Events
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13 October 2026
Type Tuesday North: My favourite logo
Eye’s Type Tuesday heads north for an early evening event at the David Crow Lecture Theatre, Lowry Building, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Met.
The line-up comprises: Marianne Ashton-Booth, Yas Banks, Stanley Chow, Katy Cowan, Malcolm Garrett, Jessica Lee, Craig Oldham and James Wrigley. Doors open 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Chaired by John L. Walters and Simon Esterson.
Tickets: £14. Free for Manchester Met Graphic Design students on production of a valid student ID.
9 October 2026 – 13 March 2027
ART IS NOT A CRIME. Henry Chalfant: Capturing graffiti culture, NYC, 1977–1987.
STRAAT presents this exhibition, which showcases the legacy of photographer and documentary maker Henry Chalfant (United States, 1940), whose work and personality continue to shape graffiti culture to this day. It is the first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands to approach graffiti from its own documentary core.
ART IS NOT A CRIME shows how Chalfant's lens captured graffiti culture at true scale, and helped lay the foundation for the Dutch graffiti scene.\
See Eye 72 ‘The word of the prophets‘ and Eye 49 ‘How hip-hop changed the way things look‘.
Admission: €8-€21.50
STRAAT, NDSM-Plein 11033 WC, Amsterdam
Image: Henry Chalfant, Blade.
9-10 October 2026
Eastern Design Conference
This is the seventh edition of the two-day, international, design conference held annually in Slovakia. It explores the world of design from various perspectives, emphasising the context in which it arises. Since its founding in 2018, the goal is to present the best stories, solutions and creators from Central and Eastern Europe, connect communities in this region, and reveal the importance of local context in this global craft. Speakers include Johanna Fabrin (21st Europe), Ervín Gejdoš (Pergamen), Lúčnica, Pavel Fuksa, Bartek Witański (Blank Studio) and more.
Admission: €269 +VAT
Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Gorkého 2, 040 01 Staré Mesto, Slovakia
10 October 2026 – 28 February 2027
Out of Line: Banksy and the Art of Dissent
A landmark exhibition of street art, featuring 28 original artworks by Banksy, alongside significant pieces by more than twenty leading figures from the global street art and urban contemporary art movement.
Unlike many exhibitions purporting to celebrate Banksy’s work, every single piece in Out of Line is an original artwork or an artist-certified print - what you will see is the real thing.
The majority of works in the exhibition have been generously lent by John Brandler of Brandler Galleries, Brentwood - one of the UK’s foremost dealers in street art and urban contemporary work.
Exhibiting artists include Banksy, Ben Eine, Cyclops, Peter Kennard (See Eye 80), Sarah Boris (See Eye 101), Sunny Howe and many more.
Admission: €7-€12.50
The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE
to 10 October 2026
This three-day conference looks at how designers and font makers are working, the tools they are creating and using, as well as the latest developments in AI in relation to the world of type. Font Tech aims to ‘take a hard look at what machine learning says it offers versus what it delivers … its successes and failures, and questions of the ethics of AI use and environmental impact.’ This year’s programme includes topics related to all aspects of font technology, type tools, new scripts and plugins.
Speakers include Rosalie Wagner, Gergő Kókai, Felix Bamforth, Nadine Chahine (see Eye 94), Toshi Omagari, John Hudson and more.
This conference is online. It will also be recorded.
Timings:
The program starts at 3pm UK time on October 8 and 1pm UK time on 9 and 10 October.
Admission: £45.00 - £125.00
to 10 October 2026
Weltformat Graphic Design Festival
The Weltformat Graphic Design Festival (see Eye 104) is an annual event held in Lucerne since 2009. Every year in early October, the city hosts numerous exhibitions and events focusing on national and international graphic design. The festival offers a vibrant platform for exchange, education and networking, for graphic designers, students and the interested public alike.
The theme for the 2026 festival is ‘new formats’. It considers what happens when formats are not viewed as fixed parameters, but as something that can be questioned, transformed or reimagined.
Tickets are available here.
Kornschütte, Kornmarkt 3, 6004 Lucerne, Switzerland and various locations in Lucerne
CURRENTLY ON
to 18 October 2026
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism
This exhibition on the anti-fascist Artists International Association (AIA) is the first in more than 40 years to focus on the AIA, established in 1933 to unify artists against fascism and war. It focuses on eleven artist-designers: Peggy Angus, Pearl Binder, James Boswell, James Fitton, Margaret Fitton, James Holland, Percy Horton, Peter Laszlo Peri, Betty Rea, Cliff Rowe and Nan Youngman. Their work is shown alongside works by prominent AIA exhibiting artists, including supporters such as Ithell Colquhoun, Laura Knight, Paul Nash and Lucien Pissarro.
The exhibition is based on extensive new archival and collections-based research conducted by author-curator Andy Friend and published in his book, Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism, 1933-1943 (Thames & Hudson) with a foreword by Frances Spalding.
The third collaboration between Andy Friend and Towner Eastbourne, ‘Comrades in Art’ follows ‘Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship’ (2017-2018), see John L. Walters’ review in Eye 95, and ‘John Nash: the Landscape of Love and Solace’ (2021).
Tickets £5.50 to £11.
Free for Members & Under 25s
Galleries 2 & 3, Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
Top. Edward McKnight Kauffer, Design for Cambridge Exhibition Against War and Fascism, 1935.
Below text. F. H. K. Henrion, ‘For Liberty’ poster design, 1943. FHK Henrion Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives, courtesy of the Henrion Estate.
Directly above. Cliff Rowe, Women Silkscreen Workers, mid-1950s. © Cliff Rowe Estate. Courtesy of the People's History Museum
to 18 October 2026
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai
Japanese photographer Kawada Kikuji (b.1933) has been active for eight decades. The exhibition features his 1965 photobook Chizu (The Map), which examines the scars of the postwar period, and The Last Cosmology plus more recent work.
