Events
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25 June – 5 September 2026
Robert Vano: Love You from Prague
An extensive exhibition presenting the world-renowned photography of Robert Vano – master of platinum printing and pioneer of male nudes – opens in Notting Hill this June.
The retrospective is a carefully curated cross-section of Vano’s work spanning from the 1980s to the present day with special focus on the free and optimistic era of the 1990s. It showcases more than 50 photographs sectioned into three different standalone exhibits featuring Vano’s work for leading fashion magazines from New York to Paris and Milan; his dramatic stills of Prague; and his most famous work of black and white male nude portraits, often developed through Vano’s signature platinum printing - a rare and highly demanding technique used only by a handful of photographers.
Admission is free.
Opening hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm
Czech Centre London, Vitrinka Gallery, Bouda Gallery & Public space outside of the Czech Embassy, London
Image above: By Robert Vano, Boys from Bohemia,1992
26-27 June 2026
A design festival for people who use type.
This two-day series of talks is the central event of the Typographics Festival, focused on the use of type across all design disciplines. Now in its eleventh year, the conference will be in-person in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, New York City.
The conference will include speakers such as Kiel D. Mutschelknaus (see Eye 100), Anna Kulachek, Amy Papaelias (see Eye 109), Bijan Berahimi, Julien Priez, Kelli Anderson (see Eye 110) and many more.
More details about the conference are available at 2026.typographics.com.
Tickets available here.
The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003
to 27 June 2026
Nostalgic Utopia
Nostalgic Utopia is a solo exhibition from contemporary artist and printmaker, Maxine Gregson. Screenprinted in the artist’s studio in East London, her works are rooted in nostalgia, where optimism is woven into flashes of gold leaf, desert vistas and lush rainforest panoramas.
Jealous, 53 Curtain Road, EC2A 3PT, London
CURRENTLY ON
to 28 June 2026
Michelle Thompson Papercuts: 30 Years of Collage & Illustration
Papercuts presents a retrospective of Michelle Thompson’s three-decade career, showcasing original collage pieces alongside her printed illustration work. The exhibition traces her evolving approach, from early cut-and-paste experiments to contemporary digital compositions.
Michelle has been a freelance illustrator and collage artist since graduating with a First Class degree in Illustration from Norwich School of Art, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1996. Her work combines analogue collage with digital illustration, creating bold, layered pieces that explore texture, narrative, and found imagery. Clients include The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Channel 4, The New York Times and The Guardian.
Gibson Room, The Fry Art Gallery, 19a Castle St, Saffron Walden CB10 1BD.
to 28 June 2026
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942 – 2021) whose oeuvre is built around the sculptural possibilities of language and highlights the radical position of Weiner, taking as its starting point Weiner’s artistic practice of the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time when the prevailing notions of art, the role of the artist and the collector were critically interrogated, as were traditional structures like museums, galleries and art fairs. As an artist and thinker, Weiner represents a key figure both within this period and within the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert.
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS shows how Weiner’s work can be installed on a wall; can be translated to books, posters or videos; or can be recorded as audio. By bringing about a dialogue between the different presentation forms, visitors are introduced to his multifaceted oeuvre.
See Eye 29.
Hours: 3pm-7pm
Admission is free.
Herbert Foundation, Coupure Links 627A, Ghent
Above. Lawrence Weiner, LA MER ET LE CIEL, Eric Linard, Strasbourg, 1986)
to 30 June 2026
AWDA, AIAP Women in Design Award
The call for entries for the sixth edition of AWDA, AIAP Women in Design Award is now online. This biennial award is open to visual communication designers from all over the world.
Eligible projects include visual communication design works produced from 2023 to the present by by professionals, researchers, or students. The deadline for participation is June 30.
The AWDA International Award is open to all individuals who identify as women, regardless of sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation or any transition journeys.
to 18 July 2026
Finding Bob Linney: an exhibition of a graphic life
The first comprehensive look at the the work of the graphic artist Bob Linney 1947-2023.
