Events
DON’T MISS
8 August 2026
A one-day art installation of viral fake tech ads on an old newsstand on the West 4th subway platform, featuring new fake tech ads and ones already posted. Hosted by Harris Alterman and Dave Ross.
A display that lets build your OWN fake tech ad. Free merch. Drinkable KoolAId.
More at A.I. Conglomerate.
10am – 5pm, W Fourth St. Subway Station, Downtown BDFM Platform, W Fourth St, New York, NY, United States.
8 September 2026
Type Tuesday: My favourite magazine cover
Covers that count
Type Tuesday returns this September with another event in our popular 'My favourite …' series. This time we are asking our guests to choose their favourite magazine cover and make a case for their choice.
The line-up includes Kuchar Swara (Port, Daily Telegraph, see Eye 73), Giulia Garbin, Anoushka Khandwala (see Eye 103), Natasha Tomalin-Hall (YOU magazine), Cath Caldwell and Mathias Clottu (The Fence) with more speakers to be announced soon. The chosen magazines won’t be revealed until the night.
Which magazine would you chose? Both 'My favourite font’ and ‘My favourite logo’ sold out so don't delay and book your tickets now.
This will be a fun evening with a chance to test your magazine knowledge and, of course, more stickers!
Type Tuesday is Eye’s regular event for everyone interested in graphic design, typography, type design, photography, illustration and visual culture, which we have been hosting for more than a decade to raise money for St Bride Foundation (SBF).
Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students/LLMs
Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).
Doors open 6.30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 110, plus bargain back issues.
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All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.
Eye’s regular gathering at St Bride Printing Library – save the date and bring your friends. Everybody’s welcome.
St Bride Foundation
14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street,
London EC4Y 8EQ
to 9 August 2026
Type Directors Club 72nd International Type Design Exhibition
The show showcases this year's winners of the Type Directors Club's 72nd Annual Competition, with work from designers in 40 countries across Communication Design, Lettering, and Type Design.
Free and open to all.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 5, 6:30-9pm
Closing Event: Sunday, August 9, 11am-4pm.
426 SW Harvey Milk St, Portland, OR
Image above: Selected TDC Annuals in the Volumes collection.
3 August to 24 October 2026
MCR MADE: Icons who make our city
This free exhibition features thirteen gigantic inflatable Stanley Chow portraits of Manchester heroes – from footballers to suffragettes – suspended across the shopping centre.
Manchester Arndale, Manchester, M4 3AQ
17 July to 17 December 2026
The exhibition ‘Come Fly With Me: Aviation, tourism and Irish design’ examines Irish cultural history through the exploration of aviation- and tourism-related graphic design from the 1940s to the 60s.
The exhibition uses flight as a central thread to explore how design and print helped construct national identity, promote Irish modernisation and position Ireland internationally. With the arrival of a number of Dutch graphic designers to Ireland in the 1950s to work on advertising for Aer Lingus, depictions of Ireland and Irishness were forever changed, as was Ireland’s relationship to Continental Europe and the US. Their design work was recognised internationally, had a huge impact on Irish design and economic development.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday (10am-4pm), Saturday & Sunday (12noon-4pm).
A Curator’s Tour will take place on Thursday 24 September at 19.00. Tickets €6/€5 concessions.
National Print Museum, Old Garrison Chapel, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 D04 E0C9, Ireland
10 August 2026
Type Archived: treasures of the UK’s National Typefounding Collection
with Richard Ardagh
Richard Ardagh will talk about his recently published book, Type Archived, which documents the story and collections of London’s legendary Type Archive. Showcasing highlights from some 8 million items, these materials form a tangible history of typography and printing in the UK, from the ancient materials of Sheffield foundry Stephenson Blake and the innovative woodletter factory of Robert DeLittle in York, to the precision hot-metal machinery and global operations of The Monotype Corporation. Ardagh studied punchcutting and matrix-making with the senior staff on site until the Archive’s closure in 2023 and will also share his experiences of ‘engineering the word’.
See ‘Archiving the archive’ from Eye 106.
Admission is free. Reserve your spot here.
Timings:
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM (Eastern Time)
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street), New York, NY 10003
CURRENTLY ON
to 15 August 2026
‘The 100 Best Posters’ is a competition with a long history: for more than 25 years, it has showcased significant poster design from the DACH region. The accompanying exhibitions travel around 16,000 km, visiting more than seven countries across two continents.
To mark its 25th anniversary, a very special exhibition was created: 100 outstanding posters were once again selected from the past 25 years. The selection illustrates the development of graphic design across decades while also demonstrating how timeless and relevant these works remain to this day.
With this exhibition and its accompanying book, we celebrate 25 years of ‘The 100 Best from Germany, Austria and Switzerland’.
Mon-Fri: 09:00-17:00 (Saturdays + Sundays + National Holidays closed)
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
to 16 August 2026
This exhibition celebrates the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century. Organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation.
From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, this exhibition takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years. On view across the museum’s entire third-floor gallery, the exhibition will feature more than 300 artworks drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.
More info on tickets and hours here.
See ‘Graphic design live #24’ on the Eye blog.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, US
Above. Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. Lithograph on paper; 72.8 × 51.5 cm (28 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.).
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
to 16 August 2026
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more.
