Painter-turned-photographer Noel Myles has spent the last 15 years documenting the East Anglian countryside in a series of beautiful images made up of dozens of individual shots
Myles lives and works in Sudbury, Suffolk. The town is famous as the birthplace of another artist, Thomas Gainsborough, whose house now serves as a museum and gallery. Myles’ work will appear there in a show entitled East Anglia and the Stour Valley which opens in March next year. Shown above is Still Film of an Oak. Below, A Short Film of Spring.
If you enjoy reading the Creative Review website, we think you’ll enjoy reading the magazine even more. The December issue of CR includes a profile piece on the independent creative scene in Liverpool, a major interview with Dutch book designer Irma Boom and a great piece on ‘Poster King’ Edward McKnight Kauffer. You’ll also find articles on Dentsu London, a review of the Walker Art Center’s Graphic Design: Now in Production show and a fascinating debate on the clash between design and advertising betwen Wally Olins and CHI’s Dan Beckett.
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Nuns for your tree, rapid prototype chocolate treats and QR code wrapping paper: just some of the Yuletide-themed ideas received at CR this year
For the more religiously inclined designer tree, Graphicdesign& (Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright’s project exploring how graphic design connects with the ‘wider world’) presents Three Wise Women, a set of three Christmas tree decorations featuring the design of nun’s habits. The set are the result of a collaboration between theology expert Veronica Bennett and illustrator Ryan Todd and tie in with the theme of the next Graphidesign& event which will explore the intersection of design and religion (more here).
If you don’t want to go dragging religion into Christmas, Cass Art has Robobaubles, “a series of highly imaginative and witty make-your-own robot-inspired Christmas paper toys and decorations” created by Matthew Robins.
Talking of trees, The Design Museum has commissioned one of its former Designers in Residence, Giles Miller, to design a bespoke six meter tall cardboard Christmas tree which will hang in the museum’s public atrium. The tree is made up of 3,600 individually cut and handmade pieces and features various woodland creatures.
A smaller range of cardboard trees, also by Miller, is on sale in the Museum shop.
Stuck for gift ideas? The Chase has created wrapping paper adorned with QR codes that make up familiar seasonal images. Scan the codes to reveal hundreds of gift ideas.
And if you are struggling to find an appropriately stylish card for your deisgner friends, check out Soma Gallery‘s Christmas shop. Here’s Patrick Eley’s Snöel Letraset-style Christmas card
And more cards by Gemma Correll
Online, a couple of projects have caught our eye. Writers’ group 26 is collaborating with illustrators from LCC and Plmouth College of Art to create 26 Stories of Christmas. In October, the group briefed 26 of its members to respond to a traditional Christmas object in 500 words. But there was a twist. “We asked each writer to choose an object that means Christmas to them,” says Rob Self-Pierson, 26 board member. “We put the objects in a hat and paired them randomly with our writers, so nobody knew what they’d get. Everyone then had just two weeks to write a cracking story.” Each story was then paired with a visual artist from the LCC or PCA.
And last, but certainly not least, Moving Brands has rigged up its RepRap 3D printer to work with chocolate so that it can output a miniature advent calendar-style choccie every day up until Christmas.
Staff submitted stories from which an object was chosen to be reproduced as a 3D chocolate.
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If you enjoy reading the Creative Review website, we think you’ll enjoy reading the magazine even more. The December issue of CR includes a profile piece on the independent creative scene in Liverpool, a major interview with Dutch book designer Irma Boom and a great piece on ‘Poster King’ Edward McKnight Kauffer. You’ll also find articles on Dentsu London, a review of the Walker Art Center’s Graphic Design: Now in Production show and a fascinating debate on the clash between design and advertising betwen Wally Olins and CHI’s Dan Beckett.
And if that wasn’t enough, the issue also includes a FREE paper toy for readers to cut out and customise.
If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
This month’s issue of CR features a survey of Liverpool’s thriving independent creative scene. We’re going to show more work from some of those featured here on the blog. Next up: Framedink
We were invited up to Liverpool by artist and illustrator William Johnston (aka Framedink) who gave us a guided tour of the city. When he’s not haranguing magazine editors to “take their heads from their pretentious London backsides and take a trip up to Liverpool”, Johnston is a designer, artist and printmaker. Here’s some of his work.
