
Interest in record sleeve art naturally gravitates towards the long-play albums that emerged the 1950s,
writes Simon Robinson.
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Music design,
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The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 19 April 2012, combines two aims,
reports co-curator Eric Kindel. The first is to display artefacts gathered over
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Graphic Design,
Technology,
Typography,
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Chloë King |
Monday, 14 May, 2012 | 8:00 am | Comments 1
The skip outside Brighton Town Hall isn’t rubbish,
writes Chloë King. A yellow fluorescent tube highlights its edges, a wire fence surrounds it, and a notice pinned to the front reads, ‘What a time to invest public funded money in
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New Media,
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Technology,
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Though I missed the UK premiere* of
Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass (nearly 36 years after its first performance in Avignon),
reports John L. Walters, the performance I witnessed ran flawlessly without a break, clocking in around
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Technology,
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Tomorrow sees the opening of a new joint exhibition by painter Wanda Garland and
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Photography,
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The Wellcome Collection asks: ‘not what brains do for us, but what we have done to brains’,
writes Rosie Walters. ‘
Brains’, the London gallery’s new showstopper, takes visitors on a whirlwind tour of the role of the brain in culture and society
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Information Design,
Reviews,
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‘The alternative weekly newspapers of the United States are a hotbed of creative cover design,’
writes Robert Newman in Eye
82. ‘The historical descendants of the underground papers of
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Illustration,
Magazines,
Visual Culture

It is not often that entire books form the material, or part of the material, of works of art, but two of the nine pieces in ‘The Space Between’, curated by the writer Michael Bracewell, are made from complete books,
writes Mark Thomson.
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Filed under: Book design,
Illustration,
Photography,
Visual Culture

Venture outside the world of blogs and back-slapping designer conferences,
writes Jessica Jenkins. Everyday academic life needs your voices.
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Design history,
Graphic Design,
Illustration,
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