Hasta La Ideas

It’s degree show season again. In order to cover as many as possible, CR is once more looking for volunteers to attend degree shows in your town or city and recommend the most interesting work

Last year, we appealed for readers’ help in covering as many degree shows as possible and, thanks to you, it was a great success. So we’re doing it again this time.

We cover as many degree shows as we can here on the CR website but there are only a handful of us. Time and money dictates that we cannot travel the length and breadth of the UK visiting every degree show. So, we would like your help.

We are looking for volunteers to cover any visual communications-related degree shows, whether BA, MA or any other level. We can’t pay you, sorry, but we’re hoping people will enjoy the experience. All we need you to do is to go along to the show of your choosing, photograph or otherwise gather images of the work you think is the most interesting and write a line or two on why you think that particular work is of note, making sure you credit the students involved and providing links to any relevant web addresses.

We will then publish your recommendations here on the CR website as part of our degree show coverage, alongside reviews from CR staff.

If you are interested in taking part, please leave a comment below with an email address and the show or town/city you are interested in attending, or email us direct at patrick.burgoyne@centaur.co.uk and we will contact you.

Please do not put yourself forward to review shows with which you have a direct professional link (if you’re an alumnus, that’s fine, but no tutors or visiting lecturers etc please).

Many of the shows are listed here

Happy talent spotting!

Pink Floyd fans may recognise the cover of our June issue. It’s the original marked-up artwork for Dark Side of the Moon: one of a number of treasures from the archive of design studio Hipgnosis featured in the issue, along with an interview with Aubrey Powell, co-founder of Hipgnosis with the late, great Storm Thorgerson. Elsewhere in the issue we take a first look at The Purple Book: Symbolism and Sensuality in Contemporary Illustration, hear from the curators of a fascinating new V&A show conceived as a ‘walk-in book’ plus we have all the regular debate and analysis on the world of visual communications.

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Raymond Pettibon, “No Title (Safe he called…),” 2010. (Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner)

Take me out to the High Line, where Raymond Pettibon has thrown out the summer’s first public art pitch–a baseball-themed billboard. The jumbo-sized version of “No Title (Safe he called…),” a 2010 work from the artist’s famous series of baseball drawings, debuts today in the sky above West 18th Street and 10th Avenue in New York as the tenth installment of the High Line Billboard series. We suggest visiting with a group to discuss the array of cultural references, from the depiction of a game between the the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn Dodgers (before their 1957 defection to Los Angeles) and references to Moses (brokers of Biblical and civil power, who knew from exoduses) to shout-outs to Jackie Robinson and Biggie (“Where Brooklyn At?”). As the latter would say, “Anytime you’re ready, check it,” but make sure anytime is within the next month, or you’re out! Of luck, that is, because the billboard is on view through July 1.

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A series of images by CGI specialist Recom Farmhouse and photographer Markus Wendler places vintage cars in some of Los Angeles’ less desirable neighbourhoods, conjuring some striking images. The project is a self-initiated, collaborative venture between Recom Farmhouse and Wendler, who have worked on a number of commercial projects together in the past.

Wendler had already shot some nighttime images of LA as a starting point, and after a bit of creative to-and-fro, Wendler and Recom decided to use vintage cars in “sketchy areas in and around LA, that are not just placed in an advertising style angle, but would rather tell a story – or pose questions as it’s never going to be clear what is actually happening”, according to Recom Farmhouse creative director Christoph Bolten.

Creating aged, damaged and dirty cars completely through CG was an attractive challenge for the company, as automotive CGI is one of its niches of expertise. “The next thing that was really exciting, was that these were not going to be classic advertising images, but had a much more realistic and narrative approach,” adds Bolten. “Something that from the beginning was offering the possibility to create something ambiguous and magical.”

Top and above: Two final images from an ongoing project created by photographer Markus Wendler and CGI specialist Recom Farmhouse

Having come up with the idea last summer, Wendler shot more material in situ in LA, before the CG modelling began, with Recom Farmhouse fitting the research and work between commercial projects. Bolten is always keen to have such research and development projects on the go – they are all about “pushing the boundaries”, he says. “Also, for the CGI artists it’s a lot more fun to work on projects like that; they love the freedom of playing a little and not having a client breathing down their neck.”

The process for creating the series included many stages, from initially modelling a scene and planning different crash scenarios, to extensive research of imagery of similar crash scenarios, sketching the form of cars, and sculpting creases and dents (see process images below).

Creating realistic effects for various automotive states of ageing – dented metal, shattered windscreens, dusty metal with fingerprints, rusted medal, skid marks, or smoking tires – was particularly challenging, all-in-all “quite time intensive”, says Bolten.

Wendler and Recom Farmhouse are still finalising the series, but are hoping to exhibit the images in the near future. As Bolten says: “These images are really about being printed very large as they have so many mysterious little details going on in them.”

The Recom Farmhouse project above also features in the current issue of CR. Unfortunately, an image on page 29 of the magazine was wrongly credited as being part of the project. It was, in fact, an unconnected image used merely for reference in the making of the project and was not taken by Markus Wendler as stated. Our apologies for the error.

Out now, the May 2013 issue of Creative Review is our biggest ever. Features over 100 pages of the year’s best work in the Creative Review Annual 2013 (in association with iStockphoto), plus profiles on Morag Myerscough, Part of a Bigger Plan and Human After All as well as analysis, comment, reviews and opinion.

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La Rice University Art Gallery située à Austin au Texas propose jusqu’au 30 août de découvrir « Unwoven Light », le nom de cette très belle installation pensée par Soo Sunny Park. Cette création colorée, composée de 37 parties mises en scène, est à découvrir en vidéo et en images dans la suite.