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Liz Farrelly

Recent articles by Liz Farrelly

Duo-tomeIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                In 2013, the overblown, completist pretensions of a career-defining monograph seem, well, a bit old-fashioned…                        
PreviewIssue 84, Autumn 2012
Review

                                                M/M (Paris) have set a new benchmark for the monograph. Their tome M to M…                        
Buying into the Norm cosmosIssue 70, Winter 2008
Feature

                                            The Swiss practice’s typefaces are quirky, oddly popular, and deceptively simple – also a critical response to neutrality            
Make each letter speak out loudIssue 75, Spring 2010
Feature

                                            Illustrative typography is rewiring the way we read art, design and communication            
Relax and you’ll be swept awayIssue 73, Autumn 2009
Review

                                                Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…                        
Reputations: Ian AndersonIssue 71, Spring 2009
Feature

                                            
	‘When I took a back seat to allow TDR to grow beyond me, it died; its creative spark was crushed . . . the more I took myself out of the equation to see if it could do better without me, the more obvious it became that Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic were inseparable.’            
Flights of fancyIssue 82, Winter 2011
Feature

                                            Si Scott made his name with baroque combinations of type and image, but his 3D paper insects are taking his work in new directions.             
Picture hunter gatherersIssue 74, Winter 2009
Review

                                                The modern malaise is to over-complicate. In her chatty foreword to The Graphic Eye, Natalia…                        
Pattern recognitionIssue 71, Spring 2009
Review

                                                Unless you have had your head stuck in a white cube since the flip of…                        
Small, mobile, intelligent unitsIssue 12, Spring 1994
Feature

                                            Eye talks to young French designers who reject the atelier system and prefer to go it alone            
Clarity and contradictionIssue 13, Summer 1994
Feature

                                            
	Irma Boom’s work is lucid yet challenging. It upsets her colleagues, while pleasing her clients.            
Putting type in its placeIssue 23, Winter 1996
Feature

                                            
	For many of London’s editorial designers, type plays a supporting role. Content and narrative is as likely to be found in the images as in the words            
In search of the perfect bindingIssue 10, Autumn 1993
Feature

                                            The craft of covers            
Mysterious absence at the cutting edgeIssue 19, Winter 1995
Opinion

                                            
	Britain has many design stars and most of them are men. Yet very few young women want to be seen as feminists. That’s starting to change            
The keyboards that ate the worldIssue 7, Summer 1992
Review

                                                The celebratory aspect of this publishing exercise is evident from the outset. The art director, Takenobu…                        
Gran FuryIssue 6, Spring 1992
Feature

                                            
	How AIDS activists use design to hammer home their message.            
One from the heartIssue 6, Spring 1992
Feature

                                            
	Four years ago, Rick Valicenti said goodbye to his corporate clients and set out to reinvent himself. Now his company, Thirst, makes art with a function.            
Astro boy and the sex warsIssue 5, Winter 1991
Feature

                                            
	Curious comics: why the Japanese love their manga            
US designers with attitudeIssue 5, Winter 1991
Review

                                                Twelve-hundred graphic designers from over 30 regional chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts…                        
Traces of manIssue 3, Spring 1991
Feature

                                            Herbert Spencer’s photographs celebrate accidental design            

Recent blog posts about Liz Farrelly

Sharing the stage … sharing ideas

24 June 2013
Critical path, Design education, Graphic design, Illustration

Five D-Crit students team up with experts to make presentations at their graduate symposium

It’s that time of year again, when a host of graduating art and design students…

Freeze!

9 November 2012
Photography, Reviews, Visual culture

An exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in London looks hard at the eyes of sharpshooters (from artists and anonymous punters to movie stars and Simone de Beauvoir)

The recently re-opened Photographers Gallery is right on target with its current show, writes Liz…

That (postmodern) design smell?

22 October 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Music design, Reviews

Graphic design Wunderkinder M/M (Paris) have worked with just about everyone in just about every medium: so why not carpets … or scent?

M/M (Paris), aka Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, might represent that most elusive of all…

Don’t explain

11 October 2012
Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Raymond Pettibon straddles the high / low culture divide, adding his seductive scrawl to the white cube of a London gallery

Raymond Pettibon’s latest series of drawings, investigating recurrent themes around American pop culture, film noir…

‘Shake hands with the devil’

26 September 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews

The final hours of Graphic Design: Now in Production (the New York leg) provided a snapshot of contemporary practice, from the Stone Twins to Metahaven.

For the final Saturday of Cooper-Hewitt’s ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ exhibition in New York…

Let’s hear it for the hinting slaves

25 June 2012
New media, Typography

Type Tuesday: Ampersand Web Typography Conference 2012

When keynote speaker Phil Baines asked a full house at the second Ampersand Web Typography Conference…

Lost and found

31 May 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Technology, Visual culture

The Pop-tastic Mr Edwards turns old images and type into collectable zines.

Expat Mister Edwards, still of the parish of Sydney, Australia, has been exploring the term ‘Pop’…

Pop panel

28 March 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

Music design session at Pick Me Up with Malcolm Garrett & Kate Moross

On Friday night, as part of a ‘packed programme’ of events, talks and workshops at Pick…

Force of nature

11 January 2012
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Typography, Visual culture

New Kapitza book replaces geometric certainty with organic structure

Following on from their 2008 book Geometric, the Kapitza sisters, Nicole and Petra, have produced…

Outline of beauty

22 November 2010
Design history, Illustration, Visual culture

René Gruau’s visual ‘personalities’ forged Dior’s brand language

Since founding her Munich-based graphic arts gallery, Bartsch & Chariau, in 1980, Joëlle Chariau has…