-Photographer Steven Klein has a huge portfolio of work but what I am most impressed with is the website. Its sexy, cool, a little bit dirty even, setting the tone perfectly for his work. I won't spend loads of time talking about this site, you just need to take my word for it and spend some time looking through it. GO NOW!
-Klein's work can be seen in GQ, Vogue, POP, I-D for, Armani, D&G, H&M, Dsquared2, Nike, Pepe, Valentino and YSL and he has worked with pretty much any celebrity you can think of.
-He is another one of my favourites and you just have to check him out!
-The top example was seen most recently in the Sunday Times Style Magazine... a bit risque for some Sunday Times readers I would imagine! It is a life size party scene exhibited at the Louise T Blouin Foundation for Agent Provocateur which has recently been projected onto the Tate Modern and Marble Arch.
-The above photographs are some examples of work by a photographer named Tim Bret-Day, a photographer who has worked with the England Cricket XI, Elle MacPherson, Natalie Imbruglia and Danni Cipriani, in locations from Mexico to Istanbul.
-Bret-Days' Editorial base includes, The Face, Marie Claire, Flaunt, Sunday Times Magazine, Arena, ID and many more.
-Celebrities photographed include David Beckham, David Bowie, Callum Best, Kylie Minogue, Erin O'Connor, Michael Owen, Gordon Ramsay, Frank Lampard, Rachel Hunter, The Rolling Stones and Lenox Lewis
-Campaigns and Advertising work include Harvey Nichols, Adidas, Mercedes, Marks and Spencers, Smirnoff, BA, Ikea, L'Oreal, Oasis and more.
-Not only is his work pretty amazing, but his website is pretty original too.
Bret-Day is one of the most talented photographers with one of the most impressive resumes and catalogues of work that I have ever seen. He is one of my favourite photographers of all time and I have the feeling I will continue to be a fan of his work, as I have never been disappointed yet.
I definately recommend anyone interested in Art, Photography, Design, Graphics...and even if not, please checkout his work.
-lacenebula.com is an ornate and feminine website, very much tailored for its young, female target audience.
-work would mostly be recognised in Vera Wang's Princess fragrance.
-my only slight criticism is that the layout and tabs are slightly old fashioned, yet there are elements of design intelligence with the layout and typography used.
-I would recommend anyone who also has an interest in delicate, interesting jewellery to check this website out.
-The clips above are some examples of a design company called Fallon.
-Created by Pat Fallon in 1981, he had a vision in'creating sucess for our clients and ourselves with ideas that suprise the world'
-Has bases in Minneapolis, London, Singapore and Tokyo
-Fallon has created a wide variety and range of design work, with clients including Cartier, Holiday Inn, VW, Time Magazine, nbc, Baby Velvet, Budweiser, Skoda, Eurostar,cadbury, Tate, Children in Need, Eurostar, sony and created the new bbc radio identities
-All the advertisements in the clips I have posted have all received great media attention and acclaim... which is difficult to do today with so much competition out there... most desparate to create the most 'cutting edge' results.
Instead, Fallon has chosen to continually produce high quality, imaginative and fun results. These examples not only caught my attention, but remained in my memory and even became topics of discussion between friends and family...the favourite being the debate on whether the cadbury ad was good or not! However, despite what my housemate thinks, there are people that appreciated the Cadbury Gorilla ad, which arguably has been the best ad produced all year, with the colour of purple representing the brand right up until the last credit, as it won a Film Grand Prix Lion award at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. You see, this is the ingenious of the company, they create discussion provoke thought (which is admirable seeing as some design company was paid to come up with the compare.com ads!)
- the sony bravia balls ad not only also won awards but enabled the artist whose music accompanied the ad reach new found success and fame in the UK. The mood of the ad is majestic and uplifting, set perfectly with Heartbeat by Jose Gonzalez.
-the new orange ad makes a huge impact when seen as a trailer in a cinema, again making the audience drawn in to the ad because you would have no idea the ad was for orange right until the end (as generally most non graphicy people wouldnt notice the subtle use of the orange trademark colour in little flashes here and there) It makes you feel like you know the cyclist, and captivates your attention and imagination.
-the skoda ad was uplifting, with another fantastic choice of music, keeping the ad fun and unusual... different from most car ads seen around today.
- you are met with a choice of 4 magazines to choose from covering games, art and design, art and fashion, and music and lifestyle.
- they are an online magazine where you read along like a normal magazine...with a few extras
- articles are a combination of moving artwork, pieces of artistic film, interviews, alternative sports coverage, music reviews and topics of interest.
- in 'encore', the magazine that covers art and design, the background can be changed from 'park' to 'the beach', 'the office' or 'frosty lake'
- the space for advertising potential offers new ways in companies to create moving interactive adverts without the irritating 'pop up' label
- there is space for people to post their opinions about the issue or the magazine in general
- my favourite features this week were the in depth look at graffiti across europe and retro music.
- the best thing about this magazine is its selection of topics and the frequency in which it changes and updates itself. For anyone interested in graphics or just slight alternative things to read beyond creative review and grafix...I would deffo recommend you check this out...even if it is while you are waiting for photos to load on facebook.
- kleft.com is the website that showcases its limited production graphics and design magazine.
- I like the idea of the website, as it acts as a guide to the magazine before you buy it.
- It is clean, easy to navigate and acts as a good selling tool for the magazine.
- There are only 1000 copies produced, each being hand numbered.
'keep left magazine seeks to ferret out what inspires some of the images these people produce. It's not about pontificating about 'style-derivations' or asking twenty questions about boring things most people don't care about.
It's about wanting to know about what drives them to do what they do. Because they are all a part of creating the human image bank. The goal for everyone within these pages is to create something meaningful to them, and in turn, they hope their work will mean something to you.'
-the big downside is that it would end up being very expensive to buy, as the fee for exchanging money and postage is very costly.
