Blog: Visual culture

5 May 2011

A right royal show

A right royal show

liz farrelly

Middle England and middle managers under a steaming pile of Modern Cloth
How often do you walk round an exhibition laughing out loud, asks Liz Farrelly? Not…

4 May 2011

Alphabetical order

Alphabetical order

alexander ecob

Limited-edition book explores Peter Blake’s unpublished letterforms
Victorian publishing values go hand-in-hand with Victorian type in a special book that showcases the…

3 May 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Visions of Joanna: Mark Thomson on Eric Gill’s Essay on Typography
It took me a while to find this book, writes Mark Thomson in Eye 62…

28 April 2011

4-colour protest.

4-colour protest.

alexander ecob

Proposed print-room relocation provokes a graphic reaction at CSM
‘93 Days to go!’ proclaims the home page of Central Saint Martins College of Art…

28 April 2011

Eye ♥ freebies

Eye ♥ freebies

eye editors

A couple of extra treats for UK subscribers, free with Eye 79
Eye’s UK subscribers may have noticed a couple of extras accompanying their copy of the…

26 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Electrifying the alphabet. Wim Crouwel’s experiments in letterforms
The rapid advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s onwards – and…

23 April 2011

The printer’s tale

The printer’s tale

john ridpath

Old (and new) responses to Shakespeare by RCA printmakers
What with the Royal Wedding, the Queen’s (actual) birthday, Easter, St. George’s Day, and Mayday…

21 April 2011

Documents of the marvellous

Documents of the marvellous

rick poynor

The spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections
Surrealism’s assumptions and attitudes, its embrace of individual desire and celebration of the obsessional, fantastic…

20 April 2011

Dark tools of desire

Dark tools of desire

rick poynor

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled
Surrealism is often described as the most influential of all twentieth-century art movements, writes Rick…

18 April 2011

Exposure

Exposure

archive

Michael Light's photographs give human endeavour a new perspective
Given that Michael Light’s most famous photographic works deal with atomic bombs and rockets to…
 
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