The October edition of our iPad app has now been published, and can be downloaded here. This month’s edition includes an iPad exclusive feature on illustrator Brian Grimwood, a look at the 50-year history of D&AD, a specially commissioned series of illustrated posters, and features on the rising popularity of Risograph and the disappearing art of sign-writing.
In an iPad exclusive feature we meet British illustrator Brian Grimwood to talk about his life in ten pictures, and find out how he’s using digital methods to create new work:
We also take a closer look at the set of illustrated posters created for this year’s Virgin Media Shorts:
And we take a look at how traditional hand-letterers are fighting to keep their art alive:
There’s also an in-depth feature on the revival of Riso printing, as well as profiles of Riso presses from around the world:
We take a look back at the past 50 years of D&AD:
And look inside the Book of Books, which charts 500 years of innovation in print:
We also explore how publisher Haymarket created a daily magazine for the London 2012 Olympics:
And we find out if ‘goodvertising’ can make the world a better place:
In Hi Res, there’s a preview of French design studio Akatre’s first monograph:
And we look at Lucas Foglia’s photographic series, A Natural Order, which documents the world of alternative and off-grid communities:
There’s more from the world of photography, with Japanese creative duo Nerhol’s series of 3D carved portraits:
And a preview of tbhe politically-themed Brighton Photo Biennial:
You can also preview a major retrospective show of Mel Bochner’s work:
And step into the logo graveyard:
In CRTV we’re featuring some of our favourite short films of the moment, including Lucid Inc’s new short, The Roper:
A visit to the junk cathedral of Vince Hannemann:
And a charming animation, that sees a strange vending machine creature wandering the streets of Tokyo:
The October edition will continue to be updated throughout the month, so check back for more features, more book previews, and our pick of the best photography, illustration and short films.
CR for the iPad Download the October edition of the iPad app here. This month features an iPad exclusive interview with Brian Grimwood, the man who changed the look of British illustration, as well as a preview of Lucas Foglia’s new exhibition of photography documenting off-grid communities, a look at the rising popularity of Risograph, and the 50-year history of D&AD. The October issue will be updated throughout the month with new stories, book previews, and our pick of the best photography, illustration and short films. Try a free sample issue here.
Detail from Peter Ørntoft’s Infographics in Context (Interest #4 Refugees and Immigrants) which won gold in Data Visualisation (see below for full graphic)
Earlier this evening the ICA in London staged the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards, a celebration of the best work in data visualisation and infographics. Here are the winning projects from the night…
Staged in partnership with market research company Kantar, the awards were set up by data journalist and information designer, David McCandless, whose informationisbeautiful.net has been reporting on data visualisation since 2009.
There were six main awards categories, with a bronze, silver and gold awarded in Infographic / Information Design; Data Visualisation; Interactive Visualisation; Data Journalism; Motion Infographic; and Tool or Website.
Over 1,000 projects were entered and judged by a panel including musician and artist Brian Eno; Paola Antonelli, senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art; Maria Popova, editor of cultural curation site BrainPickings.org; and Simon Rogers, editor of The Guardian Datablog. Visitors to the IIB site were also invited to vote for the Community Award, and their votes also contributed to the final totals.
For larger versions of the winning work, and to access interactive sections, please follow the links included below.
Motion Infographic:
Gold: What is the True Cost of War? by Peter Jeffs, Tom Stevenson. Narrated by Tony Benn this short animation examines the cost of the UK’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
Gold: Notabilia by Moritz Stefaner, Dario Taraborelli and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia. This interesting site visualises various “deletion discussions on Wikipedia”.
Gold: AntiMap by Trent Brooks. AntiMap is a creative toolset for recording and then visualising a user’s own data, via the AntiMap Log smart phone app (below, top) which can be synchronised with the AntiMap Video desktop application (demo shown, below).
Silver: FF Chartwell by Travis Kochel and FontFont.
Bronze: Gephi by Mathieu Bastian, Sébastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy.
