Creative Review articles from May 2003

Creative Review archives from May 2003

Cast your votes, please. (Editorial).
May 1, 2003... It's Peer Poll time again. Our annual survey of the creative industries seeks to reveal the most admired practitioners at work today. We want to know who you think are currently the best in the business. The people and companies whose work you...

Letters.
May 1, 2003... CRITICAL OF COG The new Honda commercial by wieden & Kennedy [CR April and above] is currently receiving universal acclaim. I disagree. If the concept was the agency's original idea it would probably be the best ad ever made, but it isn't....

Ginger. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... This striking sans serif typeface was created by German designer Jurgen Huber, who is currently senior designer at MetaDesign in Berlin. Published as a FontFont from FontShop International, Ginger is currently available in the UK through both...

Infidel. (First Sight: New Type Design).( Jonathan Barnbrook's latest font, available at www.virusfonts.com.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The name of Jonathan Barnbrook's latest font, Infidel, is apparently "a reference to some of the Christian against Muslim' claims that more emotive people have expressed about the Gulf conflict." It is based on Christian Mediaeval manuscripts...

Prensa. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Prensa is the Spanish word for press. Effectively simple and available through www.fontbureau.com, it was created by Cyrus Highsmith who describes designing the typeface as "wrapping outside curves around the inside, deliberately creating...

Lime. (First Sight: New Type Design).(This cool matrix face was designed by Alexander Gelman)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... This cool matrix face was designed by Alexander Gelman and is available directly through his New York studio's website at www.designmachine.net. Of the font, which is available in both regular and mono-space versions, Gelman tells us: "This...

Kub. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Created by French designer Jean-Lou Desire, currently in his third year at Camberwell College, Kub, which is part of the Acme Fonts library is available to buy through Fontworks UK at www.type.co.uk. Designed in four versions: regular, light,...

Moto. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Created by designer Philippe Cuendet of Swiss type foundry //DIY)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Moto was created by designer Philippe Cuendet of Swiss type foundry //DIY. Says Cuendet: "Each character that makes up Moto is a sign which can be brought together with other characters to create a weave." Apparently, it has been built so that...

Epic. (First Sight: New Type Design).( Available at Fletcher's foundry: www.abbicci.co.uk)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... "The Epic alphabet was redrawn from a poster which I found in designer David Malone's 1972 edition of the Graphis Poster Annual," explains Epic's creator Tim Fletcher of his font. He continues:" From what I can remember the title had 'Epic' in...

Aroma. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Drawn by Bern-based designer, Lopetz, of Swiss studio Buro Destruct, this original typeface came about because the design team decided that they wanted "to create a human font with a medical feel". Apparently based on a series of circles, Aroma...

Chevin. (First Sight: New Type Design).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... "I wanted to design a multi-purpose rounded family with a useful range of six weights and true italics that would work at both text and display sizes." explains designer Nick Cooke of his creation which is available from his G-Type foundry...

First sight.
May 1, 2003... 1 Kenco Rappor commercial. "Live now, sleep later" is the strapline for a new commercial for Kenco Rappor. The ad aptly entitled Eyefull is a daring departure for the coffee brand, featuring a couple of youths travelling across The States...

Designers Against Sewage. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Surfers Against Sewage and manufacturer Oxbow have invited leading designers to decorate a surfboard in an attempt to raise awareness of coastal pollution. Aphex Twin (above left), David Carson (middle) and Jamie Hewlett (right) are among...

Bloc look after diesel's protokids. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Diesel launches a website for its Protokid childrenswear range this month, created by London-based Bloc. Several years in development, Protokid.com allows users to build their own virtual child and let them loose in Prototown. Bloc had...

John Brown and LCP run the relay. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... As part of its role as sponsor of this year's London College of Printing degree shows, John Brown Citrus Publishing has helped the students to produce a unique publication. Relay is an attempt to reinvent the degree show catalogue bringing...

And the $10,000 goes to. (First Sight).(web site logo design competition from The Fink Tank)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... When you're starting a new business, coming up with a distinctive logo Is always an onerous task: for the launch of his studio-cum-production company, The Fink Tank, Graham Fink decided to run an open competition to devise his. Eighteen...

