Blog: Graphic design

26 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Electrifying the alphabet. Wim Crouwel’s experiments in letterforms
The rapid advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s onwards – and…

21 April 2011

Documents of the marvellous

Documents of the marvellous

rick poynor

The spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections
Surrealism’s assumptions and attitudes, its embrace of individual desire and celebration of the obsessional, fantastic…

20 April 2011

Dark tools of desire

Dark tools of desire

rick poynor

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled
Surrealism is often described as the most influential of all twentieth-century art movements, writes Rick…

19 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Antique Olive
Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive (1962-66) is a perfect example of a typeface that has suffered…

15 April 2011

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

rick poynor

See Rick Poynor’s latest Critique – about Catel and Bocquet’s graphic biography of Surrealist icon Kiki de Montparnasse
I had some reservations about Kiki de Montparnasse, a new graphic biography of the artists’…

14 April 2011

Mapping it up

Mapping it up

alexander ecob

Embrace the inner cartographer of artists and graphic designers
I’ve yet to meet a designer who doesn’t harbour a fondness for maps, writes Alexander…

12 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Matthew Carter explains how he came to design his first wood type
The positive / negative aspect of type is always in a type designer’s mind, writes…

11 April 2011

Power of the ruling pen

Power of the ruling pen

eye editors

David Gentleman’s graphic poster campaign for Stop the War
Placards have always been a powerful visual medium for demonstration and protest. A team from…

8 April 2011

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

the events department

New photo exhibition explores the visual fall-out of the early nuclear age
Thursday 7 March saw the opening of a new photography space, the London arm of…

7 April 2011

Get real. Go!

Get real. Go!

steven mccarthy

Steven McCarthy wonders why US graphic designers don’t get out much
Where are the Americans? Why do international design conferences have such a low turn-out from…
 
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