Data Journalism:
Gold: CNN Home and Away by Stamen Design LLC. This sobering infographic plots US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, against a map showing the location of each of the soldiers’ hometowns.
Silver: Public Spending by the UK’s Government Departments, 2010-2011 by The Guardian Data and The Guardian Graphics teams.
Bronze: Metallica on Stage by Deniz Cem Önduygu, Amaç Herdağdelen, Eser Aygün.
Data Visualisation:
Gold: Infographics in Context (Interest #4 – Refugees and Immigrants) by Peter Ørntoft. “The focus of the interest deals with whether or not the Danes think it’s ethical to wear religious symbols in public professions,” writes Ørntoft on his website (where another six examples are shown). “I have used the looks and appearances of traditional religious symbols to design the diagrams explaining the data.”
Gold: Cover Mania by Michele Mauri. This infographic, which appeared in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra and can be seen in its entirety here, shows how The Beatles became the ‘most covered’ band ever.
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CR in Print In our October print issue we have a major feature on the rise of Riso printing, celebrate the art of signwriting, examine the credentials of ‘Goodvertising’ and look back at the birth of D&AD. Rebecca Lynch reviews the Book of Books, a survey of 500 years of book design, Jeremy Leslie explains how the daily London 2012 magazine delivered all the news and stories of the Games and Michael Evamy explores website emblemetric.com, offering “data-driven insights into logo design”. In addition to the issue this month, subscribers will receive a special 36-page supplement sponsored by Tag celebrating D&AD’s 50th with details of all those honoured with Lifetime Achievement awards plus pieces on this year’s Black Pencil and President’s Award-winners Derek Birdsall and Dan Wieden. And subscribers also receive Monograph which this month features Rian Hughes’ photographs of the unique lettering and illustration styles of British fairgrounds
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Cheshire Street, London: the image of a man as displayed on Street View, on the right, is pasted up at the same location, on left. Street View, here
In pasting up life-size images of people found on Google Street View in the same locations they were originally taken, artist Paolo Cirio’s Street Ghosts offers an interesting take on the notion of publicly displayed but privately-held data…
214 Lafayette Street, New York. Street View from 2009, here
Cirio’s practice has involved browsing notable places for street art on Street View in order to find, he says, “the most visible people on spooky buildings with walls available for art interventions”. Having found a suitable subject, Cirio then creates a colour poster of the figure from the screengrab, and pastes it up in the same location as the original image as taken by one of Google’s camera cars.
“As the publicly accessible pictures are of individuals taken without their permission, I reversed the act,” Cirio explains on streetghosts.net. “I took the pictures of individuals without Google’s permission and posted them on public walls. In doing so, I highlight the viability of this sort of medium as an artistic material ready to comment and shake our society.”
Cirio chooses to focus on geographical areas where street art is prevalent as these sites reframe illegal activity as public art – just as Google’s disseminating of an individual’s image online, without their permission, is seemingly lawful. (As the image above shows, Google’s facial blurring algorithms do not always seem to work.)
“The obscure figures fixed to the walls are the murky intersection of two overlain worlds,” Cirio continues on his site. “The real world of things and people, from which these images were originally captured, and the virtual afterlife of data and copyrights, from which the images were retaken.”
Since its launch in 2007, Street View has proved to be a rich source for artists and photographers – see the work of Michael Wolf, Jon Rafman and Doug Rickard – both for the richness of its frequently bizarre imagery, and its existence as a focal point for issues concerning the crossover of the public and private realm.
