Design at the Centre of the new London Transport Museum

Part of a drawing by Edward Johnston of the iconic London Underground roundel and bar, known as the
“bullseye design”, that forms part of the design gallery at the newly opened London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum has recently opened its doors to visitors once again and CR was lucky enough to have a good look around. Of particular interest is the new design gallery which, if its placing in the middle of the museum is anything to go by, now takes centre stage among the tube trains and buses that fill up the floor space. Design, it seems, has always been at the very heart of London Transport and this is now something the new-look museum aims to celebrate wholeheartedly.

New Size? Burgerman Collection

Illustrator Jon Burgerman has just created a range of products for hip sneaker and clothing store Size?
His designs can be found on T-shirts, sweatshirts, reversible hoodies, belts and on a rather fetching umbrella…

Subway Sect: Andrew Innes and Jim Lambie in conversation

Jim Lambie and Andrew Innes
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 on Resonance FM (104.4 FM or online at www.resonancefm.com) and we’ll also be bringing you transcripts of highlights from the shows on the CR blog.
On today’s Subway Sect, Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes was in conversation with artist Jim Lambie. Lambie and Innes are old friends, having both grown up in Glasgow, and they discuss the impact the city has had on them and the experience of working together on the cover for Primal Scream’s Dirty Hits, as well as their mutual love of junk shops and eBay. The interview was recorded in Primal Scream’s studio earlier this year.

Creative Futures 2007

This year’s Creative Futures as illustrated for our latest issue by Miles Donovan
For nearly 20 years, CR has been giving the next generation of talented creatives an important shove in the right direction, thanks to our Creative Futures scheme. But this year, for the first time, we’ve done away with any categories: with the way in which people work today, it seems increasingly meaningless to define them so narrowly. Indeed, the unifying theme between all our winners this year is that they unashamedly try their hand at a range of disciplines, whatever suits the project. All six of our nominees for 2007 were chosen by the CR editorial team and their work makes up a 25-page special in our latest issue (Jan 08, out now). What follows is a preview of each of our winners this year. We hope you enjoy their work…

CR’s Christmas Turkey Tale

We often get nice presents and cards sent to us at this time of year at CR. But we have to admit we’ve never been sent a whopping great turkey before. Until last week that is, when agency Mustoes sent us an enormous, fresh-as-you-like Turkey…

A Flat-Packed Christmas

We first saw Alexander Glenn’s work as part of his Nottingham Trent University degree show at the New Designers event last summer. Being the nice chap that he is, the young designer stayed in touch; even including us on his Christmas card list. And here’s what he sent: an Ikea-style, flat-packed Christmas tree that you can assemble and proudly stand on your desk. It comes complete with instructions and that all important hotline number you can ring in case some of the bits are missing (rather more helpfully, this one puts you in contact with Glenn’s own studio)…

Crowdsourcing: Can you design the UK cover?

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…

We Coded S4C’s Voice-Responsive Idents

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.

Enjoy This Hell

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.

2007: Your Favourites?

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…

Subway Sect: Dougal Wilson and Shelley Parker in conversation

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.

Guess Who?

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.

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