Creative Review articles from May 2008

Creative Review archives from May 2008

On Arden and art direction.(Paul Arden)
May 8, 2008... It seems as though Paul Cohen's piece last month on the difficulties faced by advertising art directors has struck a chord. Cohen argued that there was a lack of respect for the part played by art direction and that, when it comes to the...

WHAT'S ON: BUG at BFI.(bfi Southbank)(interview with music video host Adam Buxton)(Interview)
May 8, 2008... Adam Buxton, host of bug music video night, talks to CR about making his own videos and working with Radiohead For music video fans, bug, a bi-monthly event held at the bfi Southbank in London, has become a must-attend event. So much so...

WHAT'S ON: British Posters: Central St Martin's.
May 8, 2008... Central St Martin's in London is showing Modern British Posters, an exhibition of posters from the collection of Paul and Karen Rennie. The show emphasises the interaction between modern art and graphic design in Britain during the middle...

WHAT'S ON: Apeloig: Vivo In Typo.(Philippe Apeloig)(Brief article)
May 8, 2008... If contemporary poster design is more your thing, Espace Topographie de l'Art in Paris is currently showing an exhibition of work by French graphic designer Philippe Apeloig. On show is a series of 30 posters designed by Apeloig, alongside a...

EXHIBITIONS: Brooklyn Museum.
May 8, 2008... Murakami, a blockbuster retrospective of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, has arrived at the Brooklyn Museum, where it comes complete with a Louis Vuitton gift shop. Until July 13, brooklynmuseum.org Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd....

EXHIBITIONS: Tate Modern.
May 8, 2008... Tate Modern hosts a show devoted to street art, featuring work by Blu, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gemeos, and Sixeart. May 23 - August 25. tate.org.uk Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors

EXHIBITIONS: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.
May 8, 2008... Fragile Democracy at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art brings together work by photographers focusing on communities in a state of economic or political transition. Includes August Sander, Immo Klink, and George Osodi. May 2 - June...

BOOKS: Objects & Postcards.(Brief article)
May 8, 2008... Martin Parr reveals his personal effects in two new books Photographer Martin Parr collects things. Not just on a whim; he really collects things. And new book, Objects (from Chris Boot) has gathered together a few of his most weird and...

BOOKS: Jan van Toorn Critical Practice.
May 8, 2008... Third in the series examining graphic design in the Netherlands is Rick Poynor's assessment of designer Jan van Toorn's vast creative output. As Poynor writes, "instead of smoothness, wholeness, good taste and perfection, he offers...

BOOKS: Blek le Rat: Through the Walls.(Brief article)
May 8, 2008... Apparently, when Blek le Rat was pasting up an image in a London street last year he was asked by an inquisitive passerby: "are you Banksy?" Such is the notable similarity between the two graffiti artist's work. But Blek, a Frenchman, has...

WEBSITES: Aye, Robot.
May 8, 2008... Brooklyn-based artist Gordon Bennett gathers old pieces of junk, from old tools to toasters, and creates robot sculptures Made from discarded Bakelite, rubber and metal, Gordon Bennett's robots proudly evoke a sense of 1950s futurism. We...

WEBSITES: Cassette Love.
May 8, 2008... Tapedeck.org is an online gallery, curated by Dusseldorf-based Neck of the CNSkillz graffiti crew, created, he says, "to showcase the amazing beauty and sometimes weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette". ...

Spin/3: Action Time Vision - A Spin project.
May 8, 2008... The third in design studio Spin's occasional, self-published series of papers, Action Time Vision presents a survey of Punk singles covers. Familiar territory, you might think, but the accent here is on the margins as much as it is on the...

ILLUSTRATION: Looking West From Centrepoint.
May 8, 2008... By Jonathan Farr Artist and illustrator Jonathan Farr spent much of last year perched on various balconies and fire escapes at some of London's landmark buildings. He was there in order to draw city scenes using various implements from...

BOOK DESIGN: 25x4Channel 4 at 25.(Brief article)
May 8, 2008... Although published to mark 25 years of Channel 4, 25x4 is not a formal history of the broadcaster. Instead, Spin was asked to design a book that would seek to highlight the channel's contribution to key social, cultural and political debates...

