Greece, 2022. <br />Athenian designers reflect on how they might shape their country’s future

Greece, 2022.
Athenian designers reflect on how they might shape their country’s future

When I visited Athens in February 2010, the Greek government’s spiralling debt crisis was just beginning More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, New Media, Posters, Visual Culture

Higher ground. <br /> Occupy Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change. </br>

Higher ground.
Occupy Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change.

We invited Noel Douglas, one of the organisers of ‘This Space Is Not For Hire’ to explain the thinking behind this two-day workshop at the Rag Factory in the last weekend of January. More »

Filed under: Design education, Graphic Design, New Media, Posters, Visual Culture

One day, all this will be ours. <br /> Getting ready for the hyperbolic new Design Museum in Albertopolis. </br>

One day, all this will be ours.
Getting ready for the hyperbolic new Design Museum in Albertopolis.

The new Design Museum, slated to open in 2014, is cause for celebration in London’s design community, writes John L. Walters. And you can forgive its founder Sir Terence Conran a certain amount of triumphalism as he outlined the museum’s origins in the V&A’s Boilerhouse project, More »

Filed under: Design education, Design history, Graphic Design, Information Design, New Media, Technology

The form of the essay. <br /> FLOK’s clothbound series design for publishers Notting Hill Editions

The form of the essay.
FLOK’s clothbound series design for publishers Notting Hill Editions

The essay is a form of writing that has largely fallen out of the public’s consciousness More »

Filed under: Book design, Graphic Design, Typography, Visual Culture

Type Tuesday.<br /> Quirky ligatures and swash characters: serifs are the new sans

Type Tuesday.
Quirky ligatures and swash characters: serifs are the new sans

Are we living in a golden age of type? This is a time of consolidation. Established foundries are revisiting libraries that were perhaps hastily digitised in the early rush prompted by postscript, and releasing More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography, Visual Culture

Noted #27. <br />Generative type, wartime poster app, Lucid’s pink ‘paper’ and Paula’s maps<br />

Noted #27.
Generative type, wartime poster app, Lucid’s pink ‘paper’ and Paula’s maps

Below are some more links and ideas that caught our attention over the past few weeks. More »

Filed under: Design history, Graphic Design, Illustration, New Media, Posters, Technology, Visual Culture

In the neighbourhood #1. <br />‘There’s instinctive understanding … we barely need a brief any more’

In the neighbourhood #1.
‘There’s instinctive understanding … we barely need a brief any more’

For Eye 81, John Ridpath interviewed three designers who work with More »

Filed under: Graphic Design, Posters, Visual Culture

Picture puzzle. <br />When is a photo not a photo? Why not ask Sue Steward’s ‘New Alchemists’ …

Picture puzzle.
When is a photo not a photo? Why not ask Sue Steward’s ‘New Alchemists’ …

‘The New Alchemists’, an exhibition in Islington More »

Filed under: New Media, Photography, Visual Culture

Type Tuesday. <br />Review of the Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger

Type Tuesday.
Review of the Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the latter half of the twentieth century More »

Filed under: Design history, Graphic Design, Typography, Visual Culture

Noted #26. <br /> Animated gifs, more awards madness, movie posters and a Kiwi in Brooklyn</br>

Noted #26.
Animated gifs, more awards madness, movie posters and a Kiwi in Brooklyn

Here are a few links to sites, articles and videos that grabbed our attention over the past week. More »

Filed under: Awards madness, Graphic Design, Magazines, Posters, Visual Culture