Chalk and talk
‘A Recent History of Writing & Drawing’ at the ICA
It’s not an obvious design or art exhibition – More »
Filed under: Graphic Design, New Media, Technology, Visual CultureChalk and talk
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, More »
Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Illustration, Visual Culture
Confessions of an awards juror
Stop worrying about the 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 More »
Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Visual Culture
Le Gun ‘sells out’
But are they cut out for mainstream publishing success?
Above: D&AD guest finds someone to take home. (Who is this? let us know!) Photograph: Christine Donnier-Valentin.
There were bizarre scenes at the D&AD Awards this summer, writes Luke Pendrell, as the increasingly ebullient ‘creatives’ conversed, danced and ultimately departed with a variety of two-dimensional characters. Not account managers More »
Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazines, Visual Culture
A raid on sacred cows
The Táin demonstrates how design can contribute to a nation’s sense of itself
Graphic design heroes might be, as Martha Scotford noted, Western white men, but they’re a particular kind of Western, white, man: there are few Finns, Greeks or Irish in the canon. As a 1992 article in Graphis asked: ‘Where are the Paul O’Rands, the Milton McGlasers?’ More »
Filed under: Design history, Graphic Design, Illustration, Visual Culture
Not fade away
Jacqueline Casey: the foremost US practitioner of the International Style
By selecting Jacqueline Casey as her most underappreciated graphic designer in Eye’s ‘Beyond the canon’ issue (‘Woman at the edge of technology’), Elizabeth Resnick gave a shout-out to my own candidate.
Filed under: Design history, Graphic Design, Posters, Technology
