Blog: Visual culture

10 March 2010

LA logo attack

LA logo attack

H5’s ‘highly caffeinated’ Logorama wins the Oscar for best short film
Earlier this week, H5’s Logorama won the Academy Award for best animated short. Here’s the…

8 March 2010

Ms Understood in Whitechapel

Ms Understood in Whitechapel

sally jeffery

Eye looks back at 1970s campaign posters on International Women’s Day
These campaign posters may never have been widely seen, but they should be, writes Sally…

7 March 2010

Grease is the Word

Grease is the Word

The chipboard lexicon of London’s latest literary festival
Eye visited The Chip Shop run by the Henningham Family Press at the launch of the…

1 March 2010

Signs of a city

Signs of a city

john ridpath

Eye revisits the typography of Athenian street signs
When Minos Zarifopoulos wrote about Athenian street signs in Eye 45, he worried that a…

26 February 2010

Back to the future

Back to the future

liz farrelly

Day two at the ‘Decoding the digital’ conference at the V&A
Day two of the ‘Decoding the Digital’, conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London…

26 February 2010

Glamour profession

Glamour profession

the fashion department

Anthony Burrill’s graphics for Jenny Packham at London Fashion Week
‘It was all my favourite things in one place,’ says Anthony Burrill, delighted by his…

22 February 2010

Discussing the digital

Discussing the digital

liz farrelly

John Maeda on dirt, de-cluttering and the power of art
Even though John Maeda wasn’t officially speaking at the ‘Decoding the Digital’ conference, staged alongside…

18 February 2010

20-20 digital hindsight.

20-20 digital hindsight.

honor beddard

Early adopters of computer art and design enter the V&A collections
In the past few years the Victoria and Albert Museum has amassed what is now…

17 February 2010

Knots and geography

Knots and geography

maxwell roberts

A psychologist challenges the Beck gospel of Underground octolinearity
Henry Beck’s iconic map (or diagram) of 1933 tamed the London Underground by showing chaotic…

16 February 2010

Indian ‘ostalgia’?

Indian ‘ostalgia’?

Soviet-style covers for Seagull Books’ histories of Communism
‘What Was Communism?’ is a series of short, snappy monographs, published by Seagull Books and edited…
 
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