Events

DON’T MISS

9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025

Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage

Presenting the work of the truly innovative American photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), the exhibition will feature a selection of her personal vintage photocollages and editorial work. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will present Turbeville's trailblazing photographic explorations, from fashion photos to her very personal work. Bringing together unique pieces, the exhibition will show Turbeville's highly personal artistic universe which has been credited with transforming fashion imagery into avant-garde art.

Admission: General £10, Concession £7. Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.

The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

7 October – 9 December 2024

Movable Type: Motion for Designers & Typographers
with Jase Hueser

This newly designed 10-week course will take a bit of the mystery out of motion, making learning 2D motion graphics enjoyable and worthwhile. Through a series of in-class lectures, hands-on projects, critiques, and classroom discussions, you will learn techniques and approaches to make static compositions come to life, design with a kinetic mindset and understand the links between Photoshop/Illustrator and After Effects. Additionally, this course will cover a basic history of motion design, and how classic principles of animation fit into a modern context for identity systems and information design.

On Mondays, 6:00–9:00pm EST, online

Price: $1,170

Type at Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

9 October 2024 — 23 February 2025

Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily

The Photographers’ Gallery presents a solo show of work by Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022). Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1935, Battaglia began her photographic career in the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia. Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily is the first major exhibition in the UK following her death in 2022.

Admission: £8 (£5 concession), Advance - £6.50 (£4 concession), Members go free, Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.

The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

10-11 October 2024

In Motion London

In Motion is a motion and design festival investigating new trends, innovative art works, and exciting technologies. All the things that stimulate your artistry and INSPIRE! Next to a line-up of artist talks, expect panel discussions, interviews, demos, an industry garden, networking drinks.

Tickets: 2-Day Early Bird £99, 2-Day Education £75, 1-Day Early Bird £69, 1-Day Education £59

Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

to 12 October 2024

The Masters Series: Stefan Sagmeister

This exhibition will incorporate multiple ‘eras’ of Stefan Sagmeister’s long career, with more than three decades of sketchbooks, many posters including ones commissioned by SVA as part of the College’s Subway Poster series and design work dating back to the late 1980s. The show will include a miniature theatre in which Sagmeister’s The Happy Film will screen on a loop, interactive installations and take-home posters for visitors.

There will be a review of this show in the forthcoming edition of Eye.

SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York City, US

to 12 October 2024

Autograph

Ernest Cole: A Lens in Exile

This is the first exhibition of Ernest Cole’s photographs documenting New York City during the height of the civil rights movement in America.

Admission is free. Open Wed-Fri: 11am-6pm, Thurs: 11am-9pm, Sat: 12:30-6pm

Autograph, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA

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CURRENTLY ON

to 13 October 2024

Weltformat Graphic Design Festival

The Weltformat Graphic Design Festival is dedicated to graphic design and its role as a cultural identity. Under an annually changing theme, it addresses aspects of current events in the world of visual design and actively participates in shaping the discourse. Through thematic and annual exhibitions, as well as the symposium, various aspects within the field of visual design are illuminated, made accessible, and open to discussion. It serves as a meeting point for designers and an interested audience.

Find ticket information here, with prices ranging from CHF10-40.

Verein Weltformat, Löwenplatz 5, 6004 Luzern, Switzerland

Read Eye for more.

to 13 October 2024

Edward Bawden & Me

This eclectic exhibition celebrates the work of printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist and designer Edward Bawden (1903-89). The show is curated by illustrator and printmaker Chris Brown, a friend of Bawden who has invited 30 artists and makers to respond to works by Bawden in The Higgins Bedford Collection.

The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD

Free of charge. Opening Hours. Tue-Sat: 11am-5pm; Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday: 2-5pm. Closed on Mondays.

See ‘Friendships and glue’ and ‘Bawden galore’ on the Eye blog.

to 13 October 2024

Now You See Us

Now You See Us

Women artists in Britain 1520-1920

This exhibition follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. Featuring artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler, Laura Knight and Gwen John, whose 1902 self portrait is shown above. These women challenged what it meant to be a working woman of the time by going against society’s expectations – having commercial careers as artists and taking part in public exhibitions.

£20, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

to 18 October 2024

Top Award

Fedrigoni Top Award 2025

Enter your work by 18 October 2024.