ADVERTISING: KFC Finger Lickin' Print campaign.
May 8, 2008... The strapline, Finger Lickin' Good hasn't been used by KFC for several years but it's making a comeback in this striking new print campaign from bbh. Each execution features an item from KFC's menu rendered using the good ol' method of hand...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard Learoyd - Twenty Two Photographs.
May 8, 2008... This beautiful book documents the photographs from Richard Learoyd's recent Inside A Camera show. To create the images, Learoyd turned a room into a giant camera obscura producing near life-size images on positive photographic paper. All the...

CREATIVE FUTURES: Bursary project.
May 8, 2008... For almost 20 years, Creative Review has been encouraging the next generation of talented creatives through our annual Creative Futures scheme in which we celebrate the promise of a selection of emerging talent in visual communications. ...

MUSIC VIDEO: Wanderlust video - Bjork.
May 8, 2008... The word 'epic' is bandied about quite regularly in the media, but here is a video that truly deserves the accolade. Almost a year in the making, the promo finds Bjork in a fantastical wilderness setting for her new single, Wanderlust. It is...

MUSIC VIDEO: One Day Like This video - Elbow.
May 8, 2008... Simple ideas can still be the most powerful, as evidenced by this video for Elbow's new track One Day Like This. The film shows a young guy performing tricks with a sign, and was filmed on spec by director Ringan Ledwidge after he found...

MUSIC VIDEO: Hollow Man video - REM.
May 8, 2008... Crush in Toronto directed this new video for REM's Hollow Man. They were asked directly by singer Michael Stipe to work on the promo, after he saw a series of films that Crush had shot for Douglas Coupland's new book, The Gum Thief. "He...

ILLUSTRATION: McCann Erickson London - Illustrated by Harry Malt.
May 8, 2008... Illustrator Harry Malt used up over 120 Posca Paint Pens during his most recent job: drawing all over agency McCann Erickson's London HG. Malt has been scribbling on the interior walls of McCann's art deco building since January, to tie up...

ADVERTISING: Adidas Originals 180 Los Angeles.
May 8, 2008... What is it with trainer brands and giant-sized models of their wares? This is the second campaign we have featured in CR recently in which a sports company has created over-size models of its shoes for an art project, the first being...

ADVERTISING: Audi RS6 Gymnasts - TV commercial.
May 8, 2008... In this visually stunning ad to promote the new Audi RS6, created by bbh and shot by Paul Hunter, a group of gymnasts perform choreographed routines that represent different aspects of the car's performance. "Every part of the Audi RS6 has...

IDENTITY: The Modern Flower Co - Rebranding/identity.(by Multistorey)(Brief article)
May 8, 2008... Design studio Multistorey has rebranded the London chain of florists The Modern Flower Company. "We felt the word 'modern' was very interesting as it will always have different connotations depending on when something has been labelled...

The rise and rise of the new mad men.
May 8, 2008... While Don Draper and the other burly ad men of Mad Men take us back to the so-called halcyon days of New York advertising (and of smoking) on our small screens, a new revolution is currently taking place in the New York agencies of 2008. The...

Spiritualized and Farrow: made for each other.(Interview)
May 8, 2008... "If you make something that's beautiful and with passion, it has value and it retains that value" Together, Farrow and Spiritualized have produced some of the most remarkable album sleeves of recent times. On the eve of the release of his...

Photo-graphy is about curiosity.(book by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin )
May 8, 2008... Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are about to set off for Perth, Australia where their latest exhibition of photographs is opening. Rather than touch on the mechanics of the trip that lies ahead, Broomberg offers the following: "Do you know...

Central Station: The other Factory designers.
May 8, 2008... In design terms, what do we think of first when we think of Factory Records? Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, or that famously costly New Order sleeve for Blue Monday? Or the yellow and black striped columns in the Hacienda, perhaps? But...

WEB DESIGN: Web 2.0h!
May 8, 2008... For advertising agencies and design studios alike there are few more troublesome tasks than designing the company's own website. While happy to design any number of sites for clients, when it comes to their own digital front door, many are...