Blog: Photography
6 August 2024
The Griffin singularity
Designers John Warwicker and Alex McDowell pay tribute to the extraordinary photographer Brian Griffin (1948-2024)
Brian Griffin was a singularity; an odd fish from the Black Country, out of water and on his bike …
2 November 2023
Sleepover
The second volume of James Mollison’s book is a moving photographic tale of children’s sleeping arrangements. Review by Janet South
The second volume of Where Children Sleep features stories Mollison found while travelling on assignments
22 May 2023
Patriotic rubbish
Metaphors – even unintentional ones – can deliver a powerful critique. Nigel Ball inspects the flag-strewn waste in UK streets
The flag has become a marketing tool, soon to become litter poking out of a bin …
6 March 2023
Books received #52
Weisbeck’s experiments; working class Covid-19 diaries; Connew’s vocabulary of colonisation; Shore’s photographic craft.
We have compiled a list of intriguing titles that have piqued our interest in recent months…
5 July 2022
Graphic design live #3
Breaking the News in London; typewriters in Edinburgh; typographic protests in San Francisco; 23rd International Exhibition in Milan; Graphic Trial in Tokyo; Type Paris
Here is a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting in your graphic design calendar.
7 June 2022
Graphic design live #2
Susan Kare in Lyon; Josep Renau in Valencia; Type Tuesday; Typographics 2022 in NYC; Birmingham Design Festival; Iwan Baan and Francis Kéré in London
Here is a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting in your design calendar.
22 November 2021
Style and satire
What happened when Private Eye went to Town? Anne Braybon reveals a curious link between two very different 1960s magazines
In March 1962 Private Eye published About, a parody of About Town magazine (see Eye 96) …
2 August 2021
Saturday afternoon fever
Muddy Dance is a slender, large-format, velour-covered volume of black and white photographic prints assembled…
29 March 2021
Books received #44
Africa State of Mind; The Paper by Christoph Niemann; Modern Heraldry; and Abbatt Toys, Modern Toys for Modern Children.
Time to shine a light on some fascinating books about design and visual culture that…
4 September 2020
Artificial sunshine
Illuminated lettering signals entertainment and escapism by the sea. The fifth in Justin Burns’s series about coastal graphic design
If we take away the bright lights is there a place? The Blackpool Illuminations first…