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Milan 2012: when Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine came into Dezeen Studio in Milan, she spoke to us about the future of print magazines and current design trends.

Disegno launched its second issue in Milan and Johanna shared her ambitions for the magazine and her thoughts on why print is still relevant.

She also discusses trends amongst young designers, who are finding alternative ways to market themselves with entrepreneurial thinking and a return to local craft, giving Hacked Lab at La Rinascente from this year and Milan Uncut from last year as examples.

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Tuesday TV show (below).

Dezeen was filming and editing all week from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. See all the TV shows here.

Designed in Hackney: illustration collective Le Gun have collaborated with footwear designer Tracey Neuls to create a range of shoes inspired by items discovered inside a suitcase in a Hackney basement.

Le Gun created a drawing based on the objects and the life of their imagined owner, and each shoe in the limited edition is covered by a different part of the image.

The interior of Tracey Neuls’ Shoreditch shop is decorated with Le Gun’s illustrations and their work is exhibited alongside the shoes.

The shop opened at the end of last year on Redchurch Street, beyond the Hackney border. Le Gun have their studio by London Fields and Neuls lives in Hackney too.

See all our stories about Tracey Neuls »

Here’s some more information from LE GUN:

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“Its of the trout tickling, dada loving, jazz pirate George Melly at a parade inspired by James Ensor’s painting ‘Entry of Christ’ into Brussels. The LE GUN version is: The entry of Marvin Gaye into Brussels… Marvin Gaye is riding into town on a donkey. He spent a lot of time in Belgium trying to get off crack. We have done a series of drawings based around the contents of a suitcase we found in the basement of a masonic cobblers in Hackney, which we believe belonged to the late George Melly. The drawing reflects our affection for the often overlooked cultural suburb of Belgium. We like the idea of a young Belgian surrealist wearing our Tracey Neuls shoes while becoming slowly intoxicated at A La Mort Subite…” – LE GUN

Here’s some more information from Tracey Neuls:

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Tracey Neuls and LE GUN

Pioneering and of a single mind, Tracey Neuls choose her new shop where there is already great spirit and individuality – not unlike her original footwear. Building on the success of her West London Marylebone shop, she embarked on her second space – Eastside!

To celebrate this new venture, Tracey Neuls, famous for her creative collaborations has teamed up with the London illustration collective LE GUN.

Often described as ‘the gutter looking up to the sky’ LE GUN is responsible for some of the most thought provoking illustration work.‘Parade’ was one such piece that caught Neuls’ eye. “The idea of bringing the illustrative subject matter into movement via the actual body part was irresistible.”

LE GUN painted the shop walls in their signature style, ink in one hand paintbrush in the other – an instant freestyle application of meandering illustration. They treated the retail space like a gallery. The combination of using another artist’s drawing with a Tracey Neuls shoe design makes for a perfect collaboration. It’s an enjoyable experience seeing a drawing being translated onto a shoe. Neuls, known for her keen eye for detail saw the instant potential of translating the art work to textile. Each limited edition shoe has a different part of the drawing, so therefore tells a different part of the story. The print was recreated as wrapping paper, so the narrative continues inside and out!

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Designed in Hackney map:

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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of Pecha Kucha talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. 

The event will start at 7pm in the Farmiloe Building at 34 St John Street, the event’s main venue where you can also find our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up – more details here. Entrance is free but please register in advance for entrance to Clerkenwell Design Week.

The evening will be chaired by Icon magazine editor Christopher Turner and speakers include:

»Anthony Dickens »Marc Krusin »Benjamin Hubert »Nigel Coates »Peter Murray »Phil Coffey »William Knight »Kevin Haley »Annabelle Filer

Deriving its name from the Japanese term for the sound of ‘chit chat’, PechaKucha was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture, and consists of a series of presentations where each participant shows 20 images for 20 seconds.

www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com www.pecha-kucha.org

Now, if you were paying very close attention, you would have seen that Alexander Lis was recently featured on the site for his After School Club collaborative project with Hort but, the German-based designer definitely deserves a post all of his own. A skilful visual communicator, his solid portfolio of graphic design entices with its blend of playful media, bright colours and a strong aesthetic style. It’s bold, experimental and feels contemporary without trying to be too trendy.

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There's been a veritable deluge of newsprint publications coming into CR towers in the last two weeks so thought we'd share a selection with you...

