Computer Artsの December 2016 の目次

Studio Constantine can be found on the ground floor of a warehouse in Hawthorn, a Melbourne suburb. The green area surrounded by a mix of contemporary and colonial architecture is just minutes from the city centre and metres from the Yarra River. For studio owners David and Hannah Constantine, their work space is also a stone’s throw from their home, which is on the floor above. “We love the polished concrete and the light!” says David. “In summer, the light from the skylights is wonderful.” The couple have surrounded themselves with things that interest, inspire, encourage or comfort them. One such thing is plants (1). “They improve the air quality, and are so sculptural in their own right,” remarks David. The studio has been working with Reiko Kaneko for several…

WHISKEY WORLDS JAMESON – THE DECONSTRUCTED SERIES by Greg Coulton and Pond Design Stockholm www.gregcoulton.com The new super-premium Deconstructed Series of Jameson Irish whiskey focuses on taste rather than age. For the packaging and labelling, Pond Design Stockholm tasked illustrator and designer Greg Coulton with visually bringing to life the sensation of tasting each one. “After being supplied with the tasting notes, I built a profile around each element – its natural environment, heritage and visual properties,” says Coulton, who captured the character and personality of the whiskies through a series of visual narratives. “The most challenging part was the sheer volume of work,” he continues. “With a front and back label, plus the large-scale pack itself across each of the three bottles, it came to over 50 full-detail drawings…

Earlier this year, Birmingham-based LIFE Agency put out a call for interns. When visual communication student Liam Blunder was invited for an interview, he took the opportunity to make a lasting impression. “He already had my attention with a really positive outlook, bags of enthusiasm and a very solid student portfolio,” recalls senior creative Luke Tonge. “So when he handed me his leave-behind at the end I really was surprised.” Inspired by the Pantone colour guides, Blunden had created a miniature, customised portfolio with a laser-cut translucent-yellow acrylic cover. “I thought to myself: ‘Pocket-sized and a little sturdier, it’d be a good housing for a portfolio’ – so I did it,” explains Blunden, who already has work for Selfridges & Co, Carmex and MTV under his belt. In fact, his…

THESE ARE SOME OF THE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS THE PRO AGENCIES USE TO KEEP THEIR PROJECTS ON TRACK … TRELLO www.trello.com The team at johnson banks use this. It has a really simple UI, which makes it easy for everyone to understand quickly, and see everyone’s tasks on all projects on just one page. This overview of workloads makes it easy to prioritise work, especially for a small studio. It’s best seen as a shared group task list and doesn’t work so well in seeing how long each activity is going to take. SYNERGIST www.synergist.co.uk “I would be lost without it,” says Kim Cox, traffic manager at Six. “On a good day, I can recall most bookings a day or two ahead. But once you add into the mix 15-plus designers…

PROJECT FACTFILE BRIEF: Generate a bold, colourful and irreverent campaign with a feminine edge, for Milly’s fall 2016 women’s fashion collection. The campaign covers print, out of home, online and social media, with more emphasis on digital than with previous campaigns. Over 400 images are being rolled out over six months. CLIENT: Milly, www.milly.com STUDIO: Sagmeister & Walsh, www.sagmeisterwalsh.com PROJECT DURATION: Six months LIVE DATE: September 2016 (ongoing) JESSICA WALSH Co-founder and creative director, Sagmeister & Walsh Designer and art director Jessica has worked for clients including Jay-Z, Barneys, The New York Times and the MoMA. She’s won many major design awards, and the film version of her 40 Days of Dating book is currently in progress. The Design Brief Jessica Walsh The brief came about through my friend Ari…

PROJECT FACTFI LE BRIEF: Produce a broadcast ident that introduces the sport of drone racing to TV audiences, accurately depicting the drones and capturing the passion and pace of the racing itself. Plus, create replay wipes, bumpers, lower thirds, racing bugs, leaderboards and trailer graphics. In all, over 20 deliverables were required. CLIENT: Drone Racing League, thedroneracingleague.com STUDIO: Dazzle Ship, www.dazzleship.com PROJECT DURATION: Eight weeks LIVE DATE: October 2016 ALEX DONNE-JOHNSON Founder and creative director, Dazzle Ship Alex’s career has spanned art direction for the James Bond gaming franchise, specialist strategy for various fashion brands linking them to underground music and youth culture, global campaigns for WaterAid, and teaching at Swedish design institute Hyper Island. A SCI-FI SPORT Alex Donne-Johnson The Drone Racing League is introducing something new for…

