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Working out of Berlin and Vancouver, multimedia artist Jeremy Shaw is a busy man supplying both cities with his highly involved works. Currently, Shaw is exhibiting in Berlin alongside artists such as Yoko Ono and Geoffrey Farmer, in the conceptual group show, “One On One,” which is curiously designed…

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David Bowie, Young Americans. RCA, France, 1975. Photography: Eric Stephen Jacobs

David Bowie is a man of many faces, a fact borne out by the selection of 45 7-inch single sleeves soon to be exhibited at The Vinyl Factory in London’s Chelsea

David Bowie, Starman, RCA, Germany, 1972

The exhibition, entitled David Bowie Nacht Musik, follows a near-identical format to the recent Kraftwerk 45RPM show. It will feature the collection of original singles from 1972 through to 1984, co-curated by The Vinyl Factory and Toby Mott (The Mott Collection) which have been mounted in one large frame to be displayed and offered for sale. “We selected the singles based upon their musical and aesthetic interest/influence and how collectively they reflected Bowie’s many phases, musically and stylistically, over the years,” says The Vinyl Factory’s Sean Bidder.

And boy did Bowie have a lot of styles – he made his appearance a huge part of his performances – which goes some way to explaining why his face is on pretty much every one of his single sleeves. I suppose there’s a practical element in that showing Bowie’s appearance kept fans up to date with his ever-changing image but looking at this selection, it would seem that in the mix of appearance and sound, a coherent graphic approach didn’t feature highly in the make-up of brand Bowie.

Here’s a selection of sleeves that will feature in the forthcoming Vinyl Factory exhibition:

David Bowie, Life on Mars? RCA, Germany, 1973

David Bowie, Rebel Rebel. RCA Australia, 1974

David Bowie, Suffragette City. RCA, Germany, 1976. Photography: Tom Kelley

David Bowie, John, I’m Only Dancing. RCA, Netherlands, 1979

The sleeves suggest there wasn’t much (any) continuity or over arching sense of a well-thought out design approach for Bowie’s releases – there’s some terrible type decisions on display. Different territories seemed to have carte blanche to present each single how they pleased, with RCA’s German releases eventually (from 1977 to 1980) exhibiting the most coherent looking releases with the textual information arranged across the top of the sleeves in the simple heirarchical row solution of artist name at the top, then the title of the a-side, followed by the title of the b-side:

David Bowie, Heroes. RCA, Germany, 1977. Photography: Massayoshi Sukita

David Bowie, Beauty and the Beast. RCA, Germany, 1977. Photography: Massayoshi Sukita

Check out the red, white and blue designs on both the English language version of Heroes released in France:

And the French language version of the same single:

Here’s the Japanese release of Soul Love from 1978:

And this single for Ashes to Ashes (German release, 1981) featuring photography by Brian Duffy:

The collection is particularly pertinent given the design of Bowie’s new album The Next Day which explicitly and very definitely rejects this image-centred approach. (You can read a little about designer Jonathan Barnbrook’s approach to the design of The Next Day in his blog post.)

As well as the single sleeves on display, The Vinyl Factory is working with Ditto Press (as they did for the recent Kraftwerk 45RPM show) to produce a limited edition catalogue that documents each of the 45 single sleeves which will be Risograph printed in 2-4 colour stencil prints using special inks. The publication will be housed in a screen printed dust jacket and contain an essay by collector Toby Mott, a pull-out 3-panel print showing all 45 singles, plus a white vinyl 7″ pressing of a David Bowie interview from 1978.

David Bowie Nacht Musik runs from February 7 to March 3 at The Vinyl Factory gallery at 91 Walton Street, London SW3 2HP.

We’ll have photos of the printed exhibition catalogue to share in a week or two (so stay tuned). In the meantime, find out more about the exhibition at thevinylfactory.com.

