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via CR Blog by Patrick on January 20, 2008
Problem: how to reduce the wild fires that ravage Table Mountain every summer. Solution: install wooden fire extinguishers that are completely useless. It’s not as dumb as it so
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Daydreams at M&C
via CR Blog by Patrick on June 04, 2008
The normally pristine white atrium at ad agency M&C Saatchi has been transformed into a showcase of the multifarious talents of creative collective Daydream Network…Last night saw the opening of an exhibition which will run at the agency until 23 July. This is the second time that M&C’s executive creative director Graham Fink has invited the Network into the agency. As before walls, pillars...
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Video remixing
via CR Blog by Eliza on January 27, 2008
Just, Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald, directed by Jim CantyProducer, remixer and horns-fancier Mark Ronson has released a new video for his jaunty cover of Radiohead’s Just (the first video, for the 2006 release of Ronson’s version of the track, can be seen here). But this time he hasn’t just stopped at remixing the song, but has also attempted a witty pastiche of Jamie Thraves’...
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Yugo Nakamura: The Craftsman
via CR Blog by Patrick on February 03, 2008
Nakamura’s personal site, yugop.com, works as a digital sketchbook, showcasing an extraordinary array of techniques. Shown here is OvalX3, from 2001.In a world filled with bloated, work-a-day and downright irritating websites Yugo Nakamura creates compelling beacons of playful ingenuity and simplicity. MICHAEL FITZPATRICK caught up with Japan’s finest landscape- gardener-turned-designer for...
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Mind The Graphics
via CR Blog by Patrick on February 10, 2008
First Mike Figgis was enlisted to improve behaviour on the buses, now Transport For London has turned to graphic design in an attempt to make it easier to get on and off crowded tubes. From 14 February, London Underground is to trial various graphic devices on the Jubilee Line. The markings are designed to encourage those waiting on platforms to let passengers off the train before getting on...
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What, No Jewel Case?
via CR Blog by Gavin on February 17, 2008
Detail from one of the three inner sleeves from BUGGEDOut! Classics CD pack showing an ascii type illustrationAlready this year several musical packages have landed on our desks and made us very happy - not least because they conspire to give a clear indication that budgets for music packaging are on the up. It would seem that the big labels are starting to take note of the examples smaller...
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Nike 1/1 Art Prize
via CR Blog by Eliza on April 24, 2008
Nike 1/1 film, by AKQA. Creatives: Davor Krvavac, Greg Mullen, Nick BaileyArt and football become unlikely bedfellows in a new competition launched by Nike, which offers the chance for artists to exhibit during the Basel Art Fair and design a limited edition series of Nike Dunks.Devised by AKQA, 1/1 invites artists to submit work to the brief ‘The Art of Football’. Works entered will be...
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James Joyce Exhibition at Kemistry
via CR Blog by Gavin on April 30, 2008
Oh Me Oh My screenprint by James JoyceWe featured designer and illustrator James Joyce as One To Watch back in our October 2006 issue, shortly after he’d set up his own studio, One Fine Day. Since then Joyce has been inundated with commissions for clients including Cadburys, Orange, Carhartt, Howies, Penguin books, Wallpaper*, Wonderland, The New York Times and (ahem) leading monthly...
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China Design Now
via CR Blog by Kezia on May 10, 2008
Lam Hung’s Peace of Mind poster for a Zen Buddhist centre, Hong Kong, 2001The V&A’s current flagship exhibition has a very clear, chronological layout, which is a little surprising considering its slightly clumsy title. The show itself begins in Shenzhen – the site of the first McDonald’s in China – and, perhaps more significantly, the birthplace of contemporary Chinese graphic design....
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