In her first major UK show, Iwane Ai (b.1975) presents her award-winning series Kipuka, exploring the lives of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii, and work from A New River, which captures eerily lit cherry blossoms at night in Japan’s northeastern Tо̄hoku region during the Covid-19 crisis.
This exhibition – the first ever photography show at the venue – is organised in partnership with Kyotographie International Photography Festival, held every year across Kyoto.
Admission free. Booking recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
to 18 October 2026
Kho Liang Ie. Mid-century Modernist
The Stedelijk presents the first major museum retrospective of Kho Liang Ie, who with his designs for furniture and interiors played a key role in Dutch design from the 1950s to the mid-70s. Through his poetic approach and unconventional choice of materials, he infused his functionalist designs with an element of playfulness. He also cultivated a large international network and introduced fresh design talent to the Netherlands.
Admission: €12.50-€22.50
Opendaily: 10am-6 pm
No entrance after 5:45pm.
Stedelijk, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
to 21 October 2026
Alan Kitching: Living Legacy of Letterpress
A leading typographer and printmaker, as well as a living legend whose name resounds worldwide, Alan Kitching’s career started at a time when letterpress printing played the leading role in commercial printing. For over seventy years, since he was initiated into the world of letterpress as an apprentice compositor at the age of fifteen in the 1950s, Kitching has pursued letterpress printing along with the ups and downs of the industry.
His beautiful typesetting has been backed by his unquestionable knowledge and skill as a printer. He did not shirk from typographical experimentation with the ‘Broadside’ (broadsheets) printed and published during the 1980s and the 1990s, when letterpress printing no longer played a central role in the transmission of information. He explored the artistic potential of letterpress printing. His originality also bloomed freely with the typographic maps (maps made up solely of text) that he created in later years. Alan Kitching followed his own path, without being swayed by the trends and circumstances surrounding printing. He can only be described as a treasure, without peer, whose work is immediately identifiable at first glance.
This is the first full-scale exhibition of Alan Kitching’s work to be presented in Japan, covering everything from his early works to his latest projects. The walls at kyoto ddd gallery will be simply covered with all sorts of gems, from Kitching’s major works to rare creations that have laid slumbering in archives, as well as new works printed expressly for this exhibition. Visitors will be thrilled and moved by how Kitching devoted his life to letterpress printing, and by how his body of work embodies the immutable power of typography that serves as both a form of communication and a work of art.
Admission is free.
Hours & Closures
Tuesday-Friday: 11:00am-7:00pm
Saturdays, Sundays, and National Holidays: 11:00am-6:00pm
Closed: Mondays / Special closure on Tuesday 8 September
kyoto ddd gallery, 3F COCON KARASUMA, 620 Suiginya-cho, Karasuma-dori Shijo-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City 600 8411, Japan
to 24 October 2026
MCR MADE: Icons who make our city
This free exhibition features thirteen gigantic inflatable Stanley Chow portraits of Manchester heroes – from footballers to suffragettes – suspended across the shopping centre.
Manchester Arndale, Manchester, M4 3AQ
to 25 October 2026
The exhibition brings together the two series winners, Laetitia Vançon’s The Other Battlefields and Giya Makondo-Wills’ New Scramble, alongside 21 single-image winners responding to this year’s theme, On the Cusp. Together, the works explore lives and landscapes at moments of change.
Admission is free.
Opening hours: 11am-5:30pm. Closed on Mondays.
International Centre for the Image, Coopers Cross, Mayor Street Upper, North Wall, D01 E5Y8, Dublin, Ireland
Image above. Series Winner: Laetitia Vançon, The Other Battlefields.
to 29 October 2026
Opening at Osh Gallery as part of this year’s London Design Festival and running through to October, the gallery brings together Pentagram and Deus Ex Machina for an exhibition celebrating design, craftsmanship and the culture of making.
At its centre is an original 1965 Mini Cooper S race car featuring Matt Willey’s livery design for Deus, shown alongside a new collection of products developed by Deus, Willey and Pentagram industrial designer Piotr Woronkowicz.
Known for blurring the boundaries between motorcycles, surfing, art, design and contemporary culture, Deus Ex Machina has also reworked a selection of vintage garments especially for the exhibition. Each one-off piece has been upcycled and will be available to purchase exclusively at Osh Gallery during the festival.
Matt Willey (See Eye 95 and ‘Collection by Matt Willey’) has also designed a limited-edition newspaper for the exhibition, with copies available for visitors to take away.
Timings: Opening hours during LDF here / Opening hours after LDF (22 Sept-29 October) – Tues-Thurs 11am-4pm
OSH Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London, N1 8LN
to 30 October 2026
Grim Glory: Lee Miller’s Britain at War
Arriving in Britain just as war was declared, Lee Miller, an American with no permit to work, used her camera as her principle means of combat during the Second World War. Before Miller left Britain to report in Europe she covered the Blitz, civilians braving the destruction around them and their contributions to the war effort, as well as wartime fashion, camouflage and the women in the armed forces on the home front.
Farleys House & Gallery, Muddles Green, Chiddingly BN8 6HW. Open to visitors on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, 10am to 4.30pm.
Read ‘Art of war and peace’, John L. Walters’ review of the recent Tate exhibition in Eye 109 and ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107.
to 31 October 2026
Joe Sacco: Wartime
For the first time, works by Joe Sacco (see Eye 31 and 44), about the First World War and the Gaza War, will be presented side-by-side at the Galerie Martel in Brussels.