First up is the Frieze Projects newspaper. Frieze Art Fair held it's first New York event earlier this month entitled Frieze Projects New York. For the event, Frieze invited eight international artists to respond to the location of the show, Randall's Island in the East River, and turn the island park into a an experimental platform for contemporary art. Mulberry, the event's sponsor, produced this unbound, newspaper-like publication (designed by Construct) to introduce each artist and their approach to the commission…

S.E.H Kelly is a two-person men's clothing company based in East London. It's publication, Some British Makers Vol. 1, features photos taken and info gleaned from visits to a small clothes-making workroom in North London, the only maker of horn buttons in the UK, and two woollen mills in Yorkshire.

"We tend to make our printed stuff with Newspaper Club," says Sara Kelly of the project, "and they just printed this for us, to introduce ourselves and the kind of craft we employ to the stores in Japan who stock our stuff."

Here are some images:

For any of our readers who don't know, Newspaper Club was founded by Ben Terrett, Russell Davies and Tom Taylor in 2009 to make it easy for designers (and non-designers too) to make their own newsprint publications. Also hot off the Newspaper Club press is this self-promotional mailer by illustrator Andy Smith - a 12 page newsprint publication that shows off 12 of Smith's poster designs:

"Business is certainly booming at the moment," says Newspaper Club MD, Anne Ward when we asked if the unusually high influx of newsprint projects to CR towers was reflective of a rise in interest in the services they offer. "May is usually our busiest month but this May our orders are at least double last year's," she adds.

Paper-obsessed artist Rob Ryan has also taken advantage of Newspaper Club's services – we just got the first issue of his studio's new quarterly publication S.P.Q.R. which is available from Ryan's Etsy shop for the princely sum of £2.

"Basically, it's going to be a collection of pictures and words that I've been working on within the preceding three months," explains Ryan. "Anything that I draw or design always starts its life as a note or a scribble somewhere in a note book and I'm kind of hoping that this project will become more like that, a printed notebook of thoughts and ideas," he continues. "Ninety percent of my notebook stuff is rubbish and really quite embarrassing, so don't expect too much," he adds. Despite his modesty, the first issue of S.P.Q.R. is full of lovely imagery - and also a short written piece by Ryan in which he explains how he ended up working almost exclusively with cut paper.

Last but not least is another first issue newspaper from a design studio, also printed by Newspaper Club. The Moon on a Stick, by Cheltenham-based ASHA (the studio behind the recently held first Cheltehham Design Festival) is by far the most ambitious of all the publications shown in this blog post - it's 72 pages for a start, making it quite a big ask in terms of engagement time.

Essentially, The Moon on a Stick is a vehicle for showcasing projects ASHA has worked on and, despite an initial worry about delving into such a lengthy own-trumpet blowing exercise, it's actually pretty engaging, thanks mostly to a playful approach to design and layout. Each feature sports different combinations of headline, display and text typefaces which stops it from being visually bland and kept me leafing through.

Also, peppered among the many case studies of ASHA projects are nuggets of editorial gold like the Best in Class spread that shows two great CV packs the agency received from graduate hopefuls, showing that creativity when applying for a design job really is worth the effort. Here are some spreads:

For more info about Newspaper Club and how to create your own newsprint publication, visit newspaperclub.com

 

CR for the iPad Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

CR in Print The May issue of Creative Review is the biggest in our 32-year history, with over 200 pages of great content. This speial double issue contains all the selected work for this year's Annual, our juried showcase of the finest work of the past 12 months. In addition, the May issue contains features on the enduring appeal of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, a fantastic interview with the irrepressible George Lois, Rick Poynor on the V&A's British Design show, a preview of the controversial new Stedelijk Museum identity and a report from Flatstock, the US gig poster festival. Plus, in Monograph this month, TwoPoints.net show our subcribers around the pick of Barcelona's creative scene.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Now in its fifth draft, Birmingham’s Eastside Projects have published their own user’s manual as to how one might engage with them and their space. Providing the suitably schematic renderings of the space’s potential is Voidwreck, the Amsterdam-based duo Karl Nawrot and Walter Warton.

