Creative Review articles from November 2006

Creative Review archives from November 2006

Editorial: November 2006.(Editorial)
November 6, 2006... It's diicult to think of anyone who has made such an enduring contribution to British graphic design as Alan Fletcher. Visual styles come and go but Fletcher helped establish an industry. In 1961, with Colin Forbes and the American, Bob Gill,...

Greetings Grapple Fans!
November 6, 2006... The Luchadore are Mexico's famous masked wrestlers - Lucha Libre (which translates as "free fighting") their hugely popular sport that first wowed crowds back in the 1930s. Unlike wrestling in the UK and the US, the theatrics of the Lucha...

The Ultimate Product Demo.
November 6, 2006... Remember when ads for petrol were a common sight on our TV screens? Esso's Tiger, reassurances that we could be sure of Shell? What with global warming and dodgy goings-on in the Third World, oil companies have been maintaining something of a...

I did the music for Sony paint.
November 6, 2006... In fallon's eagerly awaited new sony bravia spot, paint, 70,000 litres of the stuf explodes over a glasgow estate. Peter Raeburn at Soundtree tells us about his crucial role on the commercial CR: How did you end up working on this...

One to watch: Accept & Proceed.
November 6, 2006... While CR readers may not be familiar with designer David Johnston's name, his work for Red Design in Brighton has consistently featured in these pages over the last year or so. Before his two year stint at Red, art directing projects for...

Works and play.
November 6, 2006... At London Metropolitan University's Met Works centre, designers can grow their own 3D images, print in metal and create works that are as much about touching as looking. Sean Ashcroft reports from a unique creative playground ...

The best ad agency in London?
November 6, 2006... Despite having only one official client, Channel 4's in-house agency, 4 Creative, has built a reputation for consistently stunning advertising campaigns. By Eliza Williams 4 Creative is no ordinary advertising agency. Described humbly on...

Together, apart.
November 6, 2006... Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce are the latest designers to join the exclusive Pentagram club: dissolving one partnership in the process, but joining another, more challenging collective. By Patrick Burgoyne Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce...

Reading the classics.
November 6, 2006... Penguin is celebrating 60 years of its Classics range - a series that has consistently set the standard for book jacket design. Steve Hare traces the Classics' rich design heritage and reveals the future plans for one of publishing's great...

The Designer Classics.
November 6, 2006... As part of the sixtieth birthday celebrations, Penguin invited several well-known designers to create a limited edition version of a favourite Classic. Architect and product designer Ron Arad chose Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and Fuel designed...

Mother's sixtieth anniversary ad campaign.
November 6, 2006... For the Classics' sixtieth anniverary, ad agency Mother was brought in to help change people's perceptions of the titles on the Classics list as heavy-going, unweildy works of literature. Mother's Al MacCuish and Darren Bailes talked us...

The many faces of football.
November 6, 2006... Sheridan Bird uncovers some unusual typographic choices adorning the backs of the world's top footballers and their fans History was made at the 1933 FA Cup final. While the result may still resonate with Everton fans (they beat...

SEEN: THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE.
November 6, 2006... The Sunday Times Magazine was once a driving force in British editorial design. Simon Esterson attends an exhibition of some classic covers to see if its legacy still holds Cover Stories Simon Esterson attends an exhibition of Sunday...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Uniqlo Explorer website.
November 6, 2006... Japanese digital experimentalist, designer, artist and engineer, Yugo Nakamura (www.yugop.com) continues to amaze. His latest work for clothing brand Uniqlo is typically brilliant. Access the Uniqlo Explorer section of www.uniqlo.com/us/ and...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Soulwax website.
November 6, 2006... Contrasting with Nakamura's high-tech wizardry is an admirably vintage- looking website for the band Soulwax by Belgian designers Milk and Cookies. Built partly on old Apple Macintosh Classic IIs, the site eschews complication, in keeping with...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Spurt press ad.
November 6, 2006... Communications agency Provokateur created this clever press ad apparently alerting readers to the surprisingly frank campaigning of airline industry organisation, Spurt. Featuring Spurt president Sir Montgomery Cecil (motto: "Sod them. Let's...

PICK OF THE MONTH: 50 Reading Lists.
November 6, 2006... Ever wondered which books Wim Crouwel would recommend? Or what reading material's been inspirational to Peter Saville? Well, design studio Spin's latest publication, Spin/2, features 50 reading lists compiled by the great and the good of...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Tactile tube station maps.(London Underground and Royal National Institute for the Blind provide new maps for visually impaired travellers)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... While Harry Beck's map of the London Underground remains a classic of information design, negotiating the tube stations themselves can still prove difficult. But for blind passengers, navigating the system is another matter entirely: to...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Battle of the Ad Bands film.(Man vs. Magnet)(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... This two-minute film features 65 different album covers, all of which are animated into a rather gory chain of events. Ugly Pictures (directors Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear) created the film for post- house Fluid's annual Battle of the Ad...

BOOK REVIEW: Josef Muller-Brockmann.(Book review)
November 6, 2006... This weighty monograph brings together the work of one of graphic design's most influential figures. Kerry William Purcell surveys the life of Muller-Brockmann charting his artistic growth from the drawings, paintings and ad illustrations of...

BOOK REVIEW: Future Systems.(Book review)
November 6, 2006... This impressive-looking book (all-silver cover, the title printed on the edges of the pages - designed by Suburbia, 3) charts the equally impressive rise of Future Systems, one of the UK's most celebrated product design and architecture...

BOOK REVIEW: Look at This.(Brief article)
November 6, 2006... Adrian Shaughnessy's collection of contemporary brochures, catalogues and documents is an uplifting read. Not just because much of the work on show is innovative and exciting (Sagmeister Inc's abstract for Columbia University, shown 5) but,...

BOOK REVIEW: An Anthology of Graphic Fiction.(Book review)
November 6, 2006... As the full title of this book has it, Ivan Brunetti's anthology of contemporary art comics from North America contains Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories. While suggestive of the frequently biographical nature of this kind of work,...

BOOK REVIEW: Print and Finish.(Book review)
November 6, 2006... Covering the design, manufacture and decoration of printed material, this new title from Ava's Basics Design series (its sixth) relies on the successful formula employed by authors Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris in the first five. And why...