Open Tue-Sat, 14:30-19:00
Chaussée d’Ixelles 337, 1050 | Bruxelles
to 1 November 2026
Curated by Paul Gravett, ‘Queer as Comics’ traces comics, strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented ‘LGBTQIA+’ perspectives since the 1940s. The exhibition includes work by Tove Jansson, Kate Charlesworth, Rupert Kinnard and David Shenton.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to 1 Nov 2026
This large-scale retrospective to one of the leading photographers in postwar Germany features around 220 iconic photographs from a career spanning over six decades. Hans Hansen revolutionised product photography in campaigns for companies such as Lufthansa, Nikon, Volkswagen and Erco. His most recent series, ‘Analog’ (2024), highlights Hansen’s distinctive visual language.
Exhibition design: Axel Kufus. Graphic design: Heimann + Schwantes.
Open Tue to Sun, 10am to 6pm(until 9pm Thursdays).
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) Hamburg, Steintorplatz 20099 Hamburg, Germany
to 1 November 2026
Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime
During World Wars I and II, nearly every nation involved recognised that it was necessary to provide materials to maintain soldier wellbeing and morale. Because foot soldiers had to carry all of their possessions, small, portable entertainment was preferred. As such, books quickly soared in popularity. Between lulls in action or when waiting for orders far from the front lines, troops read to forget their surroundings and fears, taking a mental vacation from their hardships.
This exhibition includes book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Germany printed during both world wars. All of these nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and many posters aimed to mobilise the public to give. While some encourage escapist fiction and recreational reading, educational books were also acquired for troops to help them prepare for promotion within the Army, future jobs or civilian life. By World War II, books had also become a powerful symbol of freedom and democracy for America and its allies.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 1 November 2026
From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)
On 28 October 1918, Czechoslovakia declared its independence and became a new country formed from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia – all lands formerly part of the Austro Hungarian Empire which had been officially dissolved as a result of World War I. The period from 1918 to 1938 is referred to as the First Republic.
This exhibition explores seldom-seen travel posters from this golden age of Czechoslovakian history. They were created by artists, designers and commercial studios who understood that tourism was more than leisure – it was diplomacy. In a region long defined by the imperial borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travel posters became vehicles for soft power, enticing both domestic and foreign audiences to see the First Czechoslovak Republic as a land of opportunity, beauty and progress.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 8 November 2026
Tangible Sound: Arrival to a Higher Ground
This exhibition creates a sensory and celebratory experience of jazz art forms that connect, uplift and transform our human spirit by translating the power of music into colour and movement.
Together, photographer Lauren Deutsch, filmmaker Jonathan Woods, and the Tangible Sound Collaborative created an immersive exhibition celebrating Chicago’s creative improvised music community. The exhibition is inspired by the early experimenters whose boundary-breaking practices have influenced generations of visual and sonic artists.
Admission is free.
Open Daily, 10am-5pm, Closed Holidays
(Exhibitions close 15 minutes before the building closes)
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Image above. Lauren Deutsch, Tsukasa Taiko + Miyumi Project (Part of Tangible Sound Immersive presented at Asian Improv Arts Midwest on May 9, 2024) Digital Projection, 2024, Image credit: Lauren Deutsch
to 14 November 2026
Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books
From the Collection of Jack Gray
A spotlight exhibition on photographs and books by Henry Wessel (1942–2018), who first came to prominence in 1972 with a solo exhibition at MoMA in New York. Initially, his practice centred on exhibitions with related catalogs. Wessel later moved emphatically to making sequences of photographs explicitly intended as one work issued as portfolios and published as books with minimal further context. Curated by Grolier Club member Jack Gray from his collection, the exhibition features over 65 photographs including Wessel’s full ‘Incidents’ and ‘Traffic’ portfolios, and highlights from Wessel’s full body of work. A catalogue, published by The Grolier Club, will be available this autumn.
The Grolier Club, Second Floor Gallery, 47 East 60th Street. New York, NY 10022
Image above. Henry Wessel, Incident No 5. Gelatin silver print. No date. Copyright the Estate of Henry Wessel.
to 15 November 2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. In Aardman’s 50th anniversary year, peek behind the scenes of your favourite stop-motion animations and find out how Aardman brings clay to life. Visit Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph as many times as you like with your exhibition pass.
Admission: £11
Hours: Open daily 10am-5:45pm
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
to 6 December 2026
Fons Hickmann – Posters – Now and Then
The solo exhibition spans three decades and focuses on his internationally acclaimed poster work, created either as a solo effort or in collaboration with agencies. This work was collected by the museum early on and has recently grown into a significant collection through a substantial donation from Fons Hickmann, showcasing an individual yet contemporary design style in poster art.
Admission: €2-4
Hours: Tuesdays to Sundays, 11am-7pm
Dieselkraftwerk, Uferstraße/Am Amtsteich 15
03046 Cottbus
Top: Fons Hickmann, Now and Then, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, 2026
to 13 December 2026
Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States
Pressing Issues brings together work by artists in the United States who, through their art, produced critical commentaries on the injustices plaguing the country during the 1930s. In the midst of the Great Depression, artists in the United States were put to work through the relief efforts of the New Deal to both provide them a living wage and to bolster the spirits of the general public. Many used the opportunity to portray various scenes of everyday life in the United States through images of urban and rural landscapes, leisure activities and industrial growth while others directed their viewers’ attention to economic toil and issues of social justice. Featuring rarely displayed Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) prints from Krannert Art Museum’s collection, this exhibition addresses themes of labor unrest including exploitation, economic disparity and gender inequalities, as well as racial violence and reactions to the rise of fascism.
Chazen Museum of Art, 750-800 University Ave, Madison, Wisconsin
to 17 December 2026
The exhibition ‘Come Fly With Me: Aviation, tourism and Irish design’ examines Irish cultural history through the exploration of aviation- and tourism-related graphic design from the 1940s to the 60s.
