The 2011 D&AD annual arrived this week and, as usual, the cover has created a great deal of interest. This year Harry Pearce from Pentagram was given the brief to design something that “celebrates the world’s finest design and art direction”. Only this year his brief also included, “and pushes the boundaries of environmentally conscientious publishing.”
Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
The ad that ran on the BBC
Friday, October 7th, 2011
It had a running time of four minutes. It featured 29 world famous musicians who were paid just beer money. It took a year to make. And it featured a song that up until then had managed to avoid the charts for 22 years.
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V&A Illustration Awards
Monday, September 26th, 2011
I stumbled upon the V&A Illustration Awards quite by accident. Although I’ve lived in London for a number of years, I’d never been to that museum, so I decided to pop along to get some inspiration for this week’s blog. It’s a deceptively large maze of rooms, laid out chronologically, and I spent a couple of hours wandering around soaking it all in. But then, when walking from one room to another (and having not found anything I especially wanted to blog about) I chanced upon the V&A Illustration Awards 2011. Although it’s a very, very small exhibition (literally taking up three walls in a small corridor-like room) I found myself spending more time studying the intricate illustrations than I had in any other room.
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Roar deal. Why the Brits failed at the Lions.
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
The results are in and the news is not good, I’m afraid. UK advertising agencies have failed to win a single gold at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. It’s the second year this has happened and now there’s talk of an industry that isn’t trying, losing its lustre and throwing up work that is simply not good enough.
E4’s E Stings – get your work on the telly box.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Hooray for E4. Not only do they supply us with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of ‘Friends’ (which always seems to conveniently tie in with tea breaks and dinner time), they also support independent short film makers with their rather revolutionary love for E Stings.
Plumen light bulb Wins Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Last night it was announced that the British Designer Samuel Wilkinson and the supporting product design company Hulger have scooped the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award with their innovative redesign of the low-energy light bulb.
The award was presented by the jury chair Stephen Bayley, he states “The Plumen light bulb is a good example of the ordinary thing done extraordinarily well, bringing a small measure of delight to an everyday product.”
The category winners for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011It’s been almost a year since a folding plug won the 2010 Brit Insurance Designs and thank goodness it did, where would we be now without our folding plugs? Hmm. Have you ever seen one being used or being sold in a shop? Not I. But that was last year, so let’s move on and hope that is year’s winner will offer something a little more life changing. The seven category winners have now been announced by the board at the Design Museum and here they are…
To beard or not to beard
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Last week, in a mid-awards season but pre-Oscars bout of celeb watching, I commented on the saving grace of the classic dinner jacket – the saving grace being that it allows men not to have to think too much about what to wear if required to be exceptionally natty. In light of Mickey Rourke’s effort a few years ago, I didn’t really expect to be surprised at anyone’s appearance last night at the 2011 Academy Awards. But my cereal-filled spoon stopped just short of my mouth this morning when Grizzly Adams accepted his award for Best Supporting Actor. Turns out it was Christian Bale.
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Last night the DJ saved my life
Monday, February 21st, 2011
We’re well into awards season now, with the Golden Globes and BAFTAs done and dusted and the Oscars to look forward to – especially if you’re a fan of The King’s Speech. The part of the event which I do find a bit of a bore, though, is the whole red-carpet-twirly bit. Frankly, I couldn’t care less what people are wearing as long as they look like they’ve scrubbed up a bit – unless they look completely idiotic, which can make it a bit more fun. But frankly, that sort of thing is more for the pages Heat magazine than a Creativepool blog. Interestingly, though, how often do you hear anyone comment in any great depth on how the men are dressed? It’s almost always the women. And for a very good reason…
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Mercury falling.
Thursday, July 21st, 2011(more…)
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