Blog: Visual culture

18 May 2010

Five from the Eye Archive: Japan

Five from the Eye Archive: Japan

john ridpath, the back issue department

Cute Culture, Motomichi Nakamura, Phonetic Characters, eye tests and JPG
Here, by popular request, are links to five articles, ‘fresh from the Eye archive’ with…

5 May 2010

Diagrams of delight

Diagrams of delight

An exhibition by Seoul’s Zero Per Zero at Kemistry Gallery
Zero Per Zero’s first UK exhibition opened last week at Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch, writes Sara…

4 May 2010

Shoe’s Calligraffiti

Shoe’s Calligraffiti

jane cheng

Ancient craft meets visceral scrawl on the streets of Amsterdam
Niels Shoe Meulman, who practises ‘calligraffiti’ is one of many designers featured in ‘Make each…

30 April 2010

I’ve seen that face before

I’ve seen that face before

john l. walters

Grace Jones is immortalised in light at Chris Levine’s Vinyl Factory show
Grace Jones may be a face of the 80s, but a new exhibition in London…

28 April 2010

House of the Risograph

House of the Risograph

liz farrelly

Landfill Editions: instant art and design with repurposed technology
Meanwhile, over at the ‘Pick Me Up’ event currently rocking Somerset House, in one of…

27 April 2010

Schweizer Reize

Schweizer Reize

Swiss travel books and posters at the National Library in Bern
An exhibition of historic Swiss travel books and posters at the Swiss National Library in Bern…

25 April 2010

New Aussie anthems

New Aussie anthems

the technology department

‘And he leveraged his assets as he sat and liquidated by the billabong’
As part of a project at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brisbane…

23 April 2010

West End girls and boys

West End girls and boys

‘Pick Me Up’ puts graphic art and illustration on the London gallery map
‘The west shall shake the east awake … while ye have the night for morn …’…

22 April 2010

Mechanical brides and grooms

Mechanical brides and grooms

Read about Fritz Kahn’s surreal pedagogical vision in the latest Eye
In ‘Machine head’, his Eye 75 feature article, Rick Poynor points out the fascination and contradiction…

20 April 2010

Street art for the suburbs

Street art for the suburbs

john ridpath

Black Rat gallery’s ‘Now’s the Time’ to open with Fairey, Banksy, Swoon, etc.
Despite decades of critical and mainstream acceptance, street art still occupies an uneasy place in…
 
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