Hasta La Ideas

InformForm is an impressive new publication from studio Mwmcreative. The first issue looks at the theory and practice of information design, while issue two is set to examine pictorial design systems, with help from submissions from design students…

At just 48 pages, InformForm issue one packs a lot into its small format, with essential information on how to produce all manner of diagrammatic displays, charts and graphs. The journal is produced, researched and published by Maria da Gandra and Maaike van Neck of London-based, Mwmcreative.

Mwm has just posted a call for submissions on mwmcreative.co.uk for its second issue. The studio are currently accepting projects from design students (BA and MA) who have explored pictorial design and its applications. For more details on how to apply, visit the submissions page. A series of InformForm student briefs will also launch early in the new year.

“A holistic approach towards research methods, technical glossary, interviews with professional practitioners will be key (pun intended),” write Mwm. “InformForm #2 will examine the student experience, process and development in information design.”

The studio will also be visiting a range of institutions and universities in spring term 2013 for workshops, seminars and lectures. The second issue will be published autumn 2013.

Issue one of InformForm is available from informform.com at £6.50, plus P&P.

CR for the iPad

Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here.

CR In print

In our November issue we look at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in a major feature as it celebrates its 30th anniversary; examine the practice of and a new monograph on M/M (Paris); investigate GOV.UK, the first major project from the Government Digital Service; explore why Kraftwerk appeals so much to designers; and ponder the future of Instagram. Rick Poynor reviews the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design; Jeremy Leslie takes in a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery dedicated to experimental magazine, Aspen; Mark Sinclair explores Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery show of work by the late graphic designer, Tony Arefin; while Daniel Benneworth-Gray writes about going freelance; and Michael Evamy looks at new telecommunications brand EE’s identity. Plus, subscribers also receive Monograph in which Tim Sumner of tohave-and-tohold.co.uk dips into Preston Polytechnic’s ephemera archive to pick out a selection of printed paper retail bags from the 70s and 80s.

The issue also doubles up as the Photography Annual 2012 – our showcase of the best images in commercial photography produced over the last year. The work selected is as strong as ever, with photographs by the likes of Tim Flach (whose image of a hairless chimp adorns the front cover of the issue, above); Nadav Kander (whose shot of actor Mark Rylance is our Photography Annual cover); Martin Usborne; Peter Lippmann; Giles Revell and more.

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