Events
DON’T MISS
to 12 January 2025
Japan has a long and rich tradition of graphic design. Its abundance of outstanding works and idiosyncratic designers makes this island nation as thrilling as ever. While Europe is well acquainted with the designers of the postwar period, Japan’s contemporary design scene has been largely invisible. ‘Japanese Graphic Design Today’ will focus on this generation. By featuring designers born between 1973 and 1993, the exhibition will present an overview of the work being produced today. With numerous originals and creations that have never before been shown outside of Japan, it will provide an insight into the vast array of its contemporary design practices. Curated by Alexandre Dimos (B42 / deValence) with co-curator Damian Fopp.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 968005 Zurich, Switzerland
See review in the forthcoming Eye 107.
10 January – 27 April 2025
With a Bird, explores birds as transgressors, inspiring humans in both scientific and spiritual understandings of life. This exhibition showcases projects, objects, and investigations where artists explore our relationships with birds. These works delve into how we seek to understand, emulate, and connect with birds while examining how they transcend categories such as human and non-human, science and folklore, life and death, reality and dreams, and the realms of land, water, and sky. With a bird, supports resident city birds like sparrows, black crows, blackbirds, magpies, and tits with supplementary foods and invites humans to dream, imagine, speculate, observe, converse, listen, read, feed, reminisce, and reflect. With works by: Daniel Godínez Nivón, Ignace Cami, Bryony Dunne, Ai Ozaki, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Monika Czyżyk, Manjot Kaur and Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide).
Admission is free / Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12:00-5:00pm
Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB Eindhoven
to 11 January 2025
Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue
The first solo Robert Frank exhibition at MoMA provides a new perspective on his expansive body of work by exploring six decades of his career following the 1958 publication of The Americans (see ‘Frank’s wild years’ by John L. Walters in Eye 68).
Coinciding with the centennial of Frank’s birth, the exhibition explores his restless experimentation across mediums including photography, film and books, as well as his dialogues with other artists and communities, including 200 works made over 60 years until the artist’s death in 2019.
The Edward Steichen Galleries, MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, 10019
CURRENTLY ON
to 18 January 2025
The 23 artists who joined Pulchri in 2024 will present their work in a joint exhibition. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to become acquainted with the latest members of Pulchri Studio and to admire their works of art.
Open Tuesday – Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Lange Voorhout 15, 2514 EA Den Haag
Above: Michael Bom, Ablaze II – acrylic on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm, 2024
to 19 January 2025
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. Taking over three galleries within the former Whitechapel Library space, the exhibition brings together work from across the artist’s prolific and influential five-decade career, offering an important repository of social and political history while illuminating an artistic practice that has continuously countered and protested the status quo.
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
Above photo: Peter Kennard, Thatcher Unmasked, 1986, Photomontage – Gelatin silver prints with ink on card, A/POLITICAL collection.
to 19 January 2025
MAKING A RUKUS! Black Queer Histories Through Love and Resistance
The brand-new exhibition, curated by artist, filmmaker and co-founder of rukus! Federation, Topher Campbell, explores Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans creativity, activism, community and pride through over 200 objects including archive materials, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions, celebrating the work of Black LGBTQIA+ pioneers and artists since the 1970s.
Admission: Pay what you can.
Somerset House, Terrace Rooms and Courtyard Rooms, Strand, WC2R 1LA
Photo caption:Valerie Mason-John, 1998. Photo by Michele Martinoli
to 20 January 2025
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic
Featuring photographs from African Diasporic culture, the exhibition showcases work by Black artists from Canada, United States, Great Britain, The Caribbean, and the African Continent. The exhibition celebrates the expansive sensibility of the works in the Wedge Collection, Canada’s largest privately-owned collection committed to championing Black artists, established by Dr. Kenneth Montague in 1997. Centring the familial alongside the familiar, the exhibition embraces concepts of community, identity, and power, and recognises the complex strength, beauty, vulnerability, and diversity of Black life. The exhibition features such established names as Horace Ové, James Barnor and Gordon Parks, as well as emerging talents such as Texas Isaiah and Arielle Bobb-Willis.