Dircksenstraße / Rochstraße, Berlin. Street View from 2008, here
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CR in Print In our October print issue we have a major feature on the rise of Riso printing, celebrate the art of signwriting, examine the credentials of ‘Goodvertising’ and look back at the birth of D&AD. Rebecca Lynch reviews the Book of Books, a survey of 500 years of book design, Jeremy Leslie explains how the daily London 2012 magazine delivered all the news and stories of the Games and Michael Evamy explores website emblemetric.com, offering “data-driven insights into logo design”. In addition to the issue this month, subscribers will receive a special 36-page supplement celebrating D&AD’s 50th with details of all those honoured with Lifetime Achievement awards plus pieces on this year’s Black Pencil and President’s Award-winners Derek Birdsall and Dan Wieden. And subscribers also receive Monograph which this month features Rian Hughes’ photographs of the unique lettering and illustration styles of British fairgrounds
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In our October issue we have a major feature on the rise of Riso printing, celebrate the art of sign painting, examine the credentials of ‘Goodvertising’ and look back at the birth of D&AD
D&AD is 50 this year. Mark Bonner of GBH design looks back to the founding of the organisation, tracing its roots and interviewing the art directors and designers who came together to give British design and art direction a much-needed platform
In addition to the issue this month, subscribers will receive a special 36-page supplement celebrating D&AD’s 50th with details of all those honoured with Lifetime Achievement awards plus pieces on this year’s Black Pencil and President’s Award-winners Derek Birdsall and Dan Wieden
Back to the magazine and a wonderful celebration of the art of sign painting thanks to a new book from Princeton Architectural Press. We have an extract and fantastic images
What is it about Riso printing that has made it so popular among designers, illustrators and artists? We trace the rise of Riso and profile three leading Riso presses – in Berlin, London and Glasgow.
In Crit this month, Rebecca Lynch reviews the Book of Books, a survey of 500 years of book design
Jeremy Leslie explains how the daily London 2012 magazine delivered all the news and stories of the Games
Gordon Comstock critiques new book, Goodvertising, featuring ads to make the world a better place
And Michael Evamy explores website emblematic.com, offering “data-driven insights into logo design”
And for subscribers only, this month’s Monograph features Rian Hughes’ photographs of the unique lettering and illustration styles of British fairgrounds
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Anyone who has tried to register a dotcom will tell you that all the short, monosyllabic, easy to pronounce names were taken long ago. But a little research reveals that’s not strictly the case…
If you’ve ever been involved in a naming exercise, you’ll know the feeling. You come up with the most unlikely coinage, then check the availability of the dotcom and find it’s already taken. Either there’s an organisation somewhere in the world for whom the name is perfect, or the professional dotcom squatters have snapped it up in the hope of a future bid. If you’re after a short, one-syllable, easily pronounceable name, there is simply nothing left.
Or very nearly nothing.
There’s a certain sub-group of domain names that remain available for a minimal fee, even two decades into the age of the internet. They are all one syllable, easy to pronounce and seven letters or fewer: qualities that are gold dust in normal circumstances. Yet they are presumed so awkward, ugly and uninspiring that nobody – not even the dotcom squatters – can bring themselves to go near them.
This blog post is a testimony to those names. By the truest test of all – the market – these are the ugliest monosyllables in the language.
gludge.com
blorph.com
frunge.com
splegg.com
thrord.com
gruld.com
brolge.com
crench.com
klorp.com
throdge.com
skrolch.com
wrimb.com
strebb.com
blarse.com
phlut.com
sprolge.com
thlunk.com
plooped.com
prork.com
grulch.com
These names are all available for a minimal fee from any domain registration service as of September 18 2012. There are more out there, though the list stays as close as possible to relatively straightforward words. Feel free to add more suggestions in the comments (one syllable, seven letters or fewer, easy to pronounce).
More importantly, please let us know if any of these are taken off the market, especially if it’s as a result of seeing them here. While Creative Review has no commercial interest, it would be interesting to track the fate of these sad monosyllables.
And if any reader can sell in gludge.com to a client, they deserve some acclaim.
Nick Asbury is a writer and one half of creative partnership, Asbury & Asbury. He tweets at @asburyandasbury. A version of this article originally appeared on Asbury’s blog.
