Events
DON’T MISS THIS WEEK
26 September 2023
Unexpected Baskerville: the Story of LoveFrom Serif
LoveFrom is a creative collective of designers, architects, musicians, filmmakers, writers, engineers and artists with studios in London and San Francisco. St Bride Foundation invites Antonio Cavedoni and Chris Wilson to present how LoveFrom Serif extended the dynamic range of the original Baskerville letterforms, providing the studio not just with an identity but with a voice, and a tool to use in selected projects with clients as well as self-initiated work.
Tickets: £8.50-13 (in-person only) / 7-8.30pm (GMT)
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London, EC4Y 8EQ, London
27-28 September 2023
Design Matters: Copenhagen 2023
Design Matters is a Copenhagen-based conference on digital design – made for designers, by designers. It is a place to gather together, share ideas and discuss experiences. Design Matters involves a knowledgeable community of creative and curious minds who share the same drive and passion for digital design, technology, art, and society.
Admission: from DKK 5,500 (in-person) / from DKK 1,500 (online)
Lokomotivværkstedet, OBV 232, OBV 037, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 København, Denmark
27 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda conducts sound, visuals, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.
For this exhibition Ikeda will create new pieces that work together with the unique architecture of Amos Rex. In addition, parts one and two of Ikeda’s massive audiovisual installation, the hypnotic video trilogy data-verse (2019) will be on view.
Tickets are €5-20
Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie 22–24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
28 September 2023
TYPOCIRCLE presents Atelier Dyakova
Sonya reflects on her background, influences and various stages of her career as a graphic designer, creative director and founder of her London-based design studio Atelier Dyakova. She will talk through recent and some previously unpublished projects and talk about their process and challenges. She’ll touch on her ongoing search for balance and obsession with producing work.
St Bride Library, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
28 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020
Every poster in this exhibition is a failure – not in the sense that they failed in their graphic intent of communicating a message, but rather that they failed to successfully modify behaviour. Nevertheless, these impactful images have shaped the bounds of public debate on environmental issues, drawing attention to distinct and particular concerns. This exhibition avoids these tropes, charting a global history of environmental activism through posters, ranging in style from whimsical to apocalyptic.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
28 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
Art Deco: Commercialising the Avant-Garde
Featuring over 50 posters, this exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavours to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
September 2023
Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary Squaring the Circle (the story of Hipgnosis) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, the art directors who founded the music design studio Hipgnosis. See ‘Heavy rotation’ in Eye 104 and ‘Big ideas and giant turkeys’ on the Eye blog. Based around an extended interview with Powell, there are some fascinating quotes from clients (Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney), former colleagues (George Hardie, Andrew Ellis and Jill Furmanovsky), neighbours (Glen Matlock), fellow music designers (Peter Saville) and some extended musings from Noel Gallagher.
Tickets from Picturehouse. Further details of screenings (inc. Sundance London, 7 July) and streaming via Dogwoof.
Po was in conversation at Eye’s Type Tuesday on 5 September 2023, see Graphic Design Live #14.
Above: ‘Sleazy’ Peter Christopherson, Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson, in Hipgnosis’s Denmark St studio, 1979.
Below: Powell with a print of the cow Hipgnosis photographed for Pink Floyd’s Animals, filmed by Anton Corbijn for Squaring the Circle.
CURRENTLY ON
to 6 October 2023
En El Frente: Celebrating the Impact of Chicano Independent Publications
An exhibition on the visual landscape of Chicano independent publications from the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their clever use of technology, iconic imagery, mastheads and artwork. By highlighting the innovative designs that emerged during this era, ‘En El Frente’ (‘on the front’) sheds light on a vital aspect of design history that has often been overlooked.
Admission is free.
Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
to 8 October 2023
Souvenir d’Italie: Posters and ephemera from the Bertarelli Collection
Salette della Grafica, Castello Sforzesco, Piazza Castello, 20121 Milano, Italy
Free admission, Mon-Sun 10