Admission starting from £6
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY
to 20 January 2025
AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Organised by Aperture and curated by Elliott Ramsey, this exhibition of photographs from African Diasporic culture has been selected from the Wedge Collection, and showcases work by Black artists from Canada, United States, Great Britain, The Caribbean and the African Continent.
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY
Tickets for this and two other Winter Exhibitions: Standard: £6-14. Members free.
to 20 Jan 2025
A Vocal Type exhibition created in collaboration with Civilization, showcasing typefaces created by Tré Seals, founder of Vocal Type. Through the stories of historical figures, ‘Characters: Type in Action’ reveals how typography can be wielded as a tool for both oppression and liberation, encouraging us to consider our roles in the ongoing struggle for justice.
MODA, Museum of Design, Atlanta
1315 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 7pm
to 26 January 2025
This eclectic exhibition celebrates the work of printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist and designer Edward Bawden (1903-89). The show is curated by illustrator and printmaker Chris Brown, a friend of Bawden who has invited 30 artists and makers to respond to works by Bawden in The Higgins Bedford Collection.
The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
Free of charge. Opening Hours. Tue-Sat: 11am-5pm; Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday: 2-5pm. Closed on Mondays.
See ‘Friendships and glue’ and ‘Bawden galore’ on the Eye blog.
to 26 January 2025
This new exhibition will exploring Scotland’s critical position on the frontline of the Cold War, telling the stories of the Scots at the centre of this global conflict.
Also see ‘Walking in a nuclear winter land’.
Admission is free / Open daily, 10am-5pm
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Photo caption: Polaris demonstration at Holy Loch, 3rd February 1961. © Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix, Alamy
to 26 January 2025
Binia Bill – Images and Fragments
Binia Bill (1904–1988) attended Lucia Moholy's photo class at the Itten School in Berlin after training as a concert cellist from 1930. Afterwards she worked as a freelance photographer and published her pictures in magazines. She impressively captured the artistic, architectural and typographic work of Max Bill, which she had married in 1931 and with which she worked for advertising contracts. Her portraits and still lifes are characterised by a clear visual language that is related to the aesthetics of the ‘Neues Sehen’ movement. Binia Bill’s interest in perspectives and surfaces, in playing with light and shadow, was combined with a very distinct sensitivity though, which influenced her view of objects, plants, animals and people.
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Grüzenstrasse 45, 8400 Winterthur
Photo: Binia Bill, Selbstporträt, 1930er-Jahre © jakob bill
to January 2025
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Curated by designer and author Kelly Walters, Letterform Archive’s exhibition includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills and oversized posters produced throughout Kennedy’s career.
Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. He is extremely outspoken about the impact of white supremacy and racism.
11-6pm, admission free, tickets.
Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, US
to February 2025
to 2 February 2025
80 Studios presents The Vinyl Factory — Reverb, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound. In the largest show of its kind, The Vinyl Factory brings together over 100 artists and musicians – working across mediums including visual arts, music, film and live performance.
180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London WC2R 1EA, UK
Admission £20
Open Wednesday - Friday 12pm-7pm
Saturday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
to 2 February 2025
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call
Serpentine presents the first solo exhibition of Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, introducing their vision for collaborative artmaking in the age of AI. The artists address current societal concerns with AI and platform participating choirs from across the UK.
Admission is free. See event page for opening hours.
Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
Photo Credit: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst conducting a recording session with London Contemporary Voices in London, 2024. Courtesy: Foreign Body Productions.
to 2 February 2025
Designer's Note
This exhibition examines the development of book design in Türkiye from 1970 to 2000, with a focus on selected works. It explores a period when cultural publishing gained momentum, foregrounding the graphic designer as a key player.
Admission is free.
