Visual culture
17 September 2008
Ahead of the deluge
simon esterson
Refreshed, reshaped and more reflective, Icon moves with the times
Icon, the London-based architecture and design title labels its October edition ‘the redesign issue’,
writes Simon Esterson.
16 September 2008
Format follows function
liz farrelly
Provokateur wraps its manifesto doodlings in a snake-oil special
With the internet hailed as an effective force for political change, writes Liz Farrelly, as news, campaigns and petitions
circulate paper-free, does it follow that old-school paper manifestoes are dead as the dodo?
16 September 2008
The Ed and Geoff show
review
Review of Two Lines Align
Two Lines Align is the catalogue for the exhibition of that name curated by Michael Worthington for REDCAT in LA.
12 September 2008
Beaker street
Who are the Shoreditch plastic cup letterers, and what do they want?
Last night it said ‘KAJAL’. The other night it said ‘DRUNK MAN’, and before that it was ‘SPUNK MAN’ (below).
12 September 2008
Up against the wall
andrew howard
The Poster-Film Collective. Beyond the designer-client relationship
The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, went ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and to enlarge the accepted pantheon of graphic design; here, designer Andrew Howard draws attention to the History Sets of posters produced by the Poster-Film Collective.
12 September 2008
Page turner overdrive
review
Review of Fully Booked (DGV)
Books are never just books. They can be catalogues, toys, models, play centres, showcases for bindings, gatefolds, special papers and card and portfolios of design. Some of them might even be worth reading.
9 September 2008
The internet loves kittens
john l. walters
Elbow, Crusha and the communicative power of small furry animals
I thought I was going to be the warm-up man for Ian Anderson.
26 August 2008
Chalk and talk
john l. walters
‘A Recent History of Writing & Drawing’ at the ICA
It’s not an obvious design or art exhibition – more like an interactive playroom from the design museum of our dreams.
22 August 2008
Graphic design on the radio
Paul Davis reveals all on live radio
OK, it’s not exactly Desert Island Discs, but Graphic design on the radio, presented by Adrian Shaughnessy, is becoming something of an institution.
19 August 2008
Confessions of an awards juror
nick bell
Stop worrying about craft and seek the purpose of design, says Nick Bell
Despite being a British graphic designer (a species branded as ‘excessively mean’ by the editor of another design magazine) I really wanted to give a Black (gold) Pencil to some fellow (non-British) designers when I sat on the Book Design jury for the D&AD [Design and Art Direction] Awards earlier this year.