CR in Print
The January issue of Creative Review is all about the Money – well, almost. What do you earn? Is everyone else getting more? Do you charge enough for your work? How much would it cost to set up on your own? Is there a better way of getting paid? These and many more questions are addressed in January’s CR.

But if money’s not your thing, there’s plenty more in the issue: interviews with photographer Alexander James, designer Mirko Borsche and Professor Neville Brody. Plus, Rick Poynor on Anarchy magazine, the influence of the atomic age on comic books, Paul Belford’s art direction column, Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s This Designer’s Life column and Gordon Comstock on the collected memos, letters and assorted writings of legendary adman David Ogilvy.

Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878, or buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a limited edition digital artwork by Japanese artist Yoko Ono. Named Painting to Shake Hands, the five-minute-long piece was created specially for digital art platform s[edition] and filmed at the To The Light exhibition of Ono’s work at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which took place from 19 June to 9 September 2012.

The work references a specific instruction from her book Grapefruit, published in 1964, where the artist produced a series of ‘event scores’, which an individual might or might not enact, as follows:

Painting to Shake Hands (painting for cowards). Drill a hole in a canvas and put your hand out from behind. Receive your guests in that position. Shake hands and converse with hands.

Yoko Ono has created conceptual and performance art for over fifty years. The exhibition winners will receive a file that can be downloaded and viewed without a watermark on a TV, iPad, iPhone and other digital screens.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Yoko Ono” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 14 February 2013. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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When asked about her creative influences, artist and filmmaker Lola Montes Schnabel doesn’t hesitate, reeling off a list of 22 names that ranges from Niki Logis (Schnabel’s professor at Cooper Union, where she earned a BFA in 2008), Brancusi, and Maya Deren to Victor Hugo, Azzadine Alaïa, and, last but not least, Julian Schnabel, her father. The younger Schnabel is continuing the family tradition of multimedia multitasking with stunning results. This evening she’ll debut her most recent paintings–including “The Melting Pot” (2012), the watercolor pictured at left–at the opening of “Within Reach,” an exhibition at Southampton, New York-based Tripoli Gallery‘s Manhattan pop-up space. Schnabel recently took time to answer our questions about her latest series of “glimpses into the struggling subconscious” and the year ahead.

Does your new series of paintings have a particular theme or subject matter?
Yes, they are about limitations, capturing the boundlessness and the infinite spirit in all things that were here before humankind. These are landscapes that are similar to the womb.

Have you seeing your work in other media, particularly film, influence or shape your approach to painting?
Film and any form of poetry has an impact on my paintings. Every idea deserves its own medium. When I have an idea I often wonder which medium would capture that most accurately. The ocean, for instance. The ocean is constantly moving, so if I can’t look at it in real time then the closest thing would be to paint what I see in it–my own version of it–or to film it. I cannot see myself taking photographs of the sea.
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Olympic Cauldron by Heatherwick Studio

The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the 2013 Designs of the Year competition in a diverse line-up of more than 90 project.

Within the categoriesof architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport, the museum once again rounds up diverse work, ranging from the Olympic Cauldron by Heatherwick Studio, The Shard by Renzo Piano and MakerBot’s fourth-generation 3D printer, Replicator 2, to the Exhibition Road redevelopment project and Random International’s Rain Room installation.

Rain Room by Random International

Other projects joining Rain Room in the digital category include the Windows Phone 8 operating system, the new Gov.uk website designed by Government Digital Service and the Rasberry Pi computer by Eben Upton.

The Government’s new online portal, Gov.uk

The graphics selection features 15 entries, including A Practice for Everyday LIfe’s design for Barbican exhibition ‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’, the Occupied Times of London by Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis (you can read Mark’s interview with the former here) and the new Australian cigarette packaging, the new graphic identity for all cigarette packs in the country.

