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Archive for March, 2007

Follow The Americans

Eliza 30/03/07, 13:05

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The battle for District 8 in Saigon in May 1968 produced many civilian casualties. This woman hit by helicopter rocket fire was helped by a nervous South Vietnamese soldier.

Veteran Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths gave a talk earlier this week at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he discussed his photographic experiences in Vietnam and a body of work that spans over 40 years.

Towards Creative Activism

Patrick 27/03/07, 11:59

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This the first page of the April issue of Creative Review. This month, the magazine has no cover. Instead, the biodegradable bag that the magazine is sent out in also fulfils that role, thus saving 8700 sheets of paper

April’s Creative Review is a special issue devoted to sustainability. For it, we asked Sarah Rich, editor of worldchanging.com, to explain how our readers can help genuinely green businesses to thrive.

Conscious consumers in the modern marketplace rarely face an either/or proposition. Gone are the days of choosing between pleasure and principle. Gone is the sacrifice of flavour, colour and style in the name of environmental responsibility. With the likely exception of toilet paper (which it seems still cannot be made both recycled and soft), many of our everyday items can now be found in a luxurious shade of green. Savvy advocates of sustainability know that business is not the enemy of the good…

Edited Highlights

Patrick 23/03/07, 18:32

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Jonathan Ellery at his debut London show

The subtle alchemy of the editing process will be familiar to most designers and art directors. Browns’ Jonathan Ellery has translated his own fascination with it into three personal projects, all of which are brought together at his debut London gallery show, Unrest, which opened at The Wapping Project earler this month and was featured in last month’s issue of Creative Review.

What Do You Want To Ask Non-Format?

Mark 21/03/07, 11:48

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Ever wanted to ask the guys at design studio Non-Format about their work, their clients or what they get up to when they’re not creating some of the best graphic design around? Well, now’s your chance. We’re running a piece on the London-based duo in the May issue of CR. Send us a question: we’ll put the best ones to Kjell and Jon on your behalf and print their replies in the issue.

Post your questions as a comment on this thread or email them to mark.sinclair@centaur.co.uk.

That’s My Door

Patrick 20/03/07, 12:53

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The door of 7 Meard St, London W1

Regular readers will remember that we gave away a sticker made by Peter Saville in our February issue. The sticker was inspired by a sign that Saville had spotted on a door in London’s Soho.

Yesterday, we had a call from the owner of that door, artist and latter-day dandy of some notoriety, Sebastian Horsley…

Record Sleeves of the Week

Gavin 20/03/07, 12:11

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Illustrated CD pack for Efterklang’s Under Giant Trees album by Nan Na Hvass

As mentioned last week, we’ve been sent a raft of stunning record sleeves and CD packs so far this year. Here is this week’s selection…

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Great street art animation (painted directly onto walls) by the one and only Blu (link: Coudal)

Inside North Korea as photographed by a Russian news service. (Link: Coudal)

So the sun's been shining this week in Blighty... but the guys at Hunter (purveyors of posh wellies) are no fools. They've just launched a spanky new website (by Edinburgh-based design firm, Lewis) in time for the British Summer

Adrian Shaughnessy's Graphic Design on the Radio series starts again tomorrow (9th May) with Spin's Tony Brook, followed by John Walters and Simon Esterson of Eye, Simon Waterfall, KarlssonWilker and Mike Dempsey. Tune in at Resonance FM

Iron Man is the latest feature film to get a 'remixed' trailer (to be distributed virally) courtesy of VJ boffins Addictive TV

Production company Up The Resolution has a spanky new website

The finalists for the UK's Angel of the South are announced: is it us or are they all a bit uninspiring?

Designer and illustrator Stephen Kelleher has just produced a smashing limited edition poster that's available from his website's shop

A new development on the flash mob: freeze mobbing

The Adam and Ron Show is the title of the exhibition of Ron English and Adam Neate's work that opens today at London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms

D&AD Pencils on sale in market store! Not really... it's a promotion for the awards dinner

An artwork has died in the Design & The Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA New York

NODE and Kate Moross are the two latest artists to create limited edition, two colour (red and black) prints for If You Could's 2008 print series project

Vignelli's NYC subway map: updated and available as a limited ed. print of 500, from Men's Vogue (link: QBN)

BRAG – a Brighton-based collective of gig poster artists are having an exhibition of their work every weekend in May