The exhibition uses flight as a central thread to explore how design and print helped construct national identity, promote Irish modernisation and position Ireland internationally. With the arrival of a number of Dutch graphic designers to Ireland in the 1950s to work on advertising for Aer Lingus, depictions of Ireland and Irishness were forever changed, as was Ireland’s relationship to Continental Europe and the US. Their design work was recognised internationally, had a huge impact on Irish design and economic development.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday (10am-4pm), Saturday & Sunday (12noon-4pm).
A Curator’s Tour will take place on Thursday 24 September at 19.00. Tickets €6/€5 concessions.
National Print Museum, Old Garrison Chapel, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 D04 E0C9, Ireland
to 20 December 2026
Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy
This exhibition explores the pioneering work of sisters Wanda Wulz (1903-84) and Marion Wulz (1905-93), key figures in the development of avant-garde photography in twentieth-century Italy. Organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia and with the support of Calliope Arts Foundation, the show also traces the wider legacy of the Wulz family, whose photographic practice spanned generations.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art | 39a Canonbury Square | London, N1 2AN
Top. Carlo Wulz Marion and Wanda Wulz, 1927. Modern print from silver gelatin dry glass plate negative. Florence, Archivi Alinari-Archivio Carlo
Wulz.
to 4 January 2027
Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony will be the largest museum survey exhibition to date of the work of Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, MS), spanning two floors of the newly expanded New Museum. Over nearly 40 years, Jafa has sought to find new visual forms to capture the rhythm and realities of Black life in America. I Am Tony, named for the legendary jazz drummer Tony Williams, will chart Jafa’s work from his earliest films to recent video installations, mapping the evolution of his filmic language whose syncopations and textures match the aspirations of Black popular music.
See ‘Twisting the alien’, Rick Poynor‘s Photo Critique of Jafa‘s APEX.
More info here.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Image Above: Arthur Jafa, Pledge of Allegiance, 1899, 2017
to 10 January 2027
Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America
Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America is the first exhibition of its kind to unite the work of these six iconic artists, and to consider the question at the heart of the show: what shaped these objects, and who shaped America because of it?
Featuring sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), architect and furniture designer George Nakashima (1905–1990), sculptor Leo Amino (1911–1989), graphic designer S. Neil Fujita (1921–2010), fibre artist Kay Sekimachi (b. 1926), sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013).
The works they created weren’t just gallery objects. They were album covers stacked by the record player, a chair at the dinner table, a lamp lighting the corner of a living room. You might not own the originals. You’ve likely lived with their influence anyway: this is the design language that shaped how a generation furnished, decorated, and saw modern America.
Top. Leo Amino. In-Between (detail), 1962. © Leo Amino Estate. Courtesy of the estate and David Zwirner
to 31 January 2027
A major solo exhibition of New Delhi-based artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India), one of the most prominent artists working in moving image today.
Admission free. Hours: Monday 12-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
Image above: Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning, 2017 (film still). Digital video, 4K, colour, sound, 85 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
to 21 February 2027
Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France
The posters produced in France during the postwar period focused on producing bright, optimistic images that saturated the streets with cute rather than with chaos. Along with major male artists like Raymond Savignac and Hervé Morvan, many of these changes in society were chronicled indirectly in the posters produced by a new female design team known as Lefor-Openo. This exhibition showcases the breadth of Lefor-Openo’s twelve-year career, using their work a lens through which to view midcentury French society, politics, and culture.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 21 February 2027
Avant-Garde—Graphic Design on the Rise
The exhibition shows how modern graphic design crystallised into a professional discipline in its own right in the 1920s and early 1930s. Typography, photography and graphic abstraction became the visual modes of expression through which graphic designers sought to actively shape the social and political upheavals of their time.
Admission: regular CHF 15; reduced CHF 10; free for everyone every Thursday from 5pm; free under twenty years
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-5:00pm; Thursday 10:00-8:00pm; Closed on Monday
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 608005
to 21 February 2027
Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works
Mythmakers and marketing teams have long used graphic design to tell stories about Native Americans, First Nations, Métis, Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples rather than with them, creating reductive, inaccurate and harmful representations of a living, vibrant, and varied group of people. Despite this, Native graphic art has a rich history that shows that its practitioners are innovators who have created dynamic, subversive and optimistic work despite centuries of cultural obliteration, land theft, and socio-economic marginalisation. This exhibition celebrates design histories that have always existed alongside, despite, and in resistance to colonial narratives, illustrating the full spectrum of Native life.
Admission: $10-15. Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
5 June 2026 – 1 April 2027
An opportunity to explore Quentin Blake's theatrical influences, from circus to Shakespeare, including more than 100 original works by Blake in this UK-first survey of the influence of theatre on his work.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to 4 April 2027
This is the largest solo presentation of Devlin’s archive to date. Highlights include a detailed replica of Devlin’s London studio, filled with her books, objects and maquettes. A wall installation entitled 'Archive Unboxed' will present early sketches, paintings, collages, diaries and prints that Devlin produced at school, university and art college, and has continued to create, that demonstrate her love of drawing.
Central to the exhibition is the ‘30-Year Desk’, a large-scale circular display which references works including Devlin’s set design for The Lehman Trilogy (2018), Forest of Us, shown in Miami in 2021, her work on the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show, and ambitious kinetic stage sculptures created for concert tours.
Admission: Adult from £17.09; student / concession from £12.82; child from £8.55.
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
Relaxed opening hours: Wed 25 Nov, 10-12 noon; Sun 29 Nov, 10-12 noon.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Top: Es Devlin photographed among her archive. Photo credit Daniel Devlin / @susakpress.
to April 2027
Art deco: the golden age of poster design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage.
Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display, and explore the art deco and modernist architecture of Charles Holden in changing the face of London with his remarkable Tube station designs.
More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection, alongside loans from significant collections are on display. This includes posters from designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with your Museum admission.
