Wanted: CR Art Director
Patrick 21/05/07, 12:31
Creative Review’s highly-esteemed art director, Nathan Gale, has finally decided that he has had enough of us. So, we are looking for his successor.
News and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review
Archive for May, 2007
Gormley’s Ghosts
Eliza 16/05/07, 17:16
Blind Light, 2007, all images courtesy of the artist and Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, all photos (except Event Horizon): © Stephen White
In his first major UK solo exhibition, at the Hayward Gallery, Antony Gormley has colonised the building, literally.
Messing with Lord Vader’s Helmet
Mark 16/05/07, 15:26
What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars by getting a group of artists to customise a selection of Darth Vader helmets. Of course! The project will form part of the Star Wars Celebration extravaganza which takes place next week in LA (May 24 - 28).
The Sun Highlights Global Warming
creativereview 15/05/07, 16:52
So often it’s the simple ideas that work best in advertising – and a new billboard for the World Wildlife Fund created by DraftFCB Toronto makes the point rather well…
Out Of Darkness, Light
Patrick 11/05/07, 11:16
Cover of Darkness, by Magnus Voll Mathiassen, Grandpeople
Distributing ‘zines used to be a dirty, tiring and distinctly unglamorous business. The only way to get your precious products seen was to trudge around town with a big, heavy bundle of them begging shop owners to take a few on sale or return. That and the dizzying technological heights of the stamped, addressed envelope.
But in one gratifying example of the new media actually offering its older brother a helping hand (as opposed to kicking it in the groin and running away laughing) the internet has changed all that. By way of illustrating our somewhat obvious point, we give you Soyfriends, the Oslo-based purveyor of little printed rays of sunshine.
The Quiet Man of Magnum
Eliza 09/05/07, 17:39
Workers bring reinforcements at a wine-tasting party near Paarl in the Cape, 1984. All images © Ian Berry/Magnum Photos
Magnum photographer Ian Berry took to the lectern last week at the Royal Geographical Society in London, to talk through his photographs of South Africa in the second in the PhotoVoice/Magnum lecture series.
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