Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey – Digital Catalogue is an iPad counterpart to Unit Editions’ excellent printed catalogue accompanying last year’s Crouwel show at the Design Museum
Designed by Spin and edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy, the iPad app repeats the beautiful presentation of Crouwel’s work that was such a feature of the printed catalogue – significant posters are presented by means of a shoot in the Crouwel archive, each one pulled from the stacks and shot in situ.
It also repeats the catalogue’s idea of presenting additional work as a series of shots of archive boxes, allowing the user the sense of being able to delve into the archive themselves
However the app includes extra content, including a filmed interview with Crouwel, photographs of the Design Museum exhibition itself and animations of significant Crouwel letterforms
From the initial opening screen, the app takes the user to a simple menu from which the sections (posters, interviews, boxes, logotypes, exhibition and type animation) can be accesed. Each section has an opening page, captions to content are revealed by means of a + button on screen.
A very slick, elegant app which, at £3.99 is an attractive alternative to the printed catalogue (priced £16.95). Our only quibble would be that it is not possible to zoom into the images of the posters to examine details up close, although there is an additional close-up image of one of them. Otherwise, well worth getting for Crouwel fans.
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CR in Print The August Olympic Special issue of Creative Review contains a series of features that explore the past and present of the Games to mark the opening of London 2012: Adrian Shaughnessy reappraises Wolff Olins’ 2012 logo, Patrick Burgoyne talks to LOCOG’s Greg Nugent about how Wolff Olins’ original brand identity has been transformed into one consistent look for 2012, Eliza Williams investigates the role of sponsorship by global brands of the Games, Mark Sinclair asks Ian McLaren what it was like working with Otl Aicher as a member of his 1972 Munich Olympics design studio, Swiss designer Markus Osterwalder shows off some of his prize Olympic items from his vast archive, and much more. Plus, Rick Poynor’s assessment of this year’s Recontres d’Arles photography festival, and Michael Evamy on the genius of Yusaku Kamekura’s emblem for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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Just in case simply being inside the 2012 Olympic Velodrome is not exciting enough, a Tron-inspired animation by Crystal CG set to a specially created Chemical Brothers track is being used to whet the crowd’s appetite before each session
Crystal CG is, along with the LOCOG sports presentation team, responsible for all the on-screen graphics and animations at the 2012 Olympics, as well as being the company behind the animated sequences in the opening ceremony (about which we will blog more tomorrow).
One of its tasks was to create intro sequences for the big screens in each venue in order to get the crowd going before sessions begin. For the Velodrome film, a team of animators, designers and compositors working under film and animation creative director Darren Groucutt, produced the following, which incorporates architects’ renderings of the Velodrome designed with a core visual reference from the brief uppermost – Tron.
The Chemical Brothers track was commissioned as part of LOCOG’s Rock the Games programme and is one of five official songs composed for the Games – the others being by Muse, Elton John vs Pnau, Delphic and Dizzee Rascal.
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CR in Print The August Olympic Special issue of Creative Review contains a series of features that explore the past and present of the Games to mark the opening of London 2012: Adrian Shaughnessy reappraises Wolff Olins’ 2012 logo, Patrick Burgoyne talks to LOCOG’s Greg Nugent about how Wolff Olins’ original brand identity has been transformed into one consistent look for 2012, Eliza Williams investigates the role of sponsorship by global brands of the Games, Mark Sinclair asks Ian McLaren what it was like working with Otl Aicher as a member of his 1972 Munich Olympics design studio, Swiss designer Markus Osterwalder shows off some of his prize Olympic items from his vast archive, and much more. Plus, Rick Poynor’s assessment of this year’s Recontres d’Arles photography festival, and Michael Evamy on the genius of Yusaku Kamekura’s emblem for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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If there’s any doubt in your mind as to Taekwondo’s rules of engagement, or how a gymnast’s performance is scored, you need simply to refer to a new app called Curly’s Pocket Guide to Sports which should set you straight…
The app has been developed by digital agency Wilson Fletcher after one of its employees found herself at Wimbledon last year and heard somebody in front of her ask a friend how many times the ball could bounce. The idea for an app that explains the rules to sport but in a witty, jargon-free way was born.
