Creative Review articles from June 2003

Creative Review archives from June 2003

Maintaining standards. (Editorial/Letters).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... From page 57 of this issue we have a complete run down of the nominees for this year's D&AD Awards. As ever, the list contains some great work (and a few notable absentees). In recent years D&AD has made great strides in making the awards more...

Letters.
June 1, 2003... NIGER'S NOT FUNNY Niger Adventure [shown above] is one of the finalists at the OFFF O3 Online Flash Film Festival. The festival showcases the work of contributors from many different countries around the world. It is hosted in Barcelona...

Venice Biennale French Pavilion brochure. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Paris-based designer Rik Bas Backer has created this graphic identity for the French Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale, to be held this month. This year's celebrated artist is photographer Jean-Marc Bustamante and shown here is the press...

Record sleeve: losing my feeling by Geal. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... This striking sleeve for the latest release of record label Urban/Defjam's dance act Geal, was created by Frankfurt-based studio Elkes Graflscher Hort. The illustration, created in-house, was inspired by the paintings of Robert Motherwell and...

Levi's interactive time quilt. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... New York-based interactive agency R/GA have created an interactive timeline for Levi's to celebrate the brand's 150th anniversary. Created in Flash and accessible through www.levistrauss.com, www.levi.com and www.dockers.com, the timeline...

Esther Franklin catalogue. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... This beautiful and unusual catalogue for British fashion designer Esther Franklin's autumn/winter 2003 collection was created by London-based studio Made Thought. Striking shots by photographer Nino Munoz of skinny models wearing Esther...

Animated Coca-Cola logo. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... New York-based design and production studio panOptic, have been commissioned by advertising agency Berlin Cameron/Red Cell to create an animated logo to run as the end tag of each of the six 30 second spots in the current Coca-Cola campaign...

Record sleeve: Times Two by Tes. (First Sight).(ehquestionmark)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Taking the album's title, Times Two, as a starting point, designer ehquestionmark introduces mathematics into the design of this ingenious sleeve for New York Hip Hopper TES' debut release. The spaces in the blue grid double in size from left...

Takashi Murakami football. (First Sight).(designed for Molten, to be sold by Collette)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Fresh from his series of Louis Vuitton handbags, Japanese painter and sculptor, Takashi Murakami, has now been commissioned to design a football by manufacturers, Molten, It's available in both pink and blue from French shopcum-gallery,...

MeBox. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... MeBox is a new range of cardboard storage boxes with a unique labelling feature, designed by London-based Graphic Thought Faqility. The end of each box has a grid of perforated discs: you can press them out to create text, numbers or symbols....

Impulse poster. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Photographer Rankin has been brought on board to shoot posters advertising Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer. In a decidedly more demure effort than his book Bailey+Ran kin (see pg 89), the celeb photographer's image features a sparkling nude,...

Rolling Stone print campaign. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Bartle Bogle Hegarty New York has developed a witty new print campaign for magazine Rolling Stone. The ads which will appear in trade press are targeted at media planners and aim to promote the magazine as the indispensable youth culture...

Absolut print campaign. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Undaunted by the success of previous Absolut Vodka ads, photographers Coppi Barbieri have shot an elegant new US campaign for the brand, playing the familiarity of the distinctive bottle shape to their own advantage. In the new work, much is...

Volvo print campaign. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Photographer Toby McFarlan Pond has shot a new print campaign for Volvo S80 through Dutch agency MVBMS Fuel Europe. Previous work for the brand followed a clean, light style, but creatives Tony Bradbourne and Murray White believed a darker,...

Stella TV & print campaign. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Spectre director Danny Kleinman has shot Stella Artois' first worldwide TV spot, for agency Lowe. Set on an Alpine slope by a remote pub, it features a delivery man who accidentally drops a keg of Stella down the mountain trashing a sports car....

Bombay Sapphire campaign. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... From the warm crackle of a vinyl record through to the silhouetted details of a Japanese watercolour, this 60 second animation from Psyop, New York for Bombay Sapphire Gin, is simply hypnotic. The spot, along with a live action film from Rhythm...

