Blog: Visual culture

11 October 2008

‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?’

‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?’

john l. walters, LukeHayman

New York Magazine celebrates 40 years plus with a handsome special

The 40th anniversary issue of New York has all the ingredients that non-New Yorkers expect.

8 October 2008

How Mexico went for gold

How Mexico went for gold

A glorious rerun of the 1968 Olympics identity . . . with one omission
I had no idea until a friend mentioned it, writes Daoud Sarhandi. ‘Congratulations,’ he said, ‘the…

7 October 2008

Showbiz kids

Showbiz kids

john l. walters

There are no originals in ‘Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms’
If Andy Warhol had lived to see the proliferation of cheap, flat screens that makes…

3 October 2008

Rick Poynor responds to ‘New Views 2’

Rick Poynor responds to ‘New Views 2’

rick poynor

‘It’s the end of graphic design as we know it.’ See Eye 69
Insular, egocentric, tongue-tied – and over. Yet if there is more visual communication than ever…

1 October 2008

Anxious utopianism

Anxious utopianism

david crowley

How photomontage created the architectural mirages of the 1960s
Top: Altar for the Temple of the Spirit (Sketch for the creation of an altar…

29 September 2008

Visible absence

Visible absence

eye feature extra

Leo Fitzmaurice and the black hole of shopping . . . in Deptford
British artist Leo Fitzmaurice [whose work you can see right now in Deptford High St.

24 September 2008

Revelations in style

Revelations in style

rick poynor

New Critique by Rick Poynor – now published in Eye 69
In the early days of Eye, we ran an article about the New Horizons series…

23 September 2008

How to illustrate

How to illustrate

review extra

Martin O’Neill’s collages burst out of the Guardian’s how-to-write booklets
Guardian (and Observer) readers have been getting a daily dose of Martin O’Neill’s collages in…

22 September 2008

Record design framed

Record design framed

john l. walters

Does ‘Spin’ reduce graphic design to the level of art on a wall?
The Spin exhibition is small, free, easy to find (if you’re in or near London)…

17 September 2008

Ahead of the deluge

Ahead of the deluge

simon esterson

Refreshed, reshaped and more reflective, Icon moves with the times
Icon, the London-based architecture and design title labels its October edition ‘the redesign issue’, writes…
 
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