Saville at D&AD

Peter Saville on what’s wrong with design education in the UK
It’s a double dose of Peter Saville on the CR blog today, as we bring you some highlights of the Q&A section of his President’s Lecture for D&AD, which took place in Logan Hall in London last week. Saville discussed a variety of topics, ranging from his recent contemporary art projects to what he thinks of Banksy. Watch clips of the talk here.

Peter Saville: commercials director

Currently airing on British TV is a rather unusual road safety spot from M&C Saatchi for Transport for London. Optical Illusions was co-directed by graphic designer Peter Saville. The ad was actually made over a year ago, at which time we spoke to Saville about his involvement

Great New Videos

Grapevine Fires for Death Cab For Cutie, directed by Walter Robot
For all the talk of the death of the medium, brilliant new videos seem to be arriving daily into CR Towers at the moment – here’s a selection of our favourites this week. First up is a poignant and affecting animation by Walter Robot for Death Cab for Cutie’s Grapevine Fires. The song and video is about wildfires in California but also feels especially moving in light of the recent fires in Australia. Quicktime is here.

Students Beg, Borrow… and Auction Artworks

Lot No. 43 Real Nice print by James Joyce, signed and editioned (12/25)
The final year students on the Graphic Communication course at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham have come up with a novel way to raise money for their degree show: They’ve contacted designers, photographers and illustrators they admire and persuaded them to donate a piece of work that they can auction off on a specially made website called Beg Steal or Borrow. So far they’ve got lots for auction from the likes of James Joyce, Pentagram, Jonathan Ellery, Frost*, Kate Moross, Jonathan Barnbrook, Julian Morey and more. Here are a few lots that caught our eye…

Droga5’s Puma projection and more nice work

Puma Lift commercial, agency: Droga5, production company: MJZ, director: Rupert Sanders
It’s Friday so it must be time for another round-up of the nice work that has passed through CR Towers this week. First up is a new ad for Puma from Droga5 in New York, which uses projections to show a couple’s journey through life.

Q&A: Adrian Tomine

Detail from a 2004 New Yorker cover by Adrian Tomine
US author Jonathan Lethem described comic book artist Adrian Tomine’s contemporary fiction series Optic Nerve as “deceptively relaxed and as perfect as a comic book gets”. Tomine’s stories of everyday people living out everyday lives, laced with a heavy dose of humour, have led to comparisons with fellow New Yorker Woody Allen. Simon Creasey caught up with Tomine during a rare visit to London to promote his latest collection of stories, Summer Blonde, which has just been published in the UK by Faber & Faber…

Olympics: designers being selected at random

Our naïve hopes that the 2012 Olympics might result in some landmark creative work were dealt another blow today with news that design studios are being selected at random to work on a project relating to the games…

Getty Launches Flickr Tie-In

Getty Images has launched its Flickr Collection – a set of images from the photo sharing community available for licence through the Getty Images site

BTAA Winners

Hovis, Go On Lad TV spot from MCBD
The winners of this year’s British Television Advertising Awards were announced last night at a gala ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House. It was another good evening for Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, who picked up the Thinkbox Award for Best Television Commercial of the Year for its epic Hovis ‘Go On Lad’ spot.
This is the latest big win for the Hovis ad, which recently picked up the top gong at the Creative Circle Awards, another celebration of UK-only creativity. The spot, which is a sentimental trip through the last 122 years of British history, is the strongest example of the wave of nostalgic advertising that seems to be sweeping the UK at the moment. But with such an over-arching emphasis on ‘Britishness’, it is uncertain how successful it will be within the international awards schemes.

Ecouté a Martin Parr

Is Martin Parr the first photographer to be honoured in popular song? French singer Vincent Delerm’s “Martin Parr” featured on his 2008 album, Quinze Chansons, and he is known to perform the song live complete with a Parr slide-show. While photography-inspired tunes crop up now and then (St. Etienne’s The Bad Photographer and, er, Tommy Steele’s Flash, Bang, Wallop for example) we can’t think of any other snappers inspiring songs directly. Until Gavin here came up with a cracker: Uptown Top Rankin by Anthea & Donna. Wallop indeed. Any more? Click through to see Delerm performing Martin Parr in Paris. (Thanks to the Rocket Gallery for the link)…

MWM Graphics Exhibition

Matt W Moore of US-based MWM Graphics opened his first UK solo show, Coincidence World, at Concrete Hermit gallery in London’s East End last Friday. Moore uses a variety of mediums – some of the work is collage, made cut up coloured paper. Digital prints on paper and canvas also feature as do hand-drawn images created using marker pen and watercolour. All the work shown displays Moore’s fascination with geometric shapes, colourful abstract patterns and letter forms…

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