Un coup de coeur pour le travail sur les personnages et les différents toys de l’agence Yum Yum, basé à Londres. Une excellente finition sur la Toy Series 2 “Heroes and Villains” par deux directeurs artistiques passionnées Jonny Plummer et Beth Algieri. Plus de visuels dans la suite.
Creative Review’s October issue has features on Jeremy Sinclair, projection mapping, Ars Electronica and James Victore plus over 80 extra pages of beautiful images in our Photography Annual
This year’s Photography Annual is one of our best ever with featured work including James Mollison’s Where Children Sleep project and some fabulous mutts courtesy of Tim Flach.
For the first time this year, the Photography Annual will also be available as an iPhone App. We’ll be posting more on that separately but here’s a taster (also, if you have an iPad, even though the app was designed for the phone, the images are hi-res and can be blown up to look beautiful on the iPad too).
Thanks to our Photography Annual sponsors, Vue
and Happy Finish
In the main part of the issue, our Case Study this month casts a critical eye over Euro RSCG’s Let’s Colour project for Dulux
Our profile subject is Jeremy Sinclair who, as creative director and later chairman has worked with the Saatchi’s for 40 years
Then we have a piece on the impact and future of 3D projection mapping
And a look at how Michael Lejeune and the Creative Services team at LA Metro are attempting to persuade Los Angelenos to use the city’s public transport system
In Crit, Rick Poynor writes on the enduring legacy of Eadweard Muybridge
Jeremy Leslie looks at the importance of type in magazines
Gordon Comstock wonders what will be the long-term effect of crowdsourcing in advertising
David Crowley reviews a new monograph on James Victore
And our new columnist Andy Cameron reports from Ars Electronica
We also have a fantastic Monograph for our subscribers featuring a recently discovered treasure trove of vintage posters at Notting Hill Gate tube station
And we have one final treat for subscribers this month. As last year, each subscriber will receive a static lcing print of o eof the winning images from the Photography Annual courtesy of our friends at Cyberpac. The 22cm square prints can be stuck on any surface, peeled off and put up somewhere else any number of times.
The October issue of Creative Review is on sale from September 23. To subscribe, please go here
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pRemember when many of us were all stuck in Milan together last April when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in Iceland? Our Coretoonist fueledbycoffee a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/cartoons/milan_design_week_2010_the_eyjafjallajokull_chair_16418.asp”illustrated it/a and now, five months later, a group of the formerly stranded have compiled a publication of all their experiences while stuckmdash;”true stories and amazing visuals, including volcano cocktails from around the world, the thoughts of a famous vulcanologist, a horror story set inside the ash cloud, 54 journalists in a 16-hour race to catch a boat, a chance encounter with a cute Parisian waiter, a playlist for abandoned airports, and much more.” A bit belated, perhaps, but also as fresh as yesterday./p
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Having just completed ‘project new bathroom’ at home – something’s that been ongoing for about four months – I know (now) how crucial it is to any ambitious home improvement scheme to have a good, reliable builder…
In this amusing new TV spot for mybuilder.com, written by Sell! Sell! and directed by Mark Denton at Coy!, a selection of scantily-clad (I think they might be oiled up too) builders compete in a wonderfully ridiculous kind of beauty pageant style competition. The idea, of course, being to show that mybuilder.com select only the best builders to feature on their builder-finding website.
The best bit? When three of the builders dilligently refuse a potentially distracting cup of tea. Ooh, they’re good…
MyBuilder.com Commercial from Sell! Sell! on Vimeo.
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Apparently most clients these days want some social media element to the campaigns they commission from their agencies. But who’s going to run the blog and twitter feed and upload images to Flickr? In the case of the recently launched campaign for Eos magazine by Happiness Brussels, a tree (yes, that’s right, a leafy thing covered in bark) in Brussels is the source of all the campaign’s content which includes a twitter feed, a YouTube channel, a Soundcloud account, a Facebook fan page and a Flickr stream…
Yes, a tree in Brussels has been fitted with an on-board computer and a number of sensors including a fine dust metre, an ozone metre, a light metre a weather station and microphone – as well as a webcam, weather station and wi-fi centre. Bespoke software monitors the environment via these various sensors and outputs information in the form of videos on YouTube, sound recordings on Soundcloud, photographs on Flickr and data is translated into sentences which appear on the twitter feed and on a dedicated Facebook page – to give a tree-eye view of life in a busy city. All of these different feeds are brought together on talking-tree.com:
talking-tree.com is the homepage for the Eos campaign which sees information collected by a tree sent to various social media streams
The point of the campaign is to highlight scientific magazine Eos’s forthcoming Low Impact Month – an initiative that looks to persuade the magazine’s Dutch and French readers to cut down on their carbon emissions and decrease the size of their ecological footprint. The tree’s activity is designed to give people a sense of their impact on nature, in a friendly, accessible, and upbeat way.
Whether or not the tree records any remarkable, entertaining, or simply behaviour-changing footage / sounds / data remains to be seen. But a tree (ok, and some very clever bespoke software) running a twitter feed has got to be a first.
Here’s a short film that explains how the tree was equipped to produce the various streams of content that feed into the campaign site at talking-tree.com:
Talking Tree – Making of from Tom on Vimeo.