See the ‘The purpose of posters’ on the Eye blog.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
to 13 June 2027
Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design
The Museum of Modern Art announces a new exhibition, Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design, MoMA’s first devoted entirely to information design. On view in the Museum’s street-level gallery – which is free and accessible to the public – Full Disclosure will feature 30 works of digital and analogue information design, including six newly acquired works. This exhibition will explore the many ways in which humans visualise information and how designers, operating in an increasingly complex digital world, can facilitate and shape our understanding. The show will also seek to recognise the fundamental role of information design, a medium that has evolved into a defining practice of the 20th and 21st centuries and a pillar of the Museum’s design collection.
The exhibition features work by Kate Crawford (see Eye 107), Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec (see ‘Books received #36‘), Forensic Architecture, Ben Fry and more.
Opening hours and admission prices can be viewed here.
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, 10019
Top. Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler. Calculating Empires. 2023-. Digital Image. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Committee on Architecture and Design Funds and Ryan Zurrer. © Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler.
to Summer 2027
It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection
Since the birth of motion pictures, animation has enchanted audiences. At MoMA, its creative evolution has been celebrated by more than a hundred programs and acquisitions from both independent filmmakers and major studios alike. Drawing from this history and spanning more than 100 years of expression and aesthetics, It’s Alive! shows the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers who advanced the medium, from the silent era to colour and the modernisation of animation design.
Independent artists such as Jane Aaron, John Canemaker, Faith and Emily Hubley, George Griffin, Candy Kugel, Jeff Scher (see Eye 60) and Michael Sporn all called New York home. Balancing projects for Public Television and MTV with personal filmmaking, these animators created bodies of work that resonated worldwide. ‘It’s Alive!’ celebrates the city’s movie-making history and the diversity and delights of animation.
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan
OCTOBER 2026
12 October 2026
‘In vain!‘ Selling Auriol as a text typeface
with Craig Eliason
Typefaces are often categorised as either ‘display types‘ (attention-grabbing designs made for short bursts of text, often large) or ‘text types‘ (unobtrusive designs in small point sizes that are comfortable for longer reads). In the early twentieth century, the Parisian typefoundry Peignot et Fils released the Auriol family. With its blobby and disconnected shapes, Auriol rightly came to be celebrated as the premier Art Nouveau display type. What has been forgotten is that Peignot also cast, showed, and sold Auriol fonts as text faces. This talk examines the development and publicising of the Auriol family, arguing that its promotion as a text face, while not commercially successful, was remarkably innovative.
This is an online event. 12:30–2:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Admission is free.
13 October 2026
Type Tuesday North: My favourite logo
Eye’s Type Tuesday heads north for an early evening event at the David Crow Lecture Theatre, Lowry Building, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Met.
The line-up comprises: Marianne Ashton-Booth, Yas Banks, Stanley Chow, Katy Cowan, Malcolm Garrett, Jessica Lee, Craig Oldham and James Wrigley. Doors open 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Chaired by John L. Walters and Simon Esterson.
Tickets: £14. Free for Manchester Met Graphic Design students on production of a valid student ID.
13 October 2026 – 30 January 2027
Graces Mews presents What Rose from the Cut, a group show exploring feminist strategies of collage.
Developed collectively between Graces Mews, curator Fiona Rogers, artist Justine Kurland, and collaborator and collector Sarah Miller Meigs, the exhibition reflects the gallery's interest in photographic process and the circulation and interpretation of images.It brings together two significant bodies of research: Fiona Rogers' publication Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage (Thames & Hudson and V&A, 2026) which traces the previously untold relationship between photography, feminist art and collage, from the 19th century to the present day; and Justine Kurland and Sarah Miller Meigs' exhibition and publication The Rose (lumber room, 2025), which expands this history of collage through ideas of circular genealogy and kinship formed through association. What Rose from the Cut features international artists whose approach to collage amplifies and contextualise one another, forming a constellation that extends our collective vision of social, political and spiritual possibilities.
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-6pm
Graces Mews, 9-10 Grace's Mews, Camberwell, London, SE5 8JF
14-16 Oct 2026
Hosted by Goodtype, the Kernference is a three-day online conference bringing the global type community together featuring talks, demos, and panels from the industry's top players and rising talent.
Speakers include Verònica Fuerte (see Eye 107), Meg Burk, Ian Adjeidu, Pauline Baines, Latino Type, Lynne Yun and many more.
Timings: 10am-5pm each day (EST)
Tickets can be found here.
14 Oct 2026 – Sun 21 Feb 2027
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
Through photographs and archives, ‘Snap Happy!’ celebrates the creativity, curiosity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.
The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
‘Snap Happy!’ is curated by Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, UK, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Whippersnappers: How Children Became Photographers by Annebella Pollen will be published in September by Four Corners Books.
14-18 October 2026
Mesh is a biennial festival for art and technology in Basel. The program includes exhibitions, performances, screenings, and workshops, complemented by a conference of talks and panel discussions.
This year's edition, Infrastructures of Care, asks after good social relationships, fair technologies, and a mindful engagement with the environment. Mesh creates spaces for connection, exchange, and solidarity, understanding care as something shared that can be shaped together. At its center stands one question: how is technology changing the way we live together?
Freilager-Platz on the Dreispitz site in Basel, Switzerland
15 Oct 2026
A lecture by artist and designer, Kelly Walters, inspired by The Hampton Album and Black American print culture at the turn of the century.
Walters is an artist, designer and researcher who engages with histories of Black American print publishing, material culture and archival practice. She explores these themes in her studio practice Bright Polka Dot, and works across platforms to create exhibitions, installations, publications and digital design experiences for cultural and commercial institutions.
