Creative Review articles from September 2008

Creative Review archives from September 2008

Monograph and more.(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... This issue marks the first anniversary of Monograph. In case you still haven't seen it, Monograph is our subscriber-only, a5 booklet featuring personal projects and collections of great work. We've had a wonderful response to its...

WHAT'S ON: London Design Festival.
September 1, 2008... Graphics events are thin on the ground once again at the capital's only festival devoted to design. CR asks why The annual London Design Festival returns to the capital for the sixth time this September, bringing an array of events that...

WHAT'S ON: Roger Hiorns Exhibition.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Artangel, the arts organisation that has built a reputation for creating excellent contemporary art exhibitions in unusual venues across London, is staging a new installation by British artist Roger Hiorns this month. Hiorns works with...

WHAT'S ON: Yoshitomo Nara Exhibition.(Baltic art gallery)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara's cheeky drawings and sculptures of children and animals are currently taking up residence at the Baltic art gallery in Gateshead. The exhibition is Nara's latest installation of his ongoing A to Z...

BOOKS: Nedko Solakov 99 Fears.
September 1, 2008... Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov's latest work is a collection of 99 drawings. Using pen and ink, Solakov describes a range of personal worries and a few of the more general anxieties that characterise modern existence. So it's cheery stuff...

BOOKS: 2nd: The Face of Defeat.
September 1, 2008... Is there a more annoying piece of imparted wisdom than the age-old "It's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts"? Bah. When you've slugged your guts out in any form of competition - be it a cross- country run, a dog show, or the Air...

BOOKS: Tomi Ungerer The Three Robbers.
September 1, 2008... Phaidon brings good news for children and fans of illustration alike with the release of The Three Robbers, the first of many reprints of celebrated French illustrator Tomi Ungerer's work. First published in 1962, this story of three...

WEBSITES: The Black Punks.
September 1, 2008... Illustrator Matthew Hodson's psychedelic online comic We asked illustrator Matthew Hodson about his latest online comic strip. CREATIVE REVIEW: The Black Punks is pretty psychedelic - is this usual for your work? MATTHEW HODSON:...

WEBSITES: Uniform Freak.
September 1, 2008... Cliff Muskiet's uniformfreak.com reveals a somewhat worrying obsession with air hostess' (or stewards, as they're now called) uniforms. His personal collection contains more than 700 different outfits from various airlines around the world...

WEBSITES: Days With My Father.
September 1, 2008... After his mother died, Phillip Toledano became fully aware of his father's declining mental state. While he doesn't have Alzheimer's, he has no short term memory and so is often confused or lost. Toledano's photographs of his father, and the...

It's the mighty art of Boosh.(Mighty Boosh )
September 1, 2008... Delinquent reptiles; koi carp killers and a whole lot of crimping. While it's common knowledge amongst Mighty Boosh fans that the bbc comedy's spaced out shaman, Naboo, is played by Noel Fielding's brother, Michael, it's less well known...

WORK: Katie Anne Harrison Central St Martins.(Brief article)(Column)
September 1, 2008... This slightly disturbing portrait of Amy Winehouse is part of a series by Harrison on female celebrity (other portraits included Britney Spears, below left, and Jordan). "I had become so frustrated with the pointless glamorisation of these...

GRAPHICS: Chris Wharton Bath Spa University.
September 1, 2008... This piece was created for Recognition Day, a scheme devised by London studio Cog design. The idea is that once a year people can have a platform to express their thanks to someone and take time to show their appreciation. Each year Cog...

GRAPHICS: Shaz Madani LCC.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... These two images are part of LCC graduate Shaz Madani's Man or Mouse project. "With the growth of social networking sites, online forums and personal blogs, we are spending more and more time in front of our computers," explains Madani of...

GRAPHICS: Clara Terne LCC.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Clara Terne's Visual Dissonance project, from which these two images are taken, was originally designed as a set of postcards. However, when we saw the project at the Dialogue show at LCC, each of the nine images that make up the project...

TYPOGRAPHY: Gala Slater Nottingham Trent University.
September 1, 2008... This year's D&AD Student Awards included a brief to relaunch and redesign Neville Brody's groundbreaking typography magazine Fuse for its 20th issue, complete with a new, original font. "I chose to base the issue around the theme of space,"...

