Blog: Visual culture

26 October 2009

Flash in the pan

Flash in the pan

Do social media platforms – Twitter, blogs – make success too easy?
Recently the British public were again treated to another example of the incredible power of Twitter…

23 October 2009

‘K’ time

‘K’ time

Get knitted with Mr Edwards’ woolly miscellany
All stitched up on Mr Edwards’ latest Friday spread. More about Mr Edwards in this blog…

21 October 2009

Image loops

Image loops

lee owens, revenge is sweet

Keeping one step ahead of the stock photo police
In the Eye 69 supplement ‘Brought to Light’, John O’Reilly compared stock imagery to pop…

18 October 2009

No more bedtime stories

No more bedtime stories

Peter Greenaway’s Tulse Luper VJ Performance at the Brisbane Festival
It’s the death of ‘cinemahhh’, or at least ‘total freedom from classic cinematographic linearity’ reports…

16 October 2009

Here’s . . . ‘J’

Here’s . . . ‘J’

Mr Edwards unleashes a pack of jokers
Mr Edwards plays the fool in this Friday’s Crap Book. More about Mr Edwards in this…

15 October 2009

On your bike

On your bike

ben brookbanks

Andrew Ritchie wins UK’s longest-running design prize for the Brompton
The UK’s longest-running design prize has been awarded to Andrew Ritchie, the designer of the…

15 October 2009

Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha

rick poynor

The 'graphic designer's painter' delivers a London treat
Ed Ruscha is the designer’s painter, bar none, writes Rick Poynor. He studied graphic design…

14 October 2009

Soft sell

Soft sell

jessica jenkins

The cheerful, oversized, rounded fonts of caring, sharing Britain
In the early nineties I fled mean Thatcher’s Britain for Berlin, writes Jessica Jenkins. About…

12 October 2009

Stephen Hawking’s Universe

Stephen Hawking’s Universe

john ridpath

Jared Ficklin’s visualisation from Flash on the Beach
Audio visualisation was a hot topic at last month’s Flash on the Beach, writes John…

11 October 2009

Significant Objects

Significant Objects

nick asbury

Putting the commercial power of story-telling to the test. On eBay.
An intriguing experiment is taking place to measure the commercial power of the written word…
 
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