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Greenpeace has released an animated video as part of its ongoing Detox campaign, in what is a new creative approach to spreading the environmental charity’s message.

Produced in collaboration with Free Range Studio, and animation from China-based Animaster Animation, the manga-style video draws attention to fashion brands turning a blind eye to toxic pollution by their industry. Narrated as a Hollywood trailer, it aims to reach a new global audience, according to Greenpeace creative director Tommy Crawford. The video “was designed to speak both to our own supporters, but also a broader audience in order to raise awareness of the fashion industry’s toxic addiction”, he says.

The clip forms part of a wider campaign, which launched in July 2011 with a spoof ad video challenging sports brand to clean up their production and supply chains, as well as social media and other online content.

While Greenpeace still uses traditional tools such as direct, peaceful action, using photos to bear witness to environmental crimes, it increasingly uses other creative outlets such as animation, street performance and social media, adds Crawford.

“As the world in which we campaign has changed, we too have adapted and developed our campaigning strategies,”he says . “Greenpeace is famous for its documentary work, which we still continue to this day, but in an age where online videos can be a powerful tool through which to reach out and have a conversation with large audiences, we have also adapted our approach and looked to find new ways to communicate about key environmental issues.”

Credits Detox Fashion:

Creative direction: Tommy Crawford (Greenpeace International), Ruben DeLuna and Drew Beam (Free Range Studios)

Animation: Animaster Animation

CR In print

In our December issue we look at why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators. Plus, Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up. We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design and ask why advertising has been so poor at preserving its past. Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen and we interview maverick director Tony Kaye by means of his unique way with email. In Crit, Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty review’s Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars and Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers. In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi. And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work.

Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)

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.

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This Christmas, reserve your favourite spot on the family sofa with a ‘reserved’ cushion, one of several new printed products launched this week by hand lettering artist Alison Carmichael…

Since we posted almost exactly a year ago about Carmichael’s new line of Made By Alison Carmichael printed products, she has completed a screenprinting course and this week releases a new set of products including three limited edition screenprints (pulled by her own fair hand), a cotton tote bag, and the cushion (£50, shown above) which features the word ‘reserved’ on one side and ‘vacant’ on the other, thus allowing it to be placed accordingly depending on your seat-reserving needs.

Carmichael’s three new prints are all all screenprinted on 50 x 70cm colorplan 270gsm paper and priced at £120 each. “They are very limited runs,” she tells us. “I only did them in runs of 20-30 depending on how many I printed perfectly,” she continues. “I printed them all myself apart from Everything You Know Is Wrong [shown above] because the facilities I had access to meant that I couldn’t print that one exactly as I wanted it so I outsourced it to Dan Mather who is a really talented young screenprinter I have worked with in the past.”

“I like phrases which can be interpreted in different ways and love how you can adjust the perception of the message with a particular lettering style,” says Carmichael of the new work. “I’m really excited about the idea of collaborating with product and furnishing designers to produce more interior pieces.”

Above and below: To Those Who Think Otherwise, £120, printed in an edition of 20. Also available in a turquoise edition of 25.

Below, the same design also adorns a black cotton tote bag, £12.

Find these products, and more, at Carmichael’s shop website.

To see more of her work visit her portfolio site at alisoncarmichael.com, recently redesigned by Adam J Evans of Ordinary Designs.

CR In print

In our December issue we look at why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators. Plus, Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up. We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design and ask why advertising has been so poor at preserving its past. Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen and we interview maverick director Tony Kaye by means of his unique way with email. In Crit, Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty review’s Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars and Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers. In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi. And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work.

Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)

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.

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Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

Dorothy, who brought us The Song Map and also The Film Map, has released its two latest prints (above) which look to celebrate colourful song titles and band names by displaying them in colour wheels that look a little like vinyl LPs…

The Colour of Song print (above, with a detail shots, below) features the titles of a whopping 576 songs including classics like Back in Black, Brown Sugar, Fools Gold, and Blue Monday, not to mention some guilty pleasures like Mr. Blue Sky, Goldfinger, and Pretty in Pink.

