Next summer, Random House will publish the UK edition of Crowdsourcing, Wired writer Jeff Howe’s upcoming book on the new internet revolution driven by the combined power of the masses. In the spirit of the book, we are opening up its UK cover design to the world…
The latest batch of live action idents for Welsh channel S4C by Proud Creative all feature elements which respond to the voice of the channel’s announcer – thanks to 12 months of research and development, not to mention the code-writing skills of directors Minivegas.
It’s a rare thing to enter a contemporary art gallery and hear people giggling, but David Shrigley’s show of new work at Stephen Friedman Gallery is likely to have you chuckling even before you’ve opened the gallery door. Facing out into the street is a new sculpture by Shrigley, of a delicate taxidermied kitten holding up a placard proclaiming “I’m Dead”. The artwork sets the tone for the show, which contains Shrigley’s usual mix of humour and pathos.
Overpowered album sleeve, art directed by Scott King. Photography: Jonathan de Villiers
It’s that time of the year, when all the papers and magazines are filled with endless lists of the highlights of the past 12 months. Which got me thinking about what I’d choose. And the first thing that came to mind were these - the sleeves for Roisin Murphy’s Overpowered album and singles. Any idea that can be described as ‘Ziggy Stardust in Wimpy Burger’ gets my vote…
Dougal Wilson and Shelley Parker
Subway Sect is a new radio series, produced by Maria Bartolo and CR’s Eliza Williams, which is airing on Resonance FM, London’s art/experimental radio station. The shows aim to explore the complex relationship between art and music and take the form of a series of conversations between artists, musicians, writers, designers, DJs and music video directors.
The shows go out each Wednesday at 1pm on Resonance (104.4 FM or online at www.resonancefm.com) and we’ll also be bringing you transcripts of highlights from the shows each week on the CR blog.
This week’s Subway Sect sees music video and advertising director Dougal Wilson in conversation with DJ and artist Shelley Parker. The two discuss Wilson’s videos for musicians including Jarvis Cocker and Bat For Lashes, while Parker explains the differences between DJing at Tate Britain compared to Fabric, and describes her new record label, Structure. The conversation took place earlier this year at Wilson’s production company offices, Blink Productions.
Tony Soprano as drawn by illustrator Noma Bar
Israeli illustrator Noma Bar depicts the faces of the famous using only a few lines, colours and drawn objects. But the key to the success of the London-based artist’s work is how the objects he assembles to create each face immediately relate to the particular person in question: evoking their personality, reputation or, even, their ideology.
Bjork, Declare Independence, Director: Michel Gondry, Production company: Partizan
To help you through the last few moments of the working week, here is a selection of the wonderful work that we’ve been looking at in Creative Review towers over the last week or so… First up is Michel Gondry’s hotly-awaited video for Bjork’s new track, Declare Independence.
Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth. Above, The Crucifixion.
Jeremyville
A group of third year graphic design students from Salford University have come up with a scheme to make money for their end-of-year show by asking top designers to create a Christmas card for them, which they are selling online. And with the likes of Jeremyville, Parra and Paul Davis involved, the results make for the nicest Christmas cards we’ve seen in a while. Here’s a taster of the collection - the rest can be viewed online at http://cardboardsu.blogspot.com/ and can be ordered there in packs of five for £4.50 or as single cards for a £1. Bargain!
For those of you who are fed up with all the cutesy gifts that appear at this time of year, and yet are still on the hunt for that elusive Christmas present, we might have just the thing for you - the Roadkill teddy.
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Special projects commissioned by Creative Review and our partners
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…