Focus sur l’artiste polonaise NeSpoon qui décore la ville de Varsovie avec une technique de pochoirs magnifiques reprenant les formes de dentelles traditionnelles. Des créations exposées partout et qui invite les passants à se les approprier. Plus d’images dans l’article.
Depuis 2012, la photographe polonaise Izabela Urbaniak et mère de deux garçons a décidé d’immortaliser ceux-ci. Une série en noir & blanc appelée « Summertime » et contenant de superbes images d’un été idyllique, déconnecté des écrans. A découvrir dans la suite.
Journalist and fashion designer Sara Henrichs has launched a range of high-visibility reflective clothing for cycling in style at night (+ slideshow).
Sara Henrichs, formerly the travel editor for lifestyle magazine Wallpaper, decided that there were not enough stylish options for cyclists wanting to stay safe when biking at night.
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An urban cyclist herself, Henrichs designed her own range of water- and wind-proof garments that offer visibility in the dark up to 100 metres.
“There are so many cyclists, bikers and joggers in cities, particularly at night, who need protection,” said Sarah Henrichs. “Many of them are fashion-conscious and don’t want to wear the ubiquitous high-visibility clothing.”
“My designs will encourage them to look stylish and be safer at the same time. The collection allows people to wear their normal clothing underneath Henrichs designs.”
The Henrichs range includes capes, vests and bands in shapes inspired by Japanese Samurai armour, all made from a material by Swiss textile company Schoeller AG.
These fit over the wearer’s normal clothing, fastening with tabs and poppers or simply sitting over the shoulders.
The items roll up to store in backpacks and are secured with a reflective band that can also be worn around the wrist.
The garments are designed for cyclists, motorcyclists and runners, and the range also includes capes for children and dogs.
Henrichs is based in London, where the number of cyclists has increased by 75 per cent since 2005-06 – according to Transport for London. She studied fashion design and worked for Jil Sander and Hermès before moving into travel journalism.
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Ikea has launched a new web catalogue for the Norwegian market, created by ad agency SMFB and production company MediaMonks. Based around a family starting their day, the site features lots of cute interactive moments, alongside lots of great-looking Ikea products, but is it enough to grab attention online?
The site is at engoddagstarterher.no, and is in Norwegian, though the English-language trailer below gives a flavour of what you’ll find there. The website is also accompanied by a TV spot, here.
It forms part of a number of interesting digital approaches that Ikea has been experimenting with of late, including creating a catalogue website on Instagram and placing a ‘digital flea market’ on the brand’s Norwegian Facebook page, to show its commitment to sustainability.
This new site aims to promote Ikea’s renewed bed and bathroom collection, and focuses on a fictional family starting their day. The viewer follows the various characters as they wake up and do their usual morning activities, and can use the space bar to zoom into certain aspects of the site, such as an old-school platform game, or short films, including a Michel-Gondryesque sequence showing a girl flying on a home-made rocket (still top). At the end of the film section, we land on a page that shows all the products featured, with links to buy.
This is a charming version of a web catalogue, though my quibble with these kinds of websites is how to encourage people to engage with the film and the site in the first place. While other of Ikea’s work online has appeared within a social media space that audiences might visit anyway, to find out about new products, this piece is more obviously an ad, and requires time and attention from the viewer to get its message across. Once on the website, users are rewarded with lots of interesting details to play with, plus the Ikea furniture certainly looks attractive within this picture-perfect home, but how many people will be invested enough in the brand to reach this point is open to question.
Play with the site online at engoddagstarterher.no.
Credits:
Agency: SMFB
Creatives: Alexander Gjersøe, André Koot, Hans Martin Roenneseth, Hans Magne Ekre
Designers: Stina Norgren, Nicklas Hellborg
Motion graphics designer: Arnar Halldorsson
Digital director: Christoffer Lorang Dahl
Production company: MediaMonks
Director: Tom Rijpert
Post: MediaMonks Films, de Grot, Glassworks
It rains a lot in the Pacific Northwest, which sucks if you’re outside and are trying to write something on paper, as loggers once needed to. So in the 1920s, well before ruggedized tablets were invented, a guy named Jerry Darling created waterproof paper and sold it in notebook form to the logging industry.
