Thursday, 3:00pm
31 October 2024

Graphic design live #17

Peter Kennard in London; ISType conference in Istanbul; Stencil work with Eric Kindel; Lauren Halsey at Serpentine; and International Assembly Conference in Glasgow.

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent

To 19 January 2025

This is one of the most extensive displays of Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. The exhibition spans over three galleries within the former Whitechapel Library space, and brings together work from across the artist’s five-decade career, offering a view of his photomontage method with a lens on social and political history.

Admission is free.

See ‘Beyond words’ from Eye 80, and ‘Political photomontage’, A blog by Noel Douglas on Peter Kennard’s ‘At Earth’.

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX

Peter Kennard, Thatcher Unmasked, 1986, Photomontage – Gelatin silver prints with ink on card, A/POLITICAL collection.

LAUREN HALSEY: emajendat

To 2 March 2025

Lauren Halsey has transformed the Serpentine gallery into an immersive funk garden with a site-specific installation responding to Kensington Gardens. Through maximalist installations and stand-alone objects, Halsey archives and remixes the signs and symbols that populate her environment.

Admission is free.

Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

Free exhibition ‘Lauren Halsey: emajendat is at Serpentine South until 2 March 2025.

Coming soon

ISType 2024 Text-ure

2-3 November 2024

The theme for the 9th ISType conference is “Text-ure.” Nine designers will explore the textural qualities of typography, type design, and their graphic applications, including Astrid Stavro (see Eye 95), Eben Sorkin, Kostas Bartsokas, and Liza Enebeis (see Eye 100 and Eye 104), among others. The conference, occurring biennially in Istanbul, will address designing and using typefaces in various text environments, whether static or dynamic, across both micro and macro graphic applications.

Admission: Professional €40 Euros, Student €20 Euros

Bankalar Caddesi, No:11, Karaköy, 34420, Istanbul

The 9th ISType conference will explore the textual qualities of typography from 2-3 November 2024.

International Assembly Conference

28 November – 5 December 2024

The International Assembly Conference is an all-day design and creative event with an impressive line up of speakers including Marina Willer from Pentagram (see Eye 99), Mitch Paone from DIA (see Eye 104), Angela Kirkwood, Eric Hu, Metahaven (see Eye 71), Joseph Lebus from PORTO ROCHA, and Liza Enebeis from Studio Dumbar/DEPT® (see Eye 100 and 104).

See event site for information on ticket pricing.

Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland

The International Assembly Conference will take place from 28 November – 5 December 2024 with speakers such as Liza Enebeis, Mitch Paone and Marina Willer.

Stencil work: scenes in a history
with Eric Kindel

4 November 2024

This talk will survey scenes of stencil work spanning six centuries, discussing and illustrating the stencil’s surprisingly varied use in the production of textual and graphic documents, marks, and messages. Drawing on many years of research, the talk will explore the aesthetic, technical, social, entrepreneurial, regulatory, and linguistic dimensions of stencil work.

This is a free event taking place as a Zoom Webinar at 12:30-2:00PM EDT.

This event is part of The Herb Lubalin Lecture Series of Type@Cooper.

Read Eric Kindel’s ‘A tradition with breaks’, an article about stencil typefaces, in Eye 86.

Free stencil webinar with graphic design educator Eric Kindel on 4 November 2024.

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