James Victore runs an independent design studio “hell-bent on world domination”. He’s an author, designer and teacher, who strives to make work that is “sexy, strong and memorable”. Victore’s art has been exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and other museums around the globe. “I am a pretty good designer,” he says. “At least the MoMA thinks so. But I am a much better teacher. I use art and design as the teaspoon of sugar to get larger ideas across.” Victore feels Instagram (IG) and camera phones have helped improve his vocabulary. “IG helps me express my thoughts on creativity and ask difficult questions of my audience,” he says. His feed is generally sketches and work processes... “although I may occasionally post a really adorable video of…

GRAHAM JONES Partner and creative director for Just Eat rebrand, Venture Three www.venturethree.com “The new brand signals Just Eat’s focus on shifting perceptions of the global food delivery industry; changing behaviours around how and when we get the food we love each day. Based on our creative idea of ‘find your flavour’, we developed an expressive new identity, complete with a burst of colour and animation style that adds flexibility and opportunities to delight in the brand experience. All of our work is based on humanising what is essentially a technology platform, now with a vision of ‘creating the world’s greatest food community’.” CHRISTOPHER COLOURYUM Freelance graphic designer and illustrator www.colouryum.com “This is a fantastic rebrand that has much more flexibility and vibrance than the previous design. The cursor in…

P icture the scene: half of Sheffield has been evacuated. The railway station is closed. Traffic has backed up onto the motorway, causing a 70-mile tailback, from Leeds North to Derby. A bomb disposal expert is being helicoptered in from Nottingham. And two wellknown members of one of the UK’s most iconic design studios of the nineties are sat in the back of a police car, answering questions about possible links to Ireland. That’s what happened when legendary studio the Designers Republic was sent a showreel in a pizza box-like package, along with a bomb. It wasn’t a real bomb. But this wasn’t established until several, tense hours later, when the device was blasted apart with a high-pressure water-projectile pellet, leaving a huge hole in the desk and destroying a…

SELF-PROMO WITH STAMINA London-based animation director and designer James Curran knows the self-promotional power of a personal project. In 2011, his unofficial title sequence for The Adventures of Tintin brought him widespread exposure and, famously, a job offer from Steven Spielberg on his next film. Since then, Curran has viewed personal projects as his priority – which is why he embarked on a 30-day ‘Gifathon’ during a month’s holiday in New York last year. Each day, Curran took a few hours out of his itinerary to make a new GIF. “I had a rough list of ideas for things to do, but I just made it up as I went along,” he explains. “I’d made enough GIFs already to know that making one a day was possible. The hardest part…

GEMMA O’ BRIEN _ Gemma is an Australian artist specialising in lettering, illustration and typography. After working as an art director at Animal Logic, Fuel VFX and Toby & Pete, she became a freelance illustrator in 2012. Her clients include Playboy, Nike, Heineken, Qantas and Diet Coke. She was recognised as an ADC Young Gun in 2015. www.gemmaobrien.com Having your student project spotted and discussed by a design critic halfway across the world might be a dream come true for many young designers. Gemma O’Brien got off to a rocky start on this front, however, when TYPO Berlin’s Jürgen Siebert reacted to her 2009 Sagmeister-inspired stunt of scrawling typography all over her bare skin with marker pens – the video for which had already attracted over 150,000 YouTube views –…