Irn-Bru commercial. (First Sight).
June 1, 2003... Edinburgh-based Leith Agency has created a new ad for soft drink Irn-Bru. Directed by Blink's Dougal Wilson, the spot, titled Baby, is set in a hospital. An exhausted woman in labour looks set to give up "pushing". The midwife tries to entice...

Creative Peer Poll 2003. (First Sight).(art magazines and photographers; meshed briefs)
June 1, 2003... CHAMBERS DECORATES WITH WALLPAPER Wallpaper * has been something of a rocky ship since the departure of founder Tyle Brule. The appointment, however, of new editor-in-chief Jeremy Langmead last year and of former GQ designer, Tony Chambers,...

I was the face of the future: Gavin Lucas catches up with Los Angeles-based actor Joel Moore to ask about his role in new print and TV ads for Siemens' new Xelibri phones. (First Sight).
June 1, 2003... CR: What is your profession/job-title? JM: Actor CR: How did you get started/what was your first job? JM: I am originally from Portland, Oregon and had an agent there, Rachelle Ryan, who became a manager down in LA. She is the...

Man and machine: physical and mechanical perfection come together in CDD's latest Mercedes spot. (First Sight).
June 1, 2003... THEY HAVE THIS CONFIDENT WAY OF working. It got me thinking about what that extra impetus is that leads people to do things exceptionally well," says ODD art director Walter Campbell of client Mercedes and the idea behind Movement, the agency's...

Finance: each month we will explore a different theme bringing you the latest and best work produced in that area from around the world.(advertisements from Europe and U.S. companies)
June 1, 2003... These eye-catching press ads for Guardian Unlimited financial advice are from agency BMP DDB. Clever art direction sees the use of mid Twentieth Century classroom-style posters, each featuring various types of the same creature or natural...

Reference or rip-off? Two Swiss artists are considering legal action over Honda's COG commercial.
June 1, 2003... HONDA'S COG COMMERCIAL, FIRST revealed exclusively in our April issue, has received praise from seemingly all quarters and a great deal of subsequent coverage. But two Swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, aren't quite so enamoured with...

Non-Format: in the second of our ongoing series, we profile design studio Non-Format, revealing them, their work, the kit they use and the space they use it in.
June 1, 2003... KJELL EKHORN AND JON FORSS FIRST met in 1997 through mutual friends. With a shared background (Ekhorn is Norwegian, Forss British with a Scandinavian name) they already had something in common, but then found that they also had similar views on...

Welcome to Venville: photographer Malcolm Venville's first book, Layers, is a remarkable insight into a remarkable career.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... MALCOLM VENVILLE DESCRIBES HIS first book as "a celebration of working in advertising, a retrospective of advertising photography and an emotional guide to taking photographs". Layers is an absorbing insight into talent whose roots lie in a...

The Paris commune: as artists, illustrators and graphic designers, 9eme concept offer a collective alternative.
June 1, 2003... STANDING BY THE CHATEAUX DE Vincennes Metro station, holding only a printed jpeg of his car as a guide, 1 was spotted by my contact, Mambo, graffiti artist and member of 9eme Concept. En-route to his studio, we drove through the Bois de...

Chosen ones: despite the economic gloom, entries for the forty-first D&AD Awards were up on last year, but was 2003 a vintage crop?
June 1, 2003... This year, for the first time, Creative Review is happy to bring you the complete list of nominations for the forty-first D&AD Awards, still the most coveted prize in the business. Over the following 19 pages you will find details of every...

The dandy adventurer: Andre Mazal visits photographer Peter Beard's exhibition in Paris. (Reviews).
June 1, 2003... Peter Beard is one of the last great adventurers. Ink and collage carve the paper of his photographic prints like ritual incisions as he recycles decorative patterns to produce a recognisable aesthetic, mixing autobiography with a kind of...