OPEN FLAT FILE marks the tenth year of the publication and the Center’s 40th anniversary with a ten-part lecture series. Ten designers, artists, and researchers are invited to each select a single object from the collection and will respond to it through a free public talk at The Cooper Union. Lecturers will design a commemorative poster to be distributed at the event.
Free to attend, RSVP required
Timing: 6:30pm EST
September 2026 – May 2027, in-person at the The Cooper Union and livestreamed.
Herb Lubalin Study Center, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, New York, NY
15 Oct 2026 – 10 January 2027
LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition
Step behind the scenes of LAIKA's latest stop-motion film and explore how a world is built through original props, sketches, puppets, miniature sets, and more.
Opening on 15 October 2026, LAIKA presents WILDWOOD: The Exhibition is a new exhibition created in collaboration with Portland based stop-motion studio LAIKA, exploring the design and making of their forthcoming film Wildwood.
After 20 years of masterminding animated cinematic classics, including Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, the exhibition will celebrate two decades of the studio’s approach to groundbreaking stop-motion filmmaking.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
15 Oct 2026 – 1 April 2027
Thirteen years after The Happy Show exhibition at the Gaîté Lyrique, Stefan Sagmeister returns with his characteristic whimsy! The artist combines design and data to deliver an optimistic message on numerous topics that tend to improve over time. Finally, Something Good. thus encourages us to move beyond apathy and into action mode!
See Eye 41 ‘Another self-indulgent design monograph‘ and Eye 83 ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister's soul‘.
PRICES
Full price: €13
Reduced price: €10
Family pack (3 to 5 people): €10
Children (6 to 12 years): €5
Children under 6: free
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Sunday: 11am-8pm, Closed on Mondays.
Gaîté Lyrique, 3bis Rue Papin, 75003 Paris, France
15-25 October 2026
The eleventh edition of Graphic Days, the first festival dedicated to Italian and international visual and social design, is coming to Turin from 15 to 25 October and will be held for the first time it the Gruppo Building Construction Site.
An annual event that focuses on visual communication, highlighting the latest trends in international visual and social design and showcasing the most cutting-edge creative practices.
The theme of this year's edition is DISORDER and will feature over sixty international guests, fifteen exhibitions, eight talks, six workshops for adults, three tips & tricks, eight workshops for children, performances, DJ sets, a market show, live printing, portfolio reviews and activities for schools and families aim to disseminate the value of visual design, engaging with professionals on the one hand and with the local community and the general public on the other.
For exhibitions, The Humanism of Data presents the original works of Giorgia Lupi (see 'Books received #36'): an internationally renowned information designer, nominated for the ADI Compasso d’Oro in 2025, whose works are exhibited worldwide and feature in the permanent collections of the MOMA.
The programme of events features over 60 guests from the international scene, including Erik Kessels (see Eye 38), Verònica Fuerte (See Eye 107), Quim Marín, YONK, Johanna Jaskowska, Felix Pfäffli (see the Eye blog), Erich Brechbuhl, Henningh Wagenbreth, Ksawery Komputery, Nerdo and many more.
Construction sites of Gruppo Building, Barriera di Milano district of Turin
Images above: Middle. Bomba Design. Bottom. Giorgia Lupi.
16 Oct – 29 November 2026
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
What can design do when the world around us seems to no longer make sense? Under the theme ‘Make It Make Sense‘, the German Design Graduates initiative presents a selection of final-year projects from German universities in Munich.
The central question is: How can design make complex relationships visible and accessible?
As part of the exhibition, the German Design Graduates initiative presents 71 final-year projects from 28 German universities, spanning product and industrial design, communication and digital design, as well as textile and fashion design. The projects address contradictions and uncertainties, highlighting how a new generation of designers responds to social and technological change and offering a glimpse into the questions that may shape the discipline in the future.
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Str. 40, 80333 München-Maxvorstadt, Germany
17 October 2026
Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
Engaging Publics workshop with Sherida Kuffour
Science fiction literature, since its inception, has nurtured a reputation of complicated relationships with technology and is often perceived as a cold genre devoid of love, emotion and sensuality. Trading scientific precision for vulnerability and forecasts for uncertainty, this workshop casts a glance at sci-fi authors who have centred in their works and personal correspondence letters of yearnings for home, self, and love.
The workshop is constructed of reading excerpts by writers such as Ama Josephine B. Johnston, Amal El-Mohtar, and Max Gladstone, as well as correspondence letters between Joanna Russ and James Tiptree Jr. To foster a truly multidisciplinary experience, sounds of science fiction will be regularly intercepted in between reading sessions.
Timing: 3:30–6:30 pm CEST / Admission is free
Online and in-person at DOCK Basel
DOCK, Klybeckstrasse 29, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
17-25 October 2026
Dutch Design Week (DDW), one of Northern Europe's largest design events, returns to the essence of design in 2026. Under the theme R.A.W. (Rebel Authentic Worth), DDW embraces the unpolished, exploratory and experimental. A place where designers challenge existing ideas, explore new possibilities and reveal how change takes shape. For nine days, DDW brings together the full breadth of design.
Tickets available here.
Various venues around Eindhoven. See the map.
17 October – 28 November 2026
Under Development: What Happens When Cities Change?
This exhibition brings together more than fifty years of documentary photography from Tyneside and East London. Under Development: What Happens When Cities Change? draws on the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive to trace the human consequences of decisions about housing, planning and who gets to shape the places we live. The exhibition asks what happens when housing ambitions become real places to live. Through photographs made across more than fifty years, it looks at what changed, what was gained, what was lost, what people fought for, and what happened next.
Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EW
Image above: Killingworth, Modern Housing, 1980 ©Lambdon Visual Aids (Courtesy of the AmberSide Trust)
20 October – 21 February 2027
Known as one of the most influential artists of our time, Jenny Holzer (see Eye 11) places words and ideas at the heart of her thought-provoking practice. For the museum wide activation ‘J'ai vu‘, conceived for and with the Musée d’Orsay for fall 2026, Holzer offers text fragments from the Musée d’Orsay’s archive and the historical period covered by its collection, disseminated across her signature media: monumental installations, projections onto the historic façade of the former railway station, engravings on exotic stone, and luminous electronic displays.
