Bobby’s Burger Palace

Pentagram’s new identity for Bobby’s Burger Palace in Lake Grove, Long Island.
Conveniently, each word in the name has six letters: sandwich them together and,
rather nicely, you get two buns, a burger (and some lettuce)
Burgers. They’ve been getting a bit of a bad press recently. So it’s nice to see a design studio having a decent pop at designing an identity for a range of burger restaurants, which, these days, could be thought of as a potentially healthy-eating (ahem) hot potato. But Pentagram has firmly grasped the buns here, so to speak, with its bright and bold identity work for celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s Burger Palace. To us it’s indicative of the time when chomping responsibly on the odd burger was supposed to be fun. Well at Bobby’s it clearly is, and Pentagram look to have made the experience a little more enjoyable…

Tube Philosophies

We came across this image today, taken recently at London’s King’s Cross station. While it’s nice to think that London Underground sanction this kind of freedom of expression in their employees, we believe it might be the work of artist Jeremy Deller. The artist had apparently been set to collaborate with LU staff on a series of pieces as part of the wider Art on the Underground programme, as Tamsin Dillon, head of the project explains in the current issue of CR: “Jeremy has come up with a booklet of quotes by the famous and not-so-famous and staff will be invited to use those in their communications with customers.” So, if this is Deller’s work, then there may be more underground philosophising to come. Keep ’em peeled.

Nice Work

Adidas Olympics campaign by 180 Amsterdam. Creatives: Dean Maryon, Paulo Martins, Carlos Furnari. Photographer: Gus Powell
As the September issue of Creative Review is a student work special, featuring our favourites from this year’s crop of graduates, we were unable to put our usual amount of great new work in the magazine. Instead, we will be putting up posts of new work regularly online over the next few weeks. Here is the first, featuring some of the best advertising that has passed through CR Towers lately. First up, in honour of the Olympics, here is some print work from 180 Amsterdam for Adidas.

Love Stories

In a body of work created especially for Monograph, Canadian illustrator and designer Marian Bantjes created a series of love stories about the important people in her life

Creative Futures Bursary Project: Aries Moross

For almost 20 years, Creative Review has been encouraging the next generation of talented creatives through our annual Creative Futures scheme in which we celebrate the promise of a selection of emerging talent in visual communications.
This year’s crop of Futures were selected by the CR editorial team – our only criteria were to find indiv­iduals or teams who we feel have an extremely bright future ahead of them and who are indicative of the future direction of the industry.
Just before Christmas, each of our selected Futures gave a talk at one of three Creative Futures events. We invited everyone coming along to the talks to bring a piece of work with them – an image, some text, even a piece of music. We then asked each of our Futures to produce a new piece of work responding to the experience of being selected for the scheme, giving their talk and to the work brought along. These projects were funded by a bursary provided to each Future by CR and PlayStation. Over the next week or so we are posting up the resulting pieces of work plus documentaries on each Future, made for us by Fallon. Here are two new pieces of work by Kate Moross…

Barnbrook Asks Designers To Remember Tibet

As the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony gets under way, designers Jonathan Barnbrook and Pedro Inoue are urging the creative community to make its voice heard at website Remember Tibet. But do such projects ever achieve anything other than to make the contributors feel better about themselves? CR asked Barnbrook about his aims for the site…

Terminal 5 Is Working…

BA Terminal 5 ad, taken on August 4, agency: BBH London, creative director: Mick Mahoney, creatives: Brad Woolf and Dan Bailey
After its nightmare launch of the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport earlier this year, British Airways has some serious image management to do. Enter its new series of ads, from BBH in London, which cut right to the chase with the tagline ‘Terminal 5 is working’.

Bush: the Guilty Party?

Reprieve, the legal action charity founded by Clive Stafford Smith, helps prisoners who are facing execution, particularly those who are outside the reach of the law because of the ‘war on terror’, including those incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. This Is Real Art has been working with them in order to raise awareness, making this short film among other things…

Reprinting a classic: Wim Crouwel’s Vormgevers

Mark Blamire of Blanka has reprinted 250 copies of Wim Crouwel’s classic late 60s poster, Vormgevers. But the lack of original artwork and a desire to respect the original posters led Blamire on a long and winding road to eventual success…

Anton Corbijn and Hype Williams direct Coldplay

Viva La Vida video by Hype Williams
While some bands may scrabble to get one video made for a new single, Coldplay have two official ones for new single Viva La Vida, directed by Hype Williams and Anton Corbijn respectively. But are either of them any good? We’re not sure…

The State of Art Direction

Is this the best art direction in the world? DDB Johannesburg wins the Press Grand Prix at Cannes 08 with its campaign for Energizer
In the April issue of CR, art director Paul Cohen lamented the state of art direction within advertising. According to Cohen, the profession is in decline, under-appreciated by clients as well as agencies, with a basic understanding of art direction’s function in advertising seemingly lost. Cohen’s article got us thinking…

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