Blog: Music design
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. Spread…
16 June 2017
Brief encounters and the pleasures of ambiguity
Design, illustration, animation and anecdotes at Here London 2017
Here London, It’s Nice That’s annual conference, has become an established fixture on the design…
17 November 2016
Survival guide
At Firstsite in Essex, Gee Vaucher’s ‘Introspective’ covers a long career spent tackling political and social issues that are more urgent than ever.By Nigel Ball
When I was a teenage punk in the early 1980s it would have seemed inconceivable…
10 October 2016
Books received #23
When War is Over, Drawn in Stereo, George McGovern & The Democratic Insurgents, The Big Adventure of a Little Line and Money
Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … each reviewed…
4 October 2016
Giancarlo Ilipriandi (1925-2016)
fedrigoni, milan
A recent interview with the distinguished and prolific Milan designer, who died on 15 September 2016 at the age of 91.
In the summer of 2015, Giancarlo Iliprandi came to London for the Fedrigoni-initiated exhibition Made…
26 September 2016
In and out of your head
‘Björk Digital’ frames the singer’s music in an intimate, uncanny experience
‘Björk Digital’ is a remarkable and intimate way to experience a collection of songs, writes…
7 September 2016
Noted #77
Beer cans, Dutch Alphabets, the Global Synthesizer Project, An Anthology of Decorated Papers and Chanced Arm no. 2
Here are a few things – beer cans, books, a sound installation and a magazine…
11 August 2016
Encore for Curtain Call
Ron Arad’s Roundhouse installation is an immersive 360-degree cinema for artists’ films
Ron Arad’s Curtain Call is part art installation, part immersive cinema, writes Janet South. The…
29 April 2016
Offset 2016: day three
Studio Dumbar, Niall McInnery, Andy Ristaino, Úna Burke, McBess, Stephen Averill and Shaughn McGrath … and Seb Lester. Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar conclude their coverage of the Dublin Offset conference
By the Sunday morning at Offset 2016, more coffee is required, with several extra shots…
10 September 2015
Eroticism with existential overtones
In the former Yugoslavia, record covers briefly delivered a ‘disco message’ of inclusion, emancipation and hedonism. By Zeljko Luketic
Will there be a disco ball? Or at least roller-skates? Those were the two most…