Events

DON’T MISS

22 May > 8 September 2013

6. Estorick Casali - Hand-shaped Vase and Ashtray

Giorgio Casali: Photographer / Domus 1951 - 1983
Exhibition of one of the most influential twentieth-century Italian photographers of Italian’s greatest postwar architects and designers, and photographer for Domus magazine.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN

Above: Hand-shaped vase and ashtray, design Ico Parisi, 1966. Photographic credit: Università IUAV di Venezia – Archivio Progetti, Fondo Giorgio Casali.

25 May > 9 June 2013

> 23 May 2013

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Print Club London Group Show
Exhibition featuring prints by Matt Pringle, Jess Willson and Cassandra Yap, among others.
Print Club London Gallery, Unit 3 10-28 Millers Ave Dalston London E8 2DS

Above: Barry Leonard, Oh my days.

23 May 2013

Public Lettering Walk with Phil Baines
The walk will start at St Bride’s and head through the City to Smithfield, ending near Farringdon station. Designer, typography professor and author of Signs: lettering in the environment, Phil Baines will lead a walk around London that will explore lettering history in relation to architecture and the City.
St Bride Library, 14 Bride Ln, City of London, EC4Y 8EQ

25 May 2013

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Zine-a-thon
Part of the Cardiff International Festival of Photography.
Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE

> 25 May 2013

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Pilots: Navigating Next Models of Design Education
The Gallery will be converted into a ‘testing station for a series of experiments in design education, that seek to combine diverse web-based expertise from worldwide educational institutions – whether scientific, political, philosophical, creative, medical etc – with collaborative group activity based within the gallery.’ One day pilot projects will be held Thursdays (open to all) 25 April, 2 May, 9 May, 16 May.

Stanley Picker Gallery
Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Kingston University, Knights Park, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ

Above: Pilots (2013) Courtesy El Ultimo Grito


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ONGOING

> 25 May 2013

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Read Carefully
Influential book covers reinterpreted by artists
Kult Gallery, Emily Hill, Block C2-5, 11 Upper Wilkie Road
Singapore 228120

> 25 May 2013

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Jane Hilton: Precious
A display of Hilton’s plate photographs taken of prostitutes in Nevada, with each individual encounter becoming a bonding experience, making for an intimately beautiful exhibition.
Eleven Fine Art, 11 Eccleston Street, London, SW1W 9LX

Above: Jane Hilton, Nude Girls, Bikinis, 2010.

> 26 May 2013

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Up Over Down Under
Ian Anderson / The Designer’s Republic exhibition, workshops and one-off music event that is inline with agIdeas International Design Week 2013.
No Vacancy Gallery, 34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

> 27 May 2013

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John Croft: Icons
KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB

Above: David Bowie, John Croft.

> 27 May 2013

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Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Above: Roy Lichtenstein, Oh, Jeff I Love You Too But, 1964.

> 27 May 2013

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Man Ray Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, St.Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE

Above: Barbette, 1926 by Man Ray. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. © Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP.

> 30 May 2013

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Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg)
DNP Ginza Building, 7-2, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
Opening hours: 11:00am – 7:00pm (until 6:00pm on Saturdays)
Closed on Sundays and holidays; Admission free

> 31 May 2013

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Heretic: Spectral Nation
The Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RJ

> May 2013

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American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York 10021

Above: Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photography by Sheldan C. Collins.

> 1 June 2013

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Grand Boucle
Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PD

> 1 June 2013

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Hiroyuki Arakawa & Lisa Creagh: Flowers
Little Black Gallery, 13A Park Walk, London SW10 0A

Above: Hiroyuki Arakawa, Transparent Foundations.

> 1 June 2013

May Morris (1862-1938): a remarkable woman
Craftswoman, designer, socialist and Hammersmith resident.
The William Morris Society, 26 Upper Mall, London W6 9TA

> 2 June 2013

The VICE Illustration Show Listings

The Vice Illustration Show
Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4XS

Above: illustration by Sam Taylor.

