Creative Review articles from October 2006

Creative Review archives from October 2006

Editorial - October 2006.(Editorial)
October 2, 2006... Every now and then magazines like to indulge in a little reader research. For some of the major glossies, this is a big deal, involving dozens of focus groups and worried frowns all round. Being of more modest means, we limited ourselves to...

Facts Made Fun.
October 2, 2006... As entries on the Wikipedia website soar over the one billion mark, it's difficult to see how the humble old printed encyclopaedia can possibly compete. A new book from Dorling Kindersley publishers, Pick Me Up, offers a solution: make facts...

Barbarian Comes to Click.
October 2, 2006... Benjamin Palmer, president and CEO of US online advertising leaders The Barbarian Group (CR July) is one of a host of top international speakers lined up for Click, Creative Review's one-day conference on online advertising. Palmer will be...

One to watch: James Joyce.(interview with a freelance designer)(Interview)
October 2, 2006... In common with many of his contemporaries, James Joyce supplemented his full-time job at a design studio with a stream of freelance work, including promotional badges and flyers for monthly clubnight It's Bigger Than (CR Oct 04) and window...

We took yell.com to the streets of London, Manchester, Glasgow.
October 2, 2006... AKQA's new integrated campaign for Yell.com sees geographically relevant ads on the sides of buses, helpfully interactive bus stops full of local info and, wait for it, useful online ads... We are all used to seeing advertising on the...

Crit: a Scanner Darkly.
October 2, 2006... This month our panel discuss Richard Linklater's innovative adaptation of the Philip K Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly CR: What were your initial impressions of the film? Philip: I think the film started really, really well - the opening...

Arty in the park.
October 2, 2006... Graphic Thought Facility's work for the Frieze Art Fair has helped establish the event on the international arts calendar. Mark Sinclair reports Later this month the Frieze Art Fair will take up its four day residency in the south east...

Flock it.(Wallpaper)(Periodical review)
October 2, 2006... It's wallpaper's turn to enjoy a retro chic revival, thanks to digital technology and talented designers. By Mark Sinclair The word "wallpaper" has, in our digital age, expanded way beyond its traditional meaning. Nowadays it refers to...

Benetton at 40.
October 2, 2006... Having abandoned the controversialism of its youth in favour of comfortable middle age, Benetton has lost its sense of creative direction, says Rick Poynor In the history of attention-getting advertising, Benetton must surely deserve a...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes.(Cult Rock Posters)(Book review)
October 2, 2006... 1972-1982 was a decade of great change in both music and design. Mark Blamire wonders if a new book of Cult Rock Posters does it justice I was intrigued by this book and what it promised. Not only did it focus on posters but "cult" rock...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Ian Davenport public art.
October 2, 2006... At almost 50 metres in length, Poured Lines, the recently unveiled super-painting by artist Ian Davenport, is one of the largest pieces of public art in London and certainly the largest ever outdoor painting shown in the UK. Commissioned by...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Dixie Chicks website.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... If you know anything about the Dixie Chicks it's likely to be because you a) have a keen knowledge of the US country music scene, or b) remember the news story where fans began boycotting the trio's albums after they remarked during a London...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Orange break bumpers.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... These suspenseful (yes, really) ad break bumpers are probably among the best we've seen in a medium where notoriously bad work gets a lot of air time. Essentially highlighting the four new phone packages from Orange (Raccoon, Canary, Dolphin...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Horizon identity work.(Television Program)(Television program review)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... While the intellectual output of terrestrial TV seems to be in terminal decline it's refreshing to see that a classic series like BBC2's Horizon (on air since 1963) can be brought up to date without losing any of its rigour. Digital...