Prismatic Perfection

The Prism table tells a story. No matter what angle you look from, it will always show you something new! Like a prism refracting light, this table takes lines of color, emerging from a single bar, and stretches them across its frame. By weaving and twisting its linear geometry, the internal structure transforms from point to point. The maze of mixing colors creates surfaces that together form a beautiful whole.

Designer: Maurie Novak


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Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined: We speak with curator Kate Goodwin on transforming London’s Royal Academy of Arts into a sensorial spatial experience

Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined


Over this past month, London’s distinguished Royal Academy of Arts (RA) witnessed large-scale preparations for one of their most highly anticipated shows, “Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined.” The RA’s traditional,…

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Toon Bombing Street Art

Aiden Glynn, un designer basé à Toronto, métamorphose la rue, la ferraille, le bitume en des créatures rigolotes et grimaçantes. Il ajoute des yeux, des langues, des dents et des moustaches à tous les objets aux formes intéressantes que l’on pourrait croiser dans la rue. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

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CR February 14 issue: illustration special

Our February issue is an illustration special including our pick of this year’s Pick Me Up artists (the work of one of whom, Carine Brancowitz, features on our cover), BBH’s Mark Reddy on illustration in advertising plus what an agent can do for you. And: designing sounds for cars, the future of news and what we can all learn from the marvellous Mr Paul Smith

 


The February issue of Creative Review is available to buy direct from us here. Better yet, subscribe to make sure that you never miss out on a copy – you’ll save money, too. Details here.


February’s focus on illustration kicks off with a discussion with four leading illustrators’ agents on the state of the industry, how illustrators can develop their career and what agents look for in new talent

 

Then we profile four up-and-coming illustrators from those selected to exhibit at this year’s Pick Me Up graphic art fair

 

And BBH head of art Mark Reddy reveals why illustration can sometimes be a hard sell to advertising clients and the advantages it can bring when done well

 

Too busy to keep up with everything online? Our new Month in Review section brings together all the main creative talking points and our pick of work from the previous four weeks along with your favourite columnists

 

Plus, amazing ‘pareidolic’ (look it up!) imagery from Graham Fink’s show at the Riflemaker gallery

 

Five things our columnist Gordon Comstock learned from his former employer Paul Smith, a master of branding

 

What should an electric car sound like and what effect will that have on our cities? We report on the efforts of a group of designers to re-engineer the sounds of our streets

 

France is to have its first ever festival of graphic design – will it help improve the standing of the industry?

 

US adman Gerry Graf (creator of the genius Skittles campaign) shares his tips on creative success

 

How much do we need to know about designers’ personal lives? Rick Poynor argues that an exhaustve new study of the ‘multi-active’ Dutch master Jurriaan Schrofer takes the design monograph to a whole new level of biographical detail

 

While Andy Cowles reviews Francesco Franchi’s timely examination of the future of editorial design, Designing News

 

 

And our Monograph this month documents the extraordinary graffiti-covered Magasins Généraux building in Paris, soon to become the new home of ad agency BETC


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Quote of Note | Marcel Dzama

“I’ve always remembered Where the Wild Things Are so clearly, which isn’t the case with most other children’s books. Wild Things was a favorite from the start. I remember looking at the images a lot and really studying [Maurice Sendak‘s] crosshatching at a young age—and even attempting to draw like him on my own. This was probably kindergarten, and so he was an early influence. All of the fantastic creatures—and especially the monsters…have such character and personality, and it’s so great that they’re not evil monsters but more co-conspirators. Maybe Maurice got me started on monsters and beasts, which pop in my work a lot, too.”

-Artist Marcel Dzama, in an interview with Spike Jonze that appears in Marcel Dzama: Sower of Discord, the sublime new monograph from Abrams

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Print and Paste and Anthony Burrill

Anthony Burrill is the latest artist to contribute to Manchester’s Print and Paste billboard project with a poster made up of individually printed giant woodblock letters

Back in September 2012 we posted about the launch of Print and Paste, a collaborative project which took over a disused poster site in Manchester and invited artists and designers to use it as an exhibition space.

The latest piece of work at the site is North & South – a collaboration between Anthony Burrill, Liam Hopkins of ‘creative services studio’ Lost Heritage and Dave Sedgwick of Print and Paste. “I contacted Anthony as I have always admired his approach to work. Around the same time I was working with Liam at Lost Heritage and he suggested it could be possible to make oversized wood type blocks for the project. We started to talk and it seemed a great idea for Anthony to take on,” says Sedgwick, (who is also the organiser of the BCN MCR exhibition in which designers from Barcelona collaborate with their peers from Manchester).