> 9 June 2013

Pop Art Design
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Strandvej 13
3050 Humlebæk, Denmark

> 9 June 2013

13. Jasper Johns, Figure 8, 1959. The Sonnabend Collection, New York

The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenburg and Johns
Part of the Dancing Around Duchamp season.
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

Above: Jasper Johns, Figure 8, 1959. Image courtesy The Sonnabend Collection, New York. © Jasper Johns / VAGA, New York / DACS,
London 2013.

> 9 June 2013

The Posters 1983-2012 Exhibition
International Poster Triennale
CCGA Center for Contemporary Graphic Art
962-0711 Fukushima Prefecture Sukagawa Shiota Miyata 1
Japan

> 15 June 2013

Anja Margarethe Bache / Signs and the Signed: Between Representation and Presentation
Marsden Woo Project Space at the Marsden Woo Gallery
17 - 18 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DN

> 16 June 2013

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Max Kisman: Beeld Taal (Image Language)
GR-ID, Rabenhauptstraat 65, Groningen, Netherlands

> 16 June 2013

1000 Photos Amsterdam
A DIY exhibition on the theme inside / outside. Images are donated by amateur and professional photographer and are subsequently sold in benefit of the Young in Prison charity.
Melkweg Galerie, Lijnbaansgracht 234a, 1017 PH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 

> 18 June 2013

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Jason Lazarus: BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works
The exhibition includes a series of Occupy Wall Street signs (above) photograph by Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611

> 22 June 2013

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1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books

Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Above: Ehon mushi no irami (1788) © Tenri Central Library

> 23 June 2013

Michael Johnson

Jerwood Encounters: After Hours
An exhibition curated by Nick Eagleton, looking at what designers create without a client, brief or fee.
JVA at Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN

Above: by Michael Johnson.

> 25 June 2013

Playing Favourites
Part I: Light and Sound will focus upon ‘post war and contemporary work in Canada created to stimulate the senses.’
The Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street, Toronto, M5K 1B2

> 29 June 2013

Carte Blanche
Paper manipulation as expressive form
London Print Studio
425 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE

> 29 June 2013

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Patrick Richard: O2
La Compagnie Française de l'Orient et de la Chine (CFOC), 170 boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris

> 30 June 2013

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Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey
This retrospective exhibition spans graphic designer and typographer Crouwel’s career, one known for producing typographic design ‘that captured the essence of the emerging computer/space age of the early 60s.’
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU

Above: Posters of Crouwel’s work, as shown at The Design Museum, London.

> 30 June 2013

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Gorilla Retrospective
A retrospective of The Daily Gorilla which is a visual column that appeared daily on the cover of De Volkskrant from October 2006 until April 2009 and is currently published in De Groene Amsterdammer
OBA (Amsterdam Public Library), Oosterdokseiland 143  1011 Amsterdam, Netherlands

> 30 June 2013

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Outsider Art from Japan
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

Above: Daisuke Kibushi, Midori Harukani (Green as far as you can see) 2004. Photograph by Nobuo Onishi.

> 30 June 2013

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Eero Saarinen: A Reputation for Innovation
Museum of Design Atlanta, 1315 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309

> 1 July 2013

The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside
An exhibition exploring how the ‘blue planet’ photograph brought about a change of consciousness.
Haus de Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

> 2 July 2013

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Bordo Bello NYC
AIGA National Design Center Gallery, 164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets), New York, NY 10010

Above: Skateboard decks by Melanie Pruitt, Austin Lane and Harikrishnan Panicker (vertical boards, top row); Sam Spina, Roxana Zegan and Chase Courington (vertical boards, bottom row); and Gary Baseman, Shaw Nielsen, Marian Bantjes and Chris Cox (horizontal boards, top to bottom).

> 14 July 2013

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Oat Montien: Ex-Libris
Romeo and Juliet by Oat Montien (above).
Free launch event 9 May from 6pm.
The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH

> 28 July 2013

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Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer
Part of the Dancing Around Duchamp season.
The Curve Gallery, Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Above: Geoffrey Farmer, The Surgeon and the Photographer, 2009 (detail). Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery.