Wonderfully illustrated by Ryan Todd, the app is very easy to use, simply swipe along a number of illustrated cards which each represent a sport such as beach volleyball…
Click on it to read a summary of what the particular sport is all about, and also what the rules are and how it’s scored in competition.
As well as the rules, there are also some fun facts thrown in for good measure.
Curly’s Guide is currently available for the iPhone and iPad and priced at 69p on the App Store. More info at curlyspocketguide.co.uk.
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CR in Print The July issue of Creative Review features a piece exploring the past and future of the dingbat. Plus a look at the potential of paper electronics and printed apps, how a new generation of documentary filmmakers is making use of the web, current logo trends, a review of MoMA New York’s group show on art and type, thoughts on how design may help save Greece and much more. Also, in Monograph this month we showcase a host of rejected design work put together by two Kingston students.
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Legendary soul musician Bobby Womack, who’s been recording since the 60s, has launched himself into this decade with a new album, and an interactive music video that takes you on a journey through the universe.
For the title track of his latest album, The Bravest Man in The Universe, Womack teamed up with digital production agency B-Reel and Google to create an interactive music video for mobile phones and tablet devices. You can try it out for yourself here. The video sees a lone space traveller return to Earth, with plenty of opportunities to interact with planets and asteroids along the way.
The video itself employs some rather nice animation, and although the interactive element is perhaps a little superficial, it’s enjoyable nonetheless, with the opportunity to create black holes, merge planets and explode asteroids.
Other musicians have also started to use the iPad as a format for their releases, with electronic musician Forss creating his Ecclesia album as an interactive iPad app; Simian Mobile Disco releasing a pattern-themed app for their Unpatterns album; and Bjork’s Biophilia app.
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Base Design has revealed its new identity system for the Brussels Capital Region in Belgium. The work is based on a new ‘.brussels’ domain address for the area, and turns the standard country code into a statement…
While the new ‘.brussels’ domain suffix will come into use in the region in 2013, reflecting the importance of maintaining a strong regional identity online, the new system retains an aspect of the area’s traditional identity: the blue and yellow iris, the symbol for the Brussels Capital Region.
The new brand is, say Base, composed of a “call to action” i.e. ‘be.brussels’ and apparently also ties the capital to the Brussels Region to Belgium, which can be abbreviated to ‘BE’ (though as capital city, the links between Brussels and the wider country were probably quite strong already).
The following work for the campaign shows how the identity makes use of the ‘be’ as a flexible element that sits alongside the ‘be.brussels’ phrase. Hence ‘be inspired’, ‘be espanol’, ‘be english’, ‘be turk’ and so on. Even ‘be chouchou’ or ‘be babaluba’.
There are some nice touches where the word is replaced by a symbol e.g. a pipe, the iris, the Belgian flag, a brussels sprout.
Despite having to accomodate an existing part of the capital’s identity (the iris), Base has succeeded in playing on the established colours of blue and yellow and sitting a relevant, contemporary identity system around it, which asserts the importance of the region’s online presence with quirky humour.
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In their Terrible People, Good Design show, this year’s Visual Communication graduates from Dublin’s IADT explored a wide variety of engaging and topical subjects, including the country’s current economic crisis, gay rights, bio-engineering and mobile phone dependency. Our guest correspondent, Holly Brennan, visited the show.
The identity for the show, developed by Rory Bradley and Will Rice, sets the tone with a slick poster and website showcasing the students work and giving a great impression of the group’s personality.
There was a particular emphasis this year on digital design, with some impressive web and app projects, all supported by beautiful print pieces.