Have you created or contributed to a project with papers or self-adhesive materials from the Fedrigoni Group brands belonging to one of the following categories: Publishing, Creative Communication, Packaging, Label, Graphics Applications? If so, you can submit your project here. More details in Pulp, which Eye magazine makes for Fedrigoni.

Application deadline 18 October 2024.

to 20 October 2024

Somerset

DONO: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom & Harun Morrison

Taking its title from an Akan Adinkra symbol and name for a double skin talking drum, Dono expands on the artists’ shared interest in sound, exploring untranslatable and non-linguistic forms as tools of meaning-making. A collaboration initiated by curator Jareh Das, and developed in dialogue with one another, the artists make interventions that loosen and contest the confines of language.

Admission is free. Open daily from 10.00 - 18.00.

Somerset House Studios, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

to 27 Oct 2024

Serpentine Sculpture

STRIP-TOWER (2023)

Serpentine presents a new large-scale sculpture by German artist Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany; lives and works in Cologne, Germany). Situated on the plinth at Serpentine South, in Kensington Gardens, STRIP-TOWER (2023) is on view and is the latest presentation in a long-standing series of public presentations in The Royal Parks since Serpentine's foundation in 1970.

Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London

to 30 October 2024

Quentin Blake: Book Covers

This exhibition features 60 of Blake’s book covers from the 1960s to the present: from mid-century Penguin paperbacks to finely crafted special editions. First editions are shown alongside reproductions of original artwork from Blake’s archive that show how he combines typography, dynamic layouts and his unique way of drawing to create playful designs.

The travelling exhibition will be available at the following locations:

8 July — 17 September 2023
Aberdeen Art Gallery

2 October — 30 October 2023
South Dublin Libraries

to 3 November 2024

Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking

This exhibition features the Yoshida dynasty of artists, from patriarch Hiroshi to the abstract work of the family’s later and current generations.

Tue to Sun, 10am–5pm. (inc. bank holidays.)

Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD

to 10 November 2024

The Vinyl Factory - Reverb
Virgil Abloh, 12-inch voices.

The Vinyl Factory - Reverb

80 Studios presents The Vinyl Factory — Reverb, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound. In the largest show of its kind, The Vinyl Factory brings together over 100 artists and musicians – working across mediums including visual arts, music, film and live performance.

180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London WC2R 1EA, UK

Admission £20
Open Wednesday - Friday 12pm-7pm
Saturday - Sunday 10am - 6pm

to 17 November 2024

Ralph Steadman: INKling Exhibition

Over a six-decade-long career, Ralph Steadman has illustrated scores of books (including Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm), as well as writing and illustrating his own, famously collaborating with writer Hunter S. Thompson on the cult classic novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The exhibition also includes Steadman’s work with filmmaker / conservationist Ceri Levy on the Gonzovation collection, highlighting the plight of endangered animals and fifteen pieces from Steadman’s ‘347 Suite’, shown alongside two Picasso etchings on load from the Courtauld (London) and Pallant House Gallery (Chichester).

Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
1st Floor North, Fitted Rigging House
Anchor Wharf, The Historic Dockyard,
Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ

to 24 November 2024

Francesco Vezzoli: Musei delle Lacrime

Together with curator Donatien Grau, Francesco Vezzoli has devised the exhibition ‘Musei delle Lacrime’, in which he will place his works (historical, recent and some created for this occasion) beside masterpieces from the collection of the Museo Correr. Designed for Venice, the project also pays tribute to Carlo Scarpa and his work on the city’s historical and artistic identity and in particular Venice’s museums.

Museo Correr, San Marco 52, 30124 Venice, Italy

Hours: to 31 Oct: 10-6pm (last entrance at 5); from 01-24 Nov: 10-5pm (last entrance at 4). Closing operations of the museum begin 30 minutes before the closing time.
Tickets.

to 24 November 2024

Same Bold Stories? Type Design by Women and Queers in the 20th and 21st Centuries

For a long time, the history of type design and typography was written from a purely male perspective. Research in the field of type design now increasingly focuses on women, who were already active in the type production at the beginning of the 20th century without really achieving visibility. The exhibition "Same Bold Stories?" aims to critically research the Klingspor Museum's historical type-related collection (1900 - 1950) for these female positions and to supplement the historiography of type design with their biographies and works. Only a few women, such as Anna Simons, Erika Giovanna Klien or Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, achieved wider recognition during their lifetime. In addition, there are type designers such as Elizabeth Friedländer, Ilse Schüle, Anna Maria Schildbach, Maria Ballé and numerous students of the type classes of Rudolf von Larisch in Vienna and Rudolf Koch in Offenbach, who are included in the collection and are now being brought into focus for the first time.

Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 1-6 pm, Friday 2-9 pm (bookable from 6 pm), Saturday - Sunday 11am-6pm

Admission: Free for under 18s, Reduced rate €2.50, Pensioners €3, Adults €4

Registration and Questions: [email protected]

Klingspor Museum, Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach

to 1 December 2024

Collection Insights: Seven Perspectives

An exhibition exploring seven views on organising a collection. The seven perspectives have to do with analogue and digital design methods, virtual objects and provenance research, key figures in the history of Swiss graphic design and design in the public space. Taking these as its starting point, Collection Insights will examine selected objects in the collection from different angles and explore how the museum’s collecting, exhibiting, and educational activities are interconnected.

Admission: 12CHF / 8CHF

Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zurich

to 7 December 2024

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights

International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination.

Center for the Arts Gallery at Towson University, Towson, Maryland MD 21204, US

A parallel exhibition is also taking place in Tshwane University, Pretoria, South Africa

to 10 December 2024

Michael Craig-Martin

An exhibition featuring Sir Michael Craig-Martin RA fills the Main Galleries at this retrospective of his 60-year career. A key figure in British art, Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential artists and teachers of his generation. Since coming to prominence in the late 1960s he has moved between sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, prints and digital works, creating a body of work that has fused elements from Pop, minimalism and conceptual art. This will be the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Craig-Martin's work ever held in the UK.

See also ‘Olympic Deliverance’.

Admission: £22-£24.50 / Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm

Royal Academy of Art, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

Photo caption: Untitled (painting), 2010, Acrylic on aluminium. 200 x 350 cm. Courtesy Gagosian. © Michael Craig Martin. Photo: Dave Morgan. Image courtesy Gagosian.

to 11 December 2024

Advanced Type Design: Open Studio
with Petr van Blokland

This ten-session course addresses all the necessary aspects that are type designers need to shape their practice. Even in projects where the designers work in a team with a well defined separation between disciplines, it still is extremely valuable to be able to communicate beyond these boundaries.

The source built on a series of short but complete projects, that result in a working Variable Font. Each lesson will shift focus to different aspects, such as the drawing tools, interpolation, design spaces, spacing, kerning, OpenType features, proofing, planning and QA, to name a few in arbitrary order.

On Wednesdays, 5:30–8:00pm EST, online

Price: $975

Type at Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

See 'The digital wave' in Eye 7.

to 19 December 2024

Principles of Typeface Design: Essentials and Techniques
with Gen Ramírez

This course, with ten total sessions, provides a comprehensive overview of the essential elements and methodologies involved in designing typefaces. It is suitable for beginners with a basic understanding of Bézier drawing tools, as well as designers looking to improve their type design skills.

On Thursdays, 6:30–9:30pm EST, online

Price: $1170

Type at Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

to 25 December 2024

Stefan Sagmeister, Beautiful Numbers

MOT, Lviv, Ukraine

Sagmeister writes: ‘Incredibly, we will open an exhibition of our long-term thinking work in the Ukraine on 4 October 2024. This will be all new work, never shown anywhere else before. It will be interesting to find out if the message of ‘Now is Better’ is something the people of Lviv – who have bombs falling nearby – are willing to contemplate.’

Read more about Stefan Sagmeister on the Eye site.

to 5 January 2025

The Truth About Harry Beck

A new play based on the man behind the iconic Tube map! Find out more about the creative mind behind the map and how it came to life. For many of us, the London Underground is purely functional. But to Harry Beck, this web of geography became an obsession – a fascination with the creation of the perfect Tube map. How did Beck create the iconic diagram, and at what cost? To understand you need to meet Harry, and his wife Nora. Take a glimpse inside a journey of passion, a wife’s dedication and the living breathing network of the tunnels and train tracks in London

Admission: £24.50 - £35.00

Performance Times: Friday – 8.00pm, Saturday – 1.30pm, 5.30pm, 8pm, Sunday – 1.30pm and 3.30pm

Cubic Theatre at London Transport Museum, London WC1

to 5 January 2025

Fragile Beauty

Fragile Beauty
Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection

A selection of the world's leading photographers, telling the story of modern and contemporary photography. Including iconic images across subjects such as fashion, celebrity, reportage and the male body.