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11.00-19.00, Sunday 11.00-18.00
Salt Beyoğlu, Asmalı Mescit, İstiklal Cd. No:136, 34430 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Türkiye
to 16 February 2025
Looks Delicious! Exploring Japan’s food replica culture
Take a mouth-watering journey through the uniquely Japanese phenomenon of shokuhin sanpuru – the unexpectedly realistic food replicas displayed in front of restaurants across Japan. Offering a rare opportunity outside Japan to see these skilfully-created models up close, this vibrant exhibition explores the history, materials, processes and future potential of the craft.
Admission is free, booking is recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London W8 5SA
Read ‘A feast for the eye’, Janet South’s review of ‘Looks Delicious!’ on the Eye blog.
to 23 February 2025
Fantastical Streets: The Theatrical Posters of Boris Bućan
The posters in this display represent a snapshot within Bućan’s (see Eye 92) expansive career, focusing on the monumental works he created for his first season with the Croatian National Theatre in Split, who hired him between 1982 and 1986. While he had previously produced a few large-format posters for other organizations or events, these images made up of six separate sheets of paper became his best-known designs, transforming exterior walls into urban canvases for his artistic explorations.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Jewel Box Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 23 February 2025
Lester Beall & A New American Identity
Lester Beall (see Eye 24 and Eye 90) was hired to advertise the Rural Electrification Administration’s work, creating three series of posters over a five-year span. Knowing that Americans were generally distrustful of overly intellectual and visually obtuse European modernism, Beall deftly translated and advanced these artistic concepts to create a new kind of American art, one that distilled the heart of various avant-garde movements with the need for clear communication and the desire to sell. This exhibition highlights the groundbreaking work Beall produced for the REA, as well as the development of his contributions to American modernism up through World War II.
This is the first time where all posters from all three REA series will be on view in a single show.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011, US
to 23 February 2025
Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes
Chronicling the many professional sports promoted by Nike, from basketball and football to tennis and golf, as well as the myriad athletes who worked with the brand, this exhibition showcases how one company paved the way for modern sports advertising.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 23 February 2025
Opening to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Barbie ‘brand’ in 2024, the exhibition will explore its story ‘through a design lens’, including fashion, architecture, furniture and vehicle design. The show includes more than 250 objects, with dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
Admission: Adult tickets from £14.38, Children from £7.19, Concession / Student from £10.77.
Under-sixes go free
Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
Top. 1959 Barbie No. 1 © Mattel, Inc.
to 23 February 2025
Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage
Presenting the work of the truly innovative American photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), the exhibition will feature a selection of her personal vintage photocollages and editorial work. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will present Turbeville's trailblazing photographic explorations, from fashion photos to her very personal work. Bringing together unique pieces, the exhibition will show Turbeville's highly personal artistic universe which has been credited with transforming fashion imagery into avant-garde art.
Admission: General £10, Concession £7. Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 23 February 2025
Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily
The Photographers’ Gallery presents a solo show of work by Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022). Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1935, Battaglia began her photographic career in the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia. Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily is the first major exhibition in the UK following her death in 2022.
Admission: £8 (£5 concession), Advance - £6.50 (£4 concession), Members go free, Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 2 March 2025
Serpentine presents the first ever UK exhibition of the LA-based artist, Lauren Halsey, who will transform the gallery into an immersive funk garden with a site-specific installation responding to Kensington Gardens. For the past decade, Lauren Halsey has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary deeply rooted in the South Central neighbourhood of Los Angeles where she and her family have lived for generations. 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
to 9 March 2025
Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London
This exhibition focuses on 1985, the year designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery opened the legendary nightclub Taboo. Displaying original garments and accessories from Leigh and more than 30 designers, including custom-made pieces from private collections, photography, film and artworks, the exhibition focuses on this outrageous, alternative arena in which the anarchic energy of the night spilled over into the experimental creativity of the day.
Tickets £12.65 (Concessions may apply), Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Read ‘Dress to express’, Janet South’s review of the show on the Eye Blog.