Admission: £9.84-19.69
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Photo: Model of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL © Thierry Stefanopoulos – La Cinémathèque française
14 July to 26 Aug 2026
Dafi Kühne: Constructing Posters
Exhibition by the acclaimed letterpress printmaker Dafi Kühne (see ‘Dafi Kühne comes to town’ in Eye 108). Kuhne's original posters can be found in public collections and archives in Switzerland, Germany and the US, and his work has won international awards and been shown in exhibitions around the world. He is member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
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Opening hours: 11:00am - 7:00pm Closed on Sundays and holidays
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to 9 August 2026
American Folk Art
Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
A champion of the avant-garde and a cofounder of MoMA, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller played a pivotal role in recognising folk art as integral to the artistic traditions of the United States and to a modern and inclusive art history. Rockefeller perceived a connection between the objects she collected and the art of her time, and understood how folk art spoke to questions of cultural production at a moment when American modernism was still taking shape.
MoMA, Floor 3, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, US
to 16 August 2026
Olivia Plender: Little Fennel’s Complaint
This solo exhibition by Olivia Plender (b.1977, London), explores historic and ongoing inequalities in women’s healthcare – from early modern witchcraft to contemporary debates on reproductive rights and medical authority. Plender developed the exhibition through research with leading Oxford institutions, including the Bodleian Library, Oxford Botanic Garden and John Radcliffe Hospital.
Across embroidered textiles, watercolours, drawings, mobiles, and sound works, she examines how women’s healthcare has been recorded, classified, and practised over time. The exhibition combines new commissions, existing works, and historic manuscripts to highlight Plender’s multidisciplinary, research-led practice. Installations trace shifting approaches to medicine and diagnosis, opening with a presentation inspired by contemporary hospital architectures and waiting rooms.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, UK, OX1 1BP
Above: Olivia Plender, embroidered textile, 2026.
to 23 August 2026
Serpentine’s First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026
Serpentine is honoured to announce an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney (see Eye 42). Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, will also feature in the show.
Admission free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W. Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
to 28 August 2026
Na Kim, Oblique Time / 김영나, 느슨한 시간
Weekdays, 10am to 5pm
KAIST Art Museum, Exhibition Terrace 6 & 7
E9, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
to 29 August 2026
Jealous Festival – A Summer Show
Jealous is excited to announce the Jealous Festival: A Summer Show. Take your pick from our exhibition of pre-framed works from the Jealous archives, pay for the print and get the frame for FREE! Sold as seen, all works on display come with bespoke, conservation standard framing by sister company, Eden Framing.
The line-up of Jealous artists includes Kate Gibb (see ‘Image-making beyond style’), Jake Chapman, Stanley Donwood, Ben Kelly, Noel Fielding (see Eye 70), Jess Wilson, Dave Buonaguidi, Corbin Shaw, Guiseppe D’Innella, Mark Denton, Jonathan Mannion X Bashy and many more!
Jealous, 53 Curtain Road, EC2A
to 30 August 2026
An audiovisual exhibition by filmmaker Romain Gavras and musician Surkin aka Gener8ion, Visions of 2034 features ten multimedia works that explore peripheral dystopias – futures glimpsed from the margins, shaped less by collapse than by distortion. Turning 180 Studios' underground spaces into an alternative world where machines and bodies, storytelling and sensation collide, the exhibition includes premieres of seven new short films and a new immersive sound installation, as well as unseen footage and alternative scenes from Gener8ion visuals past and present.
Tickets: £15.00
Exhibition opening times: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 noon-7pm
180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London WC2
to 31 August 2026
Originally trained as an architect, Murugiah has brought ambitious scale and play with perspective to a decade of illustration projects.
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on the day of your visit: £16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
to 2 September 2026
Noel Carrington: Nothing Need Be Ugly
Curated by writer and publisher Joe Pearson (Design for Today), this exhibition tells the story of publishing’s unsung hero Noel Carrington (1895–1989).
Schooled in Bedford, Noel Carrington (see Eye 85) became one of the most influential figures in design of the twentieth century. Through Puffin Picture Books and Country Life he commissioned, edited and published some of Britain’s best loved children’s picture books. He saw the genius in artists such as Kathleen Hale, whose series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat he published, and he championed emerging artists such as Hilary Stebbing. With Eric Ravilious he published High Street; with Edward Bawden he wrote and published Life in an English Village; and with Mervyn Peake he commissioned the tale of the wild pirate Captain Slaughterboard.
The exhibition features publishing classics such as the Kynoch Press Notebooks and Country Life Gardener’s Diaries as well as 120 Puffin Picture Books. The work of his sister Dora Carrington will also be included as it was Noel Carrington who brought her back into the public eye. Through much loved children’s books, forgotten gems and original artwork, this exhibition will take Noel Carrington out of the footnotes and into the spotlight.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11am-5pm, Sunday: 2pm-5pm, Closed on Mondays
The Higgins Bedford, Wixamtree and Connections Gallery, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD
See Clare Walters’ review in Eye 110.
to 4 September 2026
Robert Vano: Love You from Prague
An extensive exhibition presenting the world-renowned photography of Robert Vano – master of platinum printing and pioneer of male nudes – opens in Notting Hill this June.
The retrospective is a carefully curated cross-section of Vano’s work spanning from the 1980s to the present day with special focus on the free and optimistic era of the 1990s. It showcases more than 50 photographs sectioned into three different standalone exhibits featuring Vano’s work for leading fashion magazines from New York to Paris and Milan; his dramatic stills of Prague; and his most famous work of black and white male nude portraits, often developed through Vano’s signature platinum printing - a rare and highly demanding technique used only by a handful of photographers.