Thanks to Will for being such a great host for our Liverpool trip and for arranging everything, including the services of our excellent photographer for the day Adam Murray-Brown amurraybrown@me.com
CR in Print
If you enjoy reading the Creative Review website, we think you’ll enjoy reading the magazine even more. The December issue of CR includes a profile piece on the independent creative scene in Liverpool, a major interview with Dutch book designer Irma Boom and a great piece on ‘Poster King’ Edward McKnight Kauffer. You’ll also find articles on Dentsu London, a review of the Walker Art Center’s Graphic Design: Now in Production show and a fascinating debate on the clash between design and advertising betwen Wally Olins and CHI’s Dan Beckett.
And if that wasn’t enough, the issue also includes a FREE paper toy for readers to cut out and customise.
If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.
En collaboration avec Curioos, voici la première collection d’oeuvres et de visuels prints Fubiz en édition limitée. Des impressions artistiques avec agrandissements et cadres : l’ensemble de cette sélection est disponible sur la boutique et dans la galerie présente ci-dessous.
The first many people, including us, had heard of the now-open Crystal Bridges Museum was way back in early 2009 when controversy erupted over Fisk University‘s efforts in trying to sell off its large collection of famous and valuable paintings, donated by Georgia O’Keeffe, to WalMart heiress Alice Walton‘s new museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Over the next two years, there was lots of back and forth, where they’d get the go ahead, only to be pushed back by courts or Tennessee’s attorney general, and then start all over again with new plans to help the cash-strapped school unload its treasures. At last we’d left it, just over a year ago, a judge had given Fisk the okay to sell a portion of the collection to Crystal Bridges, but could only use a portion of the $30 million it expected to receive to pay its bills. Per usual in this debate, they weren’t happy with the decision and vowed to keep fighting. Now it appears they’ve had at least a minor victory. The Wall Street Journalreports that a state appeals court has thrown out that previous ruling, saying the judge didn’t have the authority to make that decision. Hypothetically, that means they’ll now have access to the full $30 million. However, the paper reports that the appeals court wants Fisk to explain how it intends to use the money and what it’s done with the $1 million Alice Walton donated to help care for the collection. What’s more, the attorney general, who was one of the main forces agains the sale, “has not yet decided whether to seek an appeal to the state Supreme Court,” which could once again shut Fisk’s plans down entirely.
By now you’ve likely heard about the woes following singer Jennifer Lopez‘s appearance in a Fiat commercial. First, despite the whole theme of the spot being about how much she loved the Bronx, where she grew up, it was discovered that she filmed the ad in Los Angeles and a body double had done the actual driving through her supposedly beloved neighborhoods (the car also broke down while filming). Second, a fairly tasteless variation on that concept in an instance of product placement run amok with her Fiat-heavy performance at the American Music Awards. Now another round of criticism has hit the singer and the creators of the spot, this time for the use of some art in the background. WPIXreports that the artist Wilfredo Felicia is upset over the use of one of his company‘s murals in the spot, without his consent and without any compensation. What particularly irks him, he tells the station, is that he’d actually done work for Lopez before, providing a mural for a music video she’d made eight years ago. However, beyond just an irk, the mural used in the commercial also has a copyright behind it, as do all of his company’s paintings, which opens the door to potential legal repercussions (though it appears that that’s now unlikely to happen). Fiat has replied to the complaint, saying they were unaware that the mural was protected and had expected their agency to “conduct the due diligence” and will now be working toward resolving the issue. Felicia tells the station that he’s not upset with Lopez herself, as she was merely a part of this larger production, but adds that “if she is going to represent the Bronx she [should] be more aware of what people around her are doing,” which of course returns you to the heart of that very first complaint about the spot.