Strong examples of these include Peter McDonagh’s app Taste This for iOS, based on Niki Segnit’s Flavour Thesaurus, in which he used high-speed photography to generate stunning abstract visualizations of flavour pairings. These were then incorporated into an attractive, colourful interface which allows users to easily and intuitively navigate the information. petermcdonagh.com
Sarah Fox’s Powow website and app provide an online platform for radio enthusiasts to share, explore and discuss a curated selection of quality podcasts. The impressive digital work is supported by bold, eycatching typographic posters, with the design for each new series of shows overprinted onto the last. She has also produced playful, illustrative motion pieces to explain and promote the site. Visit the beta version of the site here. sarahjunefox.com
Anton Lebed’s Sonitus app allows music lovers and producers to find and purchase music using a colour coded genre indentification system, which he has incorporated into a complex infographic charting the genealogy of electronic music. an-le.me
Rory Bradley’s work strongly demonstrates the multdisciplinary nature of the course, with elements of exhibition design, signage, web, print, motion and infographics incorporated into his project. His identity system for the Hucknell Clinic – For freckle-free living (a fictional clinic that ‘cures’ red-heads of their ginger hair and freckly skin) takes an absurd concept and executes it in a credible and realistic way, with a high level of craft and care put into each application, even down to the design of the exhibition space itself which includes a clinical display case of gruesome skin and hair specimens. rorybradley.ie
Another example of a project which takes an extreme, imagined scenario and brings it to life with a strong, convincing campaign is Will Rice’s identity for the Irish Integration Project. The campaign is devised to educate Irish citizens on the proposed sale of the Irish State to a foreign country in exchange for repayment of its massive debts.
In one of the few examples of packaging design in the show, Mark O’Brien’s project highlights and questions the ethics of meat production. His brand identity for Better Farms uses fun, engaing imagery and copywriting to promote this lab-grown meat product as a healthy, ethical alternative to conventional meat.
This is just a small selection of the fantastic work that was on show. To see all of the terrible people’s good design visit their website here. Or to get a quicker overview of the show (or the work of students from other courses) see here.
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Adobe Creative Week is a week-long series of online debates, reports and how-to sessions on the creative industry. Each day takes a different theme, covering design and publishing, film and video, web and mobile and photography
The problem with most conferences is that if you either can’t afford a ticket or are too busy to go, you are left on the sidelines, mumbling with frustration. Adobe’s Creative Week aims to solve that conundrum by streaming its sessions live online, for free, over the next seven days (tune in here) so you can drop in anytime you have some free moments. The sessions will also be available on demand.
The event starts with a general discussion on the creative industry with artist and designer Brendan Dawes, Joel Gethin Lewis of Hellicar & Lewis and Dr Chris Gerry of The Skills Lab. Later today, Wayne Hemingway, Chris Thompson of Ravensbourne and Marc Lewis of the School of Communication Arts are due on-screen, live from a studio, somewhere in London.
Tuesday July 10 is Design & Publishing day with CR columnist and magCulture founder Jeremy Leslie and illustrator Pete Fowler. Wednesday is Film & Video day, Thursday Web & Mobile, Friday Photography & Imaging. The full programme is here
Fred Deakin has collaborated with fellow ex-Airside co-director Nat Hunter, programmer and animator Marek Bereza, and music producer James Bulley to create an interactive audio-visual installation for the Joue Le Jeu (Play Along) exhibition currently running at France’s national digital museum, La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.
The installation, entitled Electricity Comes From Other Planets, is in the gallery’s 21 metre wide Mur Mezzanine space and consists of eight large “planets” that react to people’s movement within the space, generating both music and projected animations using a combination of generative programming, Kinnect sensors and projection mapping.
This film explains how the project came about and shows it being explored by visitors to the exhibition:
Electricity Comes From Other Planets is the first creative project to be attributed to Deakin’s new company Fred & Company which also created the branding (example shown, below) and publicity for the entire Joue Le Jeu exhibition.
Joue le Jeu runs until August 12 at La Gaîté Lyrique, 3 bis rue Papin, 75003 Paris, France.
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D&AD announced the winners of its annual Student Awards this week. Here’s our roundup of Yellow Pencil winners…
In the Advertising category, Fernando Barcelona and Juan David Manotas of Miami Ad School won a yellow pencil for their response to a brief for Internet Explorer 9. The duo came up with the notion of “sorbing” – where users phones note locations visited or passed during a daily routine, then offered users a host of exploration options next time they used Internet Explorer. See more at dandad.org/awards/student/2012/
Emma Leamore and Michael Pollard of University of Salford also won a pencil for their work for Internet Explorer 9 that involved an adventurous Hamster who explored “off the wheel”. More info here.
Adam Gäfvert, Fredrik Broander and Jesper Stein of Beckmans College of Design also won a pencil for their Internet Explorer 9 work. Their concept was to reward users who tagged visited sites or pages as having the potential to be popular. The more popular one of your tagged sites becomes, the higher you soar up the ratings, possibly to become a Top Explorer, thus encouraging people to explore more online. More info here.