Admission is free.
Opening hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm
Czech Centre London, Vitrinka Gallery, Bouda Gallery & Public space outside of the Czech Embassy, London
Image above: By Robert Vano, Boys from Bohemia,1992
to 5 September 2026
Lisson Street: Daniel Buren – Pages in situ
This exhibition, curated by graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge (see Eye 100 and 108), charts Daniel Buren’s expanded use of the 8.7cm stripe over almost six decades, from the street to the gallery walls and from the canvas to the printed page. Exploring the legacy of the artist’s famous motif – through art works, archival objects and his prodigious publishing and printed matter output – the display attempts an entire history of the stripe as subversive interruption within books, magazines and publications. It begins with Buren’s anonymous contribution to the Prospect 68 catalogue at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf – a double-page spread of green stripes – and ends with a new version of an off-site exhibition of vertically pasted stripes first staged on a billboard in central London in 1972.
Bringing together more than 100 printed items, Pages in situ spans interventions in books, magazines and newspapers, often presented ‘without name or explanation’, alongside invitations, posters and group and solo exhibition catalogues, as well as dedicated artist books. Variations in colour, sequencing, cut-outs and format all play a role in shaping each item. Across these diverse formats, Buren’s consistent ‘visual tool’ operates as a powerful graphic element, threading through each publication while continually shifting in form and intent. It also features numerous examples of printed material that adhere to the 8.7cm principle, without explicitly displaying stripes, using the same width for columns of printed text or for the dimensions of reproduced images.
See ‘Books received #32’.
Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson Street, London
to 6 September 2026
‘In Other Worlds’ constructs a series of imagined futures for our planet, rooted in real technology and climate-based possibilities. This is the first major UK solo exhibition by film-maker and speculative architect Liam Young, who ‘operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures’.
Graphic design: Neasden Control Centre (Stephen Smith)
The Curve, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Above. Film still from After the End (2024) by Liam Young.
to 6 September 2026
This exhibition features new and recent works by Cecily Brown, a homecoming for a British artist who has lived and worked in New York for the past 30 years. ‘Picture Making’ brings together works inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.
Hours: Monday – Closed, Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
At Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
to 6 September 2026
Lella and Massimo Vignelli A Language of Clarity
Major exhibition about the Vignellis (see Eye 83), curated by: Francesca Picchi, Marco Sammicheli, Thomas Kronbichler and Martin Kerschbaumer (Studio Mut). Exhibition design: Jasper Morrison Office for Design with David Saik. Catalogue and graphic design: Norm. In collaboration with: Vignelli Center for Design Studies, RIT New York, and the Vignelli family.
Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milano
to 6 September 2026
Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS
This exhibition explores how graphic design shaped New York’s grassroots response to AIDS from 1979 to 2003. Public health campaigns, agitprop, benefit flyers, and club handbills offer more than messages—they map how communities built survival systems from below, often before the state would act.Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
Above Safe Sex!, 1987 Keith Haring
to 6 September 2026
Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen
Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded and many of the movies that featured all-Black casts are now considered ‘lost films’ (films for which no copy is known to survive), advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and the 1940s.
The posters in this exhibition allow viewers to consider how Black storytelling was transferred and transformed during its transition from stage to screen. They also document aspects of the historic innovations of playwrights, composers, directors, and producers for Black actors as they sought to represent life and experiences for Black audiences through their own creative perspectives.
This exhibition is rated PG-13 for racist imagery, violence and sexual content.
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
to 6 September 2026
PROCESSING… ART AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AT SERPENTINE
Processing… is an open-access archive display, sharing the experimental methodologies and creative research and development (R&D) that has shaped its pioneering work at the intersection of art and advanced technologies.
This summer, Serpentine’s Education Space has been transformed into an active archive, listening room and research space. This display marks a significant moment in the preservation and activation of Serpentine’s pioneering work with art and advanced technologies, which today includes artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and game engines.
Processing… takes its name from the familiar message shown during an in-progress computation, evoking a state of continual activity and change. Bringing together audio recordings, photographs, publications, digital commissions and other materials from across Serpentine’s art and advanced technologies programming, the display reflects ongoing processes of exchange and experimentation.
Admission is free.
Hours: Monday 12-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
Serpentine South, Education Space, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
Image above: processing...Art and Advanced Technologies, 2026. Image courtesy: Roxy Zeiher.
to 19 September 2026
Graces Mews gallery presents ‘Youth’, a solo exhibition by photographer Chardchakaj Waikawee (b.1980). The exhibition takes its title from the Thai phrase wai run.
Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-6pm.
9-10 Grace’s Mews, Camberwell, London SE5 8JF
to 20 September 2026
Corbijn, Anton
The story of Anton Corbijn begins in the quiet corners of a small Dutch island, where he grew up as the son of a vicar. For a young Corbijn, music was an escape, a passion that consumed him. His camera soon became both a tool and a companion, a way to channel his fascination with music and, perhaps more importantly, a means to navigate his own shyness. When Corbijn moved to London in 1979, the city was electric with the energy of bands like The Clash, The Jam, and Joy Division. Within ten days of arriving in England, he managed to photograph Joy Division claiming he was on assignment for a major Dutch magazine, even though he hadn’t been officially commissioned.
