Blog: Visual culture

19 August 2011

Noted #7

Noted #7

noted

Stolen logos, non-printed type and curing internet fears
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbedour attention this week. Windows on the…

18 August 2011

Design, music, magic

Design, music, magic

the events department

Revisiting Eye’s music design special in the run up to Vision Sound Music
Vision Sound Music, ‘the UKʼs first festival of music for visuals’, opens at London’s South…

17 August 2011

The wisdom of crowdsourcing?

The wisdom of crowdsourcing?

alexander ecob

The Huffington Post’s ‘lighthearted’ call for logos provokes designers
There have been many stories in recent years concerning the rise of ‘crowdsourced’ design(see ‘Volkssport…

15 August 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Back with a flourish #3. Of swashes and cookbooks
Typographic embellishment is the theme of this week’s Type Tuesday, as we continue to examine…

15 August 2011

Make, do, mend

Make, do, mend

john ridpath

The revolutionary power of new micro-manufacturing technologies
Last Wednesday’s Future Human event explored the recent expansion of one-off manufacturing and rapid prototyping…

12 August 2011

Noted #6

Noted #6

noted

Giants of design and publishing, plus vision, sound and ragtime
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbed our attention this week. Laurence King…

11 August 2011

Escher meets Isotype?

Escher meets Isotype?

eye editors, john l. walters

Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna animate Brandt Brauer Frick
Writing about ‘organic techno’ trio Brandt Brauer Frick for the Guardian last week, Eye editor…

10 August 2011

Handmade hashtag

Handmade hashtag

the poster department

Impromptu bulletin board gives positive voice to riot-struck Londoners
The boarded-up window of Poundland’s Peckham branch has become an emotionally charged bulletin board for…

10 August 2011

This city’s made of light

This city’s made of light

catherine dixon

24 hours of (normal) London life, told by The Light Surgeons in São Paulo
The Light Surgeons are a London-based collective of multimedia artists set up by Christopher Thomas…

8 August 2011

Modern visions

Modern visions

the events department

Estorick exhibition to crown Edward McKnight Kauffer the ‘poster king’
While debate furiously rages as to whether the poster is still (or ever has been)…
 
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