Admission: £22 (includes donation)

V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL

to 12 January 2025

Japanese Graphic Design Today

Japan has a long and rich tradition of graphic design. Its abundance of outstanding works and idiosyncratic designers makes this island nation as thrilling as ever. While Europe is well acquainted with the designers of the postwar period, Japan’s contemporary design scene has been largely invisible. ‘Japanese Graphic Design Today’ will focus on this generation. By featuring designers born between 1973 and 1993, the exhibition will present an overview of the work being produced today. With numerous originals and creations that have never before been shown outside of Japan, it will provide an insight into the vast array of its contemporary design practices. Curated by Alexandre Dimos (B42 / deValence) with co-curator Damian Fopp.

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 968005 Zurich, Switzerland

See review in the forthcoming Eye 107.

to 19 January 2025

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent

Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. Taking over three galleries within the former Whitechapel Library space, the exhibition brings together work from across the artist’s prolific and influential five-decade career, offering an important repository of social and political history while illuminating an artistic practice that has continuously countered and protested the status quo.

Admission is free.

See ‘Beyond words’ from Eye 80, and ‘Political photomontage’, A blog by Noel Douglas on Peter Kennard’s ‘At Earth’.

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX

Above photo: Peter Kennard, Thatcher Unmasked, 1986, Photomontage – Gelatin silver prints with ink on card, A/POLITICAL collection.

to 26 January 2025

Cold War Scotland

This new exhibition will exploring Scotland’s critical position on the frontline of the Cold War, telling the stories of the Scots at the centre of this global conflict.

Also see ‘Walking in a nuclear winter land.

Admission is free / Open daily, 10am-5pm

National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JF

Photo caption: Polaris demonstration at Holy Loch, 3rd February 1961. © Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix, Alamy

to January 2025

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer

Curated by designer and author Kelly Walters, Letterform Archive’s exhibition includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills and oversized posters produced throughout Kennedy’s career.

Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. He is extremely outspoken about the impact of white supremacy and racism.

11-6pm, admission free, tickets.

Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, US

to 2 February 2025

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

Serpentine presents the first solo exhibition of Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, introducing their vision for collaborative artmaking in the age of AI. The artists address current societal concerns with AI and platform participating choirs from across the UK.

Admission is free. See event page for opening hours.

Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR

Photo Credit: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst conducting a recording session with London Contemporary Voices in London, 2024. Courtesy: Foreign Body Productions.


to 23 February 2025

Fantastical Streets: The Theatrical Posters of Boris Bućan

The posters in this display represent a snapshot within Bućan’s (see Eye 92) expansive career, focusing on the monumental works he created for his first season with the Croatian National Theatre in Split, who hired him between 1982 and 1986. While he had previously produced a few large-format posters for other organizations or events, these images made up of six separate sheets of paper became his best-known designs, transforming exterior walls into urban canvases for his artistic explorations.

Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free

Poster House, Jewel Box Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

to 23 February 2025

Lester Beall & A New American Identity

Lester Beall (see Eye 24 and Eye 90) was hired to advertise the Rural Electrification Administration’s work, creating three series of posters over a five-year span. Knowing that Americans were generally distrustful of overly intellectual and visually obtuse European modernism, Beall deftly translated and advanced these artistic concepts to create a new kind of American art, one that distilled the heart of various avant-garde movements with the need for clear communication and the desire to sell. This exhibition highlights the groundbreaking work Beall produced for the REA, as well as the development of his contributions to American modernism up through World War II.

This is the first time where all posters from all three REA series will be on view in a single show.

Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free

Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011, US

to 23 February 2025

Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes

Chronicling the many professional sports promoted by Nike, from basketball and football to tennis and golf, as well as the myriad athletes who worked with the brand, this exhibition showcases how one company paved the way for modern sports advertising.

Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free

Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

to 23 February 2025

Barbie

Barbie: The Exhibition

Opening to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Barbie ‘brand’ in 2024, the exhibition will explore its story ‘through a design lens’, including fashion, architecture, furniture and vehicle design. The show includes more than 250 objects, with dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.

Admission: Adult tickets from £14.38, Children from £7.19, Concession / Student from £10.77.
Under-sixes go free

Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00

The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG

Top. 1959 Barbie No. 1 © Mattel, Inc.

to March 2025

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London

This exhibition focuses on 1985, the year designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery opened the legendary nightclub Taboo. Displaying original garments and accessories from Leigh and more than 30 designers, including custom-made pieces from private collections, photography, film and artworks, the exhibition focuses on this outrageous, alternative arena in which the anarchic energy of the night spilled over into the experimental creativity of the day.