Over 50 years Linney drew, painted, printed and designed an extraordinary range of distinctive posters and other material for music, film, theatre, festivals, activism and founded the charity Health Images using visual aids for health and development far and wide.
See ‘Suffolk’s poster maestro’ on the Eye blog.
Read ‘Selecting Bob Linney’ by Nigel Ball.
The Cut Arts Centre, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY
Opening event, 12pm, Sat 30 May; closing lecture, 2pm, Sat 18 July.
to 19 July 2026
This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Art of Noise, an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century. Organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation.
From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, this exhibition takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years. On view across the museum’s entire third-floor gallery, the exhibition will feature more than 300 artworks drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.
More info on tickets and hours here.
See ‘Graphic design live #24’ on the Eye blog.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, US
Above. Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. Lithograph on paper; 72.8 × 51.5 cm (28 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.).
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
to 26 July 2026
A major retrospective to Lee Miller (1907-77), organised in partnership with Tate Britain. The exhibition brings together more than 250 vintage and modern prints, complemented by magazines, archives and period documents.
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 11 avenue du President Wilson, Paris, FR 75116, France
Read ‘Art of war and peace’, John L. Walters’ review of the Tate exhibition in Eye 109 and ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107.
Photo: Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London ca. 1943. © Lee Miller Archives.
to 26 July 2026
An audiovisual exhibition by filmmaker Romain Gavras and musician Surkin aka Gener8ion, Visions of 2034 features 10 multimedia works that explore peripheral dystopias - futures glimpsed from the margins, shaped less by collapse than by distortion.
Turning 180 Studios' underground spaces into an alternative world where machines and bodies, storytelling and sensation collide, the exhibition includes premieres of seven new short films and a new immersive sound installation, as well as unseen footage and alternative scenes from Gener8ion visuals past and present.
Continuing to build out their cinematic world, Gener8ion collaborate with Yung Lean, 070 Shake, Yannis from Foals, Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, acclaimed choreographer Damien Jalet, and hundreds of skittish, charismatic characters, in a living laboratory of art, sound and performance.
In the gestures of youth, the reflexes of pleasure, the machinery of control, something mutates. The world becomes a network of anomalies - familiar yet skewed. In Leeds, students smoke melted antenna hardware for the rush. In Mumbai, digital replicas of Hollywood actors perform human emotion with perfect precision. In Idaho, internet mythology hardens into broadcast. In Athens, teenagers occupy toxic shorelines that once drew tourists. In Hangzhou, children celebrate a prophet who changes each year.
At the heart of the project lies an enduring question: what survives, and what doesn't. In the process, Gavras and Surkin open a reflection on how culture is consumed, processed, and forgotten.
Tickets: £15.00
Exhibition opening times: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 noon-7pm
180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London WC2
to 26 July 2026
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more.
Admission: £9.84-19.69
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Photo: Model of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL © Thierry Stefanopoulos – La Cinémathèque française
to 2 August 2026
GIORGIA LUPI. L’umanesimo dei dati – Data Humanism
Curated by Associazione Illustri, this exhibition presents the vision of Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi through a journey that weaves together data, memory, empathy and visual storytelling. The show takes visitors inside her creative process, where drawing, paper and the handmade gesture come before digital technology - later amplifying its communicative power.
The exhibition features some of Lupi’s best-known works, offering a broad overview of a design language that combines research, poetry and rigour. Each room explores a different way of using data to interpret the world.
Gallerie d’Italia – Vicenza, Intesa Sanpaolo Museum
to 9 August 2026
American Folk Art
Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
A champion of the avant-garde and a cofounder of MoMA, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller played a pivotal role in recognising folk art as integral to the artistic traditions of the United States and to a modern and inclusive art history. Rockefeller perceived a connection between the objects she collected and the art of her time, and understood how folk art spoke to questions of cultural production at a moment when American modernism was still taking shape.
