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Archive for April, 2007

A right sweet pair of Claire Rayners

Mark 17/04/07, 17:38

AFI chocolate trainers

To celebrate 25 years of the Nike Air Force 1 trainer, Swiss online fashion store +41 have well and truly bucked any ideas of national stereotyping and created a pair of rather tasty looking AF1’s in… yes, white chocolate. But before you think “mmhmm” – bear in mind that, exquisite as they are, these are “mini” chocolate versions, as the comparison with the tape deck in the second image testifies.

Kate Moss: The Brand

Eliza 16/04/07, 18:44

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With her first line of clothing due to cause riots in Topshop at the beginning of next month, plus other projects in the pipeline, Brand Moss has arrived, her new image sealed by an identity masterminded by Peter Saville, in collaboration with typographer Paul Barnes.

The Artwork Now Arriving At Platform One…

Patrick 13/04/07, 16:28

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I have grown to hate the London Underground. I’ve spent 20 years rattling up and down its decrepit routes, in deafening carriages where human beings are subjected to conditions long-since outlawed for cattle, tripping over tourists and wasting hours just waiting. So I’m eternally thankful for the little rays of sunshine that are the stock in trade of LU’s estimable Platform For Art programme. While we’ve written before about its series of artists’ covers for the tube map, its latest project, is on a far grander scale. A Piccadilly Line tube train has been transformed into a 100-metre-long work of art.

This Year’s D&AD Score: Advertising 47 Graphics 7

Patrick 12/04/07, 11:07

It looks like being another year in which graphic design will be totally overshadowed by advertising at the D&AD Awards. The nominations, announced today, include just 11 in the Graphic Design category, and four of those are actually for ads – the Peeterman Artois campaign from Lowe London.

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Remodelling the World

Mark 11/04/07, 16:20

Three Things

Looking at the five images that Edwin Zwakman has contributed to a new exhibition, Tales From the Grid, at the Q Gallery in Derby, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was just another contemporary photographer with an eye for documenting the modern cityscape. In a way, he is – but it’s the way he goes about making his pictures that separates him from the conventions of urban photography: all of Zwakman’s images are of painstakingly constructed models, assembled from memory.

Drawing Inspiration

Gavin 11/04/07, 15:52

Jeremyville Sessions book cover

Many of you will be familiar with the work of Australian illustrator Jeremyville. Not only is his work colourful and distinctive - but the man is positively prolific in his output - as his latest tome, Jeremyville Sessions (published by IdN) testifies…

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A trailer for Marc Craste's beautiful new film Varmints has been released online

Christoph Niemann has a new blog, Abstract City, on the New York Times' site. His first post is a rather sweet illustrated tale of his sons' infatuation with the NY Subway

What the @&$?!! is a grawlix? Hoefler and Frere-Jones explain all (link: DO)

Non-Format reveal a nice new site, updated with lots of new work. Check out the FAQ section for everything you need to know about Jon and Kjell and their working process

South Carolina not "so gay", apparently...

Shepard Fairey auctions the original artwork for his Obama poster for charidee. Current bid: $60,000

The Museum of Notebooks. There's some lovely stuff here... (link: Coudal)

Noel Gallagher opens his rather large mouth once again... this time proclaiming that the new Oasis album cover art has been created by "the most expensive graphic designer in London". That's Julian House, according to Gallagher

"Ad agencies borrow from artists who borrow from advertising. Isn’t it great when things just work?" The NYT looks at the creative industry's most notorious cycle of influence...

Another chance to see Iain Follett's beautiful collection of stamps that made up our January 08 edition of Monograph (free to subscribers of CR)

A vast archive of vintage Russian advertising posters

Don't Panic has launched a competition to design a character for new PS3 game LittleBigPlanet. Deadline: August 4

Smoke & Mirrors post-production is sponsoring Blitzkrieg Bop, an exhibition at Man & Eve gallery in London, featuring work by Peter Saville, Ian Davenport and more

Designer and art director Matt Willey recently published an animation on YouTube which documents every single decision made in laying out a magazine feature

Comic Sans, applied well? Armin Vit thinks he's spotted the one good application of the typeface graphic designers love to hate (link: DO)