Above: Detail showing blue song titles, although the inclusion of Billie Jean seems a little tenuous!

Meanwhile, The Colour of Popular Music print (above, detail shots, below) includes the names of no less than 154 musical combos (and individual artists), from the glaringly obvious Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Orange Juice – to the more obscure Silver Apples, Black Flag and the Green Telescope.

Both prints are available to buy from wearedorothy.com/shop as signed and stamped limited edition prints for £100 and also as open edition prints for £30.

wearedorothy.com

CR In print

In our December issue we look at why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators. Plus, Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up. We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design and ask why advertising has been so poor at preserving its past. Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen and we interview maverick director Tony Kaye by means of his unique way with email. In Crit, Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty review’s Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars and Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers. In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi. And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work.

Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)

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.

CR for the iPad

Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

Christian Borstlap is behind an entertaining stop-frame animation for Louis Vuitton’s new online personalisation service…

Created with real ribbons, says Borstlap, the film was made using stop-frame animation (plus a bit of post from Glassworks Amsterdam), and includes some rather fine ribbon-based typography.

Apparently, Louis Vuitton is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its “Small Leather Goods” and has recently launched an online service which enables customers to monogram their purchases. Fancy goods just got fancier.

Borstlap’s creative agency, Part of a Bigger Plan, launched last year in Amsterdam and this is the latest in a series of pieces created for the luxury brand, including an internet commercial for the company’s 34th America’s Cup, and short film for the Louis Vuitton Marc Jacobs exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Agency/direction: Part of a Bigger Plan. Post Production: Glassworks Amsterdam. Sound: Ambassadors Sound. Music: Lost in a Shuffle by Shawn Lee.

CR In print

In our December issue we look at why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators. Plus, Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up. We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design and ask why advertising has been so poor at preserving its past. Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen and we interview maverick director Tony Kaye by means of his unique way with email. In Crit, Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty review’s Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars and Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers. In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi. And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work.

Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)

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.

CR for the iPad

Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

A large drawing of children playing by German artist Wayne Horse forms the basis of a new music video for William Kouam Djoko track, We Are Your Brothers and Sisters – but the relatively simple set up contains a chilling reveal…

To the lines “These could be your brothers or sisters / We are your brothers and sisters” the camera pans around Horse’s giant circular illustration (depicting youngsters unwrapping presents, sitting in school and so on) while the whole scene is coloured-in by the three children shown at the start of the film.

But after about one and a half minutes, things turn a little sinister.

The two work-in-progress images posted below the film might give away the storyline (or at least the issues that the film was designed to raise awarness of), so for a no-spoiler experience, watch the clip first. The film was made in collaboration with the Jäger Music Program.

CR In print

In our December issue we look at why carpets are the latest medium of choice for designers and illustrators. Plus, Does it matter if design projects are presented using fake images created using LiveSurface and the like? Mark Sinclair looks in to the issue of mocking-up. We have an extract from Craig Ward’s upcoming book Popular Lies About Graphic Design and ask why advertising has been so poor at preserving its past. Illustrators’ agents share their tips for getting seen and we interview maverick director Tony Kaye by means of his unique way with email. In Crit, Guardian economics leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty review’s Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars and Gordon Comstock pities brands’ long-suffering social media managers. In a new column on art direction, Paul Belford deconstructs a Levi’s ad that was so wrong it was very right, plus, in his brand identity column, Michael Evamy looks at the work of Barcelona-based Mario Eskenazi. And Daniel Benneworth-Gray tackles every freelancer’s dilemma – getting work.

Our Monograph this month, for subscribers only, features the EnsaïmadART project in which Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martin invited designers from around the world to create stickers to go on the packaging of special edition packaging for Majorca’s distinctive pastry, the ensaïmada, with all profits going to a charity on the island (full story here)

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.

CR for the iPad

Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here