Creative Review articles from June 2005

Creative Review archives from June 2005

Editorial.(Grrr commercial receives numerous awards)(Editorial)
June 2, 2005... by Patrick Burgoyne, Editor In 2000, Abbott Mead Vickers' Surfer commercial for Guinness became the first spot ever to take two D&AD Gold awards in one year. It was, everyone agreed, a stunning piece of work: all power and glory, the...

Letter: Why Should I Work For Free?(Letter to the Editor)
June 2, 2005... Further to Candi Brown's letter in the April issue (Job Centres Don't Understand Us), I am also a recent graduate of a BA Hons in graphic design and am struggling to find employment. Despite studying for five years and gaining a National...

Letter: People On Placements Not Eligible.(Letter to the Editor)
June 2, 2005... I completely agree with Candi Brown's comments. I graduated in 2003 and since then have been building my career up steadily. Last November I suffered a huge setback meaning I have had to go on to Job Seekers' Allowance and was told I have to...

Letter: Food and Nudes Don't Go.(Letter to the Editor)
June 2, 2005... Your gushing editorial and article on the Golden Wonder posters [April] is presumably the result of the dearth of anything else to write about. But when I saw this campaign, two things struck me: the unpleasantness of using young children...

Portelly launches Charity Edition.(exhibition by photographer Michael Portelly will raise money for National Advertising Benevolent Society)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... With his stunning imagery and technical innovation, Michael Portelly became one of the world's leading underwater photographers and filmmakers. He is particularly known for a series of Cheltenham & Gloucester commercials from the mid-90s,...

Click: CR's online advertising conference.(Click: The European Online Advertising Forum)
June 2, 2005... Online advertising is the fastest growing medium around - up 60 per cent last year to #653 million according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. It's bigger than radio and has cinema in its sights. But how creative is it? The death of...

D&AD Success for CR.
June 2, 2005... Creative Review has had two covers accepted for this year's D&AD Annual, the first time the magazine has achieved such recognition. The covers concerned are March and June 2004. March was created by placement student, Mark Errington,...

One to Watch: Erwan Frotin.
June 2, 2005... A Hepworth-esque sculpture of cauliflowers and spring greens, delicately balanced; jewel-like insects on a shiny, hard, watch casing; exotic fruits teetering deliciously between slabs of chocolate. To say that the man behind these painstakingly...

I Gave Vivienne Westwood a Bloody Nose.(art buyer Kate Mahon of Ogilvy and Mather about her role in ad)(Interview)
June 2, 2005... In Harrods' new press and poster campaign from agency Ogilvy & Mather, ten fashion designers appear battered, bruised and dishevelled - the idea being that they're fighting to get their wares into the store's new tailoring department. Art...

Class of 05.(achievements and awards)
June 2, 2005... Honda's Grrr commercial was the big winner at this year's D&AD Awards taking two Golds. There was Gold too for Channel 4's on-air identity films and for Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct. Here is the full list of Gold and Silver winners ...

CR vs Warp Winners.
June 2, 2005... Ten filmmakers won the chance to make a film for a new Warp records track in our competition. Here we profile them and present the ten new films, which can be seen on our free DVD, details on p8 For any CR readers who don't know about our...

Graphics: the new wave - StudioThomson.
June 2, 2005... Brothers Chris and Mark Thomson left Yacht Associates and Aboud Sodano respectively to start up their own. With a love of tactility and old- fashioned craft they hope to produce work with enduring appeal. By Gavin Lucas Chris Thomson was...

Graphics: the new wave - TillerWilliams.
June 2, 2005... Having donned their fashionably outsized shades and said goodbye to David James' and Martin Jacobs' studios respectively, Andrew Tiller and Will Williams announced their start-up in a blaze of stylish self- promotion Andrew Tiller and...

