Blog: Visual culture

15 April 2011

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

In graphic detail – Critique on Kiki

rick poynor

See Rick Poynor’s latest Critique – about Catel and Bocquet’s graphic biography of Surrealist icon Kiki de Montparnasse
I had some reservations about Kiki de Montparnasse, a new graphic biography of the artists’…

14 April 2011

Mapping it up

Mapping it up

alexander ecob

Embrace the inner cartographer of artists and graphic designers
I’ve yet to meet a designer who doesn’t harbour a fondness for maps, writes Alexander…

13 April 2011

Out of space

Out of space

john ridpath, the events department

Charting the pervasive visual language of science fiction
A forthcoming exhibition about science fiction at the British Library will be full of amazing…

12 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Matthew Carter explains how he came to design his first wood type
The positive / negative aspect of type is always in a type designer’s mind, writes…

11 April 2011

Power of the ruling pen

Power of the ruling pen

eye editors

David Gentleman’s graphic poster campaign for Stop the War
Placards have always been a powerful visual medium for demonstration and protest. A team from…

8 April 2011

Above the clouds

Above the clouds

the events department

New photo exhibition explores the visual fall-out of the early nuclear age
Thursday 7 March saw the opening of a new photography space, the London arm of…

7 April 2011

Get real. Go!

Get real. Go!

steven mccarthy

Steven McCarthy wonders why US graphic designers don’t get out much
Where are the Americans? Why do international design conferences have such a low turn-out from…

6 April 2011

Surface to space

Surface to space

archive, marian bantjes

Maths, computers and the internet bring new life to the art of origami
Most of us are familiar with the art of paper folding, perhaps as an amusing…

5 April 2011

Back in the USSR

Back in the USSR

john ridpath, the events department

Remarkable film posters from Lithuania’s Soviet years
Under Soviet rule, Lithuanian film poster designers had to get their work past the cultural…

4 April 2011

Exquisite discourse

Exquisite discourse

hamish thompson

Poet meets graphic artist meets type designer, and the consequence is …
A graphic artist and a typeface designer, working blind to each other, design two-word typographic…
 
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