October 2017
2 October 2017
Paint it blacker
A new book explores the influence of the gothic on contemporary visual culture. Author Faye Dowling shines a light within the darkness
A renewed interest in the gothic has inspired some new dialogues in our contemporary visual culture, writes Faye Dowling.
26 September 2017
Type safari in Andalucía
Stephen ONeill, aka TypeChap, relishes the beauty of peeling and fractured letterforms in signs on Andalucian streets
Andalucía, the largest region in southern Spain, has severe weather. And over time, it has helped to create typography in beautiful disrepair, writes Stephen ONeill.
20 September 2017
Noted #83
Sea Prayer, Poster House, Pit, Straight No Chaser and National 2
Here are a few things – VR journalism, Poster House, new issues of Pit and Straight No Chaser and a new typeface – that caught our attention in recent weeks.
18 September 2017
Sea levellers
The 2017 Folkestone Triennial turns this seaside town into an open-air gallery for a kind of applied conceptual art … with a graphic edge
Folkestone is hosting its fourth Triennial, a two-month-long festival of contemporary art that can be appreciated in the open air of this British seaside town in Kent, writes John L. Walters.
13 September 2017
Robin Broadbent interview
In this follow-up to ‘Obsessive meditations’ in Eye 94, art director Richard Krzykak interviews photographer Robin Broadbent about his practice
Obsessive meditations
UK photographer Robin Broadbent left the UK for New York in 1999. Though he had published some personal work in the photobooks Marmalade and Minus Sixteen (both published by Browns), he had become frustrated with the still life photography he was asked to do by London art directors.
6 September 2017
Books received #28 (music and visual culture)
The design and look of music – from classical CDs and rave culture to stock (library) album covers and jazz photography
Here are some musically inclined books that came to our attention in recent months.
31 August 2017
The look of literature
The Man Booker longlist provides a snapshot of graphic design for literary fiction. By Robert Hanks
The variety of the novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist is reflected in the cover designs: it is hard to pin down any themes, writes Robert Hanks.
22 August 2017
Zines with superpowers
In the shadow of Grenfell, local children make pages for a magazine workshop. By Oswin Tickler
The devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in West London in June 2017 is still having a profound effect on the local community, writes Oswin Tickler.
9 August 2017
Wallcats take Chicago
The future of sign painting is female, declares Meredith Kasabian, co-curator of a new show featuring under-represented women sign painters
On Friday 8 September 2017 the work of more than 60 women sign painters from nine countries will descend upon Chicago in the world’s first exhibition of hand-painted signs made exclusively by women, writes co-curator Meredith Kasabian.
30 July 2017
Letterheads in Oslo
A report from the informal annual gathering of signwriters, pinstripers, calligraphers and other lettering experts. By Helen Ingham
Last month the ‘Letterheads’ met for their annual meeting, which this year took place in Oslo, Norway, writes Helen Ingham.