26 March 2013
Banham’s Melbourne letters
The first thing you think on flipping through Characters is: Wow, I wouldn’t mind living…
24 March 2013
AGI Open – the ‘graphic design World Cup’?
The Alliance Graphique Internationale pulls out the stops for a two-day, student-oriented event at London’s Barbican this autumn
Last Wednesday saw a rare gathering of some of the UK’s most senior designers (David…
21 March 2013
Journey to the endless archive
Future Everything launches with a downloadable collection of essays that explore the ideas behind ‘digital public space’
Future Everything, just opened in Manchester, is tackling the issue of ‘public space’ in the…
18 March 2013
Noted #51
Sign painters, film trailers, Nieves’ zines, Tom Gauld and Pencil to Pixel in New York
A few books, videos, zines and events that caught our eye … Spread from Sign…
14 March 2013
Don’t write off the poster
Visual Communication students from the Royal College of Art reveal a glimpse of their recent collaboration with the V&A museum
Earlier this month, a collaboration between the V&A and Visual Communication students from the Royal…
11 March 2013
More platforms for editorial design
Art director Mark Porter is the main speaker at ‘The magazine now arriving at platform 15’ at St Bride
The Type Tuesday event at St Bride Library in London is a chance to hear…
8 March 2013
Good works … creak
‘Goodvertising’ is one of those hard to love, cut’n’shut words that the advertising industry seems…
7 March 2013
Wanted: space for posters
In the wake of last week’s V&A symposium, two attendees make an impassioned plea for the foundation of a British poster museum.
For more than two centuries the poster has occupied public space on hoardings, building sites…
4 March 2013
Node weaving
The Design Museum highlights a fair trade collaboration between Western illustrators, designers and craftspeople from Nepal
On 5 March 2013, the Design Museum shop will launch a collection of illustrated rugs…
28 February 2013
Objects of desire
Designers have been engaged in sex since neolithic times. Well, maybe those neolithics were not…