> 28 July 2013

> 28 July 2013

7. Rain Room Installation images © Felix Clay. Rain Room - Random International 2012. Courtesy of Barbican Art Gallery

Rain Room
The indoor downpour at the MoMA dares you to get wet in the rainstorm that pauses in the places where a human body is detected.
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York 10019

Above: Rain Room installation image by Felix Clay, 2012. Courtesy of Barbican Art Gallery.

See ‘Walk between the raindrops’ on the Eye blog.

> 4 August 2013

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Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York NY 10128

Above: If I Don’t Ask (composite), Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh.

> 5 August 2013

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ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography
An exhibition related to primarily German typography the debates within the field over the last century.
Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Klingelhöferstraße 14
D - 10785 Berlin

See ‘Tear-off type walls in Berlin’ on the Eye blog.

> 26 August 2013

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United Micro Kingdoms: A Design Fiction
An exhibition featuring new works by Dunne and Raby considering the power and potential of design.
Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
 

> 1 September 2013

Yinka Shonibare, MBE: FABRIC–ATION
An exhibition of sculpture, film, photography and painting, many of which are being shown in the UK for the first time.
Underground Gallery, Chapel, YSP Centre and open air

> 1 September 2013

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I, You, We
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street,
New York, NY 10021

Above: Nicholas Nixon, Catherine and Tom Moran, Massachusetts, 1987. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

> 2 September 2013

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EXPO 1: New York
‘An exploration of ecological challenges in the context of the economic and socio-political instability’. The festival features exhibitions, projects and interventions that touch on themes of ‘dark opitimism’, sci-fi (Adrián Villar Rojas), climate (Olafur Eliasson’s preserved glacier fragments) and the ‘politics of contemplation’ (Ansel Adams).
Related presentations held at MoMA and the VW Dome 2.
VW Dome 2 Beach 94th Street and Shore Front Parkway
Rockaway, New York (until 30 June)
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, New York (until 28 July)
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York (until 2 September)

Above: Agnes Denes, Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, Vintage Cibachrome print, 16 x 20 inches

> 17 September 2013

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Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
An exploration of international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. covering posters, films, cartoons, sounds, tweets and texts.
PACCAR Gallery, British Library
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Above: The White-Haired Girl, Chinese film poster (1950)

> 30 September 2013

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Monuments
Curated by Mark Sladen, Monuments features five artists--such as Pablo Bronstein and Iman Issa--whose work addresses the role that monuments and memorials play in our society.
Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland

Above: A portion of Dahn Vo's We The People (detail) , 2011-13

> 27 October 2013

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Poster Art 150 – London Underground's Greatest Designs
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London, WC2E 7BB

Exhibition of 150 of the greatest Underground posters, including surrealist photographer Man Ray’s ‘Keeps London Going’ pair and late nineteenth century letter-press posters.

> 3 November 2013

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Francis Goodman: Back in Focus
Photographs by Francis Goodman will go on display to mark the centenary of his birth.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE

Above: A self-portrait of Goodman.

> 10 November 2013

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Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Ave,
Chicago, IL 60611

Above: Matthew Barney, Cremaster 2: The Drone’s Cell, 1999. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection. © 1999 Mathew Barney.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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MAY 2013

22 May 2013

Variations on a Persian Theme: maps as messages
Lecture by Francis Herbert
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

25 May > 8 September 2013

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Gaylen Gerber
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL

Above: Das Institut (Adele Röder and Kerstin Brätsch) and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012. Cake fondant, donuts, various food coloring. Photo courtesy of Gaylen Gerber and the artists.