MoMA, Floor 3, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, US
to 15 August 2026
‘The 100 Best Posters’ is a competition with a long history: for more than 25 years, it has showcased significant poster design from the DACH region. The accompanying exhibitions travel around 16,000 km, visiting more than seven countries across two continents.
To mark its 25th anniversary, a very special exhibition was created: 100 outstanding posters were once again selected from the past 25 years. The selection illustrates the development of graphic design across decades while also demonstrating how timeless and relevant these works remain to this day.
With this exhibition and its accompanying book, we celebrate 25 years of ‘The 100 Best from Germany, Austria and Switzerland’.
Mon-Fri: 09:00-17:00 (Saturdays + Sundays + National Holidays closed)
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
to 16 August 2026
Olivia Plender: Little Fennel’s Complaint
This solo exhibition by Olivia Plender (b.1977, London), explores historic and ongoing inequalities in women’s healthcare – from early modern witchcraft to contemporary debates on reproductive rights and medical authority. Plender developed the exhibition through research with leading Oxford institutions, including the Bodleian Library, Oxford Botanic Garden and John Radcliffe Hospital.
Across embroidered textiles, watercolours, drawings, mobiles, and sound works, she examines how women’s healthcare has been recorded, classified, and practised over time. The exhibition combines new commissions, existing works, and historic manuscripts to highlight Plender’s multidisciplinary, research-led practice. Installations trace shifting approaches to medicine and diagnosis, opening with a presentation inspired by contemporary hospital architectures and waiting rooms.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 1BP
Above: Olivia Plender, embroidered textile, 2026.
to 22 August 2026
Lisson Street: Daniel Buren – Pages in situ
This exhibition, curated by graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge (see Eye 108), charts Daniel Buren’s expanded use of the 8.7cm stripe over almost six decades, from the street to the gallery walls and from the canvas to the printed page. Exploring the legacy of the artist’s famous motif – through art works, archival objects and his prodigious publishing and printed matter output – the display attempts an entire history of the stripe as subversive interruption within books, magazines and publications. It begins with Buren’s anonymous contribution to the Prospect 68 catalogue at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf – a double-page spread of green stripes – and ends with a new version of an off-site exhibition of vertically pasted stripes first staged on a billboard in central London in 1972.
Bringing together more than 100 printed items, Pages in situ spans interventions in books, magazines and newspapers, often presented ‘without name or explanation’, alongside invitations, posters and group and solo exhibition catalogues, as well as dedicated artist books. Variations in colour, sequencing, cut-outs and format all play a role in shaping each item. Across these diverse formats, Buren’s consistent ‘visual tool’ operates as a powerful graphic element, threading through each publication while continually shifting in form and intent. It also features numerous examples of printed material that adhere to the 8.7cm principle, without explicitly displaying stripes, using the same width for columns of printed text or for the dimensions of reproduced images.
See ‘Books received #32’.
Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson Street, London
to 23 August 2026
Serpentine’s First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026
Serpentine is honoured to announce an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney (see Eye 42). Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, will also feature in the show.
Admission free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W. Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
to 28 August 2026
Na Kim, Oblique Time / 김영나, 느슨한 시간
Weekdays, 10am to 5pm
KAIST Art Museum, Exhibition Terrace 6 & 7
E9, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
to 31 August 2026
Originally trained as an architect, Murugiah has brought ambitious scale and play with perspective to a decade of illustration projects.
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on the day of your visit: £16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
to 2 September 2026
Noel Carrington: Nothing Need Be Ugly
Curated by writer and publisher Joe Pearson (Design for Today), this exhibition tells the story of publishing’s unsung hero Noel Carrington (1895–1989).
Schooled in Bedford, Noel Carrington (see Eye 85) became one of the most influential figures in design of the twentieth century. Through Puffin Picture Books and Country Life he commissioned, edited and published some of Britain’s best loved children’s picture books. He saw the genius in artists such as Kathleen Hale, whose series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat he published, and he championed emerging artists such as Hilary Stebbing. With Eric Ravilious he published High Street; with Edward Bawden he wrote and published Life in an English Village; and with Mervyn Peake he commissioned the tale of the wild pirate Captain Slaughterboard.
