Creative Review articles from September 2005

Creative Review archives from September 2005

Letter: Stay Young and Curious.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2005... Re: Shocked By Queen's Bust [Letters, August]. What a dull world Paul Allison inhabits. A world in which all design conforms to strict rules and is unambiguous. Whether you like or dislike the work of Johnny Hardstaff [above], he is an...

Letter: Off to Buy an Iron.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2005... I have to express my delight at the latest advertising campaigns by Tesco. I don't think there has ever been a more perfect example of what an advert should be. Product image - so I know what I'm looking for. Product description - so I know...

Letter: Car Ads Set to Endure.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2005... I really enjoyed the Car Issue of Creative Review, in particular Paula Carson's Pushing Tin feature looking at car advertising's mostly successful move away from cliche. Through a period in which marketeers have been professing the death of...

HEAL'S: Lippa Pearce Draw Strength from Heal's.
September 1, 2005... Heal's have commissioned a bold new visual identity from design group Lippa Pearce. The furniture and home design specialists approached Lippa Pearce about the redesign last year. Says director Domenic Lippa: "In recent years, the retail...

Brody Goes Home.(HomeChoice)
September 1, 2005... In a return to the UK corporate scene, Neville Brody has created a fluid brand identity programme for video-on-demand/digital TV service HomeChoice. For the past five years, Brody's Research Studios has received virtually no UK work despite his...

One to Watch: 12Foot6.
September 1, 2005... Specialists in animation for web and broadcast, and website building, 12Foot6 is an eight-person strong, five year-old London studio, headed up by founders Dave Anderson and Tom Mortimer. The pair share mutual friends and first met at a...

I turned Central Sydney into Stunt City.(Guy Norris)(Interview)
September 1, 2005... Australian stunt co-ordinator Guy Norris takes time out from organising car crashes and dare-devil acrobatics to speak to Gavin Lucas about his role on director Ivan Zacharias' crash-tastic, Sure For Men/Rexona deodorant spot, Stunt City ...

The Cartoon Network.(Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Although now regarded as a unique art form in its own right, it has taken a long time for narrative illustration to be taken seriously. A new book featuring some of the best contemporary work in the medium is published next month. Its...

French Revelation.(TBWA\Paris)
September 1, 2005... TBWA\Paris' success in international advertising awards has helped to put French advertising on the map. Paula Carson meets Erik Vervroegen, the controversial president/creative director on a mission to shake up Paris A dreary haul...

Appropriate Responses.(London terrorist bombings, 2005)
September 1, 2005... One story dominated the front pages of the world's press on 8 July. Mark Sinclair looks at how the images of those terrible events were captured and how the decisions over their use were made A London double-decker bus, its roof blown off...

Practice, don't Preach.(graphics)
September 1, 2005... In the past, politically-motivated designers produced powerful work for campaigning organisations. But today's graphic activism, argues Nico Macdonald, is characterised by ill-informed grand-standing, which makes for bad design and even...

He Tried Harder.(Helmut Krone. The Book.)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Helmut Krone helped define modern advertising art direction in print. A new book looks at his life's work and at the Creative Revolution he was a part of in the 1960s. Paul Belford looks on in admiration It's fashionable these days in ad...

Pick of the month: Armstrong/Futura collaboration.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Sharp-eyed cycling fans may have noticed some intriguing graphic details on Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's time trial bike. The wheels feature icons designed by renowned graffiti artist and former bike messenger Futura, who came up...

Pick of the month: Pampers print campaign.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... In a break from tots in padded undergarb, these Pampers print ads are bang on target. Written by Saatchi & Saatchi New York, they feature the drawings of well-loved illustrators Tim Jessell, Cathy Gendron, Jimmy Pickering and Rien...

Pick of the month: 1 London poster.
September 1, 2005... Following the terrorist attacks in London, a stark message has appeared on poster sites: "7 million Londoners, 1 London." If you wondered in the past why on earth London has a Mayor, then Ken Livingstone's role is perhaps at its clearest now...

Pick of the month: Allianz Arena.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... A footie team's colour is arguably the most distinctive part of its brand. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have applied this concept to the chameleon-like facade of the Allianz Arena, created for Germany's FC Bayern Munchen and TSV 1860...

Pick of the month: Grid-it!
September 1, 2005... The RCA degree show always throws up clever ideas for design-related products. Our pick of this year's crop was Astrid Stavro and Birgit Pfisterer's Grid-it! notepads and shelves. Grid-it! features a selection of design grids (the underlying...

Pick of the month: SICAF titles.
September 1, 2005... The winner of the Animasia Grand Prize for short film at SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon Animation Festival) customarily creates the title sequence for the following year. Thus, 2004's winner, Marc Craste has made this haunting piece...

Pick of the month: Electric 80s album cover.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Heard the one about Peter Saville's record cover for New Order that was so expensive it lost its label Factory money every time someone bought a copy? Well, now there's a contender to the crown. Compilation CD, Electric 80s' cover features a...

Book Review: Fevolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Illustrator Eric Feng, more commonly known as Feric, was born in Taiwan but moved to the US, eventually graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York in film, video and animation. His illustrative art, a mystical blend of intricate...

Book Review: All-American Ads of the 80s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Editor Jim Heimann and author Steven Heller have compiled another trove of advertising goodies: this time, from the 1980s (cover shown). While a great visual record of the print advertising of the time, it's also a social history of the...

Book Review: Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Steven Spielberg believed the set for the War Room in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was the best designed in the history of film. Pitched somewhere between a huge bomb shelter and a poker game, it's also probably the most famous of all...

Book Review: Open Mic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Photographer Ewen Spencer throws himself into another youth movement in his latest book and again manages to get a unique intimacy with, and honesty from, his subjects. The results are a series of stunning shots documenting the UK's "grime"...

Book Review: reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... How do you find 50 of the most promising young photographers in the world today? Following the methodologies preferred in this survey of the contemporary scene would certainly be a start (cover shown). An exhaustive undertaking, the three...