Above: Leigh Bowery. Photo © Derek Ridgers, c/o Unravel Productions.
to 16 March 2025
100 BEST POSTERS 23: Germany Austria Switzerland
For the 19th time the MAK presents the winning projects in the 100 BEST POSTERS 23: Germany Austria Switzerland design competition, one of the leading platforms for contemporary poster design. With their remarkable wealth of typographic approaches and their broad stylistic range, this year’s winning projects function as an exemplary optical review that sets the standard for both European and international graphic design.
Admission: € 16.50, reduced € 13.50; every Tuesday 6–9 pm: admission € 8
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, AT
to 22 March 2025
Faiseurs de troubles (Troublemakers)
For the tenth anniversary of Bel Ordinaire, Romuald Cailleteau and Adrien Mérour are taking on the role of exhibition curators and scenographers for the first time. Eight artists are participating in this unique artistic experience, based on a reversal of practices. The starting point of this collaboration is the scenography imagined by the two technicians and the ambitious and deconstructed scenography offers you a total and immersive experience: gloomy walls, undulating footbridge, accumulation of objects or hallucinatory bunker.
Exhibition open from Wednesday to Saturday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm, except 25 December and 01 January
Le Bel Ordinaire, Les Abattoirs, Allée Montesquieu, 64140 Billère, France
to 13 April 2025
Munich 1972: Sports Posters of the XXth Olympic Games
This exhibition highlights the program created for the 1972 Munich Olympics at its best, one for each event, each capturing both a moment in time and making a bid for permanence. Together, they demonstrate a magically calibrated balance of consistency and surprise, control and power, precision and exuberance: no less than the athletes they celebrate.
Curated by graphic designer Michael Bierut (see Eye 24 and Eye 100), who graduated from the University of Cincinnati and worked for ten years with Massimo Vignelli (see Eye 83 and the Eye blog) before joining the New York office of the design consultancy Pentagram in 1990.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 13 April 2025
Leaving the Smoke Behind: Enjoying an Awayday
The majority of the posters in this exhibition date from the Golden Age of London Passenger Transport Board posters, when many artists were commissioned to produce designs, primarily for London Underground (see the Eye blog and Eye 16) and its various connecting networks of tram and bus lines. In this post-World War I era, the overarching concept behind the poster campaigns was to encourage off-peak travel across the wider network through eye-catching, attractive designs, thus driving up revenues for under-utilised lines.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 21 April 2025
Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers. Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. This major exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Open from October just in time for Halloween, this will be the final stop in a decade-long global tour for this exhibition, and it will be its only ever showing in the UK.
See ‘Books received #24’ for Ian Nathan’s book about the fantasy film director’s career and work.
Admission: Adult tickets from £19.69, Children from £9.85, Concession / Student from £14.77.
Under-sixes go free.
Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
to 27 April 2025
Digital Witness: Algorithmic Spaces for Typography and Language
The commercialisation and distribution of personal computers and software beginning in the 1970s, paved the way for the significant advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence the world is currently experiencing. These algorithmic technologies have rapidly transformed the possibilities of typography, visual communication, and culture, both aesthetically and systematically. The exhibition explores how collaborating with computers through algorithmic thinking and computational processes are influencing typography and language. The work featured in the exhibition highlights how creativity has evolved into a dialogue between humans and machines. It features the work of Vera Van de Seyp (see the Eye blog), Martín Azambuja, Andrea Trabucco-Campos, Allison Parrish, Michael Schmitz, and Anne-Dauphine Borione (aka Daytona Mess).
Admission is free. Open daily 8:00am–10:00pm.
HMCT Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus, 950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105
to 5 May 2025
Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades
M+ presents a two-person exhibition of the photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) (see the Eye blog). Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history. Presented as part of the Pao-Watari Exhibition Series, Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades features works from major early series by Morimura and Sherman. The exhibition traces the genesis of their practices, which reimagine iconic imagery from art history, cinema, and media culture.
Admission: Standard HKD 120, Concessions HKD 60
Hours: Tuesdays to Thursdays and weekends 10:00am-6:00pm, Fridays 10:00am-10:00pm, closed Mondays.
