Creative Review articles from July 2009

Creative Review archives from July 2009

WHAT'S ON: Javier Mariscal.
July 1, 2009... The Spanish designer is creating an immersive experience at the Design Museum in London in his first UK retrospective Javier Mariscal's practice spans painting, graphic design, textiles, corporate identity and film, and all elements of...

WHAT'S ON: Kaleidescopic art.
July 1, 2009... Arsis and Thesis, shown above, is one of the swirling, hypnotic images that is included in New York-based designer and illustrator Andy Gilmore's exhibition, Black Math, that is showing in July and August at the Pool Gallery in Berlin. ...

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Nouvelle Vague 3 album sleeve.
July 1, 2009... Dylan Kendle/Tomato Dylan Kendle of design studio Tomato has created the artwork for the third Nouvelle Vague album. The creation of the cover was a mixture of the digital with the analogue - for example, the numerals on the cover were...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Warp20 campaign.
July 1, 2009... YES/Dan Holdsworth This year marks the 20th anniversary of record label Warp, which is celebrating the occasion with a series of live events, exhibitions and special releases, all produced under the moniker Warp20. London's YES Studio has...

ADVERTISING: Nike Basketball commercials.
July 1, 2009... Wieden + Kennedy Portland We may have seen puppets appear in a fair bit of advertising of late, but it will take a cynical soul not to be charmed by this latest series of spots for Nike from Wieden + Kennedy Portland, which feature...

IDENTITY: The Workshop.
July 1, 2009... John Smedley identity Having carried out the last major rebranding of UK-based fine knitwear maker John Smedley some 20 years ago, Colin Scott of Sheffield-based studio The Workshop was in a better position than most to determine where...

'The traditional studio photographer is about to die'.
July 1, 2009... So says leading car photographer Carl Lyttle. And the cause? CGI. While its origins may lie in film, Computer Generated Imagery is increasingly being used for both still images and to create image resources for use in all forms of...

Maps for these territories.
July 1, 2009... Making sense out of complex data is an unenviable task but US designer Ben Fry works to illustrate the art within the highly scientific. By Mark Sinclair Ben Fry is the director of Seed Visualization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a...

Don't call it post.
July 1, 2009... Visual effects is now an integral part of the filmmaking process, but what can we expect to see next? Gavin Lucas has the latest from the R&D labs Post-production isn't a great term for what we do anymore," says Framestore's head of...

We are open.
July 1, 2009... Hellicar & Lewis create all their projects using open source software and when completed, they give them away for free. By Eliza Williams Among the many pieces of bite-sized wisdom in his 2003 book It's Not How Good You Are, It's How...

So, how was D&AD this year? any good?
July 1, 2009... After last year's dismal results for graphic design at D&AD (no pencils, only two nominated pieces of work from 39 chosen for the annual), the 2009 awards boasts 120 graphic design projects In Book, four silvers and one gold. So, has the...

TYPOGRAPHY: Obama saves type conference.
July 1, 2009... Space: depending on your perspective, it is either all or nothing; pregnant or the ultimate void. In a graphic design context 'space' leans towards the infinite, affecting everything from cramped kerning to spare, zen-like layouts. So...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Finding wonder in the everyday.
July 1, 2009... The theme of this year's PHotoEspana is 'the everyday', an appropriate subject for a festival that celebrates a medium now so ubiquitous in our lives. Since the arrival of digital photography and the internet, we snap pretty much everything...