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“One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.” - Jane Austen

I’ve found the taste of avocado a difficult one to master. The weird fatty fruit with buttery, soap-like texture forms a strange the consistency in my mouth that I’m not sure I’m okay with, yet I find myself always returning for more. It’s an intriguing, exotic and odd thing that I want to be a part of, so I think deep down I have a love for the avocado – it just isn’t a conventional one.

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From Adventures of Robert Nothing

Artist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke is showing work at the Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague this week. Expect dark humour delivered in bright colours, and a painterly take on the ways of the web and digital culture...

Antwerp-based Vandenbroucke works in a range of media from inks, to film and sculpture, but he will be showing a range of new paintings at his Trial and Error show at the Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague from Friday.

Art for Humo, 3740

Robert Finds True Love

His illustrations have previously appeared in The New York Times, De Standaard, Vice and Rekto Verso, while his comics strips have been included in issues of Humo and NoBrow.

On And On And On And Wrong

Vandenbroucke's show Trial and Error is at Ship of Fools, Korte Voohort 20, 2511 CX The Hague, The Netherlands from May 25 until July 20. More details at shipoffoolsgallery.com. Vandenbroucke is represented by the Lezilus agency and blogs at brechtvandenbroucke.blogspot.co.uk.

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Garden Aesthetics

Skyscrapers in Seoul: Chicago architects Murphy/Jahn have designed two towers under one roof for the western side of South Korea’s new commercial centre, the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul.

Containing mainly apartments, the 320-metre-high Pentominium skyscrapers will conceal sheltered gardens and balconies behind the lattices of glazing that make up their exterior walls.

Some of these courtyards will occupy four-storey-high voids in the floorplates, while more gardens will be located on the penthouse floor and on a bridge that connects the two buildings at its centre.

Staircase and elevator cores will be positioned in the north-east corners of each block, giving residents of each apartment a view towards the Han River in the south-west.

The firm was commissioned alongside fifteen other architects to design towers for the Yongsan International Business District, which was masterplanned by Daniel Libeskind and which is the biggest urban development project in South Korea. Due for completion in 2024, the masterplan was commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub.

See more projects from the district here, including designs by BIG, MVRDV and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.

The text below is from Murphy/Jahn:

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The Yongsan International Business District will set a new standard for an integrated global city.

Situated on a high-profile site in the western side of the district, plot R5 houses a signature topend residential building, 320m in height, which will attract the most exclusive clientele from both Korea as well as the rest of the world. These Pentominium units will provide unsurpassed urban living experiences, with spatial and privacy features normally associated with individual houses.

In order to maximize window views and create a sense of exclusivity through minimizing the number of units per floor, two slender towers were chosen for the design. A simple square footprint provides the geometry basis for each tower floor. To take advantage of the desirable vistas to the southwest, the cores for the towers are shifted off center towards the northeast elevations. The resulting U-shaped usable areas can then be divided into one, two, three, or four units per floor, most with view access to the southwest.

Around each unit, the enclosure façade moves in and out from the square tower footprint to create customized bay windows, wintergardens, and enclosed balconies. An exterior screen of vertical and horizontal bars is located outboard of the balconies. The primary module of the screen is 5.0m tall by 3.0m wide to align with the façade geometry. In areas where increased privacy is preferred, such as bedrooms and bathrooms, additional vertical bars are added within the primary module.

In addition to becoming the signature design feature of the project, the exterior screen provides four distinct benefits:

1. Provides solar shading to the façade, reducing the cooling load of the building 2. Enhances privacy between towers 3. Creates a visual and structural framework in which balconies and interior room projections can be inserted. 4. Maintains an ordered, clean visual appearance in front of the shifting enclosure façade behind.

The façade layering of exterior bar screen, to balcony/terrace, to enclosure façade creates a three-dimensional space in lieu of the traditional two-dimensional façade. This zone breaks down the barrier between interior and exterior areas, helping to provide the experience of individual house living in a high-rise urban context.

At various heights in each tower, structural bays are carved out of the sides of the building enclosure to create four-story high skyparks. Each skypark will be developed to provide a distinct amenity experience for the Pentominium residents, from a place of meditation, to an exterior lounge, and a sporting/exercise zone. Open joint glass panels in the exterior screen here help to temper these spaces climatically, while still maintaining an exterior experience for the residents.

