IdN v17n4: The 100th Issue
10 DESIGNERS / 10 CURATORS

MOTION: IdN 100th

Get down, IdN friends, it's party time!

As the World Cup footballers have demonstrated, there are almost as many ways to celebrate as there are human beings to dream them up. To mark the publication of this our 100th issue, we opted to invite a bunch of world-class studios and individual artists to create a one-minute film each, hanging them on the theme 'Celebrate the 100th issue of IdN!'. The result? A collection of 30 riveting movies tailor-made by our creative friends such as Addictive TV, Dvein, Kultnation, PostPanic, Kousuke Sugimoto, UVPHactory and many more. Just to see these pros going through their inspirational paces with such distinctive style is a rare pleasure. So have yourselves a ball — they did!

Celebrating 100 issues: The view from the top

We have asked 10 top-of-the-class creatives to answer a couple of questions Ð how do they view today's design scene, and what advice would they offer newcomers to it? Not only that, but our Top 10 have been generous enough to pick out 10 peers whose work they believe deserves greater prominence for your enjoyment. A feast of inspiration, then, for everybody in the art and design business.

Featuring:
Antoine+Manuel | Big Active | eBoy | Maurice Broomfield | Jason Brooks | Paul Budnitz | Stanley Donwood | David Dowton | Non-Format | Genevieve Gauckler | Marcus Hofko aka The Rainbowmondey | John Jay | Jeremyville | kennardphillipps | Elisabeth Kopf | Simon Oosterdijk | Tom Sachs | Stefan Segmeister | Peter Stemmer aka Peekasso | Viktor Timofeev

Creative Country: China
Coming to terms with a cultural legacy

With 5,000 years of culture behind it, and half a century of socialist censorship, where does China now stand in terms of the international design scene? We talk to some of the most distinctive voices among that country's contemporary creatives to see how the past has influenced them - and what they think the future holds.

Featuring:
Chen Man | Jennifer Wen Ma | Liu Zheng | Maleonn | Qiu Yang | Resonance Design Group | Sense Team | Super Nature | Xia Yu | Mei Shuzhi

Exhibitionism: PICK Me Up
A 'first' for the UK - but it certainly won't be the last

London has held its first-ever contemporary graphic-art fair, called Pick Me Up. The work of some 20 or so up-and coming international designers and illustrators was exhibited Ð and it was all for sale. Other attractions included a peep into paper designer Rob Ryan's transplanted studio and a screen-printing workshop.

Studio: Toykyo
Made in Belgium, inspired by Japan

No, it is not a mis-spelling, Toykyo is the name of a Belgium-based creative agency that specialises in toys and is deeply fond of all things Japanese. It now represents some of the best-known names in contemporary graphic design and illustration.

For more information: http://idnworld.com/100

IdN is hiring....
Graphic Designer

IdN Magazine is an international distributed magazine on art, design and global creative cultures. We are currently seeking for an in-house creative ninja to join our team to design & layout IdN Magazines.

Responsibility:
1/ Be part of the team that designs and layouts IdN Magazine
2/ Provide creative, execution & design support in IdN & Projects
4/ Day-to-day duties include design work, laying outs and developing design directions

Requirements:
1/ Fluency in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop is a must
2/ Commercial publication or print design experience is a bonus
3/ Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design or equivalent
4/ 2 years of acquired working wisdom preferred
5/ We are looking for someone in-house, residency in HK preferred

Qualities:
1/ Have creative opinions
2/ Adaptive to different design styles
3/ Observant in current design trends
4/ A sense and strive for quality

If you are a blackbelt in InDesign, located in HK and is interested in the post, please send portfolio to 15@idnworld.com

The magic of magazines
As one of our featured designers, Nicolas Bourquin, puts it: “It’s a hard time for magazines, but a fabulous period for editorial design.” To stave off the threat posed by digitalization, it seems that everyone in the print industry is being motivated to push the boundaries of this discipline to unprecedented heights of creativity. We talk to half a dozen experts in editorial design who are not only managing to survive but producing publications that can stand comparison with any that have come before them – about why they do it and how they see the future of “hard copy”.

Featuring:
Very Elle by Non-Format / Domus by onlab / Plastique Magazine / Is Not Magazine / Wooden Toy Quarterly / Little White Lies magazine by The Church of London Design

Surrealist approach still valid for modern motion artists
For more than a century, Surrealism has played a major part in almost all the arts, including theatre and film. But those who love to unleash their subconscious have so much more technology to play with now than when Dali and Co. had only brushes and paint to rely on. Brazilian designer and director Denis Kamioka, who works mainly out of Brazil under the pseudonym “CISMA”, and London-based Italian film-maker Enrico Lambiase love to let it all hang loose and neither of them believes in being too literal about anything.

Featuring:
Cisma Studio / Enrico Lambiase

Prada art on parade
Major fashion labels are becoming increasingly involved with ambitious art projects these days. Following Chanel’s splendid “Mobile Art” last year, and Louis Vuitton’s “A Passion For Creation”, another high-end household name has joined the creative fray. Prada invited world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, Principal of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), to build a remarkable installation for its six-month fashion-art crossover event “Prada Transformer” in Seoul, Korea. It combines the four sides of a tetrahedron – a hexagon, a cross, a rectangle and a circle — into one pavilion. If you stand there long enough, you can literally feel the ground shift beneath you!

Featuring:
Prada

Off the Wall
Most designers name music as their main inspiration and the art that holds most appeal for them outside what they do for a living. So for many, designing gig posters for their favourite bands and musicians would be a dream job. And with concert tours proliferating as album sales slump, there is plenty of work to go round for those with the requisite talent and passion. We talk to five of the best in the business and publish examples of the poster art they are proudest of.