Today the company Darling started has evolved into Rite in the Rain, which manufactures all-weather writing paper. Here’s how it stacks up versus regular paper:
This year we’ve approached our graduate issue slightly differently. Covering the shows (and talent) on the blog, in print we decided to see just where a creative education can take you – from becoming production designer on Game of Thrones or Rihanna’s creative director, to working as head of visual creative for Save the Children. The Shellsuit Zombie collective also present a guide to ‘what next’; we explore what happens when advertising attempts to ‘do good’; and, from new book TM, we finally get to the truth behind the creation of the Woolmark…
Opening the issue (and featuring on the cover and in Monograph), we look at artist Jim Lambie’s new 100m long path in Glasgow designed to look like a shelf of records, and how it was made. Russ Coleman and Kirk Teasdale talk through how they constructed it from coloured concrete.
We also look at the controversy surrounding Penguin’s new cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stefan Sagmeister’s recent take on creative types calling themselves “storytellers”, and examine the Airbnb rebrand which, as Design Week’s Angus Montogmery argues, could well become one of this year’s landmark projects.
In the columns, Michael Evamy explores the trend for identities based on bespoke typefaces, potentially replacing logos altogether; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray looks at the way designers have been reprented on the big screen and decides that a Pixar animation might in fact give the closest approximation of what it feels like to work in the profession (it’s not all like it is in Catwoman).
Shellsuit Zombie open our Grad Guide with a ten-point look at what the next stages might be for graduates who want to pursue a creative career…
… while our main graduate section looks at thinking beyond the agency or studio environment. We talk to six people with inspiring and unusual jobs and ask them how they got to be where they are today.
We start with Jess Crombie, head of visual creative at Save the Children…
… and then meet Gemma Jackson, production designer on Game of Thrones.
We also interview Clair Battison, senior preservation conservator at the Victoria & Albert Museum; Rachel Louis, arts participation manager at Vital Arts; and Brad Silby (below), Framestore lead animator on films such as Where the Wild Things Are and Guardians of the Galaxy…
… before talking to Simon Henwood (above), creative director for musicians such as Kanye West and Rihanna.
We also invite Grey ECD Nils Leonard and William Fowler, Headspace creative director and CR-columinst to a GoogleChat to debate what happens when advertising attempts to ‘do good’; and feature an extract from TM, a new book looking at the history of 29 classic logos by CR’s Mark Sinclair, which finally gets to the bottom of how the Woolmark logo came about in the mid-1960s.
In Crit, Rick Poynor finds much to pore over at this year’s Rencontres D’Arles festival of photography…
… while Sarah Snaith reports back from a new exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion dedicated to the work of US designer, Ivan Chermayeff. At the back, Paul Belford talks through a deceptively simple-looking print ad for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
This issue’s Monograph features some behind the scenes images of the creation of Jim Lambie’s concrete path in Glasgow, with photographs of the process taken by Kirk Teasdale. The new issue is available to buy now. To subscribe to CR, go here.
Illustration by Ian Stevenson
Designer Célia Esteves first fell in love with the Portuguese tradition of rug weaving at an exhibition in her hometown of Viana do Castelo, in the north of Portugal. There she met—and got a tutorial from—an artisan who was creating rugs on a hand loom. Esteves left the exhibition smitten with the technique and determined to find a way to continue working with the traditional handcraft. “I found it so exciting and promising that I immediately wanted to share it with some of my illustrator friends,” she says.
Luckily, Esteves has some very talented friends. She asked illustrators like André da Loba, Marta Monteiro and José Cardoso to create designs to be translated into woven rugs, and worked with the weaver she met at the exhibition to realize the project. The result is Rug by GUR, a remarkable pairing of contemporary illustration and traditional Portuguese rug weaving.
Illustrations by Marta Monteiro (left) and Joao Drumond
Ilustration by Joana Estrela
“The technique is very specific, and it can also be limiting,” Esteves admits. “Sometimes it is not possible to do exactly what is designed.” One of the challenges is the grid system required of the weaving, making it difficult to create continuous lines. Another is the material used, raw tirela, which is made of rags from used clothing, limiting the colors to what is available from nearby factories.
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