M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
to 5 May 2025
The 80s: Photographing Britain
Explore powerful photography in a decade of social and political change
Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
£20 / Free for Members
to 26 May 2025
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious
The first major exhibition devoted to visionary artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951). Known as the wife of Eric Ravilious and the author of Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. This retrospective marks the first time the full extent her output has been shown, including more than 80 of Garwood’s works plus eleven watercolours by Ravilious that draw out the thematic similarities, shared interests, and distinct artistic personalities of this remarkable couple. Curated by James Russell.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, London SE21 7AD
Opening Hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm; Closed Mon except Bank Holidays.
See also ‘The crew with no name’ in Eye 95.
28 November 2024 — 1 June 2025
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
This exhibition will celebrate the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works. Electric Dreams will offer visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action - from psychedelic environments created in the 1950s and 60s, to early machine-made art from the 70s and 80s, which has paved the way for today’s experiments with AI. Bringing together an international network of artists who used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and early 1990s, the exhibition will show how these groundbreaking figures imagined a visual language for the future.
Admission: General £22, concessions available
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
JANUARY 2025
15 January – 11 May 2025
Breaking Lines
Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry / Dom Sylvester Houédard and Concrete Poetry in Post-war Britain
The Estorick Collection starts 2025 by exploring the revolutionary world of experimental poetry. Although perhaps better known today for its contribution to the visual arts, Italian Futurism was in fact founded and led by a poet – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (see the Eye blog) – and the many writers who gravitated toward the movement would go on to produce a body of work that was as vast and as groundbreaking as that of its painters. The first part of this display charts the distinct phases through which Futurist poetry passed, with a particular focus on those forms of experimentation that reflected the movement’s desire to ‘redouble the expressive force of words’ by emphasising and exploiting the visual and/or sonic dimensions of language. This contextualising display complements an exhibition focusing on the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard (see Eye 20), widely recognised as one of the masters of concrete poetry. A Benedictine monk and noted theologian, Houédard wrote extensively on new approaches to creativity, spirituality and philosophy, and collaborated with figures such as Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and John Cage.
Admission: Adult £7.50, Concessions £5.50, National Art Pass £3.75, Full-time student tickets are free.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN
16 January – 15 February 2025
The exhibition will showcase over a hundred architectural pencil drawings of London pubs by Lydia Wood. With a focus on memory and nostalgia, recollecting the stories Wood has absorbed on sketching days over the past three years; alongside her own connection to pubs. In 2021, the South East London artist declared she would draw every pub in London, all 3000+ of them. Now about 10% of the way through Lydia travels across the city to draw their exterior architecture from life; meeting landlords, landladies, locals and pub cats along the way.
Admission is free. Open Saturdays, 10am - 4pm
Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham Lane, London SE9 4RW
17 January — 8 March 2025
An exhibition featuring a powerful collection of international women’s rights and advocacy posters that highlight the ongoing struggle for gender equality. Created by artists and designers of all genders, the posters on display appeal to the collective responsibility to protect human rights, challenge gender stereotypes, and advance women’s rights. With widely varying stylistic and media approaches, these posters balance uniquely different artistic perspectives with a universal message. Also showcased are impactful poster designs by MIAD students, who have embraced the theme of women’s rights and gender equality with their distinctive interpretations and innovative creative approaches, offering fresh perspectives that complement the global dialogue.
Curated by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Location: Brooks Stevens Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI
23 January 2025
If you love fonts and type design, this is the place for you! Whether you want to nerd out about kerning or chat about non-design topics, join us to connect with font friends and meet new ones! We'll have some cool pieces from our collection on view just for you! There will be no presentations, but space for short announcements, such as news and launches in the community, birthday toasts, or anything else that might interest others. The entry fee helps cover the cost of drinks and snacks, but if money is tight for you, don’t worry about it—nobody will be turned away at the door.
Admission is $10 / Onsite at Letterform Archive – 6:00pm–7:30pm PT
Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
29 January – 26 February 2025
Principles of Data Graphics
with RJ Andrews
Data graphics are magical. They help us discover and discuss otherwise invisible phenomena. Within five sessions, participants will dissect the elements that make charts and maps spectacular. Each session will focus on a specific aspect of information design, ranging from choosing effective visual metaphors to visualizing uncertainty to the subtle art of color-encoding. Throughout critiquing and making, the emphasis will be on the hard human decisions necessary to create effective data graphics.