The exhibition features publishing classics such as the Kynoch Press Notebooks and Country Life Gardener’s Diaries as well as 120 Puffin Picture Books. The work of his sister Dora Carrington will also be included as it was Noel Carrington who brought her back into the public eye. Through much loved children’s books, forgotten gems and original artwork, this exhibition will take Noel Carrington out of the footnotes and into the spotlight.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11am-5pm, Sunday: 2pm-5pm, Closed on Mondays
The Higgins Bedford, Wixamtree and Connections Gallery, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD
See Clare Walters’ review in Eye 110.
to 6 September 2026
‘In Other Worlds’ constructs a series of imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities. This is the first major UK solo exhibition by film-maker and speculative architect Liam Young, who ‘operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures’.
Graphic design: Neasden Control Centre (Stephen Smith)
The Curve, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Above. Film still from After the End (2024) by Liam Young.
to 6 September 2026
This exhibition features new and recent works by Cecily Brown, a homecoming for a British artist who has lived and worked in New York for the past 30 years. ‘Picture Making’ brings together works inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.
Hours: Monday – Closed, Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
At Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
to 6 September 2026
Lella and Massimo Vignelli A Language of Clarity
Major exhibition about the Vignellis (see Eye 83), curated by: Francesca Picchi, Marco Sammicheli, Thomas Kronbichler and Martin Kerschbaumer (Studio Mut). Exhibition design: Jasper Morrison Office for Design with David Saik. Catalogue and graphic design: Norm. In collaboration with: Vignelli Center for Design Studies, RIT New York, and the Vignelli family.
Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milano
to 6 September 2026
Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS
This exhibition explores how graphic design shaped New York’s grassroots response to AIDS from 1979 to 2003. Public health campaigns, agitprop, benefit flyers, and club handbills offer more than messages—they map how communities built survival systems from below, often before the state would act.Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
Above Safe Sex!, 1987 Keith Haring
to 6 September 2026
Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen
Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded and many of the movies that featured all-Black casts are now considered ‘lost films’ (films for which no copy is known to survive), advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and the 1940s.
The posters in this exhibition allow viewers to consider how Black storytelling was transferred and transformed during its transition from stage to screen. They also document aspects of the historic innovations of playwrights, composers, directors, and producers for Black actors as they sought to represent life and experiences for Black audiences through their own creative perspectives.
This exhibition is rated PG-13 for racist imagery, violence and sexual content.
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
to 20 September 2026
Corbijn, Anton
The story of Anton Corbijn begins in the quiet corners of a small Dutch island, where he grew up as the son of a vicar. For a young Corbijn, music was an escape, a passion that consumed him. His camera soon became both a tool and a companion, a way to channel his fascination with music and, perhaps more importantly, a means to navigate his own shyness. When Corbijn moved to London in 1979, the city was electric with the energy of bands like The Clash, The Jam, and Joy Division. Within ten days of arriving in England, he managed to photograph Joy Division claiming he was on assignment for a major Dutch magazine, even though he hadn’t been officially commissioned.
Now, having celebrated his 70th birthday last year, Corbijn looks back on over five decades of work that spans photography, music videos, and film. Corbijn, Anton celebrates his 50-year career and revisits his extensive body of work. Here, you will encounter nearly 150 pieces: iconic portraits of legends like Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, U2, the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese, and Marlene Dumas, as well as German icons Nina Hagen, Herbert Grönemeyer, Einstürzende Neubauten and Wim Wenders. His signature black-and-white grainy aesthetic became a defining visual language in his work.
Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin - Mitte
to 4 October 2026
Curated by Paul Gravett, ‘Queer as Comics’ traces comics, strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented ‘LGBTQIA+’ perspectives since the 1940s. The exhibition includes work by Tove Jansson, Kate Charlesworth, Rupert Kinnard and David Shenton.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to 18 October 2026
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai
Japanese photographer Kawada Kikuji (b.1933) has been active for eight decades. The exhibition features his 1965 photobook Chizu (The Map), which examines the scars of the postwar period, and The Last Cosmology plus more recent work.
