Creative Review articles from November 2008

Creative Review archives from November 2008

AGENDA: No ads here.(digital advertising)(Editorial)
November 3, 2008... Last month Creative Review staged our first conference in New York. The subject of Click:NY was digital advertising. Or at least we thought it was. Speaker after speaker, however, informed us that we'd got it wrong. 'This isn't...

WHAT'S ON: Onedotzero.
November 3, 2008... The moving image festival returns to London this month. CR talks to creative director Shane Walter about what's in store Creative Review: What can we expect from onedotzero this year? Shane Walter: One highlight has to be a new...

WHAT'S ON: Alan Fletcher: PM Gallery.
November 3, 2008... An exhibition of work by Alan Fletcher will take place at the PM Gallery, the extension to architect Sir John Soane's home in Ealing, west London. The show, titled Alan Fletcher - The Father of British Graphic Design, is a touring...

WHAT'S ON: Nadav Kander: Flowers East.(Nadav Kander photographers)(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Flowers East in London is showing a series of images by Nadav Kander, taken along the Yangtze River in China. "Using the river as a metaphor for constant change, I have photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to...

EXHIBITION: Paris Photo.
November 3, 2008... Paris Photo, the annual photography festival held in the Carrousel du Louvre, is taking place this year from November 13-16. The fair this year includes a spotlight on Japan, curated by Mariko Takeuchi, which will include works by both classic...

BOOKS: Meet White's Books.
November 3, 2008... Ex- Penguin designer David Pearson has a new venture that hopes to reaffirm traditional methods of book production White's Books will surely be on a few Christmas lists this winter, thanks in no small part to designer David Pearson's art...

BOOKS: David Moore: The Last Things.
November 3, 2008... Buried deep below the streets of central London there exists a highly secure Crisis Management facility. Photographer David Moore was permitted remarkably free access to document this network of government offices in 2006. His new book reveals...

BOOKS: Self-published.(Christopher Griffith )(Brief article)
November 3, 2008... Photographer Christopher Griffith explains why, along with three colleagues, he has decided to go into the book business With sales of over 20,000 copies worldwide, States, photographer Christopher Griffith's 2000 monograph, was a...

WEBSITES: Jacket required.
November 3, 2008... Sleevage gathers new and classic music cover art from the world over. We spoke to one of its editors, Ashley Ringrose Creative Review: Who is behind Sleevage? ASHLEY RINGROSE: Sleevage was created by Soap Creative, a digital creative...

WEBSITES: Steven Hill's Movie Title Screens.
November 3, 2008... Since the mid 1990s, film fanatic Steven Hill has been steadily accumulating screengrabs of film title sequences. By capturing and storing these images he has, he says, acquired a great appreciation for film title design. Now Hill has made his...

WEBSITES: Synesketch.
November 3, 2008... Apparently musician and producer Pharrell sees "weird colours" when he hears music. It is believed that he has synaesthesia, a neurologically- based phenomenon in which "stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary...

WEBSITES: Design & sustain-ability.
November 3, 2008... In the first of a series of three articles, designer Anna Gerber questions graphic design's role and responsibilities.... We're making progress, right? Marks & Spencer is charging us for plastic carrier bags, the Design Council has...

From creator to commuter: the stories behind LU's classic posters.(London Underground Ltd.)(London Transport Posters)
November 3, 2008... We might complain about all the advertising that we're subjected to across London today, but take a look at images of the capital from the mid 19th century, and it's apparent that things could be far worse. Few illustrations were used then...

Corporate websites into strange and revealing poetry.
November 3, 2008... In corpoetics nick asbury turns the glib pronouncements of corporate websites into strange and revealing poetry that challenges brands' attempts to own the language A small revolution has taken place in the world of copywriting. Once a...

"If I could play piano Kilimanjaro would've been a band.(Olu Michael Odukoya )(Kilimanjaro magazine )
November 3, 2008... Dispensing optician and founder of a cutting edge arts magazine/ the two don't really go together, somehow. Yet, until recently, Olu Michael Odukoya was balancing the two. Odukoya took a risk and published the first issue of Kilimanjaro...

Nintendo DS: gaming for grown-ups.
November 3, 2008... When the only thing plummeting faster than a multinational corporation's sales are its prospects, to whom does it turn to plot a route back to success? Accountants? Market analysts? Lawyers, even? No, step forward the humble designer,...

Karsten Schmidt and the art of coding.
November 3, 2008... Karsten Schmidt entered into his chosen profession earlier than most. At 13 he signed up to an after-school computer club in his home town of Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx Stadt) in East Germany and, over the course of a year, wrote and designed...

Conference Goa.(Kyoorius Design Yatra)(Conference news)
November 3, 2008... Patrick Burgoyne reports from Kyoorius Design Yatra, India's burgeoning creative community conference Goa is not at its best in September. It's pouring down: steamy, stormy and wet. Tourists don't come to Goa in September - designers do....

DESIGNER MONOGRAPHS: Vanity fair.(graphic design monographs )
November 3, 2008... Design monographs are no longer the hot properties they once were. Michael Johnson suggests that's no bad thing Architects dream of their first building going up. Product designers, their first range going on-sale in the Apple store....