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Archive for September, 2007

Vinyl Stickers – The New Wallpaper?

Gavin 28/09/07, 18:02

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Wall sticker set by Nagi Noda

Domestic is a French company that has been commissioning image makers to create designs and illustrations which are made into vinyl sticker packs under the product name Vynil…

Celebrate Water

creativereview 27/09/07, 17:05

Celebrate Water / Matt Willey & Giles Revell
Celebrate Water poster by Matt Willey & Giles Revell

Carrie Hodson-Walker, a recent graduate from the University of Lincoln, curated a non-profit social design initiative as part of the final year of her course. She invited several international designers and illustrators from across the world to donate poster designs on the theme, Celebrate Water…

How I’d Sink American Vogue

Patrick 26/09/07, 11:55

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Picture this: Anna Wintour has resigned. The sheer effort of keeping an immaculate bob and an unfeasibly large pair of sunglasses in place 24 hours a day has finally taken its toll. In a move that has shocked the fashion industry, American Vogue has appointed as her successor graphic-designer-turned-artist Scott King. For his first issue in charge, King decides that Vogue should have an anti-war theme. Oh, and it should also be free…

Wilson’s Last Project

Mark 25/09/07, 10:25

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Pennine Lancashire identity (detail) on black background

As the tributes following his untimely death made clear, Anthony H Wilson played an enormous role in the rejuvenation of North West England. Although he will rightly be remembered principally for his part in placing Manchester at the heart of popular culture, the final months of Wilson’s life were devoted, with his partner Yvette Livesey, to helping an area just to the north of the city. The project was also to be the last product of what has been one of the great creative partnerships, that between Wilson and designer Peter Saville. We talked to Saville about the project and heard from the people behind the creation of Pennine Lancashire.

London gets inked

Eliza 21/09/07, 17:40

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A sculpture, created by Asylum, swims alongside the Thames in Mother’s new campaign for TV show London Ink

Massive tattooed figures have recently invaded London, as part of a new ambient ad campaign by Mother. The sculptures, which have currently taken up residence by Tower Bridge and also at Victoria Station, form part of a campaign for new Discovery Real Time reality show London Ink.

Beattie vs Beefeater

Patrick 21/09/07, 17:39

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Dangerous business this advertising. Beattie McGuinness Bungay’s latest campaign for Ikea nearly ended up with an unfortunate creative being locked up in the Tower.

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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