St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland is renowned for its Abbey Library, with its valuable medieval collection. The town’s contribution to Swiss publishing in the twentieth century has been rather less widely recognised, but ‘Book design in St Gallen’ at St Bride Library should do a little to redress the balance. More »

OK-RM’s cumulative new year publication series asks where English culture is, and what it means to be an English graphic designer, writes Jane Cheng. In other words is an eight-page booklet that proposes to use in sentences sixteen of the new words added to or modified by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) during the past year. More »

Here’s an interesting sound-based concept – a website that has no More »

To Haiti with love is a new initiative hoping to raise money to help the situation in Haiti: through digital art sales. More »

The current Estorick exhibition ‘On the Move: Visualising Action’ is not an art or photography exhibition, though it contains plenty of both. Nor is it strictly about science or technology More »

It’s the end of the alphabet, and the end of Mr Edward’s crapbook. More »

Tomorrow’s ‘Design for music’ day at St Bride library includes a panel about design for classical music, writes Gareth Lofthouse. What is interesting about this right now is not so much attempting to provide a visual corollary for abstract music but the challenges presented by a declining market and the imminent redundancy of the CD format. More »

Some still prefer print, writes Chloë King, but is it sensible to start a small press and launch a printed journal during a recession, now so much is read online? More »

Continuing our series of ‘Berlin snapshots’, Argentinian-born designer Florencia Young talks to Eye about her move to the German capital. More »

Paul Stiff and his colleagues at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading have been researching the everyday printed documents of Victorian life, writes Simon Esterson. The results of their journey through the archives are on show until the end of the week (Fri 29 Jan) at the St Bride Printing Library in the exhibition ‘Designing information before designers’. More »