Graphics: the new wave - Yes Studio.
June 2, 2005... Alice Cowling and Simon Earith left Blue Source to "make work we care about alongside clients and collaborators we respect". Gavin Lucas met them at their studio Based in an artists' studio in Hackney, YES comprises the talents of the...

Process: Honda - Yume No Chikara.
June 2, 2005... How do you follow on from Honda Grrr? Wieden + Kennedy team Sean Thompson and Chris Groom take us through the intricacies of their latest commercial for Honda, Yume No Chikara, from initial brief to the production and final film THE BRIEF...

Rights and wrongs.(privacy)
June 2, 2005... Recent legal changes mean that securing permission to use celebrity images is getting more and more complicated. Thankfully, there are people who can help, says Sarah Saunders Was the Douglas-Zeta Jones marriage ceremony really a private...

Modern Lives.(Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 )(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... Mitch Epstein's Recreation captures humanity in all its banal glory. Stephen Doyle enjoys his journey through 1970s and 80s America Mitch Epstein's Recreation hits the table with a thump. Weighing in with a belly-flop at four pounds 14...

COMPETITIONS/AWARDS/PRIZES: YoungGuns.(YoungGuns International Advertising Award)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Trevor Beattie is to head up this year's jury for the Sydney-based YoungGuns International Advertising Award. Open to creatives under 30 worldwide, Young Guns aims to identify and award the best young creative talent in the world. This...

Pick of the month: Penguin website.(www.happybirthdaypenguin.com)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Should you wish to take in the entire collection of Pocket Penguins (CR May), with authors ranging from Homer to Will Self, we recommend you log on to www.happybirthdaypenguin.com, a new website from Poke. A nifty little site it is too, with...

Pick of the month: IsNot Magazine.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Bi-monthly publication IsNot Magazine, from Mel Campbell, Natasha Ludowyk, Stuart Geddes, Penelope Modra and Jeremy Wortsman, is so-named because of its unusual format and distribution method. The magazine comes in the form of a 1.5m x 2m...

Pick of the month: Sub_Urban magazine.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Described by its creators as "a bi-annual underground multimedia urban youth culture magazine", Sub_Urban is one of the best publications of its type that we have seen. Technically, it's very simple - a CD-Rom- based flick-book - but it's the...

Pick of the month: Nike commercial.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick, features in this spot as the inspiration for an amusement park ride. Promoting Nikegridiron.com, a microsite encouraging consumers to develop their mental and physical strength, the ad features a man...

Pick of the month: ClearRX packaging.(Milton Glaser and Associates )(Brief Article)
June 2, 2005... Up until now, US standard-issue pharmaceutical packaging had remained virtually unchanged since the Second World War. Designer Deborah Adler of consultancy Milton Glaser and Associates in New York decided to revamp the packaging as part of...

BOOK REVIEW: Underbelly.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... Fantagraphics, #13.99 As a painter, graphic novelist and toy maker, Dave Cooper's talents bridge several areas of artistic expression. This body of work from the Canadian artist, however, is a selection of 50 highlights from his most...

BOOK REVIEW: Todd Schorr: Dreamland.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... Last Gasp, #25 Such is the incredible detail within Todd Schorr's large-scale canvases that this, his most recent book of paintings, includes several "close- up" pages of various parts of the works. It suggests that nothing beats seeing...

BOOK REVIEW: The Most Special Day of My Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... Last Gasp, #25 Also from Last Gasp publishers (who seem to have a handle on the best in American painting and illustration) is the debut collection by The Clayton Brothers. After art college in California in the late 90s, the pair...

BOOK REVIEW: The Ecstasy of Things.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... Steidl, #32 This collection of photography is the work of 20 researchers who travelled across Europe, the US and Canada examining historical photographic collections. The point of their exercise was to bring together an archive of work...

BOOK REVIEW: Experimental Formats 2.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 2, 2005... RotoVision, #29.99 With more channels of communication available than ever before, printed matter now has to work much harder to attract attention. Fortunately, as this book proves, there are many design groups up to the challenge (work...