In her first major UK show, Iwane Ai (b.1975) presents her award-winning series Kipuka, exploring the lives of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii, and work from A New River, which captures eerily lit cherry blossoms at night in Japan’s northeastern Tо̄hoku region during the Covid-19 crisis.
This exhibition – the first ever photography show at the venue – is organised in partnership with Kyotographie International Photography Festival, held every year across Kyoto.
Admission free. Booking recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
to 18 October 2026
Kho Liang Ie
Mid-century Modernist
The Stedelijk presents the first major museum retrospective of Kho Liang Ie who, with his designs for furniture and interiors, played a key role in Dutch design from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Through his poetic approach and unconventional choice of materials, he infused his functionalist designs with an element of playfulness. He also cultivated a large international network and introduced fresh design talent to the Netherlands.
Admission: €12.50-€22.50
Opendaily: 10am-6 pm
No entrance after 5:45pm.
Stedelijk, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
to 1 Nov 2026
Photo: Hans Hansen
This large-scale retrospective to one of the leading photographers in postwar Germany features around 220 iconic photographs from a career spanning over six decades. Hans Hansen revolutionised product photography in campaigns for companies such as Lufthansa, Nikon, Volkswagen and Erco. His most recent series, ‘Analog’ (2024), highlights Hansen’s distinctive visual language.
Exhibition design: Axel Kufus. Graphic design: Heimann + Schwantes.
Open Tue to Sun, 10am to 6pm(until 9pm Thursdays).
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) Hamburg, Steintorplatz 20099 Hamburg, Germany
to 1 November 2026
Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime
During World Wars I and II, nearly every nation involved recognised that it was necessary to provide materials to maintain soldier wellbeing and morale. Because foot soldiers had to carry all of their possessions, small, portable entertainment was preferred. As such, books quickly soared in popularity. Between lulls in action or when waiting for orders far from the front lines, troops read to forget their surroundings and fears, taking a mental vacation from their hardships.
This exhibition includes book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Germany printed during both world wars. All of these nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and many posters aimed to mobilise the public to give. While some encourage escapist fiction and recreational reading, educational books were also acquired for troops to help them prepare for promotion within the Army, future jobs or civilian life. By World War II, books had also become a powerful symbol of freedom and democracy for America and its allies.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 1 November 2026
From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)
On 28 October 1918, Czechoslovakia declared its independence and became a new country formed from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia – all lands formerly part of the Austro Hungarian Empire which had been officially dissolved as a result of World War I. The period from 1918 to 1938 is referred to as the First Republic.
This exhibition explores seldom-seen travel posters from this golden age of Czechoslovakian history. They were created by artists, designers and commercial studios who understood that tourism was more than leisure – it was diplomacy. In a region long defined by the imperial borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travel posters became vehicles for soft power, enticing both domestic and foreign audiences to see the First Czechoslovak Republic as a land of opportunity, beauty and progress.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 15 November 2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. In Aardman’s 50th anniversary year, peek behind the scenes of your favourite stop-motion animations and find out how Aardman brings clay to life. Visit Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph as many times as you like with your exhibition pass.
Admission: £11
Hours: Open daily 10am-5:45pm
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
5 June 2026 – 1 April 2027
An opportunity to explore Quentin Blake's theatrical influences, from circus to Shakespeare, including more than 100 original works by Blake in this UK-first survey of the influence of theatre on his work.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to April 2027
Art deco: the golden age of poster design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage.
Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display, and explore the art deco and modernist architecture of Charles Holden in changing the face of London with his remarkable Tube station designs.
More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection, alongside loans from significant collections are on display. This includes posters from designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with your Museum admission.