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CR in Print In our October print issue we have a major feature on the rise of Riso printing, celebrate the art of signwriting, examine the credentials of ‘Goodvertising’ and look back at the birth of D&AD. Rebecca Lynch reviews the Book of Books, a survey of 500 years of book design, Jeremy Leslie explains how the daily London 2012 magazine delivered all the news and stories of the Games and Michael Evamy explores website emblematic.com, offering “data-driven insights into logo design”. In addition to the issue this month, subscribers will receive a special 36-page supplement celebrating D&AD’s 50th with details of all those honoured with Lifetime Achievement awards plus pieces on this year’s Black Pencil and President’s Award-winners Derek Birdsall and Dan Wieden. And subscribers also receive Monograph which this month features Rian Hughes’ photographs of the unique lettering and illustration styles of British fairgrounds
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.
Vimeo is to introduce two new features that will enable filmmakers to make money from the site. A Tip Jar system for voluntary contributions launches today with a pay-per-view system to be rolled out soon
How the Vimeo Tip Jar feature will appear on the site
Vimeo says the new features “provide a clear path for video creators to build businesses around the films and videos they create”. “Empowering creators to make money from their videos is a logical next step for Vimeo as a service and an opportunity to expand the overall marketplace for creators and viewers,” Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor said in a press statement. “Established creators and emerging talent alike can connect directly with their audiences without the need to conform to industry standards around video format, price or timing releases.”
Tip Jar will allow anyone to contribute voluntary payments from 99 cents upwards, before, during or after watching a video; Vimeo will pay 85 per cent of the gross revenue from these ‘tips’ to the creator of the film. Vimeo Plus or Pro members are able to start using the service from today.
The pay-per-view service will be trialled over the next few months on seven to 10 selected films. The full service, which will be available to Vimeo Pro subscribers only, will launch in the new year. The revenue split for pay-per-view between Vimeo and creators is still to be decided but creators will be able to fix their own prices.
“Creators have asked us for quite some time to help them monetise their work, but we think it needed an approach that put the controls back into the hands of the creators themselves,” said Dae Mellencamp, president of Vimeo. “We designed these tools to allow video creators to be as flexible as possible while providing the ability to financially succeed at various levels of viewership.”
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CR in Print Students, grads, young professionals: if you buy one issue of CR this year, make sure it’s this one. The September print issue of CR is our annual graduates special. In it, we have teamed four recent graduates with professional practitioners in their chosen field who offer invaluable advice on how to get started in their profession. APFEL meet graphics graduate Arthur Carey, BETC London ECD Neil Dawson meets Sophia Ray, illustrator Matthew ‘The Horse’ Hodson offers sage advice to Sam Tomlins and photographer Jenny van Sommers meets Megan Helyer. In addition, our September issue also features Google Creative Lab, Unit Editions’ new book on Herb Lubalin, Michael Evamy on place branding, Jeremy Leslie on new bilingual magzine Figure and Gordon Comstock on the importance of failure.
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This year’s London Design Festival is already well into the swing of things, but there’s plenty more to come. Here’s our selection of this year’s must-see LDF events and exhibitions for CR readers.
Outline Editions are launching a new collection of limited edition prints to mark this year’s Design Festival, with contributors including Noma Bar, Anthony Burrill and Malika Favre. The prints will be on show at Design Junction, September 20 – 23, and will also be available to purchase online.
Birdland, by Noma Bar
Egyptian, by Malika Favre
WORK Gallery is holding a retrospective show of illustrator Brian Grimwood’s work, covering his output from the 1960s up until the present, including more recent work created using digital methods. The exhibition is on until November 3.
HaYoung Kim is holding her first solo exhibition in London, Eat All You Can, at Hoxton Art Gallery. The show features Kim’s manga-inspired style, with pieces that combine the theme of the edible with that of the technological. The exhibition is on until October 4.
What You Eat I, by HaYoung KIm
What You Eat II, by HaYoung Kim
Created by digital artist Keiichi Matsuda, Prism re-appropriates London’s various streams of information, including economics statistics and transport data, and turns them into a digital, sculptural installation. Matsuda describes the installation as “an investigation into the virtual life of the city, and our own often ambiguous relationship with the data that controls our lives.” As an extra bonus, the installation allows visitors access to parts of the V&A that have previously never been open to the public.
