Creative Review articles from November 2005

Creative Review archives from November 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 2, 2005... Thank you to everyone who entered and supported Creative Futures this year. Although we have been running the scheme for 15 years, this is the first time that we have done it as an open competition. Before, our Creative Futures, which have...

Letter: Engaging Is Not An Option.(Letter to the Editor)
November 2, 2005... Nico Macdonald certainly seems to have worked up a sweat in his Practise, Don't Preach article [September]. Many of the points he makes, and the arguments that underpin them, deserve a comprehensive reply but because the space available...

Letter: Stumbling, But Still Going Forward.(Letter to the Editor)
November 2, 2005... Part of me sympathises with what Nico Macdonald was getting at in his piece about graphic activism. The glossy "off-the-shelf activism" of Adbusters and the re-spun First Things First Manifesto leave the reader with an uneasy feeling,...

Spin Give Four More.
November 2, 2005... More4, the new digital channel "for adults" launched this month, bringing a much-needed strand of intelligent documentaries, comedy and film to the Channel 4 brand. The channel's identity is designed by Spin, working with Channel 4's...

I Dropped My Balls for Sony.(Special effects supervisor Barry C)(Interview)
November 2, 2005... Special effects supervisor Barry Conner organised the unleashing of no less than 160,000 brightly coloured bouncy rubber balls in San Francisco, all in aid of Fallon's new spot for Sony Bravia LCD TVs. Gavin Lucas investigates CR: What is...

Crit: Guinness.
November 2, 2005... Guinness' noitulovE spot is the subject of discussion this month for our expert panel THIS MONTH'S PANEL 1. Jon Hollis: effects guru, director, Nice Shirt Films. 2. James Lowther: founding partner, M&C Saatchi. 3. Tracy De Groose:...

A Face for Radio.
November 2, 2005... Typeradio.org is an online radio station dedicated to typography. Irreverent interviews with type's great and good make for interesting listening, says Mark Sinclair As design initiatives go, it almost sounds like a wind-up. A web-based...

PICK OF THE MONTH: The Guardian.
November 2, 2005... Much has already been written about The Guardian's redesign (damn those monthly deadlines) but here's our two pennyworth. Best thing: the use of imagery, especially Grundy Northedge's double-page infographics (1) and the Eyewitness centre...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Experimenta billboard.(Brief Article)
November 2, 2005... Sometimes, designers just like to make life hard for themselves: Stefan Sagmeister was invited to design a billboard poster at the recent Experimenta festival in Lisbon. "We took advantage of the fact that newsprint yellows significantly in...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Breathless.
November 2, 2005... One of the problems with online ad campaigns has been an inability to match the craft skills of something like Sagmeister's project. Lean Mean Fighting Machine's work for the Breathless festival, however, is beautifully done. The festival, a...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Grandaddy video.
November 2, 2005... Another designer-goes-to-inordinate-lengths-to-make-work-using-old- technology-when-it-would-have-been-far-quicker-but-nowhere-near-as-much- fun-to-do-it-on-the-Mac-type story: Stewart Smith, who works by day at New York studio ORG, created an...

BOOK REVIEWS: Designs of the Times.(Book Review)
November 2, 2005... Roto Vision, #24.99 Lakshmi Bhaskaran offers a comprehensive guide to the key international movements and styles in design from 1850 to the present day, featuring all the "isms" you could ever need, including Futurism, Dadaism,...

BOOK REVIEWS: DVD-Art.
November 2, 2005... Roto Vision, #20 Following on from 2003's CD-Art, Charlotte Rivers has shifted tack to concentrate on DVD packaging. Kind of similar to her initial exploration into CDs, you might think? Not at all - this book offers a unique collection...

BOOK REVIEWS: The Paperback Art of James Avati.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 2, 2005... 010 Publishers, #24.95 The name James Avati may not seem familiar but his paintings are immediately recognisable, having graced the covers of hundreds of paperback novels from the 1950s to the late 1980s (examples shown). His work is...

BOOK REVIEWS: Phone Book.
November 2, 2005... Thames & Hudson, #9.99 As Henrietta Thompson remarks in the introduction to her thorough guide to the World's Favourite Invention, we already no longer use mobile phones, rather, we interact with mobile "devices". Thompson has trawled...

BOOK REVIEWS: Suitcase Body is Missing Woman.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 2, 2005... Book Works, #5 In this slim volume, Eva Weinmayr has collected a selection of the newsstand posters that offer teasers to the top news splashes in the daily papers (example shown). We probably see these signs every day, but it's only when...