Blog: Visual culture

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…

1 May 2012

Modern games

Modern games

alex cameron

Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set design advances a ‘Bauhaus reality’ check
Form follows function. The oft-quoted, much misunderstood dictum associated with the Bauhaus finds few better expressions…

1 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

alex cameron

Tankard’s new type family Fenland questions the ‘calligraphic metaphor’
The launch party for Jeremy Tankard’s new type family Fenland, at London’s Kemistry Gallery, was packed…

27 April 2012

Clicks and sparks

Clicks and sparks

john l. walters

data.anatomy – Ryoji Ikeda’s new audiovisual installation in Berlin
Ryoji Ikeda’s work quivers somewhere between electronic music, digital art, installation and performance, writes John…

24 April 2012

#FontSunday … on #TypeTuesday

#FontSunday … on #TypeTuesday

The Design Museum’s Twitter contest has type geeks living for the weekend
Ah, Sunday. Day of sleeping in late, padding around the house in your jammies, and…

17 April 2012

Type Tuesday: Set in stone

Type Tuesday: Set in stone

eric gillett

More boulder alphabets and love notes from Utah’s Great Basin desert
As mountain snows melt with the coming of spring, the desert begins to swallow the ephemeral…

15 April 2012

Gumballs in Philadelphia

Gumballs in Philadelphia

joan k. smith

Joan K. Smith reviews The Happy Show’s mix of art, design and science
So I didn’t eat one of the chocolates, or chew one of the happiness-rated yellow…

13 April 2012

Noted #34

Noted #34

noted

Visualising city density, a magazine about Web design and magpie minds
Links and things … The world’s population, concentrated. ‘Viddy well’ – John Coulthart goes ‘Back in…

11 April 2012

A tasty spread

A tasty spread

the events department

Looking ahead to the Facing Pages festival of indie magazines in Arnhem.
Next week, the ‘Facing Pages’ festival in Arnhem provides an opportunity to take part in…
 
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