Also at the V&A is The Journey of a Drop, in which Rolf Sachs has created an installation consisting of a giant glass tank full of Illuminated liquid into which drops of inkwill fall, “exploding into organic colour clouds”, we are promised.
Honouring the oft-neglected ladies of the graphic design industry is GraphicBirdWatching, who are holding a Graphic Design Walk through a series of London’s creative studios to celebrate the work of female designers, including Pomme Chan, Emily Forgot and Visual Editions. The walk will take place on September 21 and 22, but there’s also an exhibition at the 71a Gallery, featuring the work of 15 different international female designers.
Scarf, by Pomme Chan
Balloons, by Emily Forgot
Outline Editions has collaborated with Shapero Rare Books to show a series of prints created by illustrator Kristjana S Williams, and inspired by Victorian natural history drawings. The exhibition takes place at Shapero Rare Books, and will continue until September 22. More details in our blog post here.
Astrikur Raudi, by Kristjana S Williams
The V&A are hosting an exhibition of illustrator George W Adamson’s work, looking back across his 60-year long career. The show covers his book and magazine covers, as well as artworks loaned from the George W Adamson Archive.The work will be on show until September 30, at the V&A.
Illustrated by George W Adamson
Hat-trick have organised an exhibition of 190 Royal Mail stamps, shown at 15 different venues around the capital. The stamps are actual size, but the exhibition comes complete with a magnifying glass in order to properly view the artworks. More details on the show in our blog post.
Reincarnation at Londonprintstudio sees graphic designers and artists recycling discarded materials in an attempt to reinvigorate old styles.
Collage, by Lynn Hatzius
At 100% design, the RSA is using its stand to promote The Great Recovery, a programme aimed at prompting discussion around design’s role in promoting the recovery and re-use of materials. Curator Daniel Charny and design studio Thomas.Matthews have created a stand “with shelves piled high with once loved and now broken electrical equipment in varying states of repair“. Social enterprise Bright Sparks and Islington Council’s Repair and Reuse Shop will be on-site repairing and re-selling the kit all in aid of promoting the idea that we need to break out of the cylce of ‘take-break-dispose’. On Saturday there will be a day of related talks including James Carrigan of Sugru and packaging expert Mark Shayer.
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CR in Print Students, grads, young professionals: if you buy one issue of CR this year, make sure it’s this one. The September print issue of CR is our annual graduates special. In it, we have teamed four recent graduates with professional practitioners in their chosen field who offer invaluable advice on how to get started in their profession. APFEL meet graphics graduate Arthur Carey, BETC London ECD Neil Dawson meets Sophia Ray, illustrator Matthew ‘The Horse’ Hodson offers sage advice to Sam Tomlins and photographer Jenny van Sommers meets Megan Helyer. In addition, our September issue also features Google Creative Lab, Unit Editions’ new book on Herb Lubalin, Michael Evamy on place branding, Jeremy Leslie on new bilingual magzine Figure and Gordon Comstock on the importance of failure.
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Burberry has opened a new flagship store on London’s Regent Street that mixes elegant craftmanship with digital high-tech wizardry to create a truly seductive retail experience…
The store, which opened to the public last week, aims to replicate all the elements found on Burberry World, the brand’s online shopping experience, at burberry.com. Burberry has become known for its forays into digital experimentation, using Twitter and other social media sites to introduce its catwalk shows live to an online audience, for example, and also using imaginative technology in its advertising, including a recent tie-in with the Weather Channel.
The store continues this inventive use of technology in the physical space, with 500 speakers and 100 screens fitted throughout, which will show original content created in-house at Burberry, and will occasionally feature ‘disruptive digital takeovers’, when the screens and speakers synchronise across the store to show digital rain showers, for example.