Chris Nuelle of The Arts University College at Bournemouth answered a Channel 4 brief with this entry (above) to win a pencil.
…and Stephen Pierce from University of Ulster also won a pencil for his “The best is yet to come” campaign for Channel 4. More info at dandad.org/awards/student/2012
Louise Flanagan and Naomi Hodgson from University of Central Lancashire answered a brief by Pitch & Sync to win a pencil. Their idea was to create visual metaphors for music using objects associated with various different brands – to highlight that P&S can make music for any brand.
Norhumbria University student Steven Kelly also answered the Pitch & Sync brief but took a very different approach – creating a series of video mash ups, overlaying crazy, inappropriate and unexpected music over kids TV clips. There’s a particularly good one of Sooty and Sweep having a rave. See all three films at dandad.org/awards/student/2012
In the Open Advertising category, Matthew Kern and Westley Taylor of Miami Ad School won a pencil for their Aviva entry that encouraged people to save (above).
From Singapore’s Chatsworth Media Arts Academy, Amelie Kam Pei Wen, Andy Dexiang Xu, Fleur Vella, Goh Ting Yu and Violaine Hernery picked up one of two pencils awarded in the advertising Open Brief category for their Peace One Day campaign. Watch their entry film here.
Martin Headon and Olly Wood from the UK picked up the other for their Peace Day campaign. Watch their film here.
A Digital Advertising pencil was awarded to Claire Stokes and Christina Smith of the University of Lincoln for their Top Fans campaign (screen grab above) encouraging users of Spotify and Facebook to play their favourite song more than anyone else to earn Top Fan status. More here.
Haley Cole, Laura Cabello Molina, Marina Ricciardi, Olimpia Muñoz and Clare Eiluned Prowse of Miami Ad School also picked up a Digital Advertising pencil for their Guilty Pleasure Facebook app which you can check out here.
A third Digital Advertising pencil was awarded to Caroline Ekrem and Sara Marie Hodnebo of Norway’s Westerdals School of Communication for their Friends FM idea. View their entry film here.
A yellow pencil for Digital Design was won by five students of Simon Fraser University for their campaign for Windows Phone. Justin Lim, Kenneth Au-Yeung, Stanley Lai, Yu-Chuan (Felix) Lai, and Sarah Fung combined forces to answer the brief to “create a forward thinking multi-screen experience that can make a significant impact to the user’s personal or professional life.” See more here.
For graphic design, three students from Beckmans College of Design in Sweden won a pencil. Elin Mejergren, Josefin Janson and Nicole Kärnell responded to a brief set by Pentagram. More info and images here.
Two illustrators won a pencil each for illustrations created in response to a brief set by Little White Lies magazine to create a striking cover image:
Above is Norwich University undergraduate Rupert Smissen’s cover illustration, and below is the cover created by Francesca Hotchin of the University of Leeds:
In Moving Image, Yana Mironova, Lidia Velles and Zhanna Nosova of the Higher School of Art and Design in Russia won a pencil for their film (still shown above) made in response to a brief by HP in which a girl talks to camera about her relationship with her laptop. Watch the film here.
Martin Craster of the University of Salford also picked up a pencil in the Moving Image category for his very different take on the HP brief (still shown above). Watch the film here.
Hwasoo Shim and Jay Jung Hyun Yeo of LCC picked up a pencil in the Branding category for their identity system created for London entitled The City. See more here.
One Packaging Design pencil was won by Melissa Preston of Edinburgh Napier University for her WLTM whisky packaging (above). More images and info here.
Michael Skachkov from Russia picked up a pencil for Photography for his project featuring models wearing fabricated “skin suits”. See more here.
Also picking up a Photography pencil, Eason Page (City University Hong Kong) took a series of images of vertical structures such as the two shown above. See more here.
A pencil for Intergrated Communications was awarded to Arina Kisleva and Kseniya Apresyan from Russia for their Maket School campaign which can be viewed here.
And finally, new in this year’s student awards is the Make Your Mark category for which D&AD asked students: “how are you going to stand out from the crowd?”. Three pencils were awarded, one went to Joy Ayles from the University of Salford (see her entry film here) and the other went to Kyle Jacobson and Chad Goddard from Vega, The Brand Communications School in South Africa for their box of 50 engraved anti-procrastination pencils (below). See more here.