Now, having celebrated his 70th birthday last year, Corbijn looks back on over five decades of work that spans photography, music videos, and film. Corbijn, Anton celebrates his 50-year career and revisits his extensive body of work. Here, you will encounter nearly 150 pieces: iconic portraits of legends like Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, U2, the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese, and Marlene Dumas, as well as German icons Nina Hagen, Herbert Grönemeyer, Einstürzende Neubauten and Wim Wenders. His signature black-and-white grainy aesthetic became a defining visual language in his work.
Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str. 54
10117 Berlin - Mitte
to 27 September 2026
Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now
The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
Top: NINAGAWA Mika, Untitled, 2003; from the series Liquid Dreams. Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, and Aperture.
to 4 October 2026
The V&A Illustration Awards is a free, biennial competition celebrating excellence in illustration and contemporary practice, and judged by a panel of prominent illustrators and industry experts. The awards highlight a broad range of illustration styles and subjects. This display features the work of this year's winners and runners-up from each of the five categories: Adult Factual, Adult Fiction, Advertising and Commercial, Emerging Illustrator and Illustration for Children.
Galleries 88A and 90, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL.
Top: Sleeper Train no. 4 by Baljinder Kaur, winner in the Illustration for Children category of the V&A Illustration Awards 2026.
1 August 2026 – Summer 2027
It’s Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection
Since the birth of motion pictures, animation has enchanted audiences. At MoMA, its creative evolution has been celebrated by more than a hundred programs and acquisitions from both independent filmmakers and major studios alike. Drawing from this history and spanning more than 100 years of expression and aesthetics, It’s Alive! shows the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers who advanced the medium, from the silent era to colour and the modernisation of animation design.
Independent artists such as Jane Aaron, John Canemaker, Faith and Emily Hubley, George Griffin, Candy Kugel, Jeff Scher (see Eye 60) and Michael Sporn all called New York home. Balancing projects for Public Television and MTV with personal filmmaking, these animators created bodies of work that resonated worldwide. ‘It’s Alive!’ celebrates the city’s movie-making history and the diversity and delights of animation.
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan
to 4 October 2026
Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
This exhibition charts the evolution of US city life from the early 1900s to the close of the twentieth century. Featuring images from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, with more than 100 landmark works by some of the most influential photographers of that time.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, London SE21 7AD
Above: Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, California, 1987 © Mary Ellen Mark, Courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation / Arthur Leipzig, Divers, East River, 1948 © Estate of Arthur Leipzig, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York / Saul Leiter, Harlem, 1960 © Saul Leiter Foundation / Helen Levitt, New York¸1972 © Helen Levitt, Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.
to 4 October 2026
Curated by Paul Gravett, ‘Queer as Comics’ traces comics, strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented ‘LGBTQIA+’ perspectives since the 1940s. The exhibition includes work by Tove Jansson, Kate Charlesworth, Rupert Kinnard and David Shenton.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to 4 October 2026
‘Worlds in View’ – the 57th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles – offers narratives rooted in various regions of the world, including the African continent and the Mediterranean. Spanning archives, major monographic exhibitions and emerging scenes, the images examine identities, stories and representations, while others explore myriad facets of life.
Tickets here. Various venues, Arles, France
Top: Paul Kodjo, Perdue et retrouvée [Lost and Found], 1973. Courtesy of Les Rencontres du Sud and in camera galerie.
to 18 October 2026
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai
Japanese photographer Kawada Kikuji (b.1933) has been active for eight decades. The exhibition features his 1965 photobook Chizu (The Map), which examines the scars of the postwar period, and The Last Cosmology plus more recent work.
In her first major UK show, Iwane Ai (b.1975) presents her award-winning series Kipuka, exploring the lives of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii, and work from A New River, which captures eerily lit cherry blossoms at night in Japan’s northeastern Tо̄hoku region during the Covid-19 crisis.
This exhibition – the first ever photography show at the venue – is organised in partnership with Kyotographie International Photography Festival, held every year across Kyoto.
Admission free. Booking recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
to 18 October 2026
Kho Liang Ie. Mid-century Modernist
The Stedelijk presents the first major museum retrospective of Kho Liang Ie, who with his designs for furniture and interiors played a key role in Dutch design from the 1950s to the mid-70s. Through his poetic approach and unconventional choice of materials, he infused his functionalist designs with an element of playfulness. He also cultivated a large international network and introduced fresh design talent to the Netherlands.
Admission: €12.50-€22.50
Opendaily: 10am-6 pm
No entrance after 5:45pm.
Stedelijk, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
to 1 Nov 2026
Photo: Hans Hansen
This large-scale retrospective to one of the leading photographers in postwar Germany features around 220 iconic photographs from a career spanning over six decades. Hans Hansen revolutionised product photography in campaigns for companies such as Lufthansa, Nikon, Volkswagen and Erco. His most recent series, ‘Analog’ (2024), highlights Hansen’s distinctive visual language.
Exhibition design: Axel Kufus. Graphic design: Heimann + Schwantes.
Open Tue to Sun, 10am to 6pm(until 9pm Thursdays).