Tickets £12.65 (Concessions may apply), Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11.00 – 18.00 (last entry 17.15)
Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF

Above: Leigh Bowery. Photo © Derek Ridgers, co Unravel Productions.

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UPCOMING EVENTS


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OCTOBER 2024

9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025

Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage

Presenting the work of the truly innovative American photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), the exhibition will feature a selection of her personal vintage photocollages and editorial work. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will present Turbeville's trailblazing photographic explorations, from fashion photos to her very personal work. Bringing together unique pieces, the exhibition will show Turbeville's highly personal artistic universe which has been credited with transforming fashion imagery into avant-garde art.

Admission: General £10, Concession £7. Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.

The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

9 October 2024 — 23 February 2025

Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily

The Photographers’ Gallery presents a solo show of work by Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022). Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1935, Battaglia began her photographic career in the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia. Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily is the first major exhibition in the UK following her death in 2022.

Admission: £8 (£5 concession), Advance - £6.50 (£4 concession), Members go free, Admission is free on Fridays after 5pm.

The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

10-11 October 2024

In Motion London

In Motion is a motion and design festival investigating new trends, innovative art works, and exciting technologies. All the things that stimulate your artistry and INSPIRE! Next to a line-up of artist talks, expect panel discussions, interviews, demos, an industry garden, networking drinks.

Tickets: 2-Day Early Bird £99, 2-Day Education £75, 1-Day Early Bird £69, 1-Day Education £59

Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

11-13 October 2024

Re_Creation

re_CREATION 2024

re_CREATION 2024 is the event that opens up the space of shared experience. Under the motto #bettertogether, the BDG Professional Association of Communication Design invites you to experience co-creation in practice at a workshop weekend in Berlin from 11 to 13 October 2024. #bettertogether is both a motto and a programme. How does co-creation work in practice for solo designers or small agencies? How can conceptually strong and bold ideas be developed - at eye level with the client? What can solo freelancers learn from large agencies? How can we work together on large projects with legal certainty?

Tickets from €295.

Wannseeforum, Hohenzollernstraße 14, 14019, Berlin, Germany

14 October 2024

Leaves & Branches: Designing New Type Styles for the Cherokee Syllabary
with Chris Skillern

Join type designer and Cherokee Nation citizen Chris Skillern for an exploration of the syllabary and the challenges it presents, and get a look at his process when designing for the syllabary. The Cherokee syllabary, created by Sequoyah two-hundred years ago, was quickly adapted for printing upon its adoption and has since been integrated into almost every successive new technology, from typewriters to computers to smart phones. Over that period of time, however, the look of the syllabary has changed very little. Aside from one or two notable exceptions, the syllabary is still most often represented in a style similar to the original metal type. Stylistic diversity is important for the vitality of a written language, but how can we begin to approach designing new styles for a script with so few models?

This is a free event taking place as a Zoom Webinar at 12:30 PM EDT.

This event is part of The Herb Lubalin Lecture Series of Type@Cooper.

11 October 2024 — 25 October 2024

Throwaway

Street photography, established by Charles Nègre in the 1850s, allows us to look at our true selves, finding beauty in the mundane while also raising issues that are prevalent in society at a given moment in time.

'Throwaway' is a reflection of the disposable society we find ourselves living in today. Thousands of images, taken on a mobile phone, framed from inside street bins. The issues it raises extend beyond the physical realm of consumer goods, packaging and food waste, infiltrating the digital landscape, particularly within the domain of social media. Headless figures cling to mobile companions rather than engaging with their surroundings, preferring the mass consumption of ephemeral content over real-world experiences. This digital throwaway culture raises significant questions about the value of information, the quality of interactions, and the impact on mental well-being.

Admission is free.

Art Practice, 148-150 Curtain Road London EC2A 3AT

11 October 2024 — 19 January 2025

MAKING A RUKUS! Black Queer Histories Through Love and Resistance

The brand-new exhibition, curated by artist, filmmaker and co-founder of rukus! Federation, Topher Campbell, explores Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans creativity, activism, community and pride through over 200 objects including archive materials, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions, celebrating the work of Black LGBTQIA+ pioneers and artists since the 1970s.  

Admission: Pay what you can.

