22 July 2010

Flip fantasia

Flip fantasia

the technology department

Flipboard transforms your Tweets into an impromptu trade journal
People have been getting very excited about the free iPAd app Flipboard, which turns gobbets…

20 July 2010

Blisters Blackout

Blisters Blackout

the events department

Wanted: glow in the dark screen prints for Print Club London
40 illustrators, 40 edition hand-signed prints, 40 pounds each. Entries are now being accepted for…

19 July 2010

Pimp and primp

Pimp and primp

camilla grey

What goes under (and around) your iPad (and what it says about you)
Year on year, release on release, Apple is slowly persuading the world to make the…

16 July 2010

Mirror man

Mirror man

john l. walters, the events department

Roman Cieślewicz shouts, entertains and provokes from the gallery walls
If you see just one design exhibition this summer, make it the Roman Cieślewicz retrospective…

14 July 2010

Making a difference

Making a difference

chris haughton

Designing with Fair Trade organisations in Nepal
There are two main Fair Trade certification marks, but one is much better known than…

13 July 2010

Back to front

Back to front

michael salu

Why I went to St Bride Library to make Granta’s latest cover
For me St Bride Library has long been an place of fascination and wonder, writes…

12 July 2010

Wake up Brazil!

Wake up Brazil!

flavia sanches, tyler johnson

Brazilian designers discuss the perils of following trends
GOT MERZ was an attempt to send a wake up call to Brazil, an attempt…

9 July 2010

Graphic birdwatching

Graphic birdwatching

chloë king

70 per cent of design students are female … but where do they go to?
There’s no need to hide writes Chloë King, but statistics show that’s what women designers…

9 July 2010

Bees, maths and printing

Bees, maths and printing

sally jeffery

Numbers take centre stage at Minnesota Center for Book Arts
The film about the Hamilton wood type foundry in Wisconsin reviewed on the Eye blog…

7 July 2010

Here’s looking at you

Here’s looking at you

kerry william purcell

‘Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera’ at Tate Modern until 3 Oct
There’s a moral blind spot at the heart of photography, writes Kerry William Purcell. It…