Amenity functions are located at a mid-height level of the towers. A platform with both interior and exterior areas connects the two towers here, allowing residents to have their own private garden and lounge area in the sky. At the top of the towers are private roof gardens for the ultraexclusive single floor unit super villas.

Officetel units, with circulation separate from the Pentominiums, are located in the bottom eight floors of the east tower, as well as an adjacent four-story podium building. Secure parking for the Pentominium units is located in the basements below, with direct elevator access to each floor as well as the retail concourses below grade.

Some equations are simple. Very cool bikes + very cool artists = very very cool collaboration. To mark the opening of their new east London store, Tokyo Bike commissioned six creatives to customise one of their bikes and safe to say the results are tres jolie. Great to see last one of last year’s Grads Mike Guppy’s contribution and really into Soju Tanaka’s illustrated effort and Simon Memel’s stripped-back typographic turn, but in truth they’re all worth a gander.

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Going by her other projects, which range from fairly conservative fashion editorial to photo shoots so weird that I doubt you’d even be able to dream them up, Estelle Hanania is making a big impact on the photography and editorial world. In her recent shoot for Leslie David and Monsieur L’Agent’s beautiful Stadium Paris magazine for Nike, Estelle works her magic on some magnificent models and immediately makes the minimal NSW logo (literally just ‘NSW’ on a t shirt) seem like the coolest thing you’ve ever seen.

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Bauhaus: Art as Life

Hearing there’s a new exhibition about the notorious German school opening its doors might provoke dubious and not at all enthusiastic feelings. We all think we’ve already heard almost everything there is to know about Bauhaus, seen or read massive coffee table books depicting it, we know how its glorious masters look like and maybe even possess some of its heritage.
 When Barbican Art Gallery – in itself a massive brutalist post-war patrimony – announced the first major Bauhaus’ retrospective in Britain after forty years, the zest outside the narrow experts’ circle could have been quite mild.

The history of the revolutionary school, traced from it’s founding in Dessau in 1919 by Walter Gropious until the forced closure in 1933 has already been told from many points of view. 
Nevertheless, “Art as Life” exhibition takes a new insight on the school’s artistic production and the undercurrent legacy. While Bauhaus was duelling between classical take applied arts and its new industrial counterpart, what emerged was a collaborative spirit between (almost) all teachers and students.

“Art as Life” brings to our attention the playful and yet undiscovered side of the progressive modernist school – the famous Bauhaus parties, the commonly unknown photos of fashionable students, the unseen work where professors’ mastery gets mixed with the young students’ idealism and naivety. Unveiling the diversity of Bauhaus’ production, the works displayed are as disparate as Nivea adds, table lamps and ceramic pots, school party invitations, coffee machines, chess sets and spinning tops designed by characters like Johannes Itten, Josef and Anni Albers, Walter Gropious, Hannes Meyer, Paul Klee, Laslo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and August Schlemmer alongside with their students.

Running until the 12th of August, “Art as Life” opens quite a straightforward look on Bauhaus that makes us understand Modernism was much more than plain rigor.

Rujana Rebernjak – Images courtesy of Bauhaus-Archiv Museum

Last year, CR's Patrick blogged about how two features in our August issue mentioned the importance of "lunchtime arrangements" in studio culture, and many of our readers concurred. Now a new book, What's Cooking? asks 28 designers specifically about the food they like, and for their favourite recipes...

For studios where designers sit working at a desk for most of the day, the chance to be together at lunch can be an important communal time. Design itself is also like cooking in many respects. Different ingredients go into following a brief, or recipe, with the process being – as Korean designer and academic Chang Sik Kim writes in this design-led cookery book – "not about mixing, but integration, harmony and balance."

So what sustains the famous designers featured in What's Cooking?

Well, Wim Crouwel, whose mealtime activities while at Total Design in the 60s were revealed in the aforementioned issue of CR, starts off proceedings with an admission: "I cannot even bake an egg". But he follows this up by pointing readers to a Dutch wintertime staple, Stamppot boerenkool met worst, and its a simple recipe.

Russian graphic designer, Vladimir Chaika, offers up two different borsch recipes (with a frozen glass of vodka as a tempting addition), while Wally Olins praises the theatrics of Japanese cooking, and Niklaus Troxler extols the original Birchermüesli (don't call it muesli!) designed by Zurich-based health food pioneer, Dr. Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Brenner (1867-1939).