Featuring:
Mard Pakyderms / Ghost-Town Studio / Methane Studios / Vahalla Studios / Clint Wilson

Let there be light! Part II
Lighting is becoming, in itself, an increasingly popular medium for artistic presentation. Not only is it being combined with performance art as an integral part of the show, but more and more stand-alone lighting installations are being accepted as a valid means of self-expression. In the second part of our attempt to shed more light on this exciting development, we cast the spotlight on five more international practitioners of this very 21st-century addition to the creative canon.

Featuring:
Easyweb / Universal Everything / Moment Factory / Haque / The Studio

Type Casting
Starting from this issue, we will be carrying a regular typography column in the magazine. Versch Ontwerp, a design studio from the Netherlands, kicks off this series with an unconventional attitude to fonts – believing that they should always be fun to design and experimental in nature, whatever their ultimate function.

Featuring:
Versch Ontwerp

For more information, please visit: http://idnworld.com/mags/?id=v16n5

IdN 15th Anniversary Edition
What do you love?

Contents
We love the remarkable
We love motion graphics
We love up close and personal
We love thinking big
We love challenge

Overview:
The IdN 15th Anniversary Edition: What do you love? is our biggest-ever publication to-date! A massive 452-page hardcover packaged with higher resolutions DVD-9 production! Featuring specially commissioned work from 250+ of the highly talented creators who have collaborated with us over the last decade and a half — sharing their thoughts on the past; and their visions of the future.

We love the remarkable
250+ creatives from around world pick their most remarkable work to celebrate our 15 years of creative voyaging.

We love motion graphics
If it moves, grab it! A selection of exclusive titling, shorts and animations.

We love up close and personal
Ever fancied spending a day with one of your favourite designers? Now you can via these intimate visual diaries, filmed specifically for this publication.

We love thinking big
Get a glimpse of what our creative scene might be like 15 years from now by viewing these tailor-made works by some of the world's most visionary artists.

We love challenge
How many ways can you intepret the themes Black+White, Fifteen and Universe? See what our featured artists have come up with — we think you'll be amazed.

For more information, please visit: http://idnworld.com/15

IdN v16n4: Self Promotion Issue
Hello, my name is...

Give it your best shot!
There are few professions for which self-promotion is more important then that of graphic designers, for it is on the material that they produce to sell their own services that they will be judged. And if designers can’t design a decent piece of self-promotional materials, what hope do they have of convincing a potential client that they could do a good job for them? Our biggest-ever feature, presenting the self-referential work of 25 artists and their views on how best to introduce yourself to the world.

Featuring:
Ashleign Barron / De Barbaren / Because Studio / Cmod / Dead Voltage Design / Dudley Wild / Echolab / Michael Fryers / G-Man / Ryan Hurley / Jekyll and Hyde / Kokoro and Joujou / Hello Millo / Kenn Munk / Ethan Park / Ps.2 / Red Design UK Ltd. / Helene Ryenbakken / Scale to Fit / Selfbruning / Kamikace Studio / Tangent Graphic / Turnstyle / Undoboy / Mirko Zarkovic

Special effects finally come of age?
Hollywood’s latest hit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has taken special effects to a new level of complexity and if you are underwhelmed, that is as it should be according to specialist studio Digital Domain’s Ed Ulbrich – for it means that the technical wizardry is so good that you don’t even notice it. He explains how a 155-strong team of artists enabled Brad Pitt to age backwards, from old man to baby, so convincingly.

Featuring:
Digital Domain

A heathly obsession with ornament
Is it merely a decorative accoutrement to mainstream design or a laudable artistic aim in itself? The following creators share a passion for ornamental design that impels them to make it their main focus. In this feature, they explain what it is about ornament that they find so compelling.

Featuring:
Marian Bentjes / Linn Olofsdotter / Mike Perry / ContainerPLUS / Yehrin Tong / Leonor Morais / Vault49 / By Vault49

Let there be light!
Half our lives were lived in darkness or candlelight until Thomas Edison invented the light-bulb 130 years ago. Now we can all enjoy round-the-clock activity, including extra time in which to be creative. Result? Lighting is no longer just a utilitarian boon, it can be turned into an art form in itself. See what these innovative theatre, concert and fashion-show designers, installation and holography artists, movie and motion-graphics directors and photographers have done with it.

Featuring:
Patrick Rochon / Stefan Mylleager / Robert Seidel / Jennifer Steinkamp / United Visual Artists

Chairmen of the boards
Some art is made to be framed while some, like graffiti, is destined to have a very temporary existence. So why does the ephemeral act of making a skateboard look good – by drawing or painting on it or covering it with stickers – in the sure knowledge that your creation will eventually be degraded or even destroyed make such an appeal to certain artists? The following leading exponents of the genre attempt to explain the attraction.

Featuring:
Jim Phillips / Bob Kronbauer / Andy Mueller / Dan Funderburg / Marc Nardelli / Marc McKee / Max Vogel (Raza Uno) / Kimou Meyer (Zoo York) / Craig Metzger / Curated by We Are Plus

Is Fez the future?
|Award-winning Montreal studio Polytron’s latest video game Fez may just have opened the door to tomorrow for the whole industry. Will this mixture of 2D and 3D game-play, Escher-like optical illusion and environmental design become the next hot trend in gaming?

Featuring:|
Jim Phillips / Bob Kronbauer / Andy Mueller / Dan Funderburg / Marc Nardelli / Marc McKee / Max Vogel (Raza Uno) / Kimou Meyer (Zoo York) / Craig Metzger / Curated by We Are Plus

For more information, please visit: http://idnworld.com/mags/?id=v16n4