Blog: Visual culture

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…

22 May 2012

Type Tuesday – sticky Univers

Type Tuesday – sticky Univers

jane cheng, type tuesday

Jonas Etter’s transient sculptures leave a bittersweet aftertaste
In the 1960s and 70s, making art with words was a way to avoid having a…

20 May 2012

Photo finish

Photo finish

john ridpath

Bike app brings black, cream & red-blooded photo-reportage to the iPad
Following the trend toward towards beautifully designed and illustrated publications for cyclists (see ‘Two wheels…

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…

16 May 2012

Wax museum

Wax museum

simon robinson

A collection of Sheffield 78s evokes a forgotten era of music packaging.
Interest in record sleeve art naturally gravitates towards the long-play albums that emerged the 1950s, writes…

15 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

eric kindel, type tuesday

Stencils, stencil letters, tools and new fonts on display in Antwerp
The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 1…

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…

11 May 2012

Full tilt

Full tilt

john l. walters

Glass & Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach liberates the space-time continuum.
Though I missed the UK premiere* of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and…

10 May 2012

Wanda and Ken

Wanda and Ken

the picture department

Riverside pictures & mystery photos in the Garlands’ first joint show.
Tomorrow sees the opening of a new joint exhibition by painter Wanda Garland and designer…
 
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