Hours: Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Sunday 9:30am-6:00pm. Thursday 9:30am-9:45pm. Closed Monday.
Musée d'Orsay, Rooms 57, 58 et 60, Level 2, Paris
Image: Jenny Holzer (1950), Claude Monet, letter to Théodore Duret, February 2, 1884. © 2026 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
23 October 2026 – 29 March 2027
Faerdom: Now, As Ever is the intriguing and thought-provoking new exhibition by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio (see Eye 107).
Through playful encounters with animated figures of ancient legend and myth, the exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives. The result is an unique blend of UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture.
New work includes a large-scale triptych framed with social media icons, referencing our desire for online engagement. Luddites, saints and giant corgis also make an appearance.
Admission: £7.50-£15
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, EC1R 1AG
22-25 October 2026
BIG Biennale Internazionale Grafica, Milan
A four-day event in the Italian capital, with exhibitions, talks and workshops.
‘SIGNS’ shows the work of twelve contemporary Italian graphic designers: Giga Design; Dario Carta; Giorgia Cadeddu; Federica Ricci; Giulia Boccarossa; Emilio Macchia; Chiara Zhu; Studio Atto; Elia Barbieri; Pop-eye studio; Firm; and esc design studio.
‘Alfabeti Modernisti Type Specimens’ showcases twenty-five digital revivals based on wood and lead typefaces produced in Italy during the 1930s and 40s. (See James Clough’s pieces in Eye 109 and 110.)
ADI Design Museum, Milan, Italy
24 October 2026
The Glasgow Print Fair features over 50 local and international artists, designers, and printmakers showcasing and selling independent print works, risographs, linocuts and screenprints.
Stallholders include Stack, Tintin, Sam Moore, Lauren Morsley, Matchbloc and many more.
There will also be a mobile print studio and food and drink available on site.
Hours: 10:30am-5:00pm
Admission is free.
The Pyramid, 759 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8DS
29 October – 26 November 2026
Future Footsteps is a new immersive letterpress installation by Michelle Dwyer of Nice & Graphic studio, created in collaboration with a group of young people from South London. Running October 29th — November 26th, 2026 at the Tiny Gallery in Camberwell, South London.
The project was created with Step Out Mentors, a programme that supports young people's mental health through outdoor mentoring.
Admission is free.
Tiny Gallery, 146 Wells Way, London SE5 7SY
31 October 2026
Hull’s annual celebration of print returns with a day filled with amazing prints from talented artists.
Browse through a variety of prints, chat with the artists, find a perfect piece to take home to support local artists.
Hours: 10:30am-4:00pm
Admission is free.
Jubilee Church Hull, 62 King Edward Street, Kingston upon Hull, England HU1 3SQ
NOVEMBER 2026
3 November 2026
On Designing Rempart
with Douglas Hayes
An in-depth look at Rempart, an irreverant take on François Ganeau's Vendome. Coming to life through film titles, over-inked specimens, candy bar wrappers, RPG games, castle diagrams, and culinary ephemera, Rempart is a reinterpretation that's familiar in spirit, but brand new in form.
Free to attend, RSVP required. Reserve a spot here.
Timing: 6:30pm-8:30pm EST
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street)
New York, NY 10003
5 November 2026 – 31 January 2027
People Power: A Major Museum Retrospective of the Artist Platon
People Power is Platon’s first major museum retrospective in Athens, Greece. This exhibition features the movers and shakers of our current history including celebrities, cultural icons, provocateurs, antiheroes, outlaws, artists, tech titans, fashion designers, world leaders and human rights activists. The exhibition also highlights a selection of photographs from Paros island—a tribute to Greek heritage and culture.
Platon is the defining portrait photographer of our time. For four decades, his images have appeared in leading international media outlets such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Platon is the founder of The People’s Portfolio, a non-profit organisation dedicated to celebrating human rights defenders around the globe.
Admission: €9, €7
Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm, Tuesday closed, Thursday 10:00am-12:00pm, Sunday: 10:00am-4:00pm
Benaki Museum, Pireos 138, Athens, Greece
12 November 2026 – 11 April 2027
Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser’s Music Posters
By the early 1950s, Günther Kieser’s posters for this budding music scene were attracting attention. Many are based on illustration, embracing styles as disparate as psychedelic and modern minimalism; others highlight his abilities as a typographer. His most well-known, however, tap into his background as a sculptor’s apprentice and show him constructing three-dimensional models or collages that echo wider themes within a performer’s music. The results are wildly varied and look nothing like any other concert posters from the latter half of the 20th century.
While Kieser’s career spanned four decades and encompassed posters for a variety of clients, he is best known for those he made for musical events.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
12 November 2026 – 11 April 2027
Just Say Nyet: The Soviet Battle Against Booze
In the waning days of Soviet Russia, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a last, desperate attempt to curb his nation’s rampant alcoholism through severe restrictions and a broad-reaching, exceptionally blunt advertising campaign. In appeals to health, common decency, emotional well-being, and labor production alike, the government begged its people to give up the bottle. It did not succeed.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
12-22 November 2026
International Assembly Festival
An unmissable all-day design and creative conference in Glasgow featuring conferences, innovative workshops, meaningful talks, live projects, award celebrations and the renowned International Poster Exhibition. Join the conference for a day of inspiration with some of the most exciting thinkers and makers in graphic design, branding, coding, animation, art, advertising and beyond.
