14 May 2012

Batchelor’s mix

Batchelor’s mix

chloë king

Beauty in the streets, unrefurbished spaces and skips of Brighton
The skip outside Brighton Town Hall isn’t rubbish, writes Chloë King. A yellow fluorescent tube…

11 May 2012

Full tilt

Full tilt

john l. walters

Glass & Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach liberates the space-time continuum.
Though I missed the UK premiere* of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and…

10 May 2012

Wanda and Ken

Wanda and Ken

the picture department

Riverside pictures & mystery photos in the Garlands’ first joint show.
Tomorrow sees the opening of a new joint exhibition by painter Wanda Garland and designer…

10 May 2012

Grey matter ... in living colour

Grey matter ... in living colour

rosie walters

The Wellcome Collection slices through the beauty and terror of brains
The Wellcome Collection asks: ‘not what brains do for us, but what we have done…

8 May 2012

Type Tuesday: space exploration

Type Tuesday: space exploration

gerry leonidas, type tuesday

Some reflections upon typography & layout (and why palettes are evil)
In ‘Lost in flatlands’ in Eye 80, as part of our special ‘20 years of change’…

7 May 2012

Gonzo graphic design

Gonzo graphic design

robert newman

America’s ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget cover art direction.
‘The alternative weekly newspapers of the United States are a hotbed of creative cover design,’…

3 May 2012

Open and shut cases

Open and shut cases

mark thomson

Bracewell’s ‘The Space Between’: the essence of a book as artwork
It is not often that entire books form the material, or part of the material…

3 May 2012

Break out of the cloisters

Break out of the cloisters

jessica jenkins

Explore ‘Socialist Modernity’ at a forthcoming RCA symposium
Venture outside the world of blogs and back-slapping designer conferences, writes Jessica Jenkins. Everyday academic life…

1 May 2012

Modern games

Modern games

alex cameron

Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set design advances a ‘Bauhaus reality’ check
Form follows function. The oft-quoted, much misunderstood dictum associated with the Bauhaus finds few better expressions…

1 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

alex cameron

Tankard’s new type family Fenland questions the ‘calligraphic metaphor’
The launch party for Jeremy Tankard’s new type family Fenland, at London’s Kemistry Gallery, was packed…
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