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Source: Event Magazine | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 09:00:00 AM

A report into event supply chains has found that uncertainty surrounding supply and demand around the time of the Diamond Jubilee and 2012 Olympic Games is restricting investment in equipment and venues, which will put pressure on the industry to increase productivity.

Source: Creative Review | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 10:13:00 AM

Namechecked on butdoesitfloat and boingboing earlier today, this 1961 reel from motion graphics pioneer John Whitney is well worth a look. Whitney's home-built analogue computer famously made use of parts from an anti-aircraft gun sight...

Collaborating with Saul Bass on the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in 1958 possibly brought Whitney's work its largest audience.

But since the early 1950s he had been using his homemade animation techniques on TV commercials and, prior to those films, his experimental work in the 1940s (notably Five Film Exercises) had already marked him out as a master of progressive animation.

Whitney produced further title sequences using his analogue computer and founded Motion Graphics Incorporated in 1960 ? a year later he compiled a record of his visual effects in the short film, Catalog (below).

According to Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema, Whitney's  Read More»

Source: Creative Review | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 03:05:00 PM

The numbers have all been crunched and the Gunn Report for 2011 has been released. The report combines the results of all the significant advertising award schemes around the world, to identify the most successful agencies, campaigns and clients each year. What is clear from the 2011 results is that it was a pretty good year for the Wieden + Kennedy network....

For the first time in the Gunn Report's history, Wiedens has won the top two places in the Most Awarded Agency category, with Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam coming top, and W+K Portland in second place. It's a similar story in the Most Awarded Commercials category too, though this time W+K Amsterdam has taken both the number one and number two slots all on its own, with the epic Nike Write The Future spot at the top, and Heineken The Entrance in joint second with Saatchi & Saatchi London's Welcome Back spot for T-Mobile.

Here are the lists of winners in full:

The Most Awarded Commercials in the World in 2011

1. Nike: Write The Future, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam

2=.  Read More»

Source: Event Magazine | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 10:44:00 AM

Caterer Harbour & Jones has been appointed exclusive caterer for RSA House, home to the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), when it reopens in April.

Source: Event Magazine | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 11:39:00 AM

Manchester-based design agency Eskimo Creative will lead the design for two sets of events for the Cultural Olympiad this summer.

Source: Event Magazine | Published: Thursday 2nd of February 2012 10:35:00 AM

Up to 600 Scots will be given the opportunity to train as sports officials for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, organisers have revealed.

Source: Event Magazine | Published: Friday 3rd of February 2012 11:05:00 AM

The Event Production Show and the inaugural UK Venue Show took place at Olympia's Grand Hall on 1-2 February, and Event has a gallery of pictures.

Source: Creative Review | Published: Thursday 2nd of February 2012 03:20:00 PM

To mark its 50th anniversary, this weekend's Sunday Times Magazine cover will feature an image of an installation of over 100 magazines hanging on wires to form the number 50. The image, conceived and art directed by The Sunday Times Magazine's art director Alyson Waller, was created by CG specialist Taylor James...

"I didn't have much notice - not much more than a week," Waller tells us. "The editor asked if I could think of something for the 50th Anniversary cover," she continues. "Of course the most important thing to get across is that it's 50 years old, an incredible amount of time for a magazine to run. It's a bit obvious, but having the number 50 was important. The editor then mentioned that we were going to do an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary and that's when I started thinking about creating some kind of installation that could appear in a gallery. There wasn't enough time to create an actual installation so I approached Taylor James to see if they could create a virtual one."

"The challenge with this project was to create a sense of scale and power," says Dave Wortley, lead 3D artist at Taylor James who worked on the image." We wanted to make sure it would look like an installation in a large gallery and not a scaled model. Each magazine is unique in shape and form and there are over 100 covers from 50 years of the Sunday Times Magazine in the image, so we used a bit of scripting to avoid repeats on the front row and make the rest appear random."

Waller at The Sunday Times Magazine was able to provide Taylor James with digital files of photographed covers from the magazine's archives, with some issues having to be re-photographed especially. Then dozens of emails were exchanged between the art director and Taylor James as the image started to take shape.

"It was a challenge to complete this project in the timeframe," adds Wortley, "with a lot of our attention given at the early concepting stage. We created a model of the magazine made to scale and then each [virtual] magazine is threaded onto a wire. If you look closely enough you can even see the staples in the fold of the magazines!"

The anniversary edition of the magazine will be in the newspper and online this Sunday February 5 and will feature the 50 greatest front covers from over the 50 years.

To further celebrate the ripe old age of 50, The Sunday Times is marking its half century with a free exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery, (running until February 18) showcasing the cover image and also some of the features and world class photography which has defined it over the years.

Photographers featured include Dan McCullin, David bailey, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Eugene Richards, Sam Taylor-Wood, Terry O'Neil, Chris Floyd and Stuart Franklin. More info at saatchi-gallery.co.uk

See more of Taylor James' work at taylorjames.com

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Source: Event Magazine | Published: Wednesday 1st of February 2012 10:37:00 AM

Vogue readers will meet the magazine's stars at a fashion festival on 20-21 April at the Royal Geographic Society in London.

Source: Creative Review | Published: Thursday 2nd of February 2012 05:59:00 PM

As we reported in November last year, Airside is shutting up shop. Now the studio is planning to sell loads of its work, from prints and canvases that have been hanging in the studio, to archived T-shirts designed by the likes of Mode 2, Mr Scruff, Pete Fowler and, of course Fred Deakin...

Yes, the Airside Closing Down Sale will take place in Airside's studio at 339 Upper Street in London on Saturday February 18 between 2pm and 6pm. At 3pm there will be an auction of rare and collectible items that include no less than 29 framed prints from 14 years of creativity. All are one-off rarities such as screenprints for Lemon Jelly (one shown, above), Impotent Fury, The Face, and It's Pop It's Art - as well as personal work by various Airside employees.

Also to be auctioned are the archive copies of 40 T-shirts created for the Airside T-shirt Club.

"Also on general sale will be our archive of Airside-designed T-shirts, CDs, vinyl, books, posters and plastic toys," says Airside's Fred Deakin. "We'll be selling / giving away lots of our technical kit and various books from our reference library as well as show reels and postcards; there will also be tea and cake for all."

Here's the full flyer for the one-off event:

View more images of some of the work that will be up for grabs at flickr.com/photos/airside/sets/

play.airside.co.uk

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