See the ‘The purpose of posters’ on the Eye blog.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
JUNE 2026
25 June – 5 September 2026
Robert Vano: Love You from Prague
An extensive exhibition presenting the world-renowned photography of Robert Vano – master of platinum printing and pioneer of male nudes – opens in Notting Hill this June.
The retrospective is a carefully curated cross-section of Vano’s work spanning from the 1980s to the present day with special focus on the free and optimistic era of the 1990s. It showcases more than 50 photographs sectioned into three different standalone exhibits featuring Vano’s work for leading fashion magazines from New York to Paris and Milan; his dramatic stills of Prague; and his most famous work of black and white male nude portraits, often developed through Vano’s signature platinum printing - a rare and highly demanding technique used only by a handful of photographers.
Admission is free.
Opening hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm
Czech Centre London, Vitrinka Gallery, Bouda Gallery & Public space outside of the Czech Embassy, London
Image above: By Robert Vano, Boys from Bohemia,1992
26-27 June 2026
A design festival for people who use type.
This two-day series of talks is the central event of the Typographics Festival, focused on the use of type across all design disciplines. Now in its eleventh year, the conference will be in-person in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, New York City.
The conference will include speakers such as Kiel D. Mutschelknaus (see Eye 100), Anna Kulachek, Amy Papaelias (see Eye 109), Bijan Berahimi, Julien Priez, Kelli Anderson (see Eye 110) and many more.
More details about the conference are available at 2026.typographics.com.
Tickets available here.
The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003
27 June 2026
Come celebrate the release of Alphabettes Soup: a decade of feminist approaches to type research, design, and creative community-building.
Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type (Bikini Books, 2026) celebrates a decade of typographic pot-banging and community-building. Blending key articles from the Alphabettes platform with new essays, reflections, and interviews, the book challenges dominant narratives in type and seeks to inspire future decentralized design networks. A 400-page potluck type specimen, this hearty soup features work by over 250 women and gender-diverse type and design practitioners from around the world.
Join editor Amy Papaelias and contributor Elizabeth Carey Smith, along with Dyana Weissman, Victoria Rushton, Liz DeLuna, Laura Serra, and more Alphabettes Soup chefs, to celebrate the launch of the book with conversation, cake, and, of course, fun.
Admission is free. Tickets available here.
Timings: 7:00-9:30pm
The One Club For Creativity, 450 W 31st St, Floor 6 New York, NY 10001
Image credits: Sera van de Water, courtesy of Bikini Books.
JULY 2026
6 July 2026
Method Acting In Typeface Design
with Tal Leming
In 2024, Tal Leming was tasked with designing a new cartographic typeface for the National Geographic Society. This new typeface needed to pair with Society’s long-serving cartographic typefaces. Not much was known about those typefaces, so he started digging into their origins and stumbled onto an amazing story of the Society quietly inventing a form of phototypesetting in the early 1930s. This discovery led to all sorts of concrete and abstract questions that affected the scope of the new typeface. Who designed those typefaces? Why do they look the way that they do? Am I making a new typeface or am I reviving a typeface? Am I even the designer of this new typeface? In this talk, Tal will lead us through the project and share the discoveries he made along the way.
Admission is free. Reserve your spot here.
Timings:
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM (Eastern Time)
Type@Cooper, 41 Cooper Square at Cooper Union, Entrance on East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003
9 July 2026
India Street Lettering: Building Missing Archives
Pooja Saxena reflects on her decade of documenting letterforms around her home country.
The publication of her book, India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture, is the perfect moment for author and type designer Pooja Saxena to reflect on her decade of documenting letterforms around her home country. What began as an attempt to replace the institutional design archives she frequented during her university years in the UK has become, over the years, an anchor of her design practice. It informs her studio projects, typographic voice, and understanding of the politics of design.
In this presentation, Pooja will trace the evolution of this project, focusing on the methodologies she developed for annotating and analysing the vast number of photographs she has amassed. She will talk about her efforts to bring conversations about typography and lettering into the Indian mainstream through this work, and the ideas she is still itching to explore.
