Blog: Visual culture

15 February 2011

Stendhal moments

Stendhal moments

john ridpath, the events department

Overwhelming beauty in scientific research – at Boijmans in Rotterdam
An astonishing collection of images of great beauty from the natural sciences went on show…

14 February 2011

Billion-dollar brainteaser

Billion-dollar brainteaser

gill ross

Gill Ross on David McCandless’s ‘beautiful’ Billion-Dollar-O-Gram
Great moments in information design (continued). We have so much access to information now, writes…

9 February 2011

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

the picture department

‘Manhattan in Moscow’ and ‘Contradictions’ at the Marsden Woo
Phil Sayer’s photographs of Soviet architecture (below) go on show alongside the uncomprimisingly minimalist metal…

7 February 2011

Opening shots

Opening shots

archive, joel karamath, the movie department

Two classic movie title sequences from Saul Bass and Maurice Binder
The latest Eye Critique deals with the hallucinatory title sequence to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the…

4 February 2011

Check me out

Check me out

camilla grey

Social media has turned personality into a carefully curated ‘brand’
I recently wrote a post* about living in the era of the over-share, writes Camilla…

3 February 2011

And more again

And more again

eye editors

Information design and graphics in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue
It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world…

1 February 2011

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

Dying darkrooms, ascending apps

alexander ecob

London photography exhibitions go from the sublime to the ridiculous
Despite the excitement of our digital futures, and the wealth of possibilities new technologies present…

31 January 2011

In with the old, in with the new

In with the old, in with the new

eva-lotta lamm, gerry leonidas

Thoughts (and sketchnotes) on the Design of Understanding conference
St Bride Library has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years, writes Gerry…

28 January 2011

Enter at your peril

Enter at your peril

Gaspar Noe’s stroboscopic titles express the dark vision of his new film
The titles of Enter the Void cascade at the viewer in a blizzard of typographic…

27 January 2011

Going overground

Going overground

lulu pinney

Lulu Pinney on GlobalVision’s friendly tube map for the Piccadilly line
Great moments in information design (continued). Compared with most other London Tube lines the Piccadilly…
 
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