28 May 2013

Nicer Tuesdays
It’s Nice That presents their monthly event with ten minute talks from four dynamic duos on collaboration and working practice: Eye magazine’s Simon Esterson and John Walters, animation partners and actual, real-life brothers The Layzell Bros, architectural wünderkinds Studio Weave with their sometime illustrating collaborators Nous Vous and one of Wieden + Kennedy’s youngest creative partnerships, Freddie and Hollie.
Shoreditch Studios, 37 Batemans Row, London EC2A 3HH

 

30 May 2013

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Unit Editions
The Typographic Circle host an evening with Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy.
JWT Building, 1 Knightsbridge Green, London SW1X 7NW

Read ‘Rethinking Lubalin’ by Adrian Shaughnessy in Eye 83.

Above: Herb Lubalin’s spread from Eros (Vol. 1, No. 3, Autumn 1962).

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JUNE 2013

1 June 2013

Picturing Propaganda: A Study Day
A day long event looking at the history and response to visual propaganda of the past century using examples from the British Library and British Film Institute collections.
The British Library Conference Center
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

1 June > 24 November 2013

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The Enclave
Richard Mosse’s multimedia exhibit featuring Kodak Aerochrome photography will represent Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
Fondaco Marcello, San Marco 3415 (Calle dei Garzoni), 30124 Venezia

Above: Richard Mosse, Of Lillies And Remains, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2012. Digital c-print. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

2 > 9 June 2013

Belgrade Design Week
Belgrade, Serbia.

3 June 2013

One-dimensional maps: why an old form of mapmaking deserves a revival
Information Design Association talk with Laurence Penney speaking on the best examples of one-dimensional mapmaking from the last 2,000 years and proposing one-dimensional approaches for modern, mobile devices.
Swedenborg Hall, 20 Bloomsbury Way WC1A 2TH London

3 June 2013

Responsive design workshop
An event hosted by Reasons to be Creative.
Modern Jago, Club Row, Arnold Circus, London, E2 7ES

4 June 2013

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Type Tuesday: Henrik Kubel: ‘New work, new fonts, New Transport’
Eye presents the second of four informal gatherings about design and type, with contributions from Ben Terrett of Government Digital Service and other special guests.
Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street
London EC4Y 8EE

The next Type Tuesday will be on 10 September (see below).

5 June 2013

Why Not Associates - We Never Had a Plan So Nothing Could Go Wrong
Why Not Associates’ Andy Altmann and David Ellis give a talk coinciding with their Tokyo exhibition.
DNP Ginza Building, 3F, 7-2, Ginza 7-chome 
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

5 > 29 June 2013

Why Not Associates Exhibition:
We Never Had a Plan So Nothing Could Go Wrong

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DNP Ginza Building, 7-2, Ginza 7-chome 
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

5 > 8 June 2013

5 > 9 June 2013

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DMY International Design Festival
Photograph (above) by Milos-Djuric.
Airport Berlin Tempelhof, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin

6 June 2013

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Licensing Illustration: industry insights for success
An Association of Illustrators event featuring speakers: Rob Ryan (above), Rachael Taylor and Helz Cuppleditch, among others.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London WC2R 0RN

6 > 29 June 2013

Ryan Todd
Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PD

6 > 8 June 2013

OFFF Barcelona 2013
DHUB (Disseny Hub Barcelona), Plaça de les Glories Catalanes, 37 Barcelona

7 June 2013

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Personal Views: Ellen Lupton
Final talk in series six of these talks by writers, designers and educators from the world of graphic design.
Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos, Portugal

7 June 2013

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After the Jump
A symposium discussing how technology affects human behaviour, and how that in turn affects design and typography. Presented by the Type Directors Club and Sullivan.
Cooper Union Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

8 June 2013

European Design Awards ceremony
Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Kralja Milana 50), Belgrade, Serbia

See ‘Deadline EDA’ on the Eye blog.

