Blog: Visual culture

5 February 2012

Scarcity and silence: Amc2

Scarcity and silence: Amc2

rick poynor

Image collisions that make a bracing change from the unstoppable flow.
Our insatiable hunger for images is a peculiar thing, writes Rick Poynor in his latest…

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

1 February 2012

In the neighbourhood #2

In the neighbourhood #2

‘Working locally has allowed us to produce a personal body of work’
In Eye 81, for the article ‘In the neighbourhood’, I interviewed three designers who work…

31 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

From sci-fi to Dickens: onscreen, animated typography by Momoco
In Eye 80, Anne-Marie Conway wrote about Momoco’s way with on-screen typography (see ‘Credits where…

30 January 2012

Noted #28

Noted #28

noted

German stamps, jazz covers, the New Aesthetic, box art and #occupy
A few links to sites, images and texts that have caught our attention over the…

27 January 2012

Greece, 2022

Greece, 2022

john ridpath

Athenian designers reflect on how they might shape their country’s future
When I visited Athens in February 2010, the Greek government’s spiralling debt crisis was just…

27 January 2012

Higher ground

Higher ground

noel douglas

Occupy Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change.
We invited Noel Douglas, one of the organisers of ‘This Space Is Not For Hire’…

25 January 2012

The form of the essay

The form of the essay

alexander ecob

FLOK’s clothbound series design for publishers Notting Hill Editions
The essay is a form of writing that has largely fallen out of the public’s…

23 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

catherine dixon, type tuesday

Quirky ligatures and swash characters: serifs are the new sans
Are we living in a golden age of type? This is a time of consolidation…

23 January 2012

Noted #27

Noted #27

noted

Generative type, wartime poster app, Lucid’s pink ‘paper’ and Paula’s maps
Below are some more links and ideas that caught our attention over the past few…
 
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