Blog: Visual culture
28 February 2013
Objects of desire
Designers have been engaged in sex since neolithic times. Well, maybe those neolithics were not…
27 February 2013
Noted #50
Bastard chairs and other Works that Work; geometric rugs at the Design Museum; Strike!, posters, a standards manual & the first live Type Tuesday at St Bride in London
Last week we spoke to graphic artist Clayton Junior about his fair trade rug, launching…
21 February 2013
Lubbock’s brilliance
During his lifetime, the prickly, uproarious brilliance of Tom Lubbock’s writing on art was a…
19 February 2013
Walk-in book
In the V&A’s upcoming ‘Memory Palace’, twenty illustrators and designers will give graphic form to Hari Kunzru’s post-apocalyptic narrative.
The idea for the Memory Palace exhibition, which opens this summer at the V&A, came…
13 February 2013
Made by Marian
A glimpse of the 2013 Valentine’s Day card designed by Marian Bantjes.
Yes, it’s that time of year when certain graphic designers, art directors, editors and writers…
7 February 2013
Neighbourhood watch
Jean Jullien’s ‘Allo?’ opens tonight at Kemistry Gallery with a sideways look at the here and now
French graphic designer Jean Jullien opens his first solo exhibition at Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch…
21 January 2013
Noted #48
Illustration, music, life and death.
Here are a few links to exhibitions, illustrations and events that caught our attention in…
19 January 2013
The stars stare back in Scotland
The Edinburgh exhibition ‘From Death to Death’ looks at mortality, the body, dolls, guilt and other shadows of the mind.
The exhibition ‘From Death to Death and Other Small Tales’ hangs contemporary and historically significant…
15 January 2013
Ladies’ unmentionables
Shelley Gruendler is fascinated by the graphic language of feminine hygiene disposal bags
Twenty years ago, while in my second year at design school, I pilfered my first…
11 January 2013
24 hours with First Hand
Kingston University graduates teamed with established illustrators to go behind the scenes at the Old Vic and draw what they saw
First Hand is a collective of seven illustrators and designers who champion reportage drawing: using…