Blog: Posters

5 April 2011

Back in the USSR

Back in the USSR

john ridpath, the events department

Remarkable film posters from Lithuania’s Soviet years
Under Soviet rule, Lithuanian film poster designers had to get their work past the cultural…

31 March 2011

Fresh garbage

Fresh garbage

archive, homepage, medicine, science

‘Matter out of place’ and filthy reality at the Wellcome’s new show
The Wellcome Collection’s new show is all about ‘Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life’…

30 March 2011

Bravo, Charlie

Bravo, Charlie

alexander ecob

Playing with phonetic typography at the Kemistry gallery
Hot on the heels of their intriguing exhibition of Saul Bass posters, the Kemistry gallery…

29 March 2011

Posters on sticks

Posters on sticks

sally jeffery

A vast river of banner-bearing humanity with something to say
Here is a postscript to Eye’s poster debate, writes Sally Jeffery (see ‘Help! Poster initiatives…

18 March 2011

Help!

Help!

alexander ecob

Poster initiatives mean well, but what are designers raising awareness of?
Is there a need for an awareness-raising campaign for one of the worst natural disasters…

17 March 2011

Young(-ish) guns, having some fun

Young(-ish) guns, having some fun

john l. walters, the events department

The graphic art of ‘Pick Me Up’ on the banks of the Thames
Pick Me Up starts today at London’s Somerset House, the second outing for this ‘Contemporary…

10 March 2011

Entente cordiale

Entente cordiale

natalie ferris

A pre-Chaumont RCA show juxtaposes cross-Channel poster art
Posters shout, jostle, and cajole. They blister every surface from bedroom wall to tube-train, from…

16 February 2011

Punching through the din

Punching through the din

jim northover

Jim Northover and an ‘inheritance’ of Saul Bass movie posters at Kemistry
It started in the 1960s, writes Jim Northover. It was then that John Lloyd, a…

27 January 2011

Going overground

Going overground

lulu pinney

Lulu Pinney on GlobalVision’s friendly tube map for the Piccadilly line
Great moments in information design (continued). Compared with most other London Tube lines the Piccadilly…

24 January 2011

Inky fingers

Inky fingers

the type department

Letterpress workshop makes a grand day out for screen-weary workers
It may seem a little late to be blogging about the studio holiday treat, but…
 
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