Timings: 5:00-6:30pm (GMT+1)
Admission: $7-$12. You can book tickets here.
28 July – 4 October 2026
Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
In summer 2026, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present a major new exhibition, bringing together more than 100 landmark works by some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition will chart the dramatic evolution of American city life from the early 1900s to the close of the 20th century. Featuring images from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, the exhibition draws exclusively from the DNB Saving Bank Foundation’s collection in Norway.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 7AD
Above: Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, California, 1987 © Mary Ellen Mark, Courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation / Arthur Leipzig, Divers, East River, 1948 © Estate of Arthur Leipzig, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York / Saul Leiter, Harlem, 1960 © Saul Leiter Foundation / Helen Levitt, New York¸1972 © Helen Levitt, Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
AUGUST 2026
1 August 2026 – Summer 2027
A Century of Animation from the Collection
Since the birth of motion pictures, animation has enchanted audiences. At MoMA, its creative evolution has been celebrated by more than a hundred programs and acquisitions from both independent filmmakers and major studios alike. Drawing from this history and spanning more than 100 years of expression and aesthetics, It’s Alive! shares the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers who advanced the medium. The exhibition highlights its roots in New York and how the city remained a hub for innovative animation.
Felix the Cat, Koko the Clown, Gertie the Dinosaur, and other enduring cartoon icons of the silent era (1890s–1920s) prove how significant character-based animation was to establishing the medium. The hand-drawn practices of their creators—including Otto Messmer, Dave Fleischer, and Winsor McCay—were fundamental to the characters’ appeal. Works from later decades by artists such as Isadore Sparber, Mary Beams, Kathy Rose, Tissa David, and David Erhlich demonstrate that black-and-white line drawing remained a vital style through the predigital period.
The addition of color in the 1930s, and the modernization of animation design led by John Hubley in the 1950s as a response to the classical style of Disney, influenced a number of independent artists in later decades. Jane Aaron, John Canemaker, Faith and Emily Hubley, George Griffin, Candy Kugel, Jeff Scher, and Michael Sporn all called New York home. Balancing projects for Public Television and MTV with personal filmmaking, these animators created bodies of work that became a force in pop culture and resonated worldwide. It’s Alive! is a testament to a rich period of the city’s movie-making history, and to the diversity and delights of animation.
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan
10 August 2026
Type Archived: treasures of the UK’s National Typefounding Collection
with Richard Ardagh
Richard Ardagh will talk about his recently published book, Type Archived, which documents the story and collections of London’s legendary Type Archive. Showcasing highlights from some 8 million items, these materials form a tangible history of typography and printing in the UK, from the ancient materials of Sheffield foundry Stephenson Blake and the innovative woodletter factory of Robert DeLittle in York, to the precision hot-metal machinery and global operations of The Monotype Corporation. Ardagh studied punchcutting and matrix-making with the senior staff on site until the Archive’s closure in 2023 and will also share his experiences of ‘engineering the word’.
See ‘Archiving the archive’ from Eye 106.
Admission is free. Reserve your spot here.
Timings:
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM (Eastern Time)
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street), New York, NY 10003
22-23 August 2026
In August, the city of Offenbach is organising the Hot Printing Festival for the third time in the Klingspor Museum, in the adjacent courtyard of the Büsingpalais, in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte and in the printing workshop in the Bernardbau. A maximum of 70 stands will be allocated to artists, printers and workshop owners to present their own work for sale. In order to spend a lively weekend together and appeal to as many visitors as possible, the allocation of stands is linked to the request for a program item. Print demonstrations, readings, small workshops etc. are conceivable, either at your own stand or in the printing workshop in the neighbouring Bernardbau.
Klingspor Museum, Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main, Germany
SEPTEMBER 2026
16 and 17 September 2026
This annual conference includes stage talks from inspirational magazine publishing speakers, including Peter Allen (Magneto), Mila Moisio (Tauko magazine) and Amer Safir, editor-in-chief and manager of the 124-year-old The Review of Religions. Hosted by Eloise Leeson-Smith, founder of Olim.