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) Hamburg, Steintorplatz 20099 Hamburg, Germany
to 1 November 2026
Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime
During World Wars I and II, nearly every nation involved recognised that it was necessary to provide materials to maintain soldier wellbeing and morale. Because foot soldiers had to carry all of their possessions, small, portable entertainment was preferred. As such, books quickly soared in popularity. Between lulls in action or when waiting for orders far from the front lines, troops read to forget their surroundings and fears, taking a mental vacation from their hardships.
This exhibition includes book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Germany printed during both world wars. All of these nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and many posters aimed to mobilise the public to give. While some encourage escapist fiction and recreational reading, educational books were also acquired for troops to help them prepare for promotion within the Army, future jobs or civilian life. By World War II, books had also become a powerful symbol of freedom and democracy for America and its allies.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 1 November 2026
From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)
On 28 October 1918, Czechoslovakia declared its independence and became a new country formed from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia – all lands formerly part of the Austro Hungarian Empire which had been officially dissolved as a result of World War I. The period from 1918 to 1938 is referred to as the First Republic.
This exhibition explores seldom-seen travel posters from this golden age of Czechoslovakian history. They were created by artists, designers and commercial studios who understood that tourism was more than leisure – it was diplomacy. In a region long defined by the imperial borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travel posters became vehicles for soft power, enticing both domestic and foreign audiences to see the First Czechoslovak Republic as a land of opportunity, beauty and progress.
Admission: $10-15 (free admission every Friday)
Hours: Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 15 November 2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. In Aardman’s 50th anniversary year, peek behind the scenes of your favourite stop-motion animations and find out how Aardman brings clay to life. Visit Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph as many times as you like with your exhibition pass.
Admission: £11
Hours: Open daily 10am-5:45pm
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
5 June 2026 – 1 April 2027
An opportunity to explore Quentin Blake's theatrical influences, from circus to Shakespeare, including more than 100 original works by Blake in this UK-first survey of the influence of theatre on his work.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, 1 Myddelton Passage, London EC1R 1AG
Wed–Sun, 10am – 5pm.
Tickets include entry to all exhibitions on day of visit:
£16.50 adult / £6.60 child including donation. Free for members.
to April 2027
Art deco: the golden age of poster design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage.
Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display, and explore the art deco and modernist architecture of Charles Holden in changing the face of London with his remarkable Tube station designs.
More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection, alongside loans from significant collections are on display. This includes posters from designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with your Museum admission.
See the ‘The purpose of posters’ on the Eye blog.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
AUGUST 2026
8 August 2026
A one-day art installation of viral fake tech ads on an old newsstand on the West 4th subway platform, featuring new fake tech ads and ones already posted. Hosted by Harris Alterman and Dave Ross.
A display that lets build your OWN fake tech ad. Free merch. Drinkable KoolAId.
More at A.I. Conglomerate.
10am – 5pm, W Fourth St. Subway Station, Downtown BDFM Platform, W Fourth St, New York, NY, United States.
10 August 2026
Type Archived: treasures of the UK’s National Typefounding Collection
with Richard Ardagh
Richard Ardagh will talk about his recently published book, Type Archived, which documents the story and collections of London’s legendary Type Archive. Showcasing highlights from some 8 million items, these materials form a tangible history of typography and printing in the UK, from the ancient materials of Sheffield foundry Stephenson Blake and the innovative woodletter factory of Robert DeLittle in York, to the precision hot-metal machinery and global operations of The Monotype Corporation. Ardagh studied punchcutting and matrix-making with the senior staff on site until the Archive’s closure in 2023 and will also share his experiences of ‘engineering the word’.
See ‘Archiving the archive’ from Eye 106.
Admission is free. Reserve your spot here.
Timings:
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM (Eastern Time)
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street), New York, NY 10003
14 to 19 August 2026
Karen Wilks: Celebrating 35 years of Seasonal Postcard Design
Exhibition at Roche Gallery, 93 High Street, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7JN
14 August – 16 September 2026
Modern Toss’s Jon Link and Mick Bunnage bring their 21st anniversary exhibition to London with more than 100 artworks, including swearing machines, big stone heads, large-scale paintings, a wind-powered finger mill sculpture and a new 5m-wide ceiling mobile with flies.
Jon Link will host portrait sessions in their infamous Portrait Booth, and each ticket includes a set of tokens to use on the interactive machines, including the Periodic Table of Swearing.
Admission: £14
Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, Unit 1b New Tannery Way, Bermondsey, London SE1 5WS
See ‘They work with words: Modern Toss’, in Eye 75.
19 to 21 August 2026
Are you looking forward to an inspiring and fun-filled summer? At the sixth Graphic Matters Summer School, you’ll make friends, meet design legends and develop new skills.
During Summer School, you’ll collaborate with a diverse group of creators and receive guidance from professional designers who have forged their own unique paths. The social aspect is just as valuable as the technical skills you’ll gain—here, conversations emerge that challenge and enrich your vision as a designer.
Each masterclass lasts three days. Each masterclass has space for 15 to a maximum of 20 participants. You’ll learn new skills, expand your network, and meet like-minded people. This year, we’re welcoming Anthony Burrill (see Eye 75), Ellen Lupton (see Eye 8), and Erich Brechbühl (see Eye 104). As a participant, you’ll choose one masterclass to follow throughout the entire Summer School.
Sign-up here.
