Blog: Visual culture

4 July 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #3: Guardian Sans – by Schwartz and Barnes
Another extract from ‘Lust and likeability’, first published in Eye 67, in which our informal…

4 July 2011

Olympic deliverance

Olympic deliverance

alex cameron

Do posters have much to do with graphic design any more?
My initial reaction to the news that British artists – rather than graphic designers –…

29 June 2011

Wim in space

Wim in space

jessica jenkins

Crouwel at the Design Museum – a voyage of discovery into form-making
The Design Museum’s Wim Crouwel retrospective offers a voyage of discovery into form-making – the…

28 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

How lettering is made for public display: hand-cutting in stone
Andrew Haslam looks at the production of display lettering, and, in this instalment, hand-cutting in…

27 June 2011

Labyrinth of magazines

Labyrinth of magazines

john l. walters

Segovia’s Enformato brings together European design / visual culture titles.
Earlier this year, the newly refurbished Palacio Quintanar in Segovia, northern Spain, held an exhibition…

23 June 2011

(No) end of print

(No) end of print

steve fisher

Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated
In a Q&A session at the end of the recent Manchester Design Symposium, a question…

21 June 2011

I’m leavin’ it

I’m leavin’ it

alexander ecob

Nigel Ball’s photographs capture the ubiquity of branded litter
Walking the streets of Britain, it seems you hardly have to turn two corners before…

20 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Deep in the archives: Caslon Rounded Sans Serif, 1836
There are few new ideas in type design. Look back far enough, and there is…

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…

14 June 2011

Ads for good

Ads for good

lynne ciochetto

Billboard strategies in cross-cultural social service advertising campaigns
Social service and government advertising has been used in industrialised countries for most of the…
 
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