There will be an independent magazine shop courtesy of Ra & Olly plus workshops that offer practical tips on how to save money, improve audience engagement, get more advertising and sell more magazines. All attendees receive a copy of Word on the Street magazine.
Tickets from £69 to £249.00
Venue: Sloans, 108 Argyle St, Glasgow, G2 8BG
18 and 19 September 2026
Each day kicks off with a morning of inspirational and informative talks from leading collage artists and curators spanning commercial work, exhibition practice, and community collage art.
In the afternoons speakers will each be hosting a hands-on collage workshop where you can take the morning’s inspiration and put it into practice.
Plus…every ticket comes with a free tote bag packed with collage goodies, and on Friday evening is a CC. Live! social – a relaxed chance to meet the artists and connect with other collage makers.
1-day and 2-day tickets are available, and whichever you choose, morning talks and afternoon workshops are included as standard. Book your early bird ticket before 31st July!
Timing: 10:00am-5:00pm every day
Admission: £85-£175
University of Staffordshire, Film Theatre, The Wade Centre, Hartshill Road ST4 7NY
24 September 2026 – 4 January 2027
Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony will be the largest museum survey exhibition to date of the work of Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, MS), spanning two floors of the newly expanded New Museum to encompass the full breadth of the practice of one of the most influential artists of his generation. Alongside the premiere of new work, the exhibition will feature Jafa’s most celebrated works, including Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) and the Golden Lion-winning The White Album (2019), as well as recent paintings, large-scale video and film installations, and a range of sculptural and photographic objects.
Over a nearly forty-year career, Jafa has sought to find new visual forms to capture the rhythm and realities of Black life in America. Often placing the nation’s growing awareness of the history of institutional violence directed toward the Black community against the backdrop of the ascension of Black culture, music, and entertainment in American national identity, Jafa’s work turns an unflinching eye toward the past while embodying and mirroring our contemporary obsession with masses of images or ‘content’. I Am Tony, named for the legendary jazz drummer Tony Williams, will chart Jafa’s work from his earliest films to recent video installations, mapping the evolution of his filmic language whose syncopations and textures match the aspirations of Black popular music.
See ‘Twisting the alien’, Rick Poyner's photo critique of Jafa's APEX.
More info here.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Image Above: Arthur Jafa, Pledge of Allegiance, 1899, 2017
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.
22 June – 3 July 2026
Now in its third year, TipoItalia will guide you on a typographic excavation and digital revival of hand-painted signs from the streets of Venice, inscriptions from the Renaissance and Tipoteca’s collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco wood and metal typefaces. We’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts. Type historians, printers and designers Riccardo Olocco, Rory Sparks, Mitch Blessing and Dan Rhatigan will be your guides on this alphabetic excursion as you unearth and refresh the best of Italian lettering and typography.
TipoItalia encourages learners to see the alphabet in its myriad forms and trace their evolution to the type collection held by Tipoteca. This program fosters a ‘typographic archaeology’ that can then be translated into printed works and digital type, allowing the participant to bring Italian typography to life.
Taught by Rory Sparks, Dan Rhatigan, and Riccardo Olocco and Mitch Blessing. This residency hosts a maximum of twelve participants.
This session includes twelve workshop days, including studio time at Tipoteca Italiana and day trips throughout the region.
The days at Tipoteca Italiana will include a mix of organised demos, presentations and self-guided work in the studio.
Pricing + due dates:
• Registrations by March 15, 2026 - €2,299.00
• Registrations by May 1, 2026 - €2,499.00
• Registrations after May 1, 2026 - €2,699.00
The fee covers the cost of the workshop and transportation for daytrips. Participants pay airfare, lodging and ground transportation to Cornuda where Tipoteca is located.
Apply for a 2026 scholarship here.
For more information, please email [email protected].
Tipoteca, Via Canapificio, 3, 31041 Cornuda TV, Italy