Breda, NL
22-23 August 2026
In August, the city of Offenbach is organising the Hot Printing Festival for the third time in the Klingspor Museum, in the adjacent courtyard of the Büsingpalais, in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte and in the printing workshop in the Bernardbau. A maximum of 70 stands will be allocated to artists, printers and workshop owners to present their own work for sale. In order to spend a lively weekend together and appeal to as many visitors as possible, the allocation of stands is linked to the request for a program item. Print demonstrations, readings, small workshops etc. are conceivable, either at your own stand or in the printing workshop in the neighbouring Bernardbau.
Klingspor Museum, Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main, Germany
27-28 August 2026
Forward Berlin is where creative minds come together to exchange ideas, gain fresh perspectives, and push the boundaries of their work. Across two days and three stages, 50+ thought leaders across various creative fields discuss bold ideas, emerging trends, and the future of creativity. More than just inspiration, the Festival offers practical knowledge, interactive sessions, and networking opportunities—all designed to empower creatives to realize their full potential.
Find tickets here.
HKW Berlin, Germany 10557
SEPTEMBER 2026
1-2 September 2026
Founded in Barcelona in 2001, OFFF is renowned for celebrating the convergence of design, digital culture, and visual storytelling. The two day program of talks, workshops, studio visits and creative exchange is designed to challenge perspectives and spark new ideas, gathering a mix of established names and emerging voices across design, art, and technology.
See more info here.
1-7 September 2026
Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 by Mirko Ilić
In 2020, as his city and the world shut down around him, the acclaimed New York-based artist and graphic designer Mirko Ilić (See Eye 97) returned to his first love: drawing comics. With unprecedented time on his hands, he crafted a sequence of single-page stories to reflect the mood of those times – eventually naming his accumulated series in memory of 2020 AD – or rather (as a quite different sort of “AC Comic”) “A.C. 2020”.
Those initials stand for “After Covid”, because Ilić continued to create his intense visual essays even as the lockdowns slowly began to lift, channelling his inner anxieties and minute daily observations into a set of starkly surreal images that combine his unique personal imagination with the distilled inspiration of a lifetime’s influence – from Magritte to Moebius, Marshall McLuhan to Winsor McCay, Robert Crumb to Leonard Cohen.
Hours: Tues 1st Sept - Mon 7th Sept 10.30am-6.30pm, (Closed Sun 6th Sept)
Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham Street
London, W1T 4RJ
8 September 2026
Type Tuesday: My favourite magazine cover
Covers that count
Type Tuesday returns this September with another event in our popular 'My favourite …' series. This time we are asking our guests to choose their favourite magazine cover and make a case for their choice.
The line-up includes Kuchar Swara (Port, Daily Telegraph, see Eye 73), Giulia Garbin, Anoushka Khandwala (see Eye 103), Natasha Tomalin-Hall (YOU magazine) and Mathias Clottu (The Fence) with more speakers to be announced soon. The chosen magazines won’t be revealed until the night.
Which magazine would you chose? Both 'My favourite font’ and ‘My favourite logo’ sold out so don't delay and book your tickets now.
This will be a fun evening with a chance to test your magazine knowledge and, of course, more stickers!
Type Tuesday is Eye’s regular event for everyone interested in graphic design, typography, type design, photography, illustration and visual culture, which we have been hosting for more than a decade to raise money for St Bride Foundation (SBF).
Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students/LLMs
Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).
Doors open 6.30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 110, plus bargain back issues.
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All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.
Eye’s regular gathering at St Bride Printing Library – save the date and bring your friends. Everybody’s welcome.
St Bride Foundation
14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street,
London EC4Y 8EQ
16 and 17 September 2026
This annual conference includes stage talks from inspirational magazine publishing speakers, including Peter Allen (Magneto), Mila Moisio (Tauko magazine) and Amer Safir, editor-in-chief and manager of the 124-year-old The Review of Religions. Hosted by Eloise Leeson-Smith, founder of Olim.
There will be an independent magazine shop courtesy of Ra & Olly plus workshops that offer practical tips on how to save money, improve audience engagement, get more advertising and sell more magazines. All attendees receive a copy of Word on the Street magazine.
Tickets from £69 to £249.00
Venue: Sloans, 108 Argyle St, Glasgow, G2 8BG
12-20 September 2026
The 24th edition of the LDF champions, ‘emerging and established talent, fostering collaboration, innovation and international exchange across the global design community’ with a city-wide programme of Landmark Installations, Special Projects, the Global Design Forum, a Partner Programme and more.
The festival takes place across eleven Design Districts: Bankside, Brompton, Chelsea, Dalston to Stokey, EC1, Fleet Street Quarter, Mayfair, Park Royal, Shoreditch Design Week, Blackhorse Creates (fka William Morris Design Line) and Soho Design District.
18 and 19 September 2026
Each day kicks off with a morning of inspirational and informative talks from leading collage artists and curators spanning commercial work, exhibition practice, and community collage art.
In the afternoons speakers will each be hosting a hands-on collage workshop where you can take the morning’s inspiration and put it into practice.
Plus…every ticket comes with a free tote bag packed with collage goodies, and on Friday evening is a CC. Live! social – a relaxed chance to meet the artists and connect with other collage makers.
1-day and 2-day tickets are available, and whichever you choose, morning talks and afternoon workshops are included as standard. Book your early bird ticket before 31st July!
