Blog: Illustration
5 April 2013
Pride and posters in Eritrea
The graphic landscape of this East African country reveals decades of colonisation, war and dictatorship. Plus a campaign (in Comic Sans) to promote national pride. Steven McCarthy reports.
Designers might know of Asmara, Eritrea’s capital in east Africa, as home to some impressive…
3 April 2013
Music design eye candy
Rich in reproductions and spanning a wide range of musical genres, Classic Rock Posters is…
28 March 2013
Tween zine
The Loop is a newsprint magazine that brings the news to life for children aged eight to thirteen
Children’s magazine The Loop has a deceptive strapline: ‘The magazine that thinks it’s a newspaper’…
24 March 2013
AGI Open – the ‘graphic design World Cup’?
The Alliance Graphique Internationale pulls out the stops for a two-day, student-oriented event at London’s Barbican this autumn
Last Wednesday saw a rare gathering of some of the UK’s most senior designers (David…
18 March 2013
Noted #51
Sign painters, film trailers, Nieves’ zines, Tom Gauld and Pencil to Pixel in New York
A few books, videos, zines and events that caught our eye … Spread from Sign…
4 March 2013
Node weaving
The Design Museum highlights a fair trade collaboration between Western illustrators, designers and craftspeople from Nepal
On 5 March 2013, the Design Museum shop will launch a collection of illustrated rugs…
24 February 2013
Deadline EDA
Get your skates on! Only a few days left to enter the 2013 European Design Awards
The submission deadline for the 2013 European Design Awards in Belgrade is fast approaching –…
21 February 2013
Lubbock’s brilliance
During his lifetime, the prickly, uproarious brilliance of Tom Lubbock’s writing on art was a…
19 February 2013
Walk-in book
In the V&A’s upcoming ‘Memory Palace’, twenty illustrators and designers will give graphic form to Hari Kunzru’s post-apocalyptic narrative.
The idea for the Memory Palace exhibition, which opens this summer at the V&A, came…
13 February 2013
Made by Marian
A glimpse of the 2013 Valentine’s Day card designed by Marian Bantjes.
Yes, it’s that time of year when certain graphic designers, art directors, editors and writers…