Creative Review articles from July 2007

Creative Review archives from July 2007

EDITORIAL: JULY 2007.(Editorial)
July 2, 2007... I really wanted to like it. This was the big one. The chance for the UK design industry to show the world just how good it could be. But the London 2012 logo is just so ugly. I love what it's not. No Big Ben. No Tower Bridge. No 3D. No...

Fresh of the Factory Floor.(Adidas FAC51-Y3, shoes)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Behold, the FAC51-Y3. No, it's not a late addition to the musical catalogue of Mancunian record label Factory Records, but a highly limited trainer from Y-3 (the brand created by adidas and Yohji Yamamoto), devised especially to celebrate the...

All Aboard the Design Bus.
July 2, 2007... In March last year, having just given a lecture to an audience in Katowice in Poland, London-based designer Anne Odling-Smee was presented with a proposal. How would she like to bring together a group of designers to propose a range of artwork...

RSA by David Pearson.
July 2, 2007... To coincide with its fortieth anniversary, RSA Films commissioned David Pearson to design a new identity for the production company. Pearson is more typically seen between these pages for his book design work, especially for Penguin, and it...

One to watch: Renhui Zhao.(Animals Menagerie, photo exhibition)
July 2, 2007... Singaporean Renhui Zhao has just received the Association of Photographers' Student of the Year award and is currently shortlisted for both the Adobe Design Achievement award and the LDC Photography awards. Not bad for someone in the middle...

I baked the Skoda Cake-Car.
July 2, 2007... Skoda's ad the baking of... shows a group of white-coated home economists busily making a full-size car - out of cake. Gavin Lucas talks to art director and production designer supreme, Brian Morris, about his role in making the ad I baked the...

WIEDEN + KENNEDY: WK25.
July 2, 2007... Wieden + Kennedy turns 25 this year. The advertising agency that began as a lone outpost in Portland, Oregon has now spread across three continents and garnered shelves full of awards. Here, we pick out ten things that set it apart. By Eliza...

2012: Pro or con?
July 2, 2007... We tune out the noise and examine the arguments for and against the London logo The Shock of the New Anything that is genuinely original is met with almost universal condemnation at the outset. This happens in art, in music and even in...

Down to the wire.
July 2, 2007... CG technology is totally revolutionising the way that print ads are created, but while its use solves problems, will it be to the detriment of the images? asks Sean Ashcroft Paper supplanting stone as the substrate of choice. Caxton's...

Typography Faces the Music.(Typo Berlin)
July 2, 2007... Typo Berlin aimed to examine the relationship between type and music. But the celebratory nature of the event meant there was less room for any critical study of this intruiging pairing. By Daniel West The real surprise of Typo Berlin was...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Shutting Up Shop.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 2, 2007... Since the early 1970s, John Londei has been photographing independent small shops: from basket weavers and florists to condom sellers - yes, really - and seed merchants (FA Bone's "hay, straw, corn & seed" shop, a feature on Rickmansworth...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Coca-Cola ads.
July 2, 2007... Mother London created this charming, retro-looking campaign for Coca- Cola's sponsorship of the UK Championship, League One and League Two football play-off finals. The campaign continues Coke's strategy of placing the emphasis on the footie...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Street Play.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 2, 2007... Martha Cooper was a staff photographer at the New York Post from 1977 to 1980. When not assigned to a story she would turn her camera on the youngsters who played among the boroughs' wastegrounds (Cooper famously went on to document the...

PICK OF THE MONTH: VW commercial.
July 2, 2007... DDB London's latest spot for VW aims to celebrate the pleasures of driving at night, and director Noam Murro has delivered a suitably atmospheric film celebrating the joys of city life after dark. Accompanying the visuals, however, is an...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Stanley Donwood show.(If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now, exhibition)(Brief article)
July 2, 2007... Just opened at the Lazarides Gallery in London is Stanley Donwood's new solo show, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now, featuring a series of etchings and paintings. Never one to shy away from complex printing processes, Donwood has this...

BOOK REVIEW: Latex for fun.(Die Gestallen Verlag)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 2, 2007... Die Gestallen Verlag, #27.99 Introducing the designer toy that aims to "stop the dictatorship of vinyl" and bring DIY ethics into this fashionably niche market: the humble balloon. Yes, as anyone who's ever drawn a face onto an inflated...

BOOK REVIEW: Naoto Fukasawa.(Phaidon)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 2, 2007... Phaidon #39.95 It's rare to flick through a book of product design and find that you want to own - that you need to own - almost everything in it, but this monograph of the work of Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa is one such book....

BOOK REVIEW: Core Memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 2, 2007... Chronicle Books, $35 The Computer History Museum in California's Silicon Valley provides the hardware for this new book of photographs of some of the world's most important contributions to modern computing. Mark Richards' fantastic...