Creative Review articles from May 2005

Creative Review archives from May 2005

Letter: Silk Work Will Stand Test of Time.(Letter to the Editor)
May 3, 2005... Reading Mark Reddy's review of the AOP Awards [April] reminded me of an old film I sat through earlier in the week called Please Don't Eat The Daisies. The film stars David Niven as a food critic who attracts interest in his writing by...

Letter: Can you help Oxfam?(Letter to the Editor)
May 3, 2005... Can You Help Oxfam? Oxfam GB has a modest internal agency that produces much of the inspiring creative that helps Make Trade Fair, helps Make Poverty History and develops fundraising ideas. Our creatives are expected to come up with...

Letter: Taking the P.(Letter to the Editor)
May 3, 2005... I can't believe it. I was just on my way back H, after popping out to the B to get some M from the CP, when I thought I'd stop off at the NA to pick up the latest copy of Creative Review. And to my Utter Horror, was greeted instead by a CR!...

Corrections etc.(Correction Notice)
May 3, 2005... The photographs of the new Churchill Museum (CR March, pages 20 and 22) were taken by John MacLean. More of his work can be seen at www.jmaclean.co.uk Also, Merrydown's Robots spot (CR March, page 36) was directed by Mark Denton with...

Warped New Vision From Cunningham.(Chris Cunningham)
May 3, 2005... Rubber Johnny has been three years in the making. The film from Chris Cunningham is inspired by Aphex Twin track Afx 247 v.7. Planned as a TV ad for the album Druqks, it has gradually expanded to promo length and finally a six minute short...

RPT Takes Type to a New Dimension.(Rapid Prototyping Technique)
May 3, 2005... Rapid Prototyping Technique, or RPT, was developed to allow architects and industrial designers to make models from 3D CAD files. The machine reads in data from a CAD drawing and lays down successive, millimetre- thick layers of liquid or...

Norway's Show of Strength.
May 3, 2005... In 1905, Norway became a fully independent nation following the peaceful dissolution of its union with Sweden. This year, the country celebrates its centennial of independence in style, with a number of cultural events held throughout Norway...

One To Watch: SSSR.
May 3, 2005... Kristian Hammerstad, Marc Reisbig and Yu Sato graduated from Central St Martins college last year. Collectively known as SSSR, the trio have already created three beautifully crafted, animated videos for Lex Records act Subtle, garnering...

We Made The Chemical Brothers' Robot.(Interview)
May 3, 2005... Ben Cronin, of London's Framestore CFC, oversaw the creation and use of a giant mechanical robot in The Chemical Brothers' latest promo, Believe. Gavin Lucas talks to him about his role in the making of the video CR: What's your...

Made in Africa.
May 3, 2005... Johannesburg advertising agency, New#tork, is reaching out to local artists to give its work a distinctive flavour. Patrick Burgoyne reports South African advertising has been punching above its weight on the international awards scene for...

70 covers for Pocket Penguins.
May 3, 2005... A selection of the 70 covers commissioned for Penguin's seventieth anniversary project, Pocket Penguins, where each artist had seven days to work on one title, for a fee of #70: Jorge Luis Borges' The Mirror of Ink cover by Angus Hyland...

Penguin's seventieth anniversary.
May 3, 2005... To celebrate its seventieth anniversary, Penguin has commissioned the Pocket Penguins series: 70 covers from 70 different artists, who were paid just #70 each. By Steve Hare It's Penguin's seventieth birthday; an age when you might be...

A Life in Type (Part Two).(Interview)
May 3, 2005... In the second half of our exclusive interview, Simon Esterson asks type designer Matthew Carter about the ideas behind some of his most famous typefaces and discovers the importance of a good Parisian lunch Simon Esterson: Lets talk about...

Born To It.
May 3, 2005... For a graphic designer, having your own print works to play with must be just about the ultimate toy. Issay Kitagawa makes full use of his. By Patrick Burgoyne Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember. It...

Teenage Dreams, So Hard to Beat.(Joseph Szabo's photographs)
May 3, 2005... Joseph Szabo's photographs of teenagers in the 70s and 80s convey the euphoria of youth while presenting a candid view of the rituals of adolescence At the opening of the Joseph Szabo show, Teenage, at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in...

Pick of the month: SureCheck commercial.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... Utterly bonkers and bound to go down a storm at Cannes, this bizarre ad for home pregnancy test kit, SureCheck, features a unit of stork- soldiers brandishing huge pregnancy test sticks, while singing a drill song with lines such as Test,...

Pick of the month: Scotchshield money stunt.(Rethink Communication)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... Round our way, young Asbo-dodgers dont need a reason to smash the glass in a bus shelter, its just their little bit of fun. God knows what theyd do if presented with $2.2 million. In reality, only the top layer of about 500 Canadian dollars...

Pick of the month: Graphic Junkies website.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... There are some great web-based photography sites (Flickr being currently the most talked-about) but none are more compelling than this collection of pictures from a Georgia police officer. Says J, who prefers to remain anonymous: All of the...

Pick of the month: Interpol promo.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... A pleasantly creepy promo by photographer/director Charlie White for band, Interpol. Whites elaborate prosthetics and cinematic staging transfer perfectly to this film which, like his Understanding Joshua series, features strange, synthetic...

Pick of the month: McDonalds rap product placement.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... When rapper Busta Rhymes released Pass the Courvoisier, sales of the went up cognac by 6.1 per cent. Never slow to miss a sales trick, its somewhat inevitable that McDonalds would want a piece of the action. Thus, in the US, McDonalds is...

Pick of the month: Amaztype website.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2005... Amaztype is an online search facility with a difference. Type in a subject or authors name and see it spelled out in hundreds of tiny book covers drawn from the pages of Amazon. You can then click on an image to access Amazons star-rating for...

Book Reviews: Euro Deco.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 3, 2005... Euro Deco Thames & Hudson, #22.50 This compendium brings together six out-of-print books from Chronicle's Deco Graphic Design series which was compiled by New York Times art director Steven Heller and designer Louise Fili. The six...

Book Reviews: GHavisualagency.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 3, 2005... Ghavisualagency Booth-Clibborn Editions, #28 Graphic Havoc have always been hard to place as a design studio - part of their charm is that their work courses through fine art, graffiti, design, illustration and photography. Hence the...

Book Reviews: No Man's Land.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 3, 2005... No Man's Land Chris Boot, #50 This generous landscape book features 120 duotone black and white images of photographer Larry Towell's journeys to Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. Between 2002 and 2004, Towell documented the broken...

Book Reviews: This Ain't No Disco.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 3, 2005... This Ain't No disco Thames & Hudson, #12.95 Jennifer McKnight-Trontz's collection of "new wave" album covers in fact looks at a much wider range of musical genres, brought together under a late-70s to mid-80s new wave banner (The...

Book Reviews: Basics Design: Layout.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 3, 2005... Basics Design: Layout Ava Books, #14.95 The second installment of Ava's superb Basics Design series takes an authoritative look at the fundamentals of any print design job: the layout. Authors Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris (a...