There is also use of radio-frequency identification technology (RFID), where certain products, when taken into a changing room or held near certain screens, will trigger relevant catwalk footage and other filmed content to appear. All of which will make it harder to resist that purchase, naturally.
In addition, there is a digitally enhanced exhibition space on the first floor, showing vintage Burberry clothing not for sale, and in the store’s central atrium there is an events space, featuring a large screen that will show Burberry films during the day, and also be used as a backdrop for special events and music performances held in-store.
Burberry has long emphasised its Britishness in its advertising and branding, so it is appropriate that this, its largest store to date, is in London. The store, which was originally built in 1820 for Prince Regent and is Grade II listed, has been lovingly restored by the company over two years, and shows a real attention to detail. The subtle introduction of digital technology into the space demonstrates how such innovative techniques can be used alongside classic design and craftmanship without any clash of cultures. It all adds up to a shopping experience that will no doubt prove dangerously attractive to visitors.
Graphic designer and art director Darren Wall loves (video) gaming so much he’s founded a new publishing company, Read-Only Memory, to publish beautifully designed and exhaustively researched books on the subject…
Wall has made a film to explain his intentions with ROM and also to outline what the first book is all about. Why? Because he needs help to get the funding to actually print ROM’s first book. The following film appears on a Kickstarter page he’s set up where he hopes to raise the $30,000 required to make the project happen:
Here is a gif showing some spreads from Sensible Sofware 1986-1999 which is all ready to print, pending funding:
And let’s face it, who doesn’t want to see a vinyl record of Sensible Software’s greatest hits?
Find the project’s Kickstarter campaign page here.
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CR in Print Students, grads, young professionals: if you buy one issue of CR this year, make sure it’s this one. The September print issue of CR is our annual graduates special. In it, we have teamed four recent graduates with professional practitioners in their chosen field who offer invaluable advice on how to get started in their profession. APFEL meet graphics graduate Arthur Carey, BETC London ECD Neil Dawson meets Sophia Ray, illustrator Matthew ‘The Horse’ Hodson offers sage advice to Sam Tomlins and photographer Jenny van Sommers meets Megan Helyer. In addition, our September issue also features Google Creative Lab, Unit Editions’ new book on Herb Lubalin, Michael Evamy on place branding, Jeremy Leslie on new bilingual magzine Figure and Gordon Comstock on the importance of failure.
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Tribal DDB and Stinkdigital have created a new interactive website for Philips, which explores the sound craft and acoustic design that goes into the brand’s Fidelio product range…
The site, which can be viewed online at thesoundofcreation.com, was created in collaboration with songwriter and producer Washed Out, and visualises nine of the production steps that have gone into the creation of the Philips Fidelio products. For example, step one, ‘Inspiration’, explains how the designers and engineers at Philips Sound studied the intricacies of air movement through a trumpet in their quest for perfection.
Each step is accompanied by a sound, by Washed Out, and visuals by director Gustav Johansson. The sounds and images slowly build up on the site to create a multi-layered experience, which viewers are also encouraged to interact with – they can turn certain sounds on and off, altering the soundtrack as they go.
Visitors can also click through to product information, naturally, while exploring the site, and various products in the range are showcased. Imagery of the Fidelio Sound Tower and M1 headphones are shown below.
Users can then click away from the site to get further info on the products, or purchase them. And it is at this point that the experience becomes a little disappointing. Having seduced us with the interactive site, the sales site suddenly appears very corporate and boring. Could the aesthetic created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital not have been extended here too?
This aside, the team has created an elegant and playful interactive site, which is in keeping with the previous Philips web experiences, such as Carousel and Parallel Lines. Play with the site yourself at thesoundofcreation.com, or view the making-of film here to find out more about how it was done.
Credits: Agency: Tribal DDB, Amsterdam ECD: Chris Baylis Creatives: Pol Hoenderboom, Bart Mol, Sharon Cleary Production company: Stinkdigital Director: Gustav Johansson Composer: Ernest Greene, aka Washed Out
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