Dare. CR: Tell us about...

One to watch: Graham Wood.
July 3, 2006... You may have got used to seeing bright young things profiled on this page in previous issues of Creative Review: youngsters at the start of a promising career. This month's One To Watch is rather different. As a founding member of...

Crit: Factory Records the Complete Graphic Album.(Discussion)
July 3, 2006... Crit this month our panel discuss new book factory records: the complete graphic album and the label's artistic legacy CR: What were your initial impressions of the Factory book? Rob O'Connor, Stylorouge: I like the look of the book,...

Signs of the times.(trends in the advertising business)(Freemans)
July 3, 2006... Helen Walters reports on a unique sale of advertising artefacts Every year, millions of people stand, mouths agape and necks craned upwards, marvelling at New York's Times Square. Though no longer as edgy as it once was, the area still...

Flash grows up: Diesel Camouflage Tales.(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... SITE: Diesel Camouflage Tales www.diesel.com/campaigns/ss06/ AGENCY: Hi-res! www.hi-res.net Hi-ReS' Flash 8 site for Diesel is a multi-layered narrative, whose layers peel away as the viewer mouses across the screen. ...

Flash grows up.
July 3, 2006... Website design is dominated by one software application - Flash. Sean Ashcroft explains how its eighth and latest version is shaping our online experiences, for better or worse There are murmurs that Flash 8 might just be the iteration...

Flash grows up: Converse.(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Site: Converse www.converse.com Agency: Zaaz www.zaaz.com Jon McVey is the Cumbrian-born creative director of Zaaz. Its site for footwear giant Converse is the studio's first major Flash 8 undertaking. "The Converse site...

Flash grows up: Big Spaceship.
July 3, 2006... Agency: Big Spaceship www.bigspaceship.com Each year Brooklyn-based interactive design company Big Spaceship produces between 20 and 30 sites for blockbuster releases for movie giants such as Miramax, Sony and Paramount. Its teaser...

A brief history of Flash.
July 3, 2006... The genesis of Flash could not be more analogue: Lego. Flash creator Jonathan Gay was a Lego lunatic, and admits that the design process he developed with plastic bricks on his living room carpet is "more or less the same process we...

Chicken, Beer and Mr T.
July 3, 2006... The Barbarian Group's Subservient Chicken site awoke the ad industry to the potential of online. Patrick Burgoyne hears from two of its creators It was the chicken that changed the world. Or rather, the man in the chicken suit. When...

Class action.
July 3, 2006... A design initiative in New York seeks to improve literacy rates in some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods. Mark Sinclair spoke to the people behind a groundbreaking project that puts the school library at the centre of an ongoing...

Protecting Brand Mandela.(Nelson Mandela)
July 3, 2006... Nelson Mandela is facing another liberation struggle - this time to free himself from the myriad attempts to profit from his image. As Sean O'Toole explains, this Disney-fication of Mandela is in danger of cheapening the great man's legacy and...

From Liberation Icon to Fridge Magnet.
July 3, 2006... Image problems, of one kind or another, are nothing new for Nelson Mandela. Before his arrest in August 1962, while on the run from state authorities, Mandela would often disguise himself. "My most frequent disguise was as a chauffeur, chef or...

My Type of Place.
July 3, 2006... Bruno Maag relishes getting his hands dirty at London's unique typographic treasure trove Bruno Maag visits London's Type Museum while Rick Poynor casts his eye over Sixties Graphics at the V&A, plus Pick of the MonthSouth London,...

A Brief History of Time.(London's V and A Museum )
July 3, 2006... Rick Poynor takes a trip around the V&A's 60s Graphics The 1960s has become a mythic decade and the recollections, retrospectives and revivals show no signs of slowing down. Those who were there love to tell stories about the glory days...

PICK OF THE MONTH: www.wefeelfine.org.(Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... How are you feeling? Alright? Think others feel the same? Find out at We Feel Fine, Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar's attempt to monitor the collective emotional state of the web. Put simply, their system searches the most recently...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Coke World Cup ads.
July 3, 2006... While most of the 2006 World Cup advertising has gone down achingly familiar lines - misty-eyed nostalgia for 1966/footie's finest showing off their effortless ball skills in unlikely locations/ beery lads parading triumphantly - Argentine...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Freitag Shop.(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... From the brand that brings you bags made from truck tarpaulin and cycle tire inner tubes comes the shop made from freight containers. In fact, a total of 17 metal shipping crates make up Freitag's new store in Zurich. After sourcing the...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Chris Boot books.
July 3, 2006... Two new books published by Chris Boot provide a stark contrast in visual environments. First up is John Davies' The British Landscape. Shot between 1979 and 2005, it is dominated by industrial and post- industrial scenes, revealing the UK's...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Ed Harcourt promo.(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Genteel troubadour Ed Harcourt's latest single, Visit From the Dead Dog, is supported by a lovely piece of animation from comics illustrator Tom Gauld and Dirty UK, the animation collective created by production company Draw Pictures. For such...