10 June > 18 August 2013

Summer Exhibition 2013
World’s largest open submission contemporary art show showcasing emerging and established artists in all media.
Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Art, Burlington Gardens site, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET

16 > 22 June 2013

Design Ignites Change Workshop

Design Ignites Change
A weeklong summer workshop designed for creatives and startup social entrepreneurs to explore or develop a social impact project, organisation or social venture brought to you by Worldstudio and Social Innovators Collective.
Domaine de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France

18 June > 20 October 2013

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Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace
Graphic designers, typographers and illustrators transform an original fiction by Hari Kunzru into a walk-in story.
Victoria & Albert Museum, Porter Gallery, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL


Above: Stefanie Posavec, The Withering and The Wilding. ©Stefanie Posavec

19 June > 8 September 2013

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Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper)
The exhibition looks at drawing since the 1940s that critical addressed ideas of their time including gender and sexuality, war and censorship.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Above: Tom of Finland, Untitled (Two men at poster), 1963 © Tom of Finland Foundation, Incorporated.

21 June 2013

Here 2013
A conference hosted by It’s Nice That featuring speakers such as Mark Porter, rAndom International and Sarah Illenberger among others.
Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

21 June > 31 August 2013

Álvaro Martínez Alonso - Ein Land im Stillstand

Álvaro Martínez Alonso: A Country in hold up? (Ein Land im Stillstand?)
An exhibition of photography and moving image. Private view 21 June 2013, 7 p.m.
100 kubik, Mohren Str. 21, 50670 Cologne, Germany

23 June > 4 July 2013

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Legacy of Letters 2013 Tour and Workshop
A workshop and tour for those interested studying the history of the Roman alphabet in its place of origin.
Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions of Northern Italy

23 > 26 June 2013

HOW Design Conference
Moscone West, 800 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103

26 June 2013

Points of Departure
A thoughtful exploration of the anthropological concept of liminality -- from the Latin word līmen, meaning ‘a threshold’ -- a condition in which one’s sense of identity is diffused, leading not only to states of dislocation and disorientation, but also to the possibility of new perspectives.
Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

Friday 28 June 2013

Ampersand 2013
The Web Typography Conference
Brighton, United Kingdom, 9am-6pm

29 June > 13 October 2013

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Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago IL 60611

Above: Daniel Clowes, Eightball 18 (cover), 1997. Collection of Daniel Clowes. Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California.

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JULY 2013

6 July > 29 September 2013

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Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910 - 1940
The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens site, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET

An exhibition examining the intense artistic period associated with the Mexican revolution and the later government sponsored public arts projects. Featuring the work of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

8 > 20 July 2013

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Porto Design Summer School
An intensive two week practice-based course focusing on editorial design and typography.
Porto, Portugal

12 July 2013 > 5 January 2014

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Martin Parr - Souvenir
Museum of Design Zürich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich), Ausstellungsstrasse 60, CH-8005 Zurich
 

Above: Martin Parr, England. West Bay. 1996, from ‘Think of England’. 1995-2003, © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

14 July > 1 September 2013

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XXO: Alternative Voices in Game Design
Museum of Design Atlanta, 1315 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309

16 July 2013

Type Directors Club Awards Presentation and Exhibition Opening
59th annual Type Directors Club competition in communication design and typeface design. Opening night ceremony open to TDC members.
The Cooper Union Gallery
41 Cooper Square, New York, NY
 

22 > 26 July 2013, 29 July > August 2 2013

Typography Summer School
A typography programme for students and recent design graduates looking for more experience and exposure to professional designers.
The Drawing Room, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, London SE1 5TE

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AUGUST 2013

12 > 16 August 2013

Typography Summer School
The London typography programme comes to New York City for the first time.
79 Walker Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10013

16 > 18 August 2013

Weapons of Mass Creation Fest
The premiere art, design and music festival of the Midwest.
Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102, US

19 > 31 August 2013

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Open Set 2013
This two-week Dutch graphic design summer school will feature professionals such as Jan van Toorn and Max Bruinsma.
Breda, NL

21 > 25 August 2013

TypeCon2013
Conference of the Society of Typographic Aficionados
Portland, Oregon

28 August > 1 September 2013

Impact8 International Printmaking Conference
Borders & Crossings: The artist as explorer
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