PART 1 Following our successful four-part typography skills workshop with the IST D, this month we kick off a 10-part series in partnership with D&AD, curated by this year’s New Blood trustee, Tom Manning. Each advice-packed article will reveal the skills it takes to survive and thrive as a young designer in the modern industry. Subscribe today to guarantee the whole set: see page 42. D&AD New Blood Awards Entries now open for 2017 at www.dandad.org/newblood PART 2 Issue 261, on sale 9 December 2016 PART 3 Issue 262, on sale 6 January 2017 PART 4 Issue 263, on sale 3 February 2017 PART 5 Issue 264, on sale 3 March 2017 PART 6 Issue 265, on sale 31 March 2017 PART 7 Issue 266, on sale 28 April 2017…

Smoking Dynamite is one of the images for the main campaign. I originally had an image in my head of a girl smoking a flower – since the season’s clothing line was centred around flowers – and her breathing out coloured smoke. However when I talked about it to a few other people in the studio, smoking a flower didn’t quite feel powerful or irreverent enough. I thought about it a bit longer and came up with the dynamite concept. The first step was to do a pencil/computer line drawing and colouring test to get the composition done. Once it was sketched out, one of our designers, Daniel Forero, mocked up the concept by compositing many different photos together in Photoshop. From there, we collected a lot of different makeup…

The humble wiro binding is back in vogue. Once the staple of dreary office reports, designers are reappropriating the technique through contrasting colour combinations to create playful designs. How It Is, by Nicolas Burrows (shop.hatopress.net/products/how-it-is) Open Books Volumes A–E, designed by Sophie Demay, edited by Charlotte Cheetham and Sophie Demay, published by Hato Press (images courtesy of Hato Press) (shop.hatopress.net/products/open-books-volumes-a-e) We Said Some Shit, by Strategy Creative (www.bit.ly/CA-260-wesaid)…

Themed ‘design city’, Design Manchester’s one-day conference in October explored the way in which we move through cities, and the different opportunities that city spaces offer to engage, assist, inform and delight. It was one of 37 events hosted over 12 days as part of the Design Manchester festival – now in its fourth year – which saw a wide range of exhibitions, workshops and design fairs taking place across the city. Interaction and narrative quickly became recurring ideas as a multidisciplinary line-up of speakers – including creative studio Field, graphic designer and wayfinding specialist Alexandra Wood, and Dutch design collective Trapped in Suburbia – took to the stage to share their thoughts on what it is to design with the city in mind. Architect and designer Jason Bruges blends…

ADDING VALUE When you’re in the business of representing creatives, self-promotion is the name of the game. With over 100 talented artists on his books, The Jacky Winter Group founder Jeremy Wortsman is a veritable master of the art: the agency’s annual publication, Field Guide – a high-end showcase of its artists’ work – has become a highly anticipated resource over the years. (The most recent, pictured, presents a collection of six booklets, with handy perforated edges so you can tear out your favourites.) Lifting the bar is crucial and the agency also releases a number of additional self-promo projects each year – which is how Jacky Winter’s beer-opening challenge coins were born. If you listen to the 99% Invisible podcast, or have an interest in military traditions, you might…

The chase Set up in Manchester in 1986, The Chase was voted one of the top non-London agencies in CA’s UK Studio Rankings 2016, and is also the only agency outside of the capital to have topped Design Week’s Creative Survey. Clients include Royal Mail, Tesco and TfL. www.thechase.co.uk Watch the videos on our YouTube channel: www.bit.ly/ca260-thechase There was an old Indian craftsman who carved beautiful little elephants from unpromising blocks of timber. Asked how he did it, he simply replied: “I just cut away the wood that doesn’t look like an elephant.” So goes the doctrine of British creative consultancy The Chase – one of the UK’s most awarded design agencies. Co-founder Ben Casey launched the firm in Manchester three decades ago as a regional alternative to London’s brightest…

Project managing is extremely boring. It involves having good contact with the client as well as remembering what’s been said, and getting all the creatives together and delivering on time. It doesn’t spark inspiration or create butterflies in your stomach – it’s just work. But without it, nothing else would function and everyone in the studio would go off the rails. So how to go about it? Well, if you’re a freelancer, you don’t have much choice. You have to project manage yourself. If you’re part of a studio or agency, you most probably have someone doing this already. But every project needs this, and the easiest way to do it is to use lists. Yes, the sexiness meter just blew up. Writing lists doesn’t only force you to keep…