Blog: Reviews

15 June 2011

Crowded house of animation

Crowded house of animation

john l. walters

‘Watch Me Move’ at the Barbican shows the medium’s waking dreams
Part art show, part spectacle, part viewing library, ‘Watch Me Move’, the new Barbican Gallery…

13 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #2: talking about Rayuela by Alejandro Lo Celso
Rayuela (‘Hopscotch’) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in which the reader is…

7 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability: an informal jury puts type into words: #1 Odile
Elegant, chunky, laugh-out-loud, nervy, bookish, perfumed … our informal jury puts type into words with…

27 May 2011

Brands, treacle and chaps with apps

Brands, treacle and chaps with apps

camilla grey

‘The future of design’? Wednesday’s event at Wieden + Kennedy.
Last Wednesday night Wieden + Kennedy (and new director of design Ben Terrett) hosted a…

23 May 2011

Doing and making

Doing and making

john ridpath

Creative collaboration meets rave: a weekend at Good for Nothing
The second Good For Nothing manifesto touted the event (20-22 May) as everything from ‘that…

16 May 2011

Heroes (and villains?)

Heroes (and villains?)

david thompson

A comic-book version of Colors magazine celebrates real-life activism
The 80th issue of Benetton’s multilingual quarterly Colors takes heroism as its theme, writes David…

11 May 2011

Super - computer - romantics

Super - computer - romantics

mark webster

Digital collaboration in Paris, with Matt Pyke and furry friends
Matt Pyke (a.k.a. Universal Everything) works at the forefront of digital techniques using generative code…

15 April 2011

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

rick poynor

See Rick Poynor’s latest Critique – about Catel and Bocquet’s graphic biography of Surrealist icon Kiki de Montparnasse
I had some reservations about Kiki de Montparnasse, a new graphic biography of the artists’…

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’…

28 March 2011

Magnificent seven

Magnificent seven

peter griffith

Quickfire presentations by Manchester designers at ‘Inspiration Night’
Following the inspirational presentations put on at the Manchester Design Symposium last Wednesday, approximately 15…
 
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