ILLUSTRATION: Adam Morris Swansea Metropolitan University.
September 1, 2008... This image of drunken debauchery was created as part of a campaign for a fictitious alcoholic beverage by Swansea BA general illustration graduate, Adam Morris. Central to the campaign is the main character, Hulk, a booze-guzzling macho...

ILLUSTRATION: Mark Oliver Camberwell College of Arts.
September 1, 2008... Mark Oliver recently completed an MA in illustration. His weird and wonderful imagery, some drawn, some printed, on display at the summer show caught our eye. This particular image, of a man with a face covered in ears "is not a part of any...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Holly Birtles University of Westminster.
September 1, 2008... Holly Birtles' enigmatic photo- montages are created using a complex process. "They're produced using layers of photographic prints, paints and a diverse range of textural paper," she explains. "Each image consists of a mechanical...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Martina Lindqvist University of Westminster.
September 1, 2008... Martina Lindqvist created this photographic project, Ragskar Island, as part of her BA in photo-graphic arts. "Ragskar is a small Finnish island that I visited every year as a child," Lindqvist explains. "Islands are very peculiar places due...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Sarah Chamberlain University of Westminster.
September 1, 2008... In her Life Guards photographic project, Sarah Chamberlain is interested in exploring "staged documentations, which sit at the threshold between real life and constructed situations". The photographs were taken in Hackney in London. "This...

PHOTOGRAPHY: Ima Okon Central St Martins.
September 1, 2008... Using a photograph of a tower block at night as her starting point, Ima Okon produced a series of designs based on the building's structure. These were then screenprinted onto paper and card in a variety of inks such as uv, foil, pearlescent...

GRAPHICS: Johanna Lundberg LCC.(Timo Koro )(Jenna Sutela )(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Johanna Lundberg created these two illustrations for Modern Elegance (me) magazine, each image appearing on front covers of the magazine this year. Further right are two images created using the highly addictive webtoy, thisissand.com - a...

WORK: INTERACTIVE.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Tasnim Bhuiyan, Jophie Wang, Funmi Adenugba, Alexandra Krystova LCC in.tube.active is an interactive digital wall designed for the London Underground which employs motion capture technology. Using this method of display, a group of...

WORK: INTERACTIVE.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Dieter De Duytschaever, Jenny Baek, Marie- Christine Du Chastel, Shira Gutgold, Sophia Ost, Pony Chuang, Wojtek Wawrzyniak LCC Also part of LCC's ma interactive media degree show, Transparencies is, say its creators, "a mixed reality art...

ADVERTISING: Helga Stentzel Central St Martins.
September 1, 2008... Having originally studied fashion in her native Russia, Helga Stentzel decided to make the switch to advertising at St Martins. In one campaign for Marks & Spencer (created in collaboration with Ning Li), common kitchen utensils are...

ILLUSTRATION: Hoi Kin Wu UCCA Maidstone.(University College for the Creative Arts)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Many of Chinese student Hoi Kin's experiences in Maidstone formed the basis of his final year project: an illustrated book documenting his time studying in the town and his feelings towards his home city of Hong Kong. Kin's book...

Village green: pagan ritual as graphic design.
September 1, 2008... If ever a studio space reflected the work that its inhabitants produce, then Village Green's basement in east London is it. Far removed from the clean, pseudo-modernist lines of the stereotypical contemporary designer's workplace (and work)...

Made in China.(BBH China. )
September 1, 2008... Continuing our focus on China's creative scene, we have part two of Johnny Tan's account of a typical month as the creative director of BBH China. WEEK FOUR MONDAY Today, a colleague of mine handed me a copy of an article from...

The Lanza brothers: putting a frame around the world.
September 1, 2008... A street trader in a third world country calls out her sales pitch. And again. And again. Her vain attempts to interest passers-by in her lottery tickets become ever more plaintive as the same sequence loops to a soundtrack, over and over. Two...

A new house style.(Interview)
September 1, 2008... The Winkreative team behind the redesign of chic Italian Redesigning a magazine can be challenging but the new-look Case da Abitare has proved a hit with readers since launching in April this year. The Winkreative team responsible for the...

Photography lives!
September 1, 2008... The brilliantly conceived Rencontres D'Arles festival proves that there is life left in photography yet says Rick Poynor This year's Rencontres d'Arles is a fabulous, bejewelled beast of a photography festival. Spread across the...