Creative Review articles from June 2007

Creative Review archives from June 2007

Editorial - June 2007.(Editorial)
June 6, 2007... You can generally gauge the value of a prize by the amount of complaints it provokes. If no-one moans about who won and who shouldn't have, then you have the worst result of all - irrelevance. The D&AD Awards are always relevant, which is why...

LETTER: Saving Paper.(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2007... Re: CR's carbon footprint: I can't help but wonder how much more paper could be saved by not repeatedly mailing me (and presumably other CR subscribers) with subscription renewal notices. I am aware my subscription ends in July. Mark...

An Oblique Approach.(MadeThought)(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... Building on their work for last year's Design Miami event, MadeThought have created all the printed promotional materials for Design Miami/Basel, the "forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design" which takes place in...

Children Help Themselves.(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... Faced with the task of reinvigorating the communications for Save the Children, Johnson Banks decided to enlist the help of, well, some children. "They were having trouble cutting through and struggling to get to potential donors,"...

As Easy as Index, Exhibit.(open source software)
June 6, 2007... Having an online portfolio of your work is pretty much an essential these days. But if you don't know your HTML from your CMS, setting one up can prove a daunting task. Which is where Daniel Eatock's Indexhibit project comes in mighty handy....

Night Rider.(Richard Primrose's)(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... Showing as part of Tate Britain's epic new photography exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain is Richard Primrose's project NightBus Diaries, which documents London's nocturnal comings and goings over several months in 2005. ...

One to watch: Ruairi Robinson.(the animator)
June 6, 2007... Ruairi Robinson came to our attention recently thanks to an ad campaign for the Singapore Institute of Management (CR April) in which he animated the pixellated charms of eBoy. This, however turns out to have been a minor piece when compared...

I made the cars float.(Bikini Films's Mark Mason)(Interview)
June 6, 2007... In desire, Bikini Films' latest spot for Ford, a host of superfluous old cars are lifted heaven-ward by bunches of colourful baloons. SFX supervisor Mark Mason of Asylum describes his role on the commercial CR: Cars. Floating. How? ...

Crit: D&AD Awards.(Discussion)
June 6, 2007... Who won what, and why? We ask a panel of leading industry figures to discuss this year's D&AD Awards and the organisation's current status in the creative community CR: How do you feel about D&AD - what does it mean to designers and...

Goodby Gets It.(Goodby, Silverstein and Partners's Will McGinness)
June 6, 2007... If there's one traditional ad agency that has genuinely embraced new media, it's Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Creative director Will McGinness has played a major role in the integration of digital to the agency's work, so we asked him how...

Dear Mr Barnbrook.
June 6, 2007... With the launch of both a monograph and a Design Museum show, now seemed a good time to invite readers and peers to put their questions to Jonathan Barnbrook From Stephen Coles, Typographica: You're on a short flight. The person in the...

Get out of the sizzle business.
June 6, 2007... In the second half of his article on change in the ad industry, Tom Wnek explains how brands came to adopt unrealistic emotional values and how ad agencies can help them... In last month's article, I introduced the concept of "emotional...

Case Study: Haveyouseenthelight.co.uk.
June 6, 2007... The Problem: Increasing Take Up of Low Wattage Light Bulbs. Given the task of promoting low wattage light bulbs, A Line In The Sand conducted an EBA. Predictably, we discovered enormous interest in energy saving generally, coupled...

The naked city.
June 6, 2007... Sao Paulo: the city that said no to advertising. By Patrick Burgoyne. Photographs: Tony de Marco A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing. It...

The designer as editor.(Wallpaper's Tony Chambers)(Interview)
June 6, 2007... Wallpaper* creative director Tony Chambers has just been made the magazine's editor-in-chief. Jeremy Leslie asks him about this unprecedented switch of roles and his future plans for the titl-e Every few years, a magazine launches that so...

The Social Whirl.(digital advertising)
June 6, 2007... Gavin Lucas samples the latest gathering of digital advertising's great and good The understated cool of members' club Munzsalon in Berlin's hip Mitte district was the location of the latest Creative Social - a thrice yearly gathering...

Voyage Into The Unknown.(Enter_Unknown Territories, digital arts exhibition)
June 6, 2007... Enter_Unknown Territories, a new digital art festival in Cambridge, believes in putting the "active" into interactive, as Eliza Williams discovered Enter_Unknown Territories, a new media art festival and conference directed by Annette...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Castles of Ulster.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 6, 2007... It's been a historic month for Northern Ireland. As the power-sharing legislative assembly finally reconvenes, the evidence of past conflict is slowly being tidied away. But not everyone wants to forget. Some argue that both the murals and...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Making Magazines.
June 6, 2007... The latest book in the AIGA's Fresh Dialogue series tackles a subject close to our hearts, Making Magazines. The Fresh Dialogue event takes place annually, bringing together a group of emerging designers to discuss their work. This one,...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Penguin by Designers.(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... In June 2005, as Penguin Books turned 70, the Penguin Collectors' Society organised a study day that brought together a selection of the publisher's most celebrated designers. A lecture theatre in the V&A played host to presentations by Derek...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Saturday Sessions posters.(Studio Output)(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... In homage to the seemingly endless list of musical genres to emerge in recent years (see Emo, Electroclash, New Rave et al) Nottingham's Studio Output have had some fun creating these posters for the Ministry of Sound's Saturday Sessions....

PICK OF THE MONTH: Soyfriends fanzines.(Brief article)
June 6, 2007... Rui Tenreiro has stood firmly by his desire to print and distribute small editions of illustrated fanzines since founding Soyfriends, his Oslo-based publishing company, in late 2005 (fanzine collection shown, 14; page from Magnus Voll...

BOOK REVIEW: The Mother of All Journeys.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 6, 2007... Dewi Lewis Publishing, #25 Through a series of compelling colour photographs and old family snapshots, Dinu Li begins a pictorial journey into the memories of his 80-year-old mother who moved from southern China (image of a local portrait...

BOOK REVIEW: Mingering Mike.(Book review)
June 6, 2007... Princeton Architectural Press $24.95 From the late 60s onwards, Mingering Mike unleashed album after album and had a run of hit singles over his ten year career as a soul singer. By 1977 he'd released over 50 albums. Except that, in...

BOOK REVIEW: Typographic Systems.(Book review)
June 6, 2007... Princeton Architectural Press $19.95 Author Kimberly Elam of the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida has produced a beautiful little book on the rules for organising type in graphic design. She focuses on the eight major...

BOOK REVIEW: Jan Tschichold: Posters of the Avantgarde.(Book review)
June 6, 2007... Birkhauser #29.90 Jan Tschichold's typography will forever be included among the greatest examples of twentieth-century graphic design. Critical attention, however, has largely ignored his vast poster oeuvre. Martijn F Le Coultre's new...

BOOK REVIEW: Print and Production Finishes for Promotional Items.(Book review)
June 6, 2007... Rotovision #30 In Scott Witham's new book, the focus turns to the tactile: how promotional design can be made interesting to the touch rather than be just visually appealing. The book features a range of projects, showcasing major...