Not all the recommendations are ones that Dr. Max would necessarily endorse. For example, Martin Lambie-Nairn advocates "cuisine's answer to democracy", "this most excellent of English dishes" – the all-day breakfast. And Michael Wolff likes to "keep it simple", something that "good fry-ups in cheap cafes" can certainly provide.

Wolff also offers some thoughts on the importance of food and the communal experience within a studio environment, remembering how Wolff Olins' hospitality became a significant part of how clients experienced the company. "For me, the quality of food in a design company is a good indicator of the quality of imagination and creativity," he writes. "Ordinary and tasteless food usually means boring work."

While Paula Scher opts for a Jumbledlaya, a Jamabalaya-style dish which is apparently simple to make ("chopping and stirring") but boasts a hefty set of ingredients, there is a definite purist notion to the some of the choices, too.

Critic Steven Heller poetically exalts the simplicity of the poached egg ("poaching is much less violent than frying or scrambling or omeleting or baking – all requiring the egg to touch hot metal and cosmic pain") and, perhaps most revealing of her own approach to graphic design practice, Margaret Calvert offers a fantastic treatise on the simplicity of spaghetti, served only with a sauce of garlic, tomato and oregano (and a few other herbs).

The book is ring-bound, wipe-clean, and clearly designed to be used in the kitchen. With that, I think a couple of humble 'poachies' are in order.

What's Cooking? Famous Designers On Food is published by Baseline Magazine; £17 (including P&P). See baselinemagazine.com.

 

 

CR for the iPad Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

CR in Print The May issue of Creative Review is the biggest in our 32-year history, with over 200 pages of great content. This speial double issue contains all the selected work for this year's Annual, our juried showcase of the finest work of the past 12 months. In addition, the May issue contains features on the enduring appeal of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, a fantastic interview with the irrepressible George Lois, Rick Poynor on the V&A's British Design show, a preview of the controversial new Stedelijk Museum identity and a report from Flatstock, the US gig poster festival. Plus, in Monograph this month, TwoPoints.net show our subcribers around the pick of Barcelona's creative scene.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Don't like advertising? This could be the book for you. KesselsKramer is launching its latest tome, Advertising For People Who Don't Like Advertising, next week in London with a talk by KK creative directors Erik Kessels and Dave Bell, along with HHCL founder Steve Henry

According to the blurb for the book "Despite many years spent in the heart of the advertising industry, KesselsKramer have always had a love/hate relationship with the business, and have repeatedly questioned the meaning of advertising and challenged its conventions. Now, KK have decided to write a book about these attitudes, with a little help from the people they admire."

Described as "partly a creative handbook and partly a hunt to find new ways to think about communications" Advertising For People Who Don't Like Advertising contains contributions from Alex Bogusky, Stefan Sagmeister and Anthony Burrill as well as from HHCL founder Steve Henry. "This book describes how to make something you like out of something you don't. As well as drawing on its own experiences, KesselsKramer listens and learns from those who doubt the advertising industry" apparently. More here.

Henry, Erik Kessels and Dave Bell will be presenting a talk about the book, hosted by its publisher Laurence King, at King's Place in London on Monday, May 28. Tickets are £9.50, available here.

CR is awaiting a review copy of the book and will post a review once we have received it.

 

 

CR for the iPad Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

CR in Print The May issue of Creative Review is the biggest in our 32-year history, with over 200 pages of great content. This speial double issue contains all the selected work for this year's Annual, our juried showcase of the finest work of the past 12 months. In addition, the May issue contains features on the enduring appeal of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, a fantastic interview with the irrepressible George Lois, Rick Poynor on the V&A's British Design show, a preview of the controversial new Stedelijk Museum identity and a report from Flatstock, the US gig poster festival. Plus, in Monograph this month, TwoPoints.net show our subcribers around the pick of Barcelona's creative scene.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Funny how the small, italic quote at the bottom of a caption can entirely change your perception of the artwork itself. In Adam Bainbridge’s case, the fact that it reads ‘pencil on paper’ is enough to make your brain hurt and your fingers itch, due primarily to the fact that it is nothing short of exquisite. In images that, at first glance, may seem like a peek inside some sort of Vatican tomb of a ceramicist, these drawings actually represent the suburban environment that Bainbridge grew up in, with a splash of surrealist art thrown in there for good measure. Now, enough reading, take a closer look at the pictures.