Reddy goes for the head shot. (First Sight).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... When presented with a photograph of VW's new V10 engine, BMP head of art Mark Reddy thought immediately of an image he'd once seen by photographer, Guido Mocafico. "I saw this shot of a skull that he'd done about three years ago and when I...

Ones to watch: Neasden Control Centre. (First Sight).
May 1, 2003... Neasden, in north-west London, has mare than a hint of Vic and Bob about it. It's one of those suburban London place names, like Norbiton or Cheam, that you can imagine the comedy duo relishing the sound of. "It's a nowhere place trying to...

I was the lynx choreographer: Los Angeles-based choreographer Richmond Talauega talks to Gavin Lucas about his work on the lynx pulse commercial. (First Sight).
May 1, 2003... CR: What's your profession/job title? CR: How long have you been doing that and how did you get started? RT: Choreographer/dance performer CR: How did you land this job? RT: Well, I'm 27 and I've been dancing professionally for...

Communications and media: each month we will explore a different theme bringing you the latest and best work produced in that area from around the world.(short quotes)
May 1, 2003... Faster broadband is shown off in Six Million Dollar Man spoof complete with bionic AOL fella. Agency: BBDO NY. Creatives: Jimmy Siegel, Jen Dehghan, Ted Sann, Adam Goldstein. Director: Jake Scott, RSA Contagious behaviour is the theme of...

Now we are seven: new projects from onedotzero take it beyond the realms of the festival circuit.
May 1, 2003... AS IF UNDAUNTED BY organising the world's largest digital film festival and planning equally exploratory capsule events around the country, onedotzero are set to release a DVD series, publish their first book and extend their new role I as a...

Return to The Matrix.(movie relaunch; socal impact)
May 1, 2003... THE MATRIX IS ALL AROUND US: WITH THE LAUNCH OFA SEQUEL THIS MONTH, MARK SINCLAIR LOOKS AT HOW THE FILM INFLUENCED, AND WAS INFLUENCED BY, SUCH A WIDE VARIETY OF MEDIA THE MATRIX WAS PERHAPS THE MOST visually influential film of the last...

Speaking without talking.(book review)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... DESPITE SPENDING CENTURIES LEARNING HOW TO WRITE, WE STILL PREFER TO COMMUNICATE SOME INFORMATION IN PICTURES: PATRICK BURGOYNE EXAMINES A NEW BOOK ON THIS WORLD WITHOUT WORDS IN AN ESSAY ENTITLED ALPHABET, Victor Hugo wrote that "all...

The bird has flown.
May 1, 2003... Hamburg is the latest city to sport the Miami ad school's flamingo logo: How will it benefit Europe's ad industry? Asks Paula Carson SKINT, TRAILING FROM placement to placement, surviving on a ration of baked beans and Pot Noodles...It's a...

Book of letters.(Julian Rothenstein's latest book)
May 1, 2003... The latest edition from julian rothenstein's redstone press is a treasure trove of modernist typography. Roanne bell takes a look at abz JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN IS A GREAT collector," declares the art critic, writer and curator Mel Gooding. He...

Obscure delights.(Topfoto digitizes the Charles Walker Collection)
May 1, 2003... NOSTRADAMUS, BORN 500 years ago this year, had remarkable powers. Writing in verse in French, Latin, Greek and a secret alchemical code, the Green Language, he is said to have predicted the Great Fire of London, the landing on the moon, and the...

No ordinary conference. (Seen Reviews).(International Design Indaba)
May 1, 2003... Garrick Hamm visits Cape Town for the 6th International Design Indaba Let's get one thing straight about conferences. I don't like them. The very word conjures up ghastly images of nametags, bad coffee, ill-fitting suits, low calibre speakers,...

Seeing is believing. (Seen Reviews).
May 1, 2003... An alternative Indaba view from our competition winner, Elke Dossler "Congratulations! You have won our trip to Design Indaba. Please phone me as soon as possible", read the compliment slip that arrived in the post on Friday night. I screamed....

Peace commercial. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FROM W/BRASIL PUBLICIDADE, SAO PAULO Washington Olivetto has become something of an advertising legend, not just because he has won more awards than just about anyone but also because he was kidnapped last year in Sao Paulo, where ad...