Can’t make it to Art Basel Miami Beach this year? Be a virtual art collector with s[edition], a just-launched web venture that has convinced contemporary art stars such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Shepard Fairey, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Bill Viola to take part in a new breed of online gallery. The limited edition works up for sale aren’t tangible—they’re digital images and videos that can be purchased for display on mobile phones, tablets, and computers, or simply hoarded in one’s virtual art “vault.” The London-based company is the brainchild of Harry Blain , founder of Haunch of Venison and Blain|Southern galleries, and Robert Norton, the former CEO of Saatchi Online. Prices range from $8 to download a Wim Wenders photograph of the side of a Safeway supermarket to $800 for one of 2,000 digital editions of Hirst’s “For Heaven Sake,” (above), a diamond-encrusted, platinum baby’s skull that slowly rotates in an HD video. The price includes a digital-watermarked edition and a certificate of authenticity. “We believe that s[edition] allows new global audiences access to works by the world’s leading artists,” said Blain in a statement announcing the site’s launch. “The digital format is one that many artists are already working in, and many more in the future will encompass as a part of their practice.”
With the temporary detainment last week of his assistant on distribution of pornography charges, it appeared that the Chinese government’s latest crackdown on Ai Weiwei for a full summer of the artist violating the media ban they’d placed on him in his numerous appearances where he seemed more than happy to speak ill of his native country. Now it appears the authorities have hit closer to home, with the arrest of his wife and business partner, Lu Qing. Reuters reports that she was detained for three hours and was treated as a “criminal suspect.” The crime in question appears to be related to the tax evasion charges placed upon Weiwei and his company, Beijing Fake Cultural Development. However, the authorities, who apparently burst into her home unannounced yesterday, weren’t so forthright about what exactly was being investigated. Here’s a bit:
The police told Lu that she could not leave Beijing “in the near term” but refused to tell her for how long. Lu said they also told her that they could take her back anytime for questioning.
Lu said the police asked her about the programs run by Fake and personal information such as her money transactions and bank accounts such as one in New York. But they did not mention the tax evasion case, she added.
Despite being one of the most well known artists in the world and selling out at auctions and exhibition and even movie theaters, sometimes the one reward that’s most wanted is the one you can’t seem to ever get. Such is the case with internationally renowned street artist Banksy. Reportedly for the fifth year in a row (we can verify at least back to 2007), the artist has submitted a piece to the Turnip Prize judges, only to see his name left off the shortlist. The prize, for those unfamiliar, is the 12 year old annual art competition in answer to the slightly more high brow Turner Prize. Its listed information on how positive marks are awarded for entries include “lack of effort” and “alliteration or pun used in title,” and with flat out disqualifications handed out for “too much effort” and “it is not sh*t enough.” This year it’s presumed that Banksy entered a frame painting of a stick figure with a though bubble wondering “Is crap art ‘art’ or is it crap?” Unfortunately for the artist, the shortlist has been released and he looks to have been bested by the likes of “a piece of cheese cut into the shape of the letter E” and “a coloured rock called Half a Stone Lighter.” However, perhaps it wasn’t even his attempt at bad art that wound up getting him kicked out in the first place, but rather for one other disqualification listed on their site for pieces that are submitted using a pseudonym.
Even if you don’t know dance all that well, it’s likely that you know the work of Noemie Lafrance, at the very least from her choreography for Fiest‘s “1, 2, 3, 4″ music video. You might also remember hearing about her project, the “Rapture Series,” when it debuted atop the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in New York in the fall of 2008. First being commissioned to dance atop that Frank Gehry building (using sets of rigs for dancers, allowing them to hang off the side of the sloping building), Lafrance planned to expand the series by choreographing dances across 10 of Gehry’s buildings around the world. Though we haven’t heard much about the project since then, in this recent video interview with the BBC, she’s released a few more details, offering a peek at what’s to come. First, she says that the completed project is set to launch sometime in 2013. Second, that launch seems as though it will be connected to a performance atop Gehry’s IAC Building in New York, where “a large amount of dancers, inside and outside of the building, and also use video mapping projections.” It’s not a ton more information, but it’s nice to hear the project is still alive and well and we’re eager to see what comes of it just over a year from now. Here are some clips from that debut performance from 2008:
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