Hasta La Ideas

D&AD‘s famous award scheme has been running since 1962, and so to celebrate and also to encourage entries to its 50th awards, the organisation has created a kind of greatest hits video, highlighting winners from the last half century…

The 50th awards also has its own identity (shown top), courtesy of Neville Brody who set it in Futura and designed it to function as a graphic identity – but also as an identity that can be represented in any typeface on any document and even as an addition to urls. The awards, rather like CR’s Annual 2012 (see our earlier post), are now open for entries.

So then, who can name every brand featured in the film, and the corresponding agency that brought it D&AD glory?

CR in Print

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In print, Creative Review carries far richer, more in-depth articles than we run here on the blog. This month, for example, we have nine pages on Saul Bass, plus pieces on advertising art buyers, Haddon Sundblom, the illustrator who ensured that Coke will forever be linked with Santa Claus, Postmodernism, Brighton’s new football ground and much more. Plus, it’s our Photography Annual, which means an additional 85 pages of great images, making our November issue almost 200-pages long, the biggest issue of CR for 5 years.

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.

The deadline for the next Creative Review Annual, our international showcase of the pick of the year’s creative work, is December 12. And we also have some judges to tell you about

The Creative Review Annual is our major awards scheme. It showcases and celebrates the outstanding work of the previous year in visual communications.

Each year, our panel of industry experts chooses the work that they feel represents the best of the year for publication in our special May double issue of Creative Review (last year’s shown above).

Our judges for the 2012 Annual include:

Andy Altmann, co-founder, Why Not Associates

Violetta Boxill, creative director, Alexander Boxill

James Hilton, co-founder and chief creative officer, AKQA

Nat Hunter, founder/creative director, Airside

Paul Jordan, executive creative director, Dentsu London

Greg Quinton, creative partner, The Partners

Andy Sandoz, creative partner, Work Club

Marina Willer, head of design, Wolff Olins

To register and make an entry today, click here.

CR in Print

Not getting Creative Review in print too? You’re missing out.

In print, Creative Review carries far richer, more in-depth articles than we run here on the blog. This month, for example, we have nine pages on Saul Bass, plus pieces on advertising art buyers, Haddon Sundblom, the illustrator who ensured that Coke will forever be linked with Santa Claus, Postmodernism, Brighton’s new football ground and much more. Plus, it’s our Photography Annual, which means an additional 85 pages of great images, making our November issue almost 200-pages long, the biggest issue of CR for 5 years.

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.

If you haven’t been following our occasional posts on the London 2012 Olympics, all you need know is that there are a lot of various accoutrement that come with such an event, and right now we’d like to catch you up on two just-released pieces to add to the pile. First, the official Olympic and Paralympic coins have been released. The former was designed by an architecture student, and features sort of exactly what you’d expect from this sort of thing (an image of the city’s skyline, icons of the various sports, etc.). However, it’s the Paralympic coin, designed by Pippa Sanderson, that wins our hearts. It cleverly incorporates a shot-up target, a bicycle spoke, a stop watch, and the face of Big Ben, all split into sections on one face of the coin. It’s interesting, fun, and beautiful, and bravo to the Olympic committee for selecting something more interesting than the usual. Second, the LOCOG has also unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic Posters. These are the “art” posters, and given that they include artists like Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, and Gary Hume, they’re more likely to be used to raise awareness of the London 2012 Festival (where they’ll be hosted at the Tate) than for the games themselves. Our favorite of the bunch is Bridget Riley‘s “Rose Rose,” which “has arranged colours in horizontal stripes, indicating the direction of athletic tracks or swimming lane.” They can all be seen here.

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Type designer, illustrator and writer Rian Hughes will be giving the next Typographic Circle lecture, on November 24

Hughes is one of the UK’s most prolific and multitalented designers, turning his hand variously to type design, illustration and drawing comics. He has also written several books including, most recently, Cult-ure: Ideas can be dangerous.

As usual, the event will be at ad agency JWT, which is on Knightsbridge Green, London SW1. It starts at 7pm.

Tickets are £10 for members, £4 for student members and £16/£8 for non-members. Buy them here

CR in Print

Not getting Creative Review in print too? You’re missing out.

In print, Creative Review carries far richer, more in-depth articles than we run here on the blog. This month, for example, we have nine pages on Saul Bass, plus pieces on advertising art buyers, Haddon Sundblom, the illustrator who ensured that Coke will forever be linked with Santa Claus, Postmodernism, Brighton’s new football ground and much more. Plus, it’s our Photography Annual, which means an additional 85 pages of great images, making our November issue almost 200-pages long, the biggest issue of CR for 5 years.

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.

It’s no secret that Chip Kidd is a big Batman fan. In fact, just a couple of years back, we were talking about exactly that, when we wrote about the famous design keeping tabs in his journal of all things Batman-related at that year’s Comic-Con. Now it seems that Kidd is making that love official, with the news coming last month that DC Comics had brought aboard Kidd to pen a full-length graphic novel and artist Dave Taylor to visually bring it to life. Though the news about Batman: Death By Design, which is set to be released sometime next year, has been circulating since mid-October, there have been a number of great interviews with both Kidd and Taylor out there, with new illustrations popping up from the book here and there. We point you first to Newsarama, who recently interviewed Kidd, learning that one of the story’s main villains is a new creation made by the designer himself. Named Exacto, Kidd describes him as “an architectural critic as a Batman villain.” Comic Book Resources also has a great talk with the designer from right after the NYCC event, wherein he talks a bit more about the artistic direction the book will be taking. Here’s a bit about coming up with the name and where it all goes from there:

I actually came up with the title first. I thought, “If it’s me and you know who I am and what I do, then I’m going to come at this whole thing from a design standpoint.” I’ve said for many years that Batman himself and especially the way he’s evolved is brilliant design. It’s problem solving. And we get into that in the story. Beyond that, it became about me going “What if?” What do I want that I haven’t seen? And really, the overall Art Direction for the book is “What if Fritz Lang made a Batman movie in the late 1930s and had a huge budget? Go!” There’s the visual platform.

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