Blog: New media

17 February 2011

Words, windows, chaos

Words, windows, chaos

john ridpath, the technology department

Tim De Cort’s ongoing typographic experiments in code
The sheer scale of last year’s V&A show Decode: Digital Design Sensations, served to illustrate…

7 February 2011

Opening shots

Opening shots

archive, joel karamath, the movie department

Two classic movie title sequences from Saul Bass and Maurice Binder
The latest Eye Critique deals with the hallucinatory title sequence to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the…

4 February 2011

Check me out

Check me out

camilla grey

Social media has turned personality into a carefully curated ‘brand’
I recently wrote a post* about living in the era of the over-share, writes Camilla…

1 February 2011

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

alexander ecob

London photography exhibitions go from the sublime to the ridiculous
Despite the excitement of our digital futures, and the wealth of possibilities new technologies present…

28 January 2011

Enter at your peril

Enter at your peril

Gaspar Noe’s stroboscopic titles express the dark vision of his new film
The titles of Enter the Void cascade at the viewer in a blizzard of typographic…

18 January 2011

Brit Insurance Design Awards

Brit Insurance Design Awards

john ridpath, the awards department

Bantjes, Shandy, Flipboard and E.Chromi make the (long) shortlist
London’s Design Museum announced the shortlist for this year’s Brit Insurance Design awards this morning…

8 January 2011

Ice sights and sounds

Ice sights and sounds

john l. walters

Instruments sculpted out of frozen water from ancient lakes
On the River Terrace by London’s Somerset House there’s a glowing ‘geodesic igloo’ (below) –…

7 December 2010

Be animated. Smile!

Be animated. Smile!

alex stevens, jo kotas

Let’s turn London Underground’s screens into a digital playground
Smile for London aims to raise the spirits of London underground commuters through a series…

19 November 2010

Interesting new Yorkshire

Interesting new Yorkshire

pamela bowman

Lego, ‘500 years of Tweeting’ and cake in Sheffield’s Cutlers’ Hall.
Interesting North 2010 took place on Saturday 13 November at the magnificent Cutlers’ Hall, writes…

16 November 2010

The app of A Humument

The app of A Humument

john l. walters, the apps department

‘The iPad is one of the oldest things in the world ... a pad or a slate.’
Tom Phillips’ A Humument is an artists’ book made by defacing (and hence deconstructing) an…
 
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