BT logo. (Pick of the Month).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FROM WOLFF OLINS BT's prancing piper has become synonomous with the scorn with which large-scale corporate identity projects are generally treated by the British press and public. After its launch in 1991, its blobby looks were universally...

Blur promo. (Pick of the Month).(video for Blur music, Out of Time)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FROM EMI/PARLOPHONE This rather melancholy story of a woman serving on a Royal Navy ship in the Gulf was put together using footage from the documentary Warship by director/producer Anthony Makin. His film explores the lives of the men and...

Powerade commercial. (Pick of the Month).(animated sports characters)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FROM WIEDEN + KENNEDY, AMSTERDAM Those over the age of 16 might not appreciate the latest spot for sports drink Powerade but, considering the target market for this vile-looking blue energy drink, perhaps that is no bad thing. The...

Nike Presto campaign. (Pick of the Month).(campaign combines graffiti, live action)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... FROM WIEDEN + KENNEDY, TOKYO The Nike Presto range of clothing and accessories is geared at those who like to keep on the move. Befitting this is an exuberant campaign which combines graffiti and live action. Graffiti artist David Ellis...

Earth from the air exhibition. (Pick of the Month).(Earth From The Air, Yann Arthus-Bertrand)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... From webcommunico/Impact photos Earth From The Air, Yann Arthus-Bertrand's awesome, technicoloured study of the world, photographed from the sky, can be admired at a free open-air exhibition in the gardens of the Natural History Museum,...

Walking maps. (Pick of the Month).(walking plan for London, England)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... From transport for London Aside from the congestion charge, Ken Livingstone's bid to reduce traffic delays includes the walking Plan for London, an initiative that aims to show travellers and residents that London can be a walker-friendly...

Fox Sports commercials. (Pick of the Month).(FOX Sports Net)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... From cliff freeman & partners, New York. Heavy on the slapstick and schadenfreude these spots for 54321, Fox sports' nightly extreme sports show, take a refreshingly realistic view of the sometimes uber-macho world of high-energy sports. In...

London Underground poems. (Pick of the Month).(Greenpeace advertising campaign through poetry)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... From greenpeace It all started with a poetry writing competition in the Greenpeace offices at Christmas time: the staff challenge was to write spoof poems about George W Bush and oil giant Esso. Greenpeace thought the results so good that...

Deep sites. (Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Thames & Hudson, [pounds sterling]18.95 There have been so many website compilations published in recent years that the scope for doing anything else is very limited. Compiled by former editor of Eye magazine, Max Bruinsma, Deep Sites (cover...

Street Graphics New York. (Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Thames & Hudson, [pounds sterling]12.95 The latest in the Thames & Hudson Street Graphics series, this New York edition is the most effective to date, which is hardly surprising considering the city's indisputable history of being the world...

RSVP. (Reviews).(Rsvp: The Very Best of Invitation and Promotion RSVP: the very best of invitation and promotion design )(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... RotoVision, [pounds sterling]27.50 Design Week features editor, Sara Manuelli, explores modem invitation and promotion design in her new book, RSVP, collecting together some of the coolest, most original invites you're ever likely to...

Graphic Design for the 21st century. (Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Taschen, [pounds sterling]19.99 Graphic Design for the 21st Century (cover shown, 4), showcases the work of what its au hors, Charlotte and Peter Fiell, dub 100 of the world's best designers, each apparently selected for the "avant-garde"...

Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio. (Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Princeton Architectural Press, [pounds sterling]16.99 Delving deep into the mysterious and obsessively technical world of Ham amateur radio enthusiasts, creative Danny Gregory and designer Paul Sahre bring us this remarkable insight into...

Splendid pages. (Reviews).(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Lund Humphries, [pounds sterling]45 This beautiful and fascinating book (cover shown, 6), documents an unpublished collection of what the author, Julie Mellby, describes as "book arts". These include one-off books, mass produced artists'...

A promising beginning. (Seen Reviews).(first Grafic Europe 2003 conference)
May 1, 2003... Paula Carson goes to Barcelona for the first Grafic Europe conference Last month, Barcelona played host to the inaugural Grafic Europe 2003, a pan-European congress on graphic design. The war may have put off a few, and for those who did...