Speakers include: Bráulio Amado, COLLINS (see Eye 105), Harriet Richardson, FISK, Shamma Buhazza, Vlad Boyko, Coding Systems, Eva Cremers, GF Smith, Readymag and more.
Available ticket options include the festival’s headline event, the conference, along with the weekend pass, full festival access, and individual event tickets.
See ticket options here.
Timing: 9:30am-6:00pm
Doors: 8:00am
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY
12-15 November 2026
Paris Photo returns to the Grand Palais, bringing together 246 exhibitors from 38 countries, including 199 galleries and 48 publishers. For its 29th edition, the fair welcomes 80 new participants. Spread across five sectors, it offers an international panorama of the medium, from historical works to the most recent practices.
The Bicentenary of photography is one of the common threads of this edition. Rather than a retrospective celebration, Paris Photo offers a reading of the medium that questions its history, technical developments and new forms.
See ticket options here.
Grand Palais, Main entrance Square Jean Perrin - 17 Avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008 Paris
Image above: Thomas Ruff, Star 16h 56m / -40°, 2020 – Courtesy of the artist, Artists Rights Society (ARS), VG Bild-Kunst & David Zwirner
17-20 November 2026
Four days in Barcelona dedicated to bringing together Europe’s creative community to learn, connect, and celebrate.
This year’s edition focuses on ‘Relationships’, exploring where great ideas really come from. Behind every award-winning campaign, every iconic design and every bold creative leap is a network of people who made it possible.
19 November 2026
OPEN FLAT FILE: David Reinfurt
A lecture by designer David Reinfurt (see Eye 80) about VISIBLE LANGUAGE. SPECIAL ISSUE: THE ORIGINS AND FUNCTIONS OF LITERACY.
Reinfurt is an independent graphic designer in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and received an MFA from Yale University in 1999. On the first business day of 2000, David formed O-R-G inc., a flexible graphic design practice composed of a constantly shifting network of collaborators. Together with graphic designer Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David established Dexter Sinister in 2006 as a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in New York City. Together with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and Angie Keefer, David set up a non-profit institution called The Serving Library in 2011 which maintains a physical collection of art and design works, stages events, and publishes an annual journal.
OPEN FLAT FILE marks the tenth year of the publication and the Center’s 40th anniversary with a ten-part lecture series. Ten designers, artists, and researchers are invited to each select a single object from the collection and will respond to it through a free public talk at The Cooper Union. Lecturers will design a commemorative poster to be distributed at the event.
Free to attend, RSVP required
Timing: 6:30pm EST
September 2026 – May 2027, in-person at the The Cooper Union and livestreamed.
Herb Lubalin Study Center, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, New York, NY
19 November 2026
magCulture Live LDN26: Escape the Algorithm
The annual magCulture event in London is back for its thirteenth edition. This year’s theme is ‘Escaping the Algorithm.’ Everybody is talking about ‘getting offline, reducing their screen time and defying the algorithm’. What better way to do that than enjoy a print magazine?
Speakers include:
Claire Belhassine, Godmothers founder
Chris Clarke, editorial creative director, The Guardian
Lucy Roeber, editor, Erotic Review
Charlotte Rubesa, founder of Quiet Media
Emily Tobin, editor, The World of Interiors
Thursday 19 Nov, 1-5pm
Tickets, £80 - £125
Vitsoe, London W1U 2NG
21 November 2026 – 9 May 2027
Uncovering the personal relationships behind the celebrated artist, Tove Jansson and her Families will look at the people who shaped Finnish author-illustrator Tove Jansson’s life and work (1914–2001) – the UK’s first exhibition to share her original works in almost a decade and the first exhibition to focus on Tove Jansson’s work solely as an illustrator.
Original art depicting the origins of the beloved Moomins will be on show, including scraps from the first published Moomin book. Visitors will be able to spot hidden Moomins throughout her work.
Visitors will also glimpse into Tove’s wider life, from the influence of her graphic designer mother, to her early work for satirical magazine Garm and contribution to Finland’s post-war public realm effort by creating large-scale public murals to help rebuild the country – one of which will be displayed in the UK for the first time.
Admission: £7.50-£15
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, EC1R 1AG
24 November 2026
Type Tuesday: Illustration
Doors open 6:30pm
St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ
26 November 2026 – 13 June 2027
Gary Fabian Miller: Between the Moon and the Hawthorn
This new exhibition presents the photographs of Garry Fabian Miller (b. 1957, Bristol) in dialogue with works from the Ashmolean by one of his key artistic influences, the prolific British Romanticist painter Samuel Palmer (1805–81). Ever since an early encounter with a Samuel Palmer painting hanging in the galleries, the works have lived with Fabian Miller ‘woven into the fabric of life as an artist’. The exhibition invites viewers to trace visual and philosophical continuities between Palmer’s Romantic vision and Fabian Miller’s life-long practice pushing the limits of photography in the dark room.
See the Eye ‘Reputations: Gary Fabian Miller‘.
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH
DECEMBER 2026
15 Oct 2026
A lecture by designer Jan Wilker (see ‘Books received #65‘).
Wilker grew up in Ulm, Germany. He moved to New York in late 2000 to start karlssonwilker, a design studio, together with Icelander Hjalti Karlsson. Jan has taught at Cooper Union, SVA and Parsons. He frequently lectures and holds sought-after design workshops around the world.
OPEN FLAT FILE marks the tenth year of the publication and the Center’s 40th anniversary with a ten-part lecture series. Ten designers, artists, and researchers are invited to each select a single object from the collection and will respond to it through a free public talk at The Cooper Union. Lecturers will design a commemorative poster to be distributed at the event.
Free to attend, RSVP required
Timing: 6:30pm EST
September 2026 – May 2027, in-person at the The Cooper Union and livestreamed.
Herb Lubalin Study Center, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, New York, NY
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.
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
ONLINE + ONGOING
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
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.
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.