Creative Review articles from May 2007

Creative Review archives from May 2007

EDITORIAL: May 2007.(Editorial)
May 2, 2007... I'd like to thank everyone who entered for helping to make this year's Annual not just a great survey of current work but also a fascinating guide to future directions. The Best In Book section, reserved for the finest work submitted this...

LETTER: Capitalism Is The Real Problem.(Letter to the editor)
May 2, 2007... It's good to see Creative Review trying to start the debate about climate change and the design profession's responsibilities, but it's a shame the elephant in the room never gets mentioned, namely capitalism. As good as it is that...

LETTER: A Question Of Ethics.(Letter to the editor)
May 2, 2007... The last edition of Creative Review dealt with a lot of the issues regarding design and the environment but didn't focus on the ethical versus earnings dilemma facing design companies: that is, whether or not to take the polluters' shilling....

Deluxe Drawing.(Penguin Books Ltd.'s special editions )(Brief article)
May 2, 2007... Since turning 60 last year, Penguin has been knocking out special editions of its back catalogue thick and fast, so you could be forgiven if you've gotten a little confused by them of late. However, as long as they continue to produce covers...

Kate Moss: The Brand.
May 2, 2007... Kate Moss has, in effect, been a brand for some time. Thanks to the combined efforts of Peter Saville and Paul Barnes, that implicit power has now found explicit form in a logotype devised to adorn first Moss's much-hyped designer line at...

Can Design Put A Price On Your Soul?(graphic arts exhibition)(Brief article)
May 2, 2007... Two third-year Kingston students have set up what they hope will be the first of a series of events bringing together design students and professionals. Powwow will be held on the afternoon of 27 June as part of the D&AD New Blood festival....

Art and The Man.("Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas")(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed in Oakland, California by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966, just over a year after the assassination of Malcolm X. The movement fervently rejected the subjugation of African...

GTF's Book of Tordisms.(Graphic Thought Facility)
May 2, 2007... A new book collecting together over ten years' worth of work from the Dutch product designer, Tord Boontje, is published next month. Designed by Graphic Thought Facility, the book is a beautifully designed object in its own right that...

One to watch: Hvass&Hannibal.(Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal)
May 2, 2007... Design studio Hvass&Hannibal comprise the talents of Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal. "We met around eight years ago when we were at school - back then we did an extra-curricular design class in the evening once a week," explains Hvass....

I Designed The Big Yellow Wave.(Clemmow Hornby Inge's Olly Williams )(Interview)
May 2, 2007... Olly Williams talks to Gavin Lucas about his role as art director of the new Wave commercial for Big Yellow Storage written by CHI and directed by Dougal Wilson CR: What is your job title? OW: Production Designer. CR: How did you...

Dear non-format.
May 2, 2007... With their new book, Love Song, about to be published, we asked readers of the Creative Review Blog to send in their questions for design studio Non-Format From James White: Labels like Lo Recordings have shown that they're in full...

A Small Medium.(badge design)
May 2, 2007... Artists and designers are transforming the humble button badge into a vibrant communications medium. By Gavin Lucas If you've never seen a badge being made, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the manufacturing process was a complex one,...

How did we get to be the bad guys?
May 2, 2007... Blamed for everything from obesity to global warming, the ad industry is under fire from all sides. So, asks Tom Wnek... Now and again you come across a killer fact that changes your outlook forever. This happened to me with the British...

A man apart.
May 2, 2007... By rediscovering his native visual culture, Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini has produced work that goes beyond Western limitations. Rick Poynor meets him While the graphic design of the Western world can take many different forms,...

Tube Tales.
May 2, 2007... John Simmons has just spent a year as London Underground's first writer- in-residence Go into the unknown. Who knows what you'll find or what might happen? It sounds like obvious advice for the junior explorer's club but I offered it to...

Strange Bedfellows.
May 2, 2007... While advertising quite liked the look of Surrealism, its artists weren't above a little flirting with the commercial world either. Paul Belford reports from the Surreal Things show at the V&A We live in exciting times. Scarcely a month...

PICK OF THE MONTH: This is England.(Movie review)
May 2, 2007... Shane Meadows' new film, This is England, meticulously recreates the summer of 1983 as it follows lonely 12 year-old Shaun as he is befriended by the local gang of skinheads and immersed in the music, fashion and attitudes of their culture....

PICK OF THE MONTH: Cravendale ads.
May 2, 2007... Pic Pic Andre, the directing team behind the charming French stop animation series Panique au Village, have created two hilarious spots for Cravendale milk in their trademark style. The ads see a group of housemates, an unlikely mix of a...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Focus 12 spots.(Brief article)
May 2, 2007... Focus 12, the charity that helps people recover from addiction, created this ad in an attempt to shock drug users into addressing their habits. The spot initially appears to document average scenes from an elderly care home before one of the...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Platform for Art.(modern art)(Brief article)
May 2, 2007... We've grown to hate the London Underground. We've spent years rattling up and down its decrepit routes, in deafening carriages where human beings are subjected to conditions long-since outlawed for cattle, tripping over tourists and wasting...

BOOK REVIEW: New Typographic Design.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... There's much in Roger Fawcett-Tang's new collection of the best in contemporary type design to cause wild excitement among typophiles. Great work from some of the leading practitioners in the field - Non- Format, Experimental Jet Set, the...

BOOK REVIEW: Image Makers, Image Takers.(Image Makers, Image Takers: The essential guide to photography by those in the know)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... If your photography skills are in need of some professional guidance, you could do worse than read through the 20 interviews crammed into this great book by Anne-Celine Jaeger. Billed as "the essential guide to photography by those in the...

BOOK REVIEW: RackGaki.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... Along with their book, Ryo Sanada and Suridh Hassan of documentary production company Studio Rarekwai have included a DVD that reveals some of the different urban environments that make up the Japanese graffiti artist's canvas. Graffiti...

BOOK REVIEW: Soviet Posters.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... Soviet propaganda posters are increasingly becoming a subject for collectors and this book features a selection of rare and unpublished pieces from archivist Sergo Grigorian's vast plan chest. Originally intended to bring revolutionary ideas to...

BOOK REVIEW: Beasts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 2, 2007... This illustrated compendium of mythological beasts is a casebook in Cryptozoology ("the study of hidden animals"). Each unique creature is brought to life by a contemporary artist or illustrator. Gorgons, the Kraken and the famous Nessie are...