Somerset House, Terrace Rooms and Courtyard Rooms, Strand, WC2R 1LA

Photo caption:Valerie Mason-John, 1998. Photo by Michele Martinoli

16 - 20 October 2024

Inscript Experimental Type

Inscript Experimental Type Festival

Inscript, the go-to virtual event for all things at the overlap of technological and typographic innovation, is back!

Inclusive, diverse, bold, and favored by technologists and creatives alike, the Inscript Collective returns with its 3rd experimental type festival. With more than 30 speakers and moderators, the five-day virtual-only and accessible-to-all gathering takes place this October.

October 16-20, 2024
$35 for all five days, with 6 months of replay for ticket-holders.
All online. https://inscript.tf

17 October 2024

Let’s Talk About Workshopping No. 2

This open group conversation discusses the politics of creating space for others within workshop formats. The term “workshop” traditionally describes the space in which objects are crafted and a concrete set of knowledge is transferred from master to apprentice. Since the 1950s, however, activists and artists increasingly embraced the format and broke away from specific knowledge and predetermined goals. Instead, “workshop” is now often understood as a framework for creating experiences and facilitating exchange. Workshopping within artistic and designerly mediating practices thus often questions facilitator-participant hierarchies, linear learning paths, and hegemonic notions of what is considered to be valued knowledge. However, time precarity and budgetary constraints often don’t leave enough space to fully investigate how emancipatory learning can be put into practice.

Admission is free. Registration is required. Event is online through Futuress at 6pm CEST.

17 October 2024

The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture:
Adventures in Episodic Type Design, With David Jonathan Ross

Seven years ago, David Jonathan Ross decided to stop releasing fonts the old fashioned way, and started emailing a new font out to his friends and colleagues each and every month. In this talk, David will share how this chunkification of his process into monthly missives has streamlined his workflow, redefined his business, and created opportunities to make the kinds of fonts he wants to make (even if that doesn't happen to align with what the market is demanding).

In-person tickets: £9.00, £12.00, £14.00 / Online tickets: £6.00, £8.00 / Event from 7pm-8:30pm.

St Bride Foundation (and online), 14 Bride Ln, London EC4Y 8EQ

to 18 October 2024

Top Award

Fedrigoni Top Award 2025

Enter your work by 18 October 2024.

Have you created or contributed to a project with papers or self-adhesive materials from the Fedrigoni Group brands belonging to one of the following categories: Publishing, Creative Communication, Packaging, Label, Graphics Applications? If so, you can submit your project here. More details in Pulp, which Eye magazine makes for Fedrigoni.

Application deadline 18 October 2024.

19 October 2024

Typography Theory Practice

A one-day conference at Leeds School of Arts, organised by Fraser Muggeridge (see Eye 100), which aims to bring typographic theory and practice closely together across a range of contexts and applications.

Paul Luna, author of Typography: A Very Short Introduction (see John Berry’s review in Eye 98) will present a keynote lecture.

Tickets £25.00 with a £10.00 concessionary rate for students. The conference will run from 9.30am – 5pm with a complimentary lunch.

Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, City Campus, Leeds LS1 3HE

5-13 October 2024

Weltformat Graphic Design Festival

The Weltformat Graphic Design Festival is a multi-day event that has been held annually since 2009. Spread throughout the city of Lucerne, numerous exhibitions and events take place each October, providing a vibrant platform for graphic designers and enthusiasts to engage and exchange ideas.

More information coming soon.

16-20 October 2024

Inscript 2024

This year’s ‘Inscript Experimental Type Festival’ will feature more than 30 incredible creatives on stage, showcasing the best-of-the-best new works spanning the gamut of tech talent and creative prowess. Learn behind-the-journey of your favourite works with presenters including Kelli Anderson, Benoit Bodhuin (see Eye 103), Bettina Comte, Rejane Dal Bello (see the Eye blog), Studio Feixen, Nahuel Gerth, Pauric Freeman, Julian Hespenheide, Zach Lieberman, Ordinary People, TraceLoops, Kris Andrews Small, Marina Willer, Studio Yukiko and many more!

Admission (all online) $35 for all five days, with six months of replay for ticket-holders.
All online, https://inscript.tf

Read Gabriela Matuszyk’s review of Inscript 2022 on the Eye blog.

