Creative Review articles from September 2006

Creative Review archives from September 2006

Editorial: September.(Editorial)
September 4, 2006... Nothing works any more. We used to have TV channels that served up our favourite programme at 8pm - it was up to us to be there, on the sofa, to catch it. The news came on paper, through the letterbox or from the street corner. We bought it,...

LETTER: Newark's Got Me Going.(Letter to the editor)
September 4, 2006... Quentin Newark's article [CR May] was so wrong on so many counts. Now with his letter in response to Rick Poynor's criticisms [CR July] he's really got me going. The nub of his argument would seem to be to laud the "multitude of wonderful...

LETTER: Good Work Takes Time.(Letter to the editor)
September 4, 2006... I have been meaning to write this letter (rant) for some time now as the occurrence I'm about to describe just keeps repeating itself over and over. My concern is over design studios and ad agencies (mainly ad agencies) and their...

Type Cast.
September 4, 2006... Set for release next year, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of its subject's creation, Helvetica is a feature length documentary film about graphic design, visual culture and the impact of design's favourite typeface. First time...

Black and White Town.(web site Blanka organizes a graphic poster design exhibition at SEA Gallery )
September 4, 2006... Later this month, an exhibition at London's SEA Gallery will reveal the results of a simple brief given to 28 of the best designers working today to create an A1 black and white poster. 1: An Exhibition in Mono has been brought together...

We built coca-cola videogame.
September 4, 2006... Coca Cola's latest cinema spot, Videogame, is a fully CG animated sing- along from Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes. Ben Cowell and Reece Millidge tell us about their roles building and animating the spot CR: What are your job titles? ...

Crit: Rem Koolhaas and Thomas Demand.
September 4, 2006... This month our panel discuss both the Serpentine Gallery's Rem Koolhaas pavilion and its Thomas Demand show CR: What are your initial impressions of the Thomas Demand exhibition? Sam Jacob: The show's great, really great. Firstly it's...

Life less ordinary.
September 4, 2006... Whether it be for advertising, editorial, or his personal work, Dan Tobin Smith has made an art of transforming the ordinary into the sublime. By Eliza Williams Dan Tobin Smith has a knack of photographing the everyday and turning it into...

A life in pixels.(Apple Computer Inc.'s Susan Kare speaks about modern graphic arts)
September 4, 2006... As the creator of Apple's original graphic interface icons, Susan Kare has a unique place in design history. She talks to Sean Ashcroft about a modern art with ancient roots Few designers are afforded the chance to work on an epic scale,...

The GUI Collector.(graphical user interfaces designer Marcin Wichary launches a website www.guidebookgallery.org)
September 4, 2006... The practice of "collecting" graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is still a way off from earning its own noun, so there's no ready description for Marcin Wichary - other than to say here's man who's a world authority on the evolution of GUIs,...

Cut out and keep.
September 4, 2006... A quirky London shop has been providing the creative community with copyright-free imagery for 20 years. Mark Sinclair visits the capital's most intriguing visual resource, The Dover Bookshop The Dover Bookshop cuts quite a distinctive...

Stuck in Traffic.(trends in the automobile industry)
September 4, 2006... Car websites have been the source of some of the web's most innovative work. But do they still cut it? Victor Benady revs up and reports back Stuck in Traic The car industry has made a virtue out of making complex lumps of metal, rubber...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Arctic Monkeys promo.(Leave Before The Lights Come On)(Video recording review)
September 4, 2006... Following his recent live video for Fake Tales of San Francisco (CR August), HLA director John Hardwick has teamed up again with the Arctic Monkeys to film the promo for their new single, Leave Before The Lights Come On. The contrast between...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Aftermath book.
September 4, 2006... When photographer Joel Meyerowitz first visited the gates of Ground Zero, camera in hand, a week after the attacks on the World Trade Center, he was turned away. He was told by a policeman that photography was not permitted as the area was a...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Agency.com viral.
September 4, 2006... As we write this, we have our heads in our hands. A tricky manoeuvre to pull off, granted, but we speak metaphorically. "Why," we moan, "why did they do it?" As if the public image of the ad industry wasn't bad enough already, here comes...

PICK OF THE MONTH: Coke Zero TV spot.
September 4, 2006... A lot of men drink Coke. Quite a few of these men probably want to get a little trimmer, look a little leaner, but they just can't bring themselves to endure the strange looks and the taunts should they ever pluck a Diet Coke (or a Lady...

BOOK REVIEW: Alas! Smith & Milton.(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Cyan Books #16.99 A brutally honest tale of success, failure and the huge pressures involved in working in the design industry. Written by Nick Asbury and Howard Milton, one half of the titular design team, it tells the story of Smith &...

BOOK REVIEW: The Fundamentals of Animation.(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Ava Publishing #19.95 For animation students, this book will tell you most of what you need to know about honing your craft and working in the industry. For the general reader it remains an interesting study of the main principles...

BOOK REVIEW: Stripes.(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Roto Vision #15 In this fascinating little book, authors Mark Hampshire and Keith Stephenson deconstruct the most classic of patterns to the extent that you can imagine them needing hospital treatment for dizzy spells and impaired vision...

BOOK REVIEW: Scrublands.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Fantagraphics #10.99 This collection of strips from South African comics artist Joe Daly is a bit like a series of drug-induced freak outs, absurdist nightmares and sexual fantasies. It's therefore no surprise that Daly has been a...

BOOK REVIEW: Change the World 9-5.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Short Books #8.99 Picking up from where Change the World for a Fiver left off, this new edition is packed with more simple actions that can make a difference and is situated where people spend more of their waking lives: at work. As...