How Did We Get To Be The Bad Guys?
Blamed for everything from obesity to global warming, the ad industry is under fire from all sides. So, asks Tom Wnek…
Blamed for everything from obesity to global warming, the ad industry is under fire from all sides. So, asks Tom Wnek…
Black Panther poster from 1969, reworked from an earlier version published in the BP newspaper.
As Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Emory Douglas was responsible for the party’s striking agitprop posters and its newspaper’s political illustrations. His revolutionary art, collected in a new book edited by the artist Sam Durant, spoke of the social conditions and institutional racism within the US that the Black Panther Party had been born out of.
TBWAChiatDay is gaining a reputation for producing seriously strange, but seriously funny, ads for sweetie brands Starburst and Skittles. The latest from the agency is featured in the May issue of Creative Review (and can be viewed above on YouTube), and sees a bizarre singing stranger approach two guys in a bus station after hearing that they are partaking in the new flavour Starburst sweets, Berries & Cream.
We asked Jeremy Leslie to select the most interesting magazines on show at Colophon2007, the international conference for independent magazine makers. Here are his choices…
Apple wins design award – not exactly shocking news these days. But how about this: Apple has won Creative Review’s first Design Studio of the Year award, but NOT for its products.
This award is for its graphics and packaging.
Linder, Untitled Photomontage, 1978, Courtesy the artist & Stuart Shave Modern Art
Fancy a trip down memory lane? The Secret Public, currently on show at the ICA in London, takes us on a journey into the art, design and music of late seventies and eighties Britain, revealing just how influential this period has been on our contemporary cultural landscape.
Cover from Jonathan Barnbrook’s upcoming monograph
Well, it worked so well with Non-Format that we’ve decided to do it again…
Send in your questions, we’ll put them to Mr Barnbrook
To celebrate 25 years of the Nike Air Force 1 trainer, Swiss online fashion store +41 have well and truly bucked any ideas of national stereotyping and created a pair of rather tasty looking AF1’s in… yes, white chocolate. But before you think “mmhmm” – bear in mind that, exquisite as they are, these are “mini” chocolate versions, as the comparison with the tape deck in the second image testifies.
With her first line of clothing due to cause riots in Topshop at the beginning of next month, plus other projects in the pipeline, Brand Moss has arrived, her new image sealed by an identity masterminded by Peter Saville, in collaboration with typographer Paul Barnes.
I have grown to hate the London Underground. I’ve spent 20 years rattling up and down its decrepit routes, in deafening carriages where human beings are subjected to conditions long-since outlawed for cattle, tripping over tourists and wasting hours just waiting. So I’m eternally thankful for the little rays of sunshine that are the stock in trade of LU’s estimable Platform For Art programme. While we’ve written before about its series of artists’ covers for the tube map, its latest project, is on a far grander scale. A Piccadilly Line tube train has been transformed into a 100-metre-long work of art.
It looks like being another year in which graphic design will be totally overshadowed by advertising at the D&AD Awards. The nominations, announced today, include just 11 in the Graphic Design category, and four of those are actually for ads – the Peeterman Artois campaign from Lowe London.