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SEPTEMBER 2013

2 > 4 September 2013

Reasons to be Creative
A three-day conference featuring speakers such as Stefan Sagmeister, Eva-Lotta Lam and Hellicar Lewis, among others.
Royal Pavilion Estate (The Brighton Dome, The Corn Exchange and The Pavilion Theatre), Church Street, Brighton BN1 1EE

6 September > 3 November 2013

Gwangju Design Biennale
This year’s theme ‘Anything, Something’ from the Korean colloquial phrase ‘gusigi, masigi’ akin to whatsit, thingy or whatchamacallit. The theme ‘keys into different elements of communication beyond literal speech such as emotional and cultural prompts as well as responses. The exhibition will explore such hidden contexts and habits in our day-to-day communication that inform designers sensitive to both familiar and new environments and who strive toward creative forms of understanding and expression’.
Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall
211 Biennale 2(i)-gi, Buk-gul, Gwangju, South Korea

10 September 2013

Type Tuesday
Eye magazine presents the third of four informal gatherings about design and type.
Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EE

The next Type Tuesday will be on 10 December (see below).

15 > 17 September 2013

Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity
The 3-day programme features top international creatives and business leaders.
Suntec Singapore, International Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City, Singapore 039593

21 September > 8 December 2013

Australia
The first survey of Australian art in the UK.
Royal Academy of Arts, Main Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London W1J 0BD

See Jason Grant’s profile of Australasian artist Rosalie Gascoigne ‘Set the letters free’ from Eye 64.

24 September 2013 > 5 January 2014

Ayşe Erkmen
The Curve, The Barbican, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

26 > 27 September 2013

AGI Open
The Alliance Graphique Internationale is coming to London.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8D

Early bird tickets now available from Barbican website.

September 2013

Richard Avedon exhibition
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
456 North Camden Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

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OCTOBER 2013

2 > 4 October 2013

Ready to Inspire 2013
Sao Paulo, Brazil

3 > 28 October 2013

Rikako Nagashima Exhibition
ginza graphic gallery (ggg)
DNP Ginza Building, 7-2, Ginza 7-chome 
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

9 > 13 October 2013

ATypI 2013
Old Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Holland.

More about Association Typographique Internationale: ATypI.org

10 > 12 October 2013

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Head, Heart, Hands: AIGA Design Conference
Design thinking and strategy, design for social impact, design as craft.
Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis MN

18 > 20 October 2013

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The Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Kendel, Cumbria, Lake District

First annual comic art festival. Guests of honour include Joe Sacco, Bryan and Mary Talbott, Posy Simmonds, Jon McNaught and Jose Muñoz.

See our interview with Joe Sacco, ‘Notes on Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza’ on the Eye blog.

Above: Frames from Palestine by Joe Sacco

22 October 2013 > 9 January 2014

Pop Art Design
The exhibition includes iconic and lesser known works by such artists as Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol, plus a wealth of graphic material from posters and magazines to album sleeves.
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

24 > 25 October 2013

Integrated 2013
Sint Lucas Antwerpen, St. Lucas University College of Art and Design, Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen, Sint-Jozefstraat 35, B-2018 Antwerpen

26 October 2013 > 26 January 2014

Honoré Daumier (1808 - 1879)
The Sackler Wing of Galleries
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens site, 6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3ET

27 October 2013 > 26 January 2014

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Paul Rand: Defining Design
Museum of Design Atlanta, 1315 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309

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NOVEMBER 2013

1 > 26 November 2013

Jan Tschichold Exhibition
ginza graphic gallery (ggg)
DNP Ginza Building, 7-2, Ginza 7-chome 
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

2 November 2013

Ampersand 2013
The Web Typography Conference
New York NY 9-6pm

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DECEMBER 2013

10 December 2013

Type Tuesday
Eye magazine presents the fourth of four informal gatherings about design and type.
Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street
London EC4Y 8EE

14 > 21 December 2013

Type Camp India, 2013
Tara Publishing Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India