5 online sessions / 5:00–8:00pm EST
Fee: $675
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
30 January 2025
DEMO 2025 cities edition will show the world’s best motion design on outdoor screens in the public space. The full motion programme will be shown in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Eindhoven and Utrecht. A special selection will also be shown on XL and spectacular screens in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cardiff, Leeds, Madrid, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Featuring more than 560 motion works at various locations, artists such as Mucho (see Eye 89), Dirk Koy (see Eye 104), Studio Dumbar (see Eye 100), Memory Object, Aditi Srivastava, and many others.
See here for the full programme.
30 January – 21 April 2025
Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land
The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. Sasmita’s practice often engages with the Indonesian Kamasan painting technique. Dating from the fifteenth century, and traditionally practiced exclusively by men, Kamasan was used to narrate Hindu epics. Reclaiming this masculine practice, Sasmita is interested in dismantling misconceptions of Balinese culture and confronting its violent colonial past. Challenging gender hierarchies and reinventing mythologies, her protagonists are powerful women who populate a post-patriarchal world.
Admission is free.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
FEBRUARY 2025
4 February – 15 April 2025
Advanced Type Design: Open Studio
with Petr van Blokland
The modern practice of type design requires a lot more than drawing nice consistent outlines or the development of creating new ideas. Understanding the technology and acquiring the experience how to finish lengthy projects within a given amount of time, are an integral part of the design/production process as well. This course addresses all the necessary aspects that are type designers need to shape their practice. Even in projects where the designers work in a team with a well defined separation between disciplines, it still is extremely valuable to be able to communicate beyond these boundaries.
10 online sessions / 5:30–8:00pm EST
Fee: $975
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
4 February – 1 April 2025
Script Lettering Stylebook
with Ken Barber
Script letters come in all forms and flavours, giving them an unparalleled versatility that’s indispensable to lettering artists. Yet, the dizzying array of script styles can be confusing, and their curvy shapes can make them challenging to draw. This comprehensive 8-week course distills the broad spectrum of script into an accessible stylebook of essential varieties that novices and experienced letterers can use to craft well-made attention-getting cursive lettering with confidence and flair.
8 online sessions / 6:00–9:30pm EST
Fee: $535
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
6 February – 10 April 2025
Principles of Typeface Design: Sketch to Vector
with Zrinka Buljubašić
For designers and type enthusiasts keen to delve into typeface creation, this course will enhance your understanding of letterforms, typefaces, and the significance of hands-on work. Learn to transform ideas into sketches, evaluate iterations, and transition from analog to digital, creating new type systems along the way. Depending on your experience and your time commitment, students can develop a whole beautiful digital font with U&lc, figures, punctuation and more!
10 sessions on Zoom / 6:30–9:30pm EST
Fee: $1,170
Type@Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
7 February – 9 June 2025
The Rijksmuseum presents the first comprehensive survey of American photography in Europe. With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, American Photography will be an exploration of the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.
Admission: Adults: € 22,50, Free for 18 and under / Open daily 9:00am to 5:00pm
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 February – 9 June 2025
Carrie Mae Weems: Painting the Town
Concurrently with American Photography, Carrie Mae Weems’s 2021 series Painting the Town will be on show in the Rijksmuseum’s photography gallery. At first glance Weems’ large and powerful works resemble abstract paintings. During the Black Lives Matter protests, campaigners wrote texts on the panels that shopkeepers had used to board up their windows as a precautionary measure. The authorities then rendered the slogans illegible by covering them with large patches of paint. The unintended result of this act of censorship was a series of painterly compositions. Weems uses her work to explore what it means to be a witness to history, through themes such as racism, sexism and discrimination.