Issues that challenge. (Reviews).(review of book about avant-guard magazines; Merz to Emigre and Beyong)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Fernando Gutierrez on a new survey of avant-garde magazines There have been a number of books on magazine design in recent years, but few have dared to cover as much ground as Steven Heller's new book Merz to ?migr, and Beyond. It's great...

Iraqi freedom playing cards. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM UNITED STATES DEFENCE DEPARTMENT These cards featuring a list of 55 key regime leaders identified by the coalition government are selling like hot cakes on the internet. Developed originally by the United States Defense Department,...

Wisden cricketers' almanack. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM JOHN WISDEN & CO Is nothing sacred? Retired colonels throughout the Home Counties will have been spluttering into their pink gins at the revelation that Wisden has radically changed its hallowed front cover. Eric Ravilious' famous...

KFC campaign. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM BARTLE BOGLE HEGARTY, LONDON Sun-kissed, skinny beauties at cool parties with funky Motown music and erm... buckets of KFC. Could there be a more unlikely combination? Countless times it's been said that the route to great advertising...

Speeddater viral campaign. (Pick of the Month).(Artificial Environments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS SpeedDater i the latest pulling phenomena for singletons (note, we didn't call them desperate) wishing to meet that special someone. Nights are arranged where 50-60 men and women meet and spend about three...

Siemens Xelibri commercial. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM MOTHER A wry comment on the effects of cloning in a not-too-distant future? This campaign for a new mobile range (see also p22) reveals more a comical dystopia where, it's implied, Xelibri phones will stand out in a world full of...

Massive attack graphics. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM UVA The reviews of Massive Attack's 100th Window tour have been a bit hit and miss, but nearly every one had something complimentary to say about the show visuals. Developed by UVA (United Visual Artists), an LED wall was used as the...

Bailey+Rankin book. (Pick of the Month).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... FROM RANKIN PHOTOGRAPHY There's been many a parallel made between celebrity photographers Rankin and David Bailey. Sealing the equation the two have been brought together in a lavish Z bound tome from Farrow Design. The signed, numbered,...

Molson print campaign. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM CRISPIN PORTER BOGUSKY Cheeky campaign for Molson Beer, featuring ads running concurrently in men's and women's magazines. The version in Cosmo portrays an "average" Molson drinker as a man at "the intersection of confidence and...

Kellogg's Special K campaign. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... FROM LEO BURNETT, CHICAGO There's a certain breed of advertising that mercilessly patronises the women it purports to target. Kellogg's Special K is no exception, portraying women more often than not as diet-obsessed half-wits. So it's a...

XXX: The Power of Sex. (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Rockport, [pounds sterling]34.99. Joshua Berger, a partner in Plazm design agency, investigates the powerful role that sex plays in graphic design. The book features an array of creative work that has employed sexual imagery: from album...

Outsize. (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... RotoVision, [pounds sterling]29.99 A first look at this book, Outsize: Large Scale Graphic Design (cover shown, 2) begs the question, what qualifies as large scale graphic design? In this case, projects small enough to be held in the hand...

Designs on the Land. (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Thames & Hudson, [pounds sterling] 27.50 Designs on the land: Exploring America from the Air collects together more than 400 amazing photographs by Alex S MacLean, who has documented the history and evolution of the American landscape, from...

Type for the Internet. (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... AVA Publishing, [pounds sterling]24.50 A useful reference for interactive designers everywhere, Type for the internet and other digital media was compiled by German designer and lecturer in typography, Veruschka Gotz. It provides accessible...

American Signs. (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Monacelli Press. $40 This wonderful book entitled American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66 was put together by Lisa Mahar, co-founder of New York architecture and design firm MAP. Tracing the evolution of motel signs on Route 66...

Where's My Space Age? (Reviews).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Prestel, [pounds sterling]22.95 Charting the rise and fall of futuristic design, Sean Topham reveals how our obsession with space travel has influenced modern design. In the 50s and 60s, magazine and comic illustrations fuelled the...