Blog: Visual culture

14 February 2025

Relationships on show

Relationships on show

Jane Connory, Fanny Suhendra and Claire Fisher collaborate to flip the script on graphic design exhibitions and visually narrate the history of relationship agencies in Australia.

An installation in the National Gallery of Australia used design ephemera to explore 75 years of Relationships Australia …

15 January 2025

Pure design play

Pure design play

Two of Ken Garland’s games for Galt Toys are back in circulation. By Andrew Howard

Ken Garland started working for Galt Toys in 1961, and later conceived and designed toys and games for them.

15 August 2024

Lettering in the landscape

Lettering in the landscape

Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK
Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…

6 August 2024

The Griffin singularity

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 …

11 January 2024

Two winners, 2000 losers

Two winners, 2000 losers

Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy

Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy

9 October 2023

FEED’s big vision

FEED’s big vision

A conference in Warsaw devoted to Eastern European design launched a conversation about stories yet untold. By Gabriela Matuszyk

A September 2023 conference in Warsaw launched the first Festival Eastern European Design (FEED).

29 August 2023

Graphic design live #14

Graphic design live #14

John Warwicker in Tokyo and Kyoto; Eastern European Design in Warsaw; Hipgnosis and Christopher Wilson in London; and failed posters of environmental crisis.

With summer coming to a close, Eye presents a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting in your calendars …

17 July 2023

Nothing is real

Nothing is real

Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.

Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …

20 June 2023

The collaboration games

The collaboration games

London Design Biennale 2023 positions design as a tool for global collaboration. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The biennale theme, ‘The Global Game’, responds to the current cultural climate by referencing Buckminster Fuller’s World Game …

22 May 2023

Patriotic rubbish

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 …

 
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