Timing: 10:00am-5:00pm every day
Admission: £85-£175
University of Staffordshire, Film Theatre, The Wade Centre, Hartshill Road ST4 7NY
18 September 2026
Stack Magazines and St Bride Foundation
Uncover 300 years of magazine evolution
What is a magazine? How did we end up with the things we know as magazines today? And how are the most exciting magazine publishers using print to reach readers in a digital age? For this year’s London Design Festival, we’re bringing together a group of publishers, historians, and academics to shed light on what it means to make magazines today.
We’re presenting the event in partnership with Stack, the independent magazine club, and it’s all been made possible with the support of Fleet Street Quarter. London has played a huge part in the history of magazine publishing, and we’ll be drawing together some of the threads to show how contemporary editors and designers in the city are continuing 300 years of evolution and reshaping our understanding of magazine publishing.
It’s all happening on Friday 18 September 2026, with a day of talks, Q&As, networking and drinks in the evening.
Location: St Bride Foundation and Online
In-Person Timings:
Doors open for registration: 9:30am
Event starts: 10am
Event ends: 6pm
Online Timings: 10am - 4pm
Book tickets here.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ
24 September 2026 – 4 January 2027
Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony will be the largest museum survey exhibition to date of the work of Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, MS), spanning two floors of the newly expanded New Museum to encompass the full breadth of the practice of one of the most influential artists of his generation. Alongside the premiere of new work, the exhibition will feature Jafa’s most celebrated works, including Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) and the Golden Lion-winning The White Album (2019), as well as recent paintings, large-scale video and film installations, and a range of sculptural and photographic objects.
Over a nearly forty-year career, Jafa has sought to find new visual forms to capture the rhythm and realities of Black life in America. Often placing the nation’s growing awareness of the history of institutional violence directed toward the Black community against the backdrop of the ascension of Black culture, music, and entertainment in American national identity, Jafa’s work turns an unflinching eye toward the past while embodying and mirroring our contemporary obsession with masses of images or ‘content’. I Am Tony, named for the legendary jazz drummer Tony Williams, will chart Jafa’s work from his earliest films to recent video installations, mapping the evolution of his filmic language whose syncopations and textures match the aspirations of Black popular music.
See ‘Twisting the alien’, Rick Poyner's photo critique of Jafa's APEX.
More info here.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Image Above: Arthur Jafa, Pledge of Allegiance, 1899, 2017
23 September 2026
The Scottishness of Scottish Type
(Glasgow)
A talk by Paul Barnes on Scottish type, its historical contribution and ongoing influence on the world, to mark the release of Spectator.
Can a typeface ever represent a country, or is this just something that graphic designers imagine? Does Helvetica really say Switzerland? Does Antique Olive look French? Is Baskerville the face of England? And when it comes to Scotland, what would that be?
From the eighteenth century through to the twentieth century, Scotland was one of the dominant nations typographically, through its foundries, printers and publishers. The influence was not just south of the border, but across the world; especially in North America, where the term Scotch represented a particular style of serif letter that people still refer to.
Paul Barnes has explored this through a series of typefaces, including the newly released Spectator, that draw on historical models whilst modernising them for contemporary use. In his talk he will explore the research and process in making the typefaces and where they fit in the Scottish canon.
Admission is free.
Timings: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Graphical House & Collective Architecture
13 Bath Street
#4th Floor Glasgow G2 1HY
24 September 2026
The Scottishness of Scottish Type
(Edinburgh)
A talk by Paul Barnes on Scottish type, its historical contribution and ongoing influence on the world, to mark the release of Spectator.
Can a typeface ever represent a country, or is this just something that graphic designers imagine? Does Helvetica really say Switzerland? Does Antique Olive look French? Is Baskerville the face of England? And when it comes to Scotland, what would that be?
From the eighteenth century through to the twentieth century, Scotland was one of the dominant nations typographically, through its foundries, printers and publishers. The influence was not just south of the border, but across the world; especially in North America, where the term Scotch represented a particular style of serif letter that people still refer to.
Paul Barnes has explored this through a series of typefaces, including the newly released Spectator, that draw on historical models whilst modernising them for contemporary use. In his talk he will explore the research and process in making the typefaces and where they fit in the Scottish canon.
Admission is free.
Timings: 7:00pm-9:00pm
West Court, Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh EH3 9DF
ONLINE + ONGOING
16 September – 20 December 2026
Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy
This exhibition explores the pioneering work of sisters Wanda Wulz (1903-84) and Marion Wulz (1905-93), key figures in the development of avant-garde photography in twentieth-century Italy. Organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia and with the support of Calliope Arts Foundation, the show also traces the wider legacy of the Wulz family, whose photographic practice spanned generations.
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art | 39a Canonbury Square | London, N1 2AN
Top. Carlo Wulz Marion and Wanda Wulz, 1927. Modern print from silver gelatin dry glass plate negative. Florence, Archivi Alinari-Archivio Carlo
Wulz.
23 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
This major solo exhibition of New Delhi-based artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India), one of the most prominent artists working in moving image today, will be presented at Serpentine North.
For over two decades, Kanwar has developed a distinctive body of lyrical films that move between documentary, travelogue and visual essay to explore the specific conditions of the Indian subcontinent. Having produced and directed numerous films and multi-video installations, Kanwar’s poetic and contemplative works are frequently marked by the history of his country, tracing the legacies of decolonialisation and the Partition of India and Pakistan. Whilst charged with a regional specificity and deeply personal histories, Kanwar’s work grapples with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Reckoning with the past as a means to better comprehend the present, Kanwar bears witness to social upheaval, displacement, power, violence, justice and memory, ultimately revealing what unites – rather than differentiates – us, regardless of geography or context.