Dutch architects UNStudio have completed a 21-storey office tower in their hometown of Amsterdam with colourfully glazed recesses in the facade spanning multiple floors.
Above photo by Christian Richters
The tower’s voids allow light to penetrate deeper into the communal areas of the interior and are intended to make a greater connection between the interior spaces and the external facade.
Above photo by Christian Richters
Bands of faceted aluminium cladding of various widths circle the building, controlling light penetration and sun screening to each floor.
Above photo by Inga Powilleit
The tower is one of six towers that comprise the Mahler 4 urban complex, each tower taking the name of the firm responsible for its design.
Above photo by Inga Powilleit
Here are more details from UNStudio:
UNStudio Tower, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2004 – 2009
The recently completed 21 storey UNStudio Tower forms part of the Mahler 4 urban complex, a cluster of six buildings located in the heart of the South Axis in Amsterdam. The South Axis connects Schiphol Airport to the major business areas of Amsterdam South.
The Mahler 4 urban complex houses 38.000 m2 of residential spaces, 162.000 m2 of office space and 30.000 m2 of street level retail, cafes, restaurants and a sports centre. The six towers in the Mahler 4 complex range in height from 85 to 100 meters, with each building carrying the name of its designing firm. The Mahler 4 complex has been nominated for the FGH Real Estate Prize 2010.
At a height of 82.5 meters, the UNStudio Tower contains 20 floors of office space and a ground floor with mezzanine. The Royal Bank of Scotland currently occupies 9 floors of the building and the South entrance with commercial space on the Gustav Mahlerlaan.
Above photo by Inga Powilleit
UNStudio Tower
The façade of the UNStudio Tower plays with the juxtaposition of a horizontal and vertical articulation, conceptually relating to the principles upon which the moiré effect is based.
The horizontal articulation is provided by white, aluminium bands which wrap the tower, whilst their varying size, depth and transparency ensure the correct balance of sun screening and light penetration to the interiors on all levels of the building.
Vertical accents are formed by voids, recessed into each face of the building and spanning differing numbers of floors. These voids serve to create an inside-outside relationship which extends the façade envelope and turns the surface of the tower into an active medium with a profound effect on the quality of the interior user space.
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Ben van Berkel: “In the design for the tower it was important for us to create a connection between the façade and the interior spaces; to see the building as whole, almost like a piece of furniture.”
Custom coloured glass panes are incorporated into the vertical voids, offering different identities and light qualities to the communal spaces which surround each void in the interior. These voids further facilitate daylight penetration deep into the extensive 40m x 40m floors.
Voids are often placed at the center of a building, but here they are placed at the perimeters. This has three major advantages:
The voids are easily transformed into (internal and external) balconies
The usable floor space is larger and can be planned more flexibly. The depth of the floors further ensures a high façade to gross floor ratio, whilst the building as whole has a 90% net to gross ratio.
The quality of the void spaces is affected by their location. Instead of public circulation space, these voids offer space for small meetings or personal reflection.
User experience
Whereas conventional office buildings with their strict separation of inside and outside can be experienced as somewhat confining by contemporary office workers, the transparency of the primarily glass façade, in combination with the vertical voids, offers the user a gradient experience of the inside-outside condition, as well as the perception of an open and light interior. The outdoor spaces which are incorporated into the recessed voids in the form of roofed balconies allow for transition from inside to outside during free time or breaks. In addition, a roof terrace with a sky view towards Amsterdam Old South can be accessed for larger outdoor gatherings.
Attaining sustainability
UNStudio sees sustainable design as an integral aspect of contemporary architecture. Sustainable solutions are not treated as add-ons, but related to each and every building element.
In the design for the UNStudio Tower integrated sustainable solutions include:
Materials: the reduction of replacement frequency through the use of high quality durable materials and equipment throughout the building, along with the incorporation of a lightweight frame (resulting is less construction material usage in the foundations).
Climate: the façade design incorporates sustainable considerations with respect to orientation, with lamellas of differing heights, widths and depths controlling both direct sunlight penetration and noise pollution to each face and level of the building.
Thermal glazing allows for sufficient daylight, whilst reducing direct sunlight.
Energy saving installations: an underground energy storage system reduces energy usage by 30 to 35.7%. Energy efficient fixtures with motion sensors further control lighting level differentiation and thermal comfort. Sanitary installations include water saving cisterns and grey water usage.
Incorporating flexibility
Flexibility with respect to future change of use with an ambition towards minimum alteration was paramount in the design of the UNStudio Tower. Extensive research was carried out in collaboration with the client in order to determine where maximum flexibility could be incorporated into the design from the outset. As a result, the floor plans of the UNStudio Tower incorporate the potential for future residential use with no structural alteration required.
The vertical voids recessed into the façade of the building also offer the potential to be transformed into individual balconies on each floor for residential use in the future. The façade design further incorporates a system whereby the glass panes can be replaced with minimum intervention should a change of use become desirable.
Ben van Berkel: “A grid system was introduced into the UNStudio Tower which creates flexibility with a view to potential change of use in the future. There are currently many empty office buildings in Europe which cannot so easily be transformed, but the UNStudio Tower is designed in such a way that it could also one day be turned into housing. This provides an essential sustainable flexibility to the building.”
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