23-26 October 2024

Letrastica Festival 5

Letrastica Festival is the international typography and design gathering that brings together leaders, professionals and enthusiasts in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. The festival offers a full programme including world-class lectures, workshops and exhibitions, as well as live demonstrations, expert critiques and an open forum for creative interaction and exchange of ideas.

More information coming soon.

25 October 2024 — 21 April 2025

The World of Tim Burton

Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers. Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. This major exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer and author, as well as exploring key collaborations with designers. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Open from October just in time for Halloween, this will be the final stop in a decade-long global tour for this exhibition, and it will be its only ever showing in the UK.

See ‘Books received #24’ for Ian Nathan’s book about the fantasy film director’s career and work.

Admission: Adult tickets from £19.69, Children from £9.85, Concession / Student from £14.77.
Under-sixes go free.

Exhibition open Monday to Thursday 10:00 – 17:00, Friday to Sunday 10:00 – 18:00

The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG

27 October — 2 November 2024

Type Camp Japan 2024

Type Camp cultural immersion camp will curate a thorough experience of Japan’s typographic and design environments through workshops, seminars, demonstrations, and just being there. There will be a home base for some workshops and the camp will journey out for others, all so that the course can meet local artisan experts and further our understanding of the cultural context of design and typography.

Price: From $1,250. See website for further details.

Makabe, Japan

30 October — 6 November 2024

Grids and Layout
with Ellen Lupton

This online workshop celebrates Ellen Lupton’s new book, Thinking with Type, 3rd Edition. Create structured layouts and elegant details while designing a typographic poster/broadside. Use grids to organize content, build hierarchies, and generate visual elements. Explore alignment, balance, grouping, color, type choice, and tension. Hone your individual approach to typographic thinking and receive active feedback.

On Mondays, 6:30–9:30pm EST, online

Price: $270

Type at Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

See 'Reputations: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville' from Eye 8 and 'Love letter to the future' on the Eye blog.

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4 November 2024

Stencil work: scenes in a history
with Eric Kindel

This talk will survey scenes of stencil work spanning six centuries, discussing and illustrating the stencil’s surprisingly varied use in the production of textual and graphic documents, marks, and messages. Drawing on many years of research, the talk will explore the aesthetic, technical, social, entrepreneurial, regulatory, and linguistic dimensions of stencil work.

This is a free event taking place as a Zoom Webinar at 12:30-2:00PM EDT.

This event is part of The Herb Lubalin Lecture Series of Type@Cooper.

Read more about Eric Kindel at Eye.

5 November — 10 December 2024

Global Writing Systems: A Typographic Survey (Part 1)
with Kamal Mansour

Typographic text is found nearly everywhere in the world. What was once written by hand, now appears in typographic garb. Written forms took centuries to develop. Because of their prevalence, we’ve grown accustomed to them. Around the globe, various writing systems have adapted in distinct ways to the constraints of typography. Each one has a story to tell. 

Join us for a series of lectures as we explore the typographic stories of some of the most often encountered global writing systems: Latin, Perso-Arabic, Devanagari, Japanese & Chinese, Thai & Burmese. Which languages do they serve? How did they come to take their various forms? What is the logic behind each one? The final lecture will focus on the role of Unicode & OpenType in enabling digital devices to display text in so many languages and scripts?

On Tuesdays, 6:30–9:30pm EST, online

Price: $350

Type at Cooper, 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

See 'Beyond Latin' from Eye 90.

7 November 2024

MagCulture Live

magCulture Live, London 2024

magCulture Live is the only live event focusing on the creative side of magazine publishing. Each edition—we run one in New York and one in London every year—showcases the best creative editorial projects, with speakers from across the magazine spectrum sharing their work and inspiring our audience.

This year’s London line-up is still being finalised but we’re excited to share the first few names; Richard Turley, Shira Inbar, Nina Carter and Davide Cazzaro and Pablo Martin. More speakers to be announced soon.

Thursday 7 November 12.00 - 17.00
Vitsoe, 21 Marylebone Lane, London W1U 2NG
Tickets £80 - £110 Earlybird tickets currently available

8 November 2024

Blend BCN

BlendBCN is a new festival that offers ‘a unique space for different creative disciplines to merge, share and explore in real time their combined potential, supported by their respective industries’. The event highlights the worlds of advertising, art direction, graphic design, media, multimedia, video games, architecture, product design, crafts, fashion, film, photography and music.