Admission: Adults: € 22,50, Free for 18 and under / Open daily 9:00am to 5:00pm
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
11 February 2024
Type Tuesday. Dafi Khüne: in person, in print
The first Type Tuesday of 2025 features Swiss printer Dafi Khühe at St Bride Foundation. Tickets: £9 (students), £12 (friends of St Bride and concessions), £14 (full price) available here.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Tel: 020 7353 3331 Email: [email protected]
MARCH 2025
7 March – 15 June 2025
Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is widely regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the 20th century. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with Leeds. He has chronicled the people and the changing fortunes of the city with warmth and familiarity for over forty years. Described as ‘a narrator of who we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’, Mitchell continues to photograph his beloved hometown today.
Admission: General £10 / £7 concession, Advance: £8.50 / £6 concession
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
18 March 2025
Cooking the Books: The past, present and future of cookbooks
The cookbook has long occupied an important cultural position in British society. As an early printed book, it was a prized heirloom treasured across generations, and in more recent times it has appeared in diverse forms to accommodate a range of eating preferences and cultural interests. The contents of a recipe book have been moulded to significant historical events, including as frugal cookbooks in wartime, and compiled to celebrate important events in the cultural calendar. Increasingly, however, with the turn to the online world, we question whether this traditional collection of recipes is in danger of being replaced by easily-available single recipe internet searches. But with sales of cookbooks continuing to rise, why do cookbooks remain such a publishing boom and does it even matter if we don’t even cook from them anymore? Join this event for a lively panel debate chaired by award winning food writer, cook and TV presenter Angela Clutton, where we will consider all of this and more - the history of the cookbook, its cultural proliferation and significance, and its future.
Admission is £35pp and tickets for the event will include drinks and three canapes, themed to the evening.
The Stationers' Company, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD
20 March – 27 July 2025
Remembering is the first solo exhibition of Arpita Singh outside India, featuring key works selected in close collaboration with the artist from her prolific career spanning more than six decades. Singh’s paintings centre on her emotional and psychological state, drawing from Bengali folk art and Indian stories, interwoven with experiences of social upheaval and global conflict.
Admission is free.
Serpentine North, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
28 March – 17 August 2025
Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style
A major exhibition celebrating our enduring love of the water over the last 100 years. Explore the full spectrum of the design of swimming — from sports performance and fashion, to architecture.
Admission ranges from £7 - £15. The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
APRIL 2025
22-26 April 2025
The ATypI 2025 conference venue is the Royal Danish Academy located by the harbour and the Refshaleøen. The Copenhagen local chair is Sofie Beier, professor at the Academy’s School of Design and head of its Centre for Visibility Design. Sofie is joined by her colleagues Anders Thulin, Head of the Institute for Visual Design, and PhD Research Fellow Matthias Horneman-Thielcke.
Tickets (from $300) on sale now.
MAY 2025
31 May 2025
Now25 is the annual conference in Paris that brings together art directors, graphic designers, type designers, all passionate about good design and quality typography. Come to Paris for the Saturday 31 May 2025 to listen a mix of inspiring speakers, such as Studio Mut (see the Eye blog), Lucas Sharp (see Eye 106), Ariane Spanier, Joachim Roncin, and others, evoking topics as broad as graphic design, web design, motion design, publishing, visual identity, communication and type design.
Admission: Early bird €120, Regular ticket €170, Late ticket €220, Student ticket €40
Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, 257 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris
JUNE 2025
6 June 2025
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Ongoing
The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association
This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.
Ongoing
A community-focused, multi-sensory installation exploring the nature of communication through the interactive deployment of sound. Curated by Alter-Projects and designed by sound artist, designer, and electronic musician, Yuri Suzuki.
Brown Hart Gardens, North Mayfair, London.
Free access
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
A series of design talks – with Matteo Bologna, Erik Brandt, Dafi Kühne, Thomas Kronbichler and Niklaus Troxler, with more to come – curated by graphic designer Fabio Mario Rizzotti. You can watch the interviews on the @designinterview10q IGTV and YouTube channel.
See ‘Sticks in the mind’ in Eye 69.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.