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Blog: Design history

15 June 2011

Crowded house of animation

john l. walters

‘Watch Me Move’ at the Barbican shows the medium’s waking dreams

Part art show, part spectacle, part viewing library, ‘Watch Me Move’, the new Barbican Gallery…

8 June 2011

Specimaniac

joe newton

In praise of type specimens, old and new, with Veer’s Joe Newton

‘The business of ... lettering has now, under the spur of commercial competition, got altogether…

6 June 2011

Gill sans Eric

alexander ecob

Brighton show will put MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill back on the map.

One could be forgiven for not knowing that Eric Gill had a brother. MacDonald ‘Max’…

1 June 2011

The timelessness of craft

john warwicker

Karel Martens and OASE on show at the Narrows in Melbourne

As founder of Werkplaats Typografie, the two-year masters programme at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts…

24 May 2011

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Faith in asymmetry. John D. Berry on Jan Tschichold and Active Literature

What makes Jan Tschichold so interesting is not his theories but his practice. None of…

22 May 2011

World’s greatest sign?

mike kippenhan

Stockton’s Sno-White dwarfs the opposition, says Mike Kippenhan

Declaring one singular sign the ‘Greatest in the World’ is as recklessly bold as it…

17 May 2011

Political photomontage

noel douglas

Noel Douglas on Peter Kennard’s ‘At Earth’ at Raven Row – last few days

Peter Kennard’s ‘At Earth’ show at Raven Row Gallery is a sibling to his new…

12 May 2011

Look behind you

jim aulich

Graphic Design: History in the Making at St Bride Library

Conceived by Sara De Bondt and Catherine de Smet, the one-day conference ‘Graphic Design: History…

9 May 2011

A cigarette with Les Mason

clem devine

Clem Devine’s personal memories of Epicurean’s fiery art director

First of all, smoking is bad, writes Clem Devine. Does that mean drinking is bad…

4 May 2011

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