Blog: Music design
22 August 2013
14 August 2013
Dance, light and architecture
New Movement Collective inhabits a disused space with dance, architecture, light and sound
The prospect of combining contemporary dance with architecture, light installation and sound is an enticing…
12 July 2013
Babylon aan ’t IJ
Brooklyn Babylon, a multimedia spectacular by Darcy James Argue and Danijel Žeželj, raises the roof at the Holland Festival
In the critic’s lexicon, there are few terms more problematic than ‘multimedia’, writes John L…
18 April 2013
All eyes on La Boca
London design studio La Boca celebrates ten colourful years with a retrospective exhibition
London-based design studio La Boca has attracted much attention as of late. The independent studio…
3 April 2013
Music design eye candy
Rich in reproductions and spanning a wide range of musical genres, Classic Rock Posters is…
30 January 2013
The other end of the spectrum
Upon Paper 02 sports a Peter Saville cover. John Ridpath talks to editorial director Paul Hetherington about this monster-format ’zine
Upon Paper is a publication made so vast in format that I had to make…
28 January 2013
What type taught me about music
Rick Finlay recalls his time at Reading, a university education that was not about vocation, but ‘raw knowledge and research, and their applicability to whatever life throws at you’
As an undergraduate on the Typography course at Reading University around 1980 I found enough…
21 January 2013
Noted #48
Illustration, music, life and death.
Here are a few links to exhibitions, illustrations and events that caught our attention in…
20 December 2012
Design state of mind
Kemistry Gallery showcases Yokoland, a Norwegian design and illustration studio with its own flag …
Kemistry Gallery’s ‘84 projects from Yokoland’, which continues until Saturday 19 January 2013, displays work…
14 November 2012
Jazz in print
Matt Willey’s sumptuous brochure for UK radio station JazzFM evokes a golden age of magazine and LP sleeve art direction.
Jazz and radio came of age around the same time, the 1920s, when ‘physical music’…