Occupied Times by Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis

Installation and invitation graphics for Bauhaus:Art as Life exhibition, by A Practice for Everyday Life, commissioned by the Barbican

Also in the graphics category is Gentlewoman #6, designed by Veronica Ditting, while annual reports on the list include Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor’s creation for Zumtobel and Serviceplan’s design for Austria Solar Annual Report.

Zumtobel Annual Report by Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor

The Design Museum exhibition of all work will run from March 20 to July 7, with the winners from each category and one overall winner to be announced in April. The full list of contenders is below, providing a substantial, if by necessity limited snapshot of the best of global design in 2012.

As always we look forward to hearing your thoughts on what might be glaringly obvious in its omission, or what shouldn’t have made the list at all.

ARCHITECTURE
LA TOUR BOIS-LE-PRETRE, PARIS by Druot, Lacaton and Vassal
CLAPHAM LIBRARY, LONDON by Studio Egret West
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), CLEVELAND by Farshid Moussavi Architects
METROPOLITAN ARTS CENTRE, BELFAST by Hackett Hall McKnight
A ROOM FOR LONDON by David Kohn Architects in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner
KUKJE ART CENTER, SEOUL by SO-IL
IKEA DISOBEDIENTS by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos
BOOK MOUNTAIN, SPIJKENISSE by MVRDV
THE SHARD, LONDON by Renzo Piano
THALIA THEATRE, LISBON by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos & Barbas Lopes Arquitectos
ASTLEY CASTLE, WARWICKSHIRE by Witherford Watson Mann
MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE, ISTANBUL by Orhan Pamuk with Ihsan Bilgin, Cem Yucel and Gregor Sunder Plassmann
HOME FOR ALL by Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto, Kumiko Inui and Toyo Ito
T-SITE, TOKYO by Klein Dytham
GALAXY SOHO, BEIJING by Zaha Hadid
SUPERKILEN, NØRREBRO by BIG, TOPOTEK1 andSuperflex
FOUR FREEDOMS PARK, NEW YORK by Louis Kahn

DIGITAL
Rain Room by Random International
SUPERSTITIOUS FUND PROJECT by Shing Tat Chung
RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER by Eben Upton
ENGLISH HEDGEROW PLATE by Andrew Tanner andUnanico for Royal Winton
DIGITAL POSTCARD AND PLAYER by Uniform
WINDOWS PHONE 8 by Microsoft
GOV.UK WEBSITE by Government Digital Service
ZOMBIES, RUN! APP by Six to Start
FREE UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION KIT by Free Art and Technology Lab
WIND MAP by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Bertini Viegas
CANDLES IN THE WIND by Moritz Waldemeyer for Ingo Maurer
CHIRP by Patrick Bergel
DASHILAR APP by Nippon Design Centre
CITY TRACKING pt2 by Stamen
LIGHT FIELD CAMERA by Lytro

FASHION
ANNA KARENINA COSTUMES by Jacqueline Durran
A/W12 WOMENSWEAR by Giles Deacon
LOUIS VUITTON COLLECTION by Yayoi Kusama
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL by Lisa Immordino
I WANT MUSCLE by Elisha Smith-Leverock
AW12 COLLECTION by Craig Green
COMMES DE GARCONS RTW A/W12 by Rei Kawakubo
CHRISTIAN DIOR RTW S/S13 by Raf Simons
PRADA S/S12 RTW COLLECTION by Miuccia Prada
PROENZA SCHOULER A/W12 COLLECTION by LazaroHernandez and Jack McCollough

FURNITURE
THE SEA CHAIR by Studio Swine & Kieren Jones
LIQUID GLACIAL TABLE by Zaha Hadid
A-COLLECTION by Ronan and Erwan Bourellec for Hay
GRAVITY STOOL by Jolan Van Der Wiel
WELL PROVEN CHAIR by James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel
TIÉ PAPER CHAIR by Pinwu
100 CHAIRS by Marni
MEDICI CHAIR by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi
RE-IMAGINED CHAIRS by Studiomama (Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama)
ENGINEERING TEMPORALITY by Studio Markunpoika
CORNICHES by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra
FUTURE PRIMITIVES by Muller Van Severen