To see all of the Student Awards winners, visit dandad.org
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Though installed in a new venue, D&AD’s graduate talent hypermarket, otherwise known as New Blood, is as overwhelming as ever. Patrick Burgoyne battled through the private view crowds to find some favourites
Both the D&AD Student Awards and its New Blood show, in which visual arts courses each take a stand to display the pick of their graduates’ work, are in London’s Spitalfields market this year. It’s a great space, which no doubt will attract some valuable passing traffic, but the New Blood show itself is very cramped. Colleges sit cheek by jowl, the fruit and veg stalls of the old market replaced by tutors and grads hawking their creative talents.
Here are a few who stood out for me, but, with the show open until the evevening of June 28, I’d recommend a trip down there to se for yourself if you are in the vicinity. I’ve deliberately avoided colleges whose shows we have either already covered on the blog or who we know we will cover separately in the coming weeks and concentrated on institutions whose shows we may otherwise not have been able to see.
So let’s start with the Illustration course at UCA Maidstone where the vivd, quite aggressive work was a counterpoint to medium’s tendency toward the twee. I particularly liked Ian O’Shea‘s project on Tom Crean, a survivor from the 1912 Scott expedition to the Antarctic
And Aleksandra Jablokova‘s bizarre interpretation of Beauty and the Beast was memorable, if disturbing!
This is from her version of Little Red Riding Hood
At the Dundee illustration stand, Sally Hackett‘s ceramic tribute to notorious streakers, including Erica Roe, was hard to miss
Staying with illustration, Southampton Solent impressed, notably Christopher Todd‘s series of circular works on notable people, places and events related to the city.
And Nate Kitch‘s project on the patient studies of psychiatrist Oliver Sacks as related in the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, including this piece on an elderly ex-submariner who could not remember anything between the second world war and the early 70s.
I also liked the vivid work of Jack ‘Ren” Reynolds of University College Bournemouth
Simon Cheadle‘s project on mistakes at the Kingston illustration stand was beautifully presented: “Drawing tools that generate mistakes were designed and used to reinterpret objects and ideas that are considered perfect. By then printing and manufacturing the results, these notions of perfection are pushed back into the realm of creativity and the imperfections of the object are celebrated.”
You can download and print out paper versions of the tools here
At the Arts University College at Bournemouth graphics show, Kudzai Dyirakumunda attempted to tackle the topic of the London riots using messages about the events that had been posted on Twitter. Some were etched into News Blocks presented in a wooden tray, giving permanence to these digital communications.
Others were immortalised in poster form
Also at Bournemouth is Peter Smart who is behind the hugely impressive 50 Problems in 50 Days, which he describes thus: “I’m on an adventure – to explore the limits of design’s ability to solve social problems, big and small. To do this I attempted to solve 50 problems in 50 days using design. I also spent time with 12 of Europe’s top design firms.”
Each day, Smart attempted to use design to tackle a different social problem, from easing tube congestion to improving translation tools, while also interviewing and visiting top design firms around Europe. A really strong piece of work.
On to the UWE graphics stand and CJ Brown who applied to Facebook to see all the data it had on him. The massive file he received in return was made into a hardback book.
Brown also created One Country Two Systems in response to an ISTD brief. The book is split into two sections “with each focusing on the attitude and objectives of the two major countries involved in the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. This concept of having two books originated from the term given to China after the handover, ‘One Country Two Systems’. Although each book is intended to be read individually there are certain occasions when the chapters and content relate.”
In a strong UWE stand, I also enjoyed Magnus Hearn‘s book OMG in the OED about new words admitted to the dictionary
Andrew Duncan‘s film on the formula for the perfect romatic comedy
And Sam Stefan‘s The Waitress, created in response to an ISTD brief on “tales to change the world”. Presented as an iPad app, the book responds to its location.
At the Stockport design and visual arts stand, Helen Porter wrapped various iplements in coloured twine, making a striking display
The project was in response to a GF Smith brief which asked ‘ If colour was something physical, how might it interact with objects?’. Porter created a hand-boound book showcasing her work.
Last but by no means least, what would a degree show be without some Risograph action, this time prodiced by Gabriella Marcella Ditano aka Risotto of Glasgow School of Art
This is just a small selection of the work on show. Get down to New Blood if you can – details here
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