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JWT Singapore and the Singapore Red Cross Society have launched an iPhone app that allows users facing a medical emergency to alert nearby first aiders and get qualified help

Rapid Rescue was created as a pro bono project to coincide with World Red Cross Day. The Singapore Red Cross has trained around 12,000 people in first aid, all of whom are encouraged to register as Rapid Rescue volunteers on the app.

 

Anyone who has the app installed on their phone can, in the event of a medical emergency, send out an alert to all registered first aiders within a 2km radius. The first aiders then choose whether to respond using their own phones. The app then maps out the shortest route to the patient for the responding first aider and lets the patient know that help is on its way.

 

 

The app can also tell patients the location of the nearest hospital.

At present, the app is only available for Singapore but there are plans to extend it to other Asian countries.

"With the Rapid Rescue app, we can deliver first aid even faster to the community. This can make a difference between life and death for victims in an emergency," said Mr Tee Tua Ba, chairman of the Singapore Red Cross.

Providing, of course, that those victims have an iPhone. There are, as far as CR is aware, no plans to make the app available for other platforms. So perhaps that headline should read: "This app could save your life, depending on your choice of smartphone..."

Credits: Tay Guan Hin: Regional Executive Creative Director Jun Fukawa: Chief Creative Officer Valerie Cheng: Executive Creative Director Parixit Bhattacharya: Creative Director Alan Leong: Digital Associate Creative Director Karan Dang: Art Director Celeste Ang: Art Director Parixit Bhattacharya: Copywriter Karan Dang: Copywriter Siti Nuraini: Digital Producer

 

 

CR for the iPad Read in-depth features and analysis plus exclusive iPad-only content in the Creative Review iPad App. Longer, more in-depth features than we run on the blog, portfolios of great, full-screen images and hi-res video. If the blog is about news, comment and debate, the iPad is about inspiration, viewing and reading. As well as providing exclusive, iPad-only content, the app will also update with new content throughout each month. Try a free sample issue here

CR in Print The May issue of Creative Review is the biggest in our 32-year history, with over 200 pages of great content. This speial double issue contains all the selected work for this year's Annual, our juried showcase of the finest work of the past 12 months. In addition, the May issue contains features on the enduring appeal of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, a fantastic interview with the irrepressible George Lois, Rick Poynor on the V&A's British Design show, a preview of the controversial new Stedelijk Museum identity and a report from Flatstock, the US gig poster festival. Plus, in Monograph this month, TwoPoints.net show our subcribers around the pick of Barcelona's creative scene.

If you would like to buy this issue and are based in the UK, you can search for your nearest stockist here. Based outside the UK? Simply call +44(0)207 292 3703 to find your nearest stockist. Better yet, subscribe to CR for a year here and save yourself almost 30% on the printed magazine.

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is this chronograph addition to the Iconograph range  by Berlin industrial designer Werner Aisslinger for Italian brand Lorenz. The watch is available to buy online or at our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up shop at Clerkenwell Design Week from 22 to 24 May.

The new model features a chronograph mechanism, which includes three small stopwatch dials on the watch face to count hours, minutes and seconds. The second hand can also be used as a stopwatch. Similar to Aisslinger’s original Iconograph design, the watch has twelve windows cut into the face to reveal numbers printed beneath. Iconograph chronograph is currently available in black or red with a white face.

www.dezeenwatchstore.com

In the morning if I’m having toast, I pop the bread in the toaster and then race to get the plate, knife, butter plus other topping of choice and arrange them beautifully next to the toaster. There is absolutely no point in me doing this, not at such speed anyway – but I continue to do so. This is sort of how I feel about hyperreal painting. It’s a strange notion to want to reproduce things we see everyday in 2D form but in immaculate detail because really there’s no real reason.

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This bookcase without shelves by Tokyo designer Chicako Ibaraki is now in production with Italian brand Casamania.

Ibaraki presented the Weave Bookcase prototype with young designers’ showcase Designersblock during the London Design Festival 2010 (see our earlier story) and exhibited the new version for Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last month.

The free-standing structure is made of flat stainless-steel bars that intersect and overlap at right angles, coated in textured rubber to give the books some grip.

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile took place from 17 to 22 April. See all our stories about Milan 2012 here, plus photos on Facebook and Pinterest.

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