Admission is free.
Hours: Monday 12-6pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
Image above: Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning, 2017 (film still). Digital video, 4K, colour, sound, 85 min. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
25 September 2026 – 21 February 2027
Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works
Mythmakers and marketing teams have long used graphic design to tell stories about Native Americans, First Nations, Métis, Alaska Natives, and other Indigenous peoples rather than with them, creating reductive, inaccurate, and harmful representations of a living, vibrant, and varied group of people.
Despite this, Native graphic art has a rich history that shows that its practitioners are not merely subjects of design but shapers of it – innovators who have created dynamic, subversive, and optimistic work despite centuries of cultural obliteration, land theft, and socio-economic marginalisation. Through examples spanning nearly two centuries and representing over 60 tribes and nations, this exhibition reveals and celebrates design histories that have always existed alongside, despite, and in resistance to dominant colonial narratives, illustrating the full spectrum of Native life.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
25 September 2026 – 21 February 2027
Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France
In the aftermath of World War II, France faced a daunting recovery challenge. A significant portion of its younger male population was dead or held in prisoner of war camps, its industry was in tatters, its farms and therefore its ability to produce food decimated, and its citizens demoralised in the wake of the Vichy government that capitulated to and collaborated with the Nazis. The French economy had also halved in size since before the war and was further threatened by rampant inflation, leaving most citizens unable to purchase much beyond basic necessities.
The next three decades would be defined by rapid and significant social and political changes primarily brought about by General Charles de Gaulle after he was voted out of retirement in 1958. His vision to rebuild France as an independent global power impacted every part of French life, from its economy to its shopping habits, its moral code to its leisure pursuits. The posters produced during this period, however, rarely hinted at this turbulent landscape. Instead, advertising focused on producing bright, optimistic images that saturated the streets with cute rather than with chaos. Along with major male artists like Raymond Savignac and Hervé Morvan, many of these extreme changes were also chronicled, indirectly, in the posters produced by a new female design team known as Lefor-Openo.
This exhibition showcases the breadth of Lefor-Openo’s twelve-year career, using their work a lens through which to view midcentury French society, politics, and culture.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
OCTOBER 2026
14 Oct 2026 – Sun 21 Feb 2027
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers
Through photographs and archives, ‘Snap Happy!’ celebrates the creativity, curiosity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.
The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
‘Snap Happy!’ is curated by Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, UK, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Whippersnappers: How Children Became Photographers by Annebella Pollen will be published in September by Four Corners Books.
22-25 October 2026
BIG Biennale Internazionale Grafica, Milan
A four-day event in the Italian capital, with exhibitions, talks and workshops.
‘SIGNS’ shows the work of twelve contemporary Italian graphic designers: Giga Design; Dario Carta; Giorgia Cadeddu; Federica Ricci; Giulia Boccarossa; Emilio Macchia; Chiara Zhu; Studio Atto; Elia Barbieri; Pop-eye studio; Firm; and esc design studio.
‘Alfabeti Modernisti Type Specimens’ showcases twenty-five digital revivals based on wood and lead typefaces produced in Italy during the 1930s and 40s. (See James Clough’s pieces in Eye 109 and 110.)
ADI Design Museum, Milan, Italy
NOVEMBER 2026
12 November 2026 – 11 April 2027
Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser’s Music Posters
In 1949, Germany was officially split into two distinct countries: communist East Germany, under the authoritarian umbrella of the U.S.S.R., and democratic West Germany. As most American and British popular music had been banned under the Nazi regime as 'degenerate', its sudden mass availability in West Germany was both thrilling and slightly subversive for its citizens. Jazz in particular, with its promise of being a truly free and experimental medium, found avid fans in the country, among them a young Günther Kieser.
By the early 1950s, Kieser’s posters for this budding music scene were attracting attention. Many are based on illustration, embracing styles as disparate as psychedelic and modern minimalism; others highlight his abilities as a typographer. His most well-known, however, tap into his background as a sculptor’s apprentice and show him constructing three-dimensional models or collages that echo wider themes within a performer’s music. The results are wildly varied and look nothing like any other concert posters from the latter half of the 20th century.
While Kieser’s career spanned four decades and encompassed posters for a variety of clients, he is best known for those he made for musical events. Although his earliest posters were for jazz concerts, his posters for rock bands remain some of the most surprising and remarkable of the period, combining meticulously composed, physical elements with the nebulous, free-form, and abstract nature of music.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
12 November 2026 – 11 April 2027
Just Say Nyet: The Soviet Battle Against Booze
In the waning days of Soviet Russia, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a last, desperate attempt to curb his nation’s rampant alcoholism through severe restrictions and a broad-reaching, exceptionally blunt advertising campaign. In appeals to health, common decency, emotional well-being, and labor production alike, the government begged its people to give up the bottle. It did not succeed.
Admission: $10-15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – 10:00am-6:00pm, Friday – 10:00am-9:00pm
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
17-20 November 2026
Four days in Barcelona dedicated to bringing together Europe’s creative community to learn, connect, and celebrate.
This year’s edition focuses on ‘Relationships’, exploring where great ideas really come from. Behind every award-winning campaign, every iconic design and every bold creative leap is a network of people who made it possible.
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.