Blog: Visual culture

26 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

david womack, historical digital

Tools to make or break: designers are redefining type and image at code level
The ability to make tools is what distinguishes designers and other humans from lower forms…

25 October 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

christian schwartz, paul barnes, type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Venus 1907-27
With each new development in typesetting, huge numbers of typefaces get left behind. You can…

24 October 2011

Cutting, collage and surreal craft

Cutting, collage and surreal craft

amelia gregory

A round-up of illustration trends from this year’s grad shows
There were some very strong trends in both technique and subject matter at the current…

22 October 2011

Noted #16

Noted #16

noted

The CBS Eye, Maus, points of type and designer trivia from Kevin Finn
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

20 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

adrian shaughnessy, historical digital

Adrian Shaughnessey on the rise of laptop aesthetics … from 2003
What are the major stylistic trends in current graphic design? wrote Adrian Shaughnessey in Eye…

19 October 2011

Age shall not wither her

Age shall not wither her

nick bell

Patricia Moore and the fight for inclusivity in design. And robot carers
Patricia Moore’s talk last week at the Logan Hall in London, writes Nick Bell, was…

17 October 2011

Noted #15

Noted #15

noted

Lettering, Film noir, forgotten kerning, public poetry and PlayType
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

14 October 2011

Gag pile

Gag pile

Gordon Young’s Blackpool Comedy Carpet with Why Not Associates

The Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on a vast scale, hewn in concrete and granite across Blackpool’s seafront.

13 October 2011

California dreams

California dreams

jessica jenkins

Exhibition charts the sunny design aesthetic of the Golden State
I have developed a habit, when travelling, of making a mental snapshot of what strikes…

11 October 2011

Red top

Red top

alexander ecob

The Independent gets a ‘friendly’ facelift for its quarter century
The Independent’s fourth redesign in three years greeted readers of the UK daily this morning…
 
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