Will Burtin: Forgotten Master of Design

Will Burtin (portrait above by Arnold Newman. Photo ©Arnold Newman, GettyImages) created intricate scientific models that stunned audiences in the 1950s. As the subject of a new book, his work still manages to amaze, writes Rick Poynor
There can be few harder books to sell to a publisher than historical monographs about graphic designers, especially books about designers who died years ago and are no longer well known today, no matter how renowned they were in their lifetimes. It’s a catch 22 because one reason they are not well known is that there isn’t a book. A case in point is Will Burtin…

In Plane View

The unmistakable rudder stabiliser and engine exhaust of a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. Sexy!
The many types of aircraft held at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC no doubt attract their fair share of aerophiles. But now even those with just a passing interest in aviation can marvel at the beauty of flight as depicted in the pages of In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight, a new collection of imagery from Carolyn Russo, the Smithsonian’s photographer. Russo’s work focuses on the details of a range of different aircraft and it’s from her re-examining of their various forms and structures that this collection of striking shapes, patterns and abstractions has been brought together.

In The Lair Of The Goat King

Patrick Burgoyne is blogging all week from Design Week Monterrey
The regional speciality in Monterrey is cabrito, or baby goat. And there’s only one place to eat it: El Rey Del Cabrito where, if you’re lucky, you’ll meet owner Jesus Gonzalez. He’s not exactly the shy, retiring type and his restaurant is a design gem…

Monterrey Design Week: Days 2&3

Patrick Burgoyne blogs from Monterrey Design Week in Mexico. Above: DWM director general Michael Garcia gets proceedings under way

Creative Futures: tickets available for Monday night’s talks

Untitled by Popel Coumou
There are a few places still available for the next Creative Futures event at London’s 3ROOMS next Monday evening. This is the second of three events hosted by Creative Review and PlayStation and will feature photographer Popel Coumou and creative team Sam Akesson and Tomas Mankovsky from Fallon. To register to attend, simply go here. Places are very limited so please get to the venue early to be assured of entry. Each event runs from 7 to 10pm at 3Rooms, a unique space on Hanbury Street, London E1. Each of the Futures will speak about their work, while the work of the other nominees will also be on show.

Nokia lights up Regent Street

Christmas is coming, in case you hadn’t noticed. To alert us to this, over the last few weeks Christmas lights have been switched on all over London, filling the streets with gaudy displays. Except on Regent Street that is, which this year, thanks to a collaboration between Nokia and Wieden + Kennedy ad agency, has taken a surprisingly elegant approach.

Design Week Monterrey

Patrick Burgoyne will be blogging all week from Design Week Monterrey in Mexico. Shown above, the view from his hotel window. Note disappointingly cloudy weather. Serves him right.
Shape, the fifth Design Week Monterrey conference, kicked off today, 20 November. The three-day event, organised by Monterrey design school, CEDIM, brings together over 1000 students from Monterrey and other parts of northern Mexico to hear talks from a diverse array of international speakers, although not Bruce Mau…

Real Time Movie

Cinemagoers may be slightly confused by one of the films that will appear amongst the regular trailers in selected cinemas across London from today. Depicting a street scene in Borough Market, the beautifully shot film (shown above on YouTube) sees Jude Law walk through the market, pausing to buy some fish while poetically pondering life’s mysteries. Yet at the end, instead of revealing that the film is a snippet of a forthcoming blockbuster starring Law, it has a more teasing tag, simply saying “Come, See, Experience, Real Time Movie, Borough Market, 30 Nov 07, 11.30am”.

A Month In The Life Of… A Client

CR December featuring Will Gompertz, director of Tate Media, pictured in his office, in front of a reproduction of How to Work Better (1991) by Fischli & Weiss (adapted for Tate in 2006). © the artists. Photographer: Jonathon Foster Williams
The December issue of CR sees our next Month In The Life Of special (following August’s A Month In The Life Of A Graphic Designer). This time we are going client-side. Will Gompertz, director of Tate Media and in charge of all the promotional activity for Tate Modern and Tate Britain, has kept a daily journal over the course of four weeks in October. In addition, we will discuss Tate and its activities with a selection of its creative partners, including Cornel Windlin, Fallon’s Richard Flintham, James Goggin and artist and Tate trustee Jeremy Deller. As a taster, here is a seven-day extract from Gompertz’s journal. The December issue of CR is out on the 22 November.

Nice work

BP ad from Ogilvy London
Here is a selection of some of the wonderful work that we’ve been sent at Creative Review recently, for your Friday pleasure. First up is a new poster campaign from Ogilvy London for BP. With its retro styling, the ads continue the brand’s attempt to be seen as the friendly and caring face of the international oil market.

Daniel Eatock’s Editions & Originals show

Daniel Eatock’s gallery show, Editions & Originals, opens at London’s Kemistry Gallery today (Friday 16 November) and runs into January. Daniel invited CR down to the gallery for the ultimate private view yesterday morning to check out the show…

Light Up Bristol

Play Nicely are one of 14 local studios contributing designs for a series of giant projections throughout Bristol city centre this December
Fourteen creatives, seven projectors and two tonnes of snow will combine to Light Up Bristol this December.

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