Cannes: Now Accepting Designers’ Cash Too

It had to happen sooner or later. The Cannes International Advertising Festival, after proudly separating ad agencies from their money for 54 years, has decided to introduce design categories for next year.

British Rock Artists Invade America: A Journey

A clearly relieved Rhys Wooton of the British Rock Artist Group celebrates a screenprinting success at Firehouse Kustom Rock Art Company in San Francisco. As part of a hands-on trip to the spiritual home of the rock ‘n’ roll poster, Wootton and friends experienced the pleasure and pain of creating beautiful screenprinted work for the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Only 299 more prints to go Rhys…
During the summer, four members of the British Rock Artist Group (BRAG) were invited by Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan, the globally renowned American poster artists, to undertake a two week workshop at their studio, the Firehouse Kustom Rock Art Company. Rhys Wootton (shown above with poster), Jamie McGregor, Matt Douthwaite and Adrian Day jumped on a plane to San Francisco and, as Wootton reports, were to learn much about the traditions and history of a classic US artform: the screenprinted music poster.

I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason

The prolific Norwegian graphic novelist, Jason, delivers his latest book at the end of this month. I Killed Adolf Hitler is his ninth work published through the Fantagraphics press and, again, makes use of his deadpan animal-headed characters. This time, the action takes place in a world where murder-for-hire is legal. It’s a strange place but then time travel is also possible here as well. The combination of the two leads a would-be assassin back in time to kill Adolf Hitler. And, no, the story isn’t quite as simple as all that.

Top Gunns

For the first time, this year’s Gunn Report has included interactive work in its calculations of the most-awarded advertising of the past 12 months. What does it tell us about the state of the industry?

Squeezy Pleezy LIA Judges

DDB London’s Marmite Squeezy campaign took the Grand Prix at this year’s London International Awards, announced this week.

Come And Meet Our Creative Futures 07

Creative Review magazine and PS3 are hosting a series of parties to celebrate Creative Futures 2007
Creative Futures is our scheme to recognise new talent in the creative industries. On 21, 26 and 27 November we will be holding gatherings featuring talks by our 6 Creative Futures nominees for this year – 6 people who we feel have the talent to be future stars of the creative industries. The events are free – everyone is welcome, but space is limited. If you’d like to come, read on…

Subway Sect: Peter Saville and Dan Fox in conversation

Dan Fox and Peter Saville in conversation
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, over the next six weeks. 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.
Today on Subway Sect, designer Peter Saville is in conversation with Frieze magazine critic and writer, Dan Fox. The two discuss Saville’s design work for Factory Records, including his sleeves for Joy Division and New Order, as well as his more recent experiences in the contemporary art world. The show was recorded at Frieze’s offices in London earlier this year.

Age 13-18

Currently on show at Gallery 275 in West London is an exhibition of new photography by Glen Erler. The series continues Erler’s interest in that most awkward time of life, adolescence.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Ms Barbra Streisand

The November issue of Creative Review is dedicated to giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how work gets made. From initial sketches to final artwork, our features for this issue follow a variety of projects along the rocky road of the creative process. As a taster, here’s an insight into the work of Karen Caldicott Shown above, stage one in the creation of a portrait of Barbra Streisand

The ever-blurring line between art and advertising

Lowe London has released a new television spot for John Lewis, a Christmas ad that sees a pile of gifts from the store piled up and then lit to cast a shadow of the pressies’ intended recipient against the wall. The spot is elegantly shot but instead of making me want to rush to John Lewis, it immediately made me think of the work of YBA artists Tim Noble & Sue Webster, who famously created Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) in 1998, amongst other artworks incorporating the use of shadows.

Tipping Point – The Most Expensive Guinness Ad Ever

The domino effect in full swing: a scene from the new Guinness ad, Tipping Point
Tipping Point, the most expensive Guinness ad ever made – written by Abbot Mead Vickers and shot by Nicolai Fuglsig – is due to premiere tonight on ITV1 at 8.30. Shot up an Argentinian mountain, the ad shows a community coming together to create the mother of all domino-toppling spectacles…

Subway Sect: Kevin Shields & Brendan Lynch in conversation

Kevin Shields and Brendan Lynch in the Primal Scream studio. All images courtesy Maria Bartolo
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, over the next six weeks. 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.
First up on Subway Sect is musician Kevin Shields, who has been a member of My Bloody Valentine and collaborated with Primal Scream and has also produced a number of solo projects including the soundtrack for Lost in Translation and acting as ‘noise consultant’ on Douglas Gordon and Phillippe Parreno’s movie Zidane (A 21st Century Portrait). Shields is in conversation with record producer Brendan Lynch, who has worked with Paul Weller, Primal Scream and The Rakes amongst many others. The show was recorded at Primal Scream’s recording studio in north London early this year.

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