Fira de Barcelona, Av. de la Reina Maria Cristina, s/n, Sants-Montjuïc, 08004 Barcelona, Spain

14 November 2024 — 13 April 2025

Munich 1972: Sports Posters of the XXth Olympic Games

This exhibition highlights the program created for the 1972 Munich Olympics at its best, one for each event, each capturing both a moment in time and making a bid for permanence. Together, they demonstrate a magically calibrated balance of consistency and surprise, control and power, precision and exuberance: no less than the athletes they celebrate.

Curated by graphic designer Michael Bierut (see Eye 24 and Eye 100), who graduated from the University of Cincinnati and worked for ten years with Massimo Vignelli (see Eye 83 and the Eye blog) before joining the New York office of the design consultancy Pentagram in 1990.

Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free

Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

14 November 2024 — 13 April 2025

Leaving the Smoke Behind: Enjoying an Awayday

The majority of the posters in this exhibition date from the Golden Age of London Passenger Transport Board posters, when many artists were commissioned to produce designs, primarily for London Underground (see the Eye blog and Eye 16) and its various connecting networks of tram and bus lines. In this post-World War I era, the overarching concept behind the poster campaigns was to encourage off-peak travel across the wider network through eye-catching, attractive designs, thus driving up revenues for under-utilised lines.

Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free

Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

19 November 2024 — 26 May 2025

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

The first major exhibition devoted to visionary artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951). Known as the wife of Eric Ravilious and the author of Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. This retrospective marks the first time the full extent her output has been shown, including more than 80 of Garwood’s works plus eleven watercolours by Ravilious that draw out the thematic similarities, shared interests, and distinct artistic personalities of this remarkable couple. Curated by James Russell.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, College Road, London SE21 7AD

Opening Hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm; Closed Mon except Bank Holidays.

25 November 2024

TUSCANS. Some intriguing questions over this singular ornamental type style.
with Alejandro Lo Celso (Loche)

Tuscan letterforms can be subtle or extravagant, sumptuous or delicate, but in an inexplicable way this very singular genre populates streets and typographic catalogs of all times. A product of decorative ingenuity, Tuscan vernaculars dress the street signs of Mexico as much as the stained glass windows of Paris, the “porteño” filleting of Buenos Aires signs or the hulls of fishing boats in the waters of the Amazon. But where do Tuscan letters come from? Are they just another expressive addition to the decorative sections in type founders and printers’ catalogs? Is it possible that they were born from a mischievous interpretation of Roman inscriptions engraved in stone? These and other questions will be raised — not necessarily answered! We will also be delighted with some images of Tuscan vernaculars of certain places.

This is a free event taking place as a Zoom Webinar at 12:30-2:00PM EDT.

This event is part of The Herb Lubalin Lecture Series of Type@Cooper.

Read more about Alejandro Lo Celso at Eye.

28 November – 5 December 2024

International Assembly Conference

An unmissable all-day design and creative conference with some of the most exciting thinkers, makers and movers in design, branding, illustration, animation, art, advertising and beyond. The International Assembly Conference has an incredible line up of speakers including Marina Willer from Pentagram (see Eye 99), Mitch Paone from DIA (see Eye 104), Angela Kirkwood, Eric Hu, Metahaven (see Eye 71), Joseph Lebus from PORTO ROCHA, and Liza Enebeis from Studio Dumbar/DEPT® (see Eye 100 and 104).

Tickets starting at £326. See event site for more info.

Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland

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DECEMBER 2024

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ONLINE + ONGOING

Ongoing

Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia

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.

Ongoing

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The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association

This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.

Ongoing

Yuri Suzuki Sonic Bloom

Sonic Bloom

A community-focused, multi-sensory installation exploring the nature of communication through the interactive deployment of sound. Curated by Alter-Projects and designed by sound artist, designer, and electronic musician, Yuri Suzuki.

Brown Hart Gardens, North Mayfair, London.

Free access

Online

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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

Ongoing

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Letterform Archive Online

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

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Design Interview 10Q

A series of design talks – with Matteo Bologna, Erik Brandt, Dafi Kühne, Thomas Kronbichler and Niklaus Troxler, with more to come – curated by graphic designer Fabio Mario Rizzotti. You can watch the interviews on the @designinterview10q IGTV and YouTube channel.

See ‘Sticks in the mind’ in Eye 69.

Ongoing

Soho Photography Quarter

Soho Photography Quarter

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. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.

Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW

Ongoing

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)


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

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.

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The 1970s

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.