GRAPHICS
ZUMTOBEL ANNUAL REPORT by Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor
BAUHAUS: ART AS LIFE EXHIBITION by A Practice For Everyday Life
STRELKA IDENTITY by OK:RM
OCCUPIED TIMES OF LONDON by Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis
THE GENTLEWOMAN #6 by Veronica Ditting
AUSTRIA SOLAR ANNUAL REPORT by Serviceplan
RIJKSMUSEUM IDENTITY by Irma Boom
ADAM THIRWELL: KAPOW! by Studio Frith
ORGANIC by Kapitza
DOC LISBOA ’12 by Pedro Nora
RALPH ELLISON COLLECTION by Cordon Webb
VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IDENTITY by John Morgan
DEKHO: CONVERSATIONS ON DESIGN IN INDIA by CoDesign
MADE IN LOS ANGELES: WORK BY COLBY POSTER PRINTING CO by Anthony Burrill
AUSTRALIAN CIGARETTE PACKAGING – commissioned by Australian Government Department for Health and Ageing

PRODUCT
OLYMPIC CAULDRON by Heatherwick Studio
BANG & OLUFSEN ‘BEOLIT 12′ by Cecile Manz
LIQUIGLIDE KETCHUP BOTTLE by Dave Smith/Varanasi Research Group MIT
COLOUR PORCELAIN by Scholten & Baijings/1616 Arita Japan
E-SOURCE by Hal Watts
LITTLE PRINTER by Berg
SWITCH COLLECTION by Inga Sempe for Legrand
PAPA FOXTROT TOYS by PostlerFerguson
CHILD VISION GLASSES by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World
w127 LAMP by Dirk Winkel
PLUG LAMP by Form Us With Love
REPLICATOR 2 by MakerBot
MAGIC ARMS by duPont Hospital for Children
KIOSK 2.0 by Unfold Studio
OIGEN KITCHENWARE by Jasper Morrison/Japan Creative
TEKIO by Anthony Dickens
LITTLE SUN by Olafur Eliasson
COLALIFE by Simon Berry
FEDERIC MALLE TRAVEL SPRAYS by Pierre Hardy
FACETURE VASES by Phil Cuttance
SURFACE TENSION LAMP by Front
FLYKNIT TRAINERS by Nike

TRANSPORT
MORPH FOLDING WHEEL by Vitamins Design/Maddak
AIR ACCESS SEAT by Priestmangoode
i3 CONCEPT CAR by BMW
MANDO FOOTLOOSE CHAINLESS BICYCLE by Mark Sanders
N-ONE by Honda
DONKY BICYCLE by Ben Wilson
EXHIBITION ROAD by Dixon Jones/ The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
OLYMPICS WAYFARING by TfL/JEDCO/LOCOG

CR in Print
The January issue of Creative Review is all about the Money – well, almost. What do you earn? Is everyone else getting more? Do you charge enough for your work? How much would it cost to set up on your own? Is there a better way of getting paid? These and many more questions are addressed in January’s CR.

But if money’s not your thing, there’s plenty more in the issue: interviews with photographer Alexander James, designer Mirko Borsche and Professor Neville Brody. Plus, Rick Poynor on Anarchy magazine, the influence of the atomic age on comic books, Paul Belford’s art direction column, Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s This Designer’s Life column and Gordon Comstock on the collected memos, letters and assorted writings of legendary adman David Ogilvy.

Please note, CR now has a limited presence on the newsstand at WH Smith high street stores (although it can still be found in WH Smith travel branches at train stations and airports). If you cannot find a copy of CR in your town, your WH Smith store or a local independent newsagent can order it for you. You can search for your nearest stockist here. Alternatively, call us on 020 7970 4878 to buy a copy direct from us. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 970 4878 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

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.