Creative Review articles from June 2006

Creative Review archives from June 2006

Editorial.
June 5, 2006... There are a number of interconnected ideas running through this issue. In our piece from page 33, JWT New York's Ty Montague looks at what this thing we currently call advertising might look like in the future, while some accompanying work...

LETTER: Doesn't Newark Want Us To Think?(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... It was a struggle to extract a coherent argument from Quentin Newark's muddled and contradictory article [Today's Designer: Warts and All, May]. Newark misrepresents those he disagrees with. He claims that I support mindless rioting....

LETTER: Pleasure Beach Lacks Excitement.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Re Johnson Banks' new identity designed for the Pleasure Beach [CR April]. Having lived in Blackpool for 23 years, I realise that the resort does have a poor attitude to design. However, the Pleasure Beach identity is one of the worst...

LETTER: Thanks For E-CR.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Can I just say how pleased I was to find out you are producing a downloadable version of the magazine [E-CR]. As an ex-pat art director very happily working out here in Sydney for the last five years, I religiously collect my CR each month from...

You May Be Seeing a Lot of This.
June 5, 2006... This summer's FIFA World Cup will be seen by a cumulative audience of more than 37 billion viewers. Host Broadcast Services (HBS), the company responsible for co-ordinating the streaming of all the live footage, commissioned London design...

Eighty Seven.
June 5, 2006... Eighty Seven A new book by Jonathan Ellery Available July 2006 Distributed internationally by Art Data +44(0)20 8747 1061 Printed by St Ives Westerham Press www.westerhampress.co.uk Published by Ellery/Browns ...

Guardian and Leo Burnett Lead Way at D&AD.(Guardian Newspapers Ltd.)(Leo Burnett Company Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... The redesign of The Guardian newspaper and a self-promotional website for ad agency Leo Burnett Canada both took coveted Golds at this year's D&AD awards. The prizes will be particularly pleasing for the organisers: The Guardian's...

I made the tango viral.
June 5, 2006... These days, no ad's a success until it's been spoofed. Tango has just produced its own version of the Sony Bravia spot, but with bouncy fruit instead of balls. Its director, Jim Gilchrist, talks to Gavin Lucas CR: We interviewed special...

One To Watch: Wallzo.
June 5, 2006... Having held down a day job in the art department of publisher Simon & Schuster for the last three years, Darren Wall's recently launched independent studio, Wallzo, is the culmination of countless evenings and weekends satisfying his own...

Outside the box.
June 5, 2006... Despite being chief creative oicer of JWT New York, Ty Montague insists that he is no longer in the ad business. So what kind of business is he in? A new survey of "unconventional brand communication" ofers up some suggestions I spend a...

What is flickr?
June 5, 2006... While a simple idea lies behind photo-sharing site Flickr, it holds a wealth of inspiration for anyone involved in visual communications, says Mark Sinclair Ultimate photo album, visual email server, inspiration source, globally...

Made for sharing.
June 5, 2006... A Creative Commons licence allows others to use, but not to steal, your work. Eliza Williams explains why it's an idea whose time has come Imagine if, every time a new film came out, all the footage was made available on the internet for...

Wyman's way.
June 5, 2006... Lance Wyman's role in the design of the 1968 Mexico Olympics identity made him a legendary *1/4ugure in the graphics world, but his career didn't end there. Armin Vit looks back over a body of work that exudes a powerful simplicity rarely...

Sex and Drugs.
June 5, 2006... Patrick Burgoyne listens out for the secrets of online success at the latest Creative Social Last month witnessed a mini-European invasion of New York as the cream of the continent's online advertising talent gathered for the latest...

PICK OF THE MONTH: www.hi-res.net.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Funny what you can do with the off-cuts from client work. Web designers Hi-ReS! have made good use of an idea that was supposed to form part of the work they did for Marilyn Manson's website - using full screen video as the background to a...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Coca-Cola commercial.
June 5, 2006... Director Nagi Noda (CR March) has reprised the sumptuous visual wonders of her promo for Yuki's Sentimental Journey in this ad for Coke. The ad, while visually a new direction for the brand, continues the ethos of positivity and generosity...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Tara Donovan, Untitled (Plastic Cups).(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Just a couple of blocks away from Ian Wright's New York exhibition (see cover and p27) another artist was turning the mundane into a work of transforming beauty. Tara Donovan's Untitled (Plastic Cups), at the Pace Wildenstein gallery, is an...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Apple ads.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... OK Apple, we get the point: a Mac is cool, a PC is not. But while PCs might have duff ads with dodgy motion graphics, at least they don't have the smug factor that's a staple of Apple's marketing. In the latest campaign from the US, two...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Fentimans campaign.
June 5, 2006... While Jack White was jotting down lyrics (in between bouts of bank- balance related laughter) for his Coke spot, typographer David Wakefield was at home gleefully using his Victorian printing press to produce very different promotional material...

PICK OF THE MONTH: John Smith's campaign.
June 5, 2006... TBWA\London has launched a new TV campaign for John Smith's, its first since the Peter Kay campaign. Danny Kleinman, the director of the Kay ads, is back at the helm for this series, which introduces a new character, the No Nonsense...

BOOK REVIEW: A2Z & More Signs.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 5, 2006... Written and compiled by designer Julian Rothenstein and writer Mel Gooding, A2Z & More Signs brings together the best of the pair's two previous books on alphabets, lettering and signage and includes a hefty selection of recent discoveries...