Blog: Visual culture

30 September 2010

Life-saving graphics?

Life-saving graphics?

steven heller

Tough, durable and informative: posters in the age of HIV / AIDS
Twenty-five years ago the HIV / AIDS virus began killing thousands and infecting hundreds of…

27 September 2010

League of gentlemen

League of gentlemen

rosie walters

The Ivy Look is a cool, coffee-table book for the hip pocket
It’s pretty much official. The 1960s are seriously cool, writes Rosie Walters. They’ve been cool…

23 September 2010

Handmade tales

Handmade tales

john ridpath

The waste cardboard of Buenos Aires is being turned into storybooks
The Cardboard Book Project was launched in London last night – a series of ‘grown-up…

21 September 2010

Streets ahead

Streets ahead

simon esterson

Vevey’s ‘Images’ festival celebrates photography in and out of the gallery
During September, the Swiss town of Vevey has been host to ‘Images’, its second festival…

20 September 2010

Music tech mags from 1930

Music tech mags from 1930

john l. walters

New-media fundamentalists, circuit diagrams and a 22.5 lb ‘portable’
A kind neighbour dropped round with two music magazines published in June 1930: Gramophone and…

15 September 2010

Sitting still

Sitting still

the events department

Helmut Palla’s twisted, surreal chairs at Vienna Design Week
1 > 10 October is Vienna Design Week. One exhibition that has caught our eye…

14 September 2010

When Harry IM-ed Sally

When Harry IM-ed Sally

camilla grey

Camilla Grey looks at modern love in the online ether
Tweeps, friends, followers, subscribers, buddies – in this socially networked world there is seemingly no…

8 September 2010

Paint the city clean

Paint the city clean

julie fairless

Officially sanctioned street art on the thoroughfares of Bangalore
Change is written on the walls of urban India – and nowhere is this more…

7 September 2010

Restless soul

Restless soul

books received

Another side of David Lynch: film director and visual artist
David Lynch may be more famous as a film director, but he originally studied art…

6 September 2010

Graphic appetiser

Graphic appetiser

john ridpath, the events department

‘We consume things visually before we consume them physically’
‘Appetite’, a forthcoming exhibition hosted by the Herb Lubalin Study Center at New York college…
 
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