15 August 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Back with a flourish #3. Of swashes and cookbooks
Typographic embellishment is the theme of this week’s Type Tuesday, as we continue to examine…

15 August 2011

Make, do, mend

Make, do, mend

john ridpath

The revolutionary power of new micro-manufacturing technologies
Last Wednesday’s Future Human event explored the recent expansion of one-off manufacturing and rapid prototyping…

12 August 2011

Noted #6

Noted #6

noted

Giants of design and publishing, plus vision, sound and ragtime
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbed our attention this week. Laurence King…

11 August 2011

Escher meets Isotype?

Escher meets Isotype?

eye editors, john l. walters

Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna animate Brandt Brauer Frick
Writing about ‘organic techno’ trio Brandt Brauer Frick for the Guardian last week, Eye editor…

10 August 2011

Handmade hashtag

Handmade hashtag

the poster department

Impromptu bulletin board gives positive voice to riot-struck Londoners
The boarded-up window of Poundland’s Peckham branch has become an emotionally charged bulletin board for…

10 August 2011

This city’s made of light

This city’s made of light

catherine dixon

24 hours of (normal) London life, told by The Light Surgeons in São Paulo
The Light Surgeons are a London-based collective of multimedia artists set up by Christopher Thomas…

9 August 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

alex cameron, type tuesday

Scholarly and beautiful, a 1918 book by typographer Frederic W. Goudy
Frederic W. Goudy was one of the most prolific type designers of the twentieth century…

8 August 2011

Modern visions

Modern visions

the events department

Estorick exhibition to crown Edward McKnight Kauffer the ‘poster king’
While debate furiously rages as to whether the poster is still (or ever has been)…

5 August 2011

Noted #5

Noted #5

noted

Type on camera, infographics, outdated technology and fake logos
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbed our attention this week. Top: Fictional…

3 August 2011

Moving and making

Moving and making

Exploring the photographic trends of 2011’s graduate degree shows
Photography is in the throes of a quiet revolution as the medium adapts to our current…
 
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