Blog: Visual culture

23 December 2010

Calling cards

Calling cards

books received

How 76 graphic designers have art-directed their own identities
Logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures, websites, packaging: designers spend a lot of time creating other…

22 December 2010

Celia Frances Stothard 1949-2010

Celia Frances Stothard 1949-2010

Saying goodbye to Alan Kitching’s longtime partner in printing
Celia Stothard died on 8 December. We will miss her. Our condolences to Alan Kitching…

20 December 2010

Re-activating the LP

Re-activating the LP

the music department

Flick through virtual vinyl; Big Active tackles Mark Ronson’s iTunes album
In ‘Make music visible’, in Eye 76, the music design special issue, we spoke to…

17 December 2010

Escape from nostalgia

Escape from nostalgia

alexander ecob

Letterpress methods and the struggle between progress and pastiche
As Christmas draws closer, many of us can look forward to receiving wonderful gifts which…

16 December 2010

The big chill

The big chill

john l. walters

Ice and police on the streets inspire a new print from artist Giorgio Sadotti.
‘It’s not really a collaboration,’ says designer Fraser Muggeridge about his work with artist Giorgio…

15 December 2010

Chemical Christmas

Chemical Christmas

the science department

A periodic table of festivity from the London College of Communication
Jamie Hobson and Alison Prendiville at London College of Communication have designed this seasonal take…

14 December 2010

Avant G

Avant G

books received

For ‘readers who delight and believe in the validity of artists’ visions’
A new book due to be published by Tate Publishing next year reproduces all six…

13 December 2010

Not the high street

Not the high street

liz farrelly, the shopping department

More graphic pop-up shopping on the south coast of Britain
Pop-up shops blossom at this time of year. It is, after all, retail’s most lucrative…

9 December 2010

Lavina

Lavina

jane cheng

Alpine avalanches: adrenaline, artifice and abstraction by Yann Gross
Lavina [Avalanches], by Swiss photographer Yann Gross, falls neatly between genres: part document, part pun…

8 December 2010

Take (imaginary) cover

Take (imaginary) cover

liz farrelly

Book design fans shelter from the snow at StolenSpace’s ‘Never judge …’ show
Despite the snowy weather, London’s art and design fans came out in force last Thursday…
 
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