Blog: Illustration

29 May 2012

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

john l. walters, type tuesday

This Emigre type specimen celebrates a lost era of LPs and recording studios
I once heard someone dismiss a former boyfriend with the put-down, ‘he’s the sort of…

25 May 2012

Can design do what?

Can design do what?

Dutch conference looks at the potential of design to address social problems
What design can do! (WDCD) was a two-day conference, held earlier this month in Amsterdam, that…

24 May 2012

Home-made heavy metal

Home-made heavy metal

gareth hague

With no need to be cool, bands happily riff on the visual vocabulary of the 70s
Heavy metal culture has always been on the outside, writes Gareth Hague. Outside cool, outside…

23 May 2012

Eyeball pleasers

Eyeball pleasers

becky chilcott

St Bride hosts a plethora of pencil-squeezers (and diamond geezers).
STOP PRESS: MAKING PICTURES CONFERENCE POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2012. What is an illustrator? According to…

18 May 2012

Come all ye …

Come all ye …

chloë king

Chloë King looks at the work in ‘Artists Open Houses’ at the Brighton Festival
There’s more to Brighton Artists Open Houses (AOH) than artsy-crafty delights and polymer-clay fairies, writes…

17 May 2012

Noted #36

Noted #36

Marius Watz, Paul Bommer, info, dogs in cars & vanity Tweet publishing.
Here are a few links that caught our attention over the past few weeks. Paul Bommer’s…

14 May 2012

Batchelor’s mix

Batchelor’s mix

chloë king

Beauty in the streets, unrefurbished spaces and skips of Brighton
The skip outside Brighton Town Hall isn’t rubbish, writes Chloë King. A yellow fluorescent tube…

7 May 2012

Gonzo graphic design

Gonzo graphic design

robert newman

America’s ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget cover art direction.
‘The alternative weekly newspapers of the United States are a hotbed of creative cover design,’…

3 May 2012

Open and shut cases

Open and shut cases

mark thomson

Bracewell’s ‘The Space Between’: the essence of a book as artwork
It is not often that entire books form the material, or part of the material…

3 May 2012

Break out of the cloisters

Break out of the cloisters

jessica jenkins

Explore ‘Socialist Modernity’ at a forthcoming RCA symposium
Venture outside the world of blogs and back-slapping designer conferences, writes Jessica Jenkins. Everyday academic life…
 
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