Part II of a diptych from Stillend Gespiegelt, 2006 by Esther Teichmann
Photographer Esther Teichmann’s first solo show has just opened at the Man&Eve gallery in London, running until 14 October. A graduate of Kent Institute of Art and Design and the RCA – and a CR Creative Future in 2005 – Teichmann’s Silently Mirrored show brings together a series of photographs and a double screen film projection…
Big Rocket’s Trim project is one of the Best in Book winners in Creative Review’s Photography Annnual, published with the October issue of CR, out this week
Big Rocket (aka James and Will) shot Trim, a charming series of before-and-after portraits, at a barber shop in Soho, London. “We are interested in the idea of how a person’s image changes through the process of a simple haircut,” say the duo.
Sandwiched between the grime of London’s Holloway Road on one side and the Islington Council dump on the other, Highbury Studios is not the likeliest site for a groovy showcase of contemporary imagemaking, but, if you happen to be in London, the Designersblock: illustrate show, on as part of the London Design Festival, is well worth a trip up the Piccadilly Line.
John Simmons & Harry Pearce’s poster
Showing as part of this year’s London Design Festival is 26 Posters, a project by 26, the not-for-profit organisation for people who “champion the cause of better writing in business and everyday life”, in association with outdoor advertising company JCDecaux. The project sees writers from 26 teamed with designers to produce pieces of artwork that will be displayed on 48-sheet billboard sites in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester.
United Visual Artists have brought their light installation skills to the promo for Tonto, the next single from acclaimed US band Battles. Produced by Warp Films, the 8-minute video sees the group performing amidst a sea of poles of light – each one responding to the fractured sounds within the track, which is taken from Battles’ recently released album, Mirrored.
Marc Craste, the director behind the beautiful short JoJo in the Stars and the recent Lloyd’s Bank ad campaign campaign, has created two new ads for Guinness to coincide with the Rugby World Cup.
The campaign, created by Bern Hunter and Mike Bond at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, is a straightforward one, and simply shows two opposing rugby teams pitched in an animated battle. Guinness is not an official sponsor of the tournament, yet the brand has managed to avoid breaching the official rights of the sponsor, Heineken, by creating animated players and therefore not featuring any imagery of real players. And quite lovely they look too. To view Guinness Play White, click here
Many magazines have employed “guest editors” in recent times - CR included. The October issue of Wallpaper*, however, goes a step further and recruits three of them: Dieter Rams, Hedi Slimane and Jeff Koons.
In the calm of Nottingham Trent University’s superb graphic design show at the Business Design Centre in London a couple of months ago, the atmosphere was regularly disrupted by the work of fellow NTU student, Callum Bain. He’d made an advert for a digital radio station; it was on his reel and he eagerly showed it to visitors every few minutes. Bain could have chosen any mainstream music genre for his particular radio station – but, instead, he decided to terrify people with gabba…
Design practice is booming in India, as evidenced by last week’s Kyoorius Designyatra conference, which attracted a glittering array of international speakers to rainy Goa.
New York Public Theater poster by Paula Scher
As part of the London Design Festival, Pentagram is delving into its not inconsiderable archive to host a poster exhibition featuring some of the finest work produced by its partners, past and present.
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Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009 is free to enter and open for submissions across six categories: Short Film, Animation, Documentary, Music Video, Newcomer and Broadcast Design
Designing through the recession: Michael Bierut has some advice for 2009
There’s probably no God… The atheist bus campaign is to appear on 800 buses across the UK
Objectified, the new documentary film from Gary Hustwit, looks interesting. Marc Newson, Jonathan Ive and Karim Rashid all feature
The Vignelli Canon, a “little book” – available as a 50 page PDF – “for a better understanding of typography in Graphic Design”
The Wellcome Collection’s excellent exhibition War and Medicine has a website, Remembering War, which encourages people to post up their own memories of war
So what is the art of the Bush era? Well, Kevin Drum reckons its Damien Hirst and Jack Bauer in 24… (link: Andrew Sullivan)
Bizarre marketing image of the week: MillerCoors’ entire 1,200 person sales and marketing team come together to form the brewer’s new Pentagram-designed logo.
Playboy Mexico says its latest cover is nothing to do with the Virgin Mary, honest
Mojo is the name of a new software that allows you to share the content of your iTunes with friends…
Burger King launches meaty perfume
Santa’s Beard competition. Download the beard. Cut it out. Take a pic of yourself wearing it and send it to the guys at Un.titled. You could win a prize!
Something’s very wrong with the cover of January’s Tatler (and not just the subject matter). Clue: count the legs…
Eric Baker’s “images of the day” is always an intriguing post over at Design Observer
Framestore CFC’s new Christmas game is based on their forthcoming feature animation, Desperaux. Addictive (be warned!) platform fare starring a little mouse with big ears…