North & South is a reference to the way in which the project was produced (and also to Burrill who grew up in the north but now lives and works in the south). Burrill designed the letters which were then manufactured by Hopkins using his workshop’s CNC router.

 

Each letter was printed on the Heidelberg Cylinder press at Adams of Rye in East Sussex, Burrill’s regular printing partner. The prints were then pasted on to the billboard to complete the final piece, as can be seen in this film.

 

“As soon as Dave contacted me I was keen to be part of it,” Burrill says. “The idea of using wood block type at billboard size was exciting, something I hadn’t seen done before. And of course I was keen to produce a piece of public art for my home town.”

The individual letter prints are now available to buy from Burrill’s website while the original artwork can be seen at Lower Ormond Street just off Oxford Road in Manchester for the rest of January and February 2014.

 

To submit ideas for consideration for the Print and Paste poster site, send examples of work, with an outline of the intended project, to info@printandpaste.com with the subject line “Proposal – [name]”.

Print and Paste is a collaboration between designers Micah Purnell, Dave Sedgwick, Nick Chaffe and director of The Big Art People, Jim Ralley, and is facilitated by Daniel Jones of MOne Studios.

BCN MCR will be back for 2014 on March 27. Details here

Wellcome Images releases 100,000 pictures online

Horoscope of Prince Iskandar (grandson of Timur who ruled the province of Farsin, Iran) showing the positions of the heavens at the moment of his birth on 25th April 1384. Wellcome Library, London

The Wellcome Library, one of the world’s leading collections of medical history, has announced that over 100,000 pictures from its archives are now freely available from its Images pages online…

In a move similar to the British Library’s recent announcement that it had uploaded over a million images to Flickr, the Wellcome Library has now also decided that a large selection of its images – dedicated to the history of health and medicine – should be made free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Illustration of an ‘exploded thorax’ (1823) by Paulo Mascagni, Prosector of Anatomy at the University of Siena. Wellcome Library, London

This means that the images downloaded from wellcomeimages.org can be used for personal or commercial use, providing an acknowledgement to the original source is given.

Images in the digitised collection range from scans of paintings, illustrations and manuscripts to early examples of photography. As one would expect with a medical archive, the oldest examples from which go back two thousand years, there are many weird and wonderful pictures to explore, from a Paolo Mascagni’s coloured etching of an ‘exploded’ torso (above), to a sketch of a female genital tattoo.

Photogravure by Eadweard Muybridge of a man standing on his hands (1887). Wellcome Library, London

“Together the collection amounts to a dizzying visual record of centuries of human culture, and our attempts to understand our bodies, minds and health through art and observation,” says Simon Chaplin, head of the Wellcome Library. “As a strong supporter of open access, we want to make sure these images can be used and enjoyed by anyone without restriction.”

A classic dentist’s trick: ‘A surgeon holding a dental key behind his back to conceal it from the patient’ by Luciano Nezzo (born 1856). Wellcome Library, London

The Wellcome Images website is at wellcomeimages.org.

Illuminated Data Map of the World

The Global Data Chandelier est une installation artistique créée pour le cercle de réflexion et d’influence sur la politique étrangère des États-Unis, basé à Washington DC. Imaginée par Sosolimited, Hypersonic Engineering & Design, Plebian Design et Chris Parlato, elle est composée de 425 lampes et distribue visuellement en temps réel des informations économiques et écologiques.

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Watch: Stephen Colbert Discovers the Darker Side of Norman Rockwell

Biographer and art critic Deborah Solomon stopped by The Colbert Report this week to discuss her latest book, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which reveals that the American-as-apple-pie artist wrestled with severe depression and was consumed by a sense of inadequacy. The real scandal, for Colbert, is that Rockwell was not the political conservative that he has been made out to be. Among Solomon’s revelations is that he [gasp!] voted for Kennedy.

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Interview: Mark Fox: Our discussion with the NYC via Ohio artist on the influence of puppets, Sunday Mass and a fateful tornado in his acclaimed work

Interview: Mark Fox


Manipulation is something everybody experiences every day—good or bad, conscious or unconscious. For NYC-based artist Mark Fox, manipulation has permeated his entire body of work and is a theme he continues to explore in his latest…

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