Blog: Reviews

10 May 2012

Grey matter ... in living colour

Grey matter ... in living colour

rosie walters

The Wellcome Collection slices through the beauty and terror of brains
The Wellcome Collection asks: ‘not what brains do for us, but what we have done…

27 April 2012

Clicks and sparks

Clicks and sparks

john l. walters

data.anatomy – Ryoji Ikeda’s new audiovisual installation in Berlin
Ryoji Ikeda’s work quivers somewhere between electronic music, digital art, installation and performance, writes John…

19 April 2012

Blue notebook

Blue notebook

john l. walters

David Wild’s Jazzpaths is a personal and poetic ‘photomemento’
David Wild’s Jazzpaths is labelled a ‘photomemento’. It is a carefully printed hardback collection of mid-1960s…

15 April 2012

Gumballs in Philadelphia

Gumballs in Philadelphia

joan k. smith

Joan K. Smith reviews The Happy Show’s mix of art, design and science
So I didn’t eat one of the chocolates, or chew one of the happiness-rated yellow…

11 April 2012

From sideline to centre stage

From sideline to centre stage

john d. berry

TYPO San Francisco shows the way digressions can become the main event
The level of talks at TYPO San Francisco was uniformly high, writes John D. Berry (also…

9 April 2012

Show me the money

Show me the money

Manchester Design Symposium 2012 examines the economic value of design
The 2012 Manchester Design Symposium brought together leading thinkers and practitioners to address the theme of…

4 April 2012

Graphic design by Richard Hollis

Graphic design by Richard Hollis

Mark Thomson reviews the exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London
There are few occasions when something is genuinely unmissable, writes Mark Thomson, but for designers…

2 April 2012

Technology and myth

Technology and myth

Klimowski and Schejbal give graphic life to Stanislaw Lem’s robots. Review by Robert Hanks
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) is usually considered an author of science fiction, but though his stories…

19 March 2012

Bigger, brighter, better

Bigger, brighter, better

matt edgar, pam bowman

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from Dublin conference Offset 2012
Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from the Offset 2012 conference in Dublin. Part one…

12 March 2012

Look for the purple lining

Look for the purple lining

catherine griffiths

Catherine Griffiths on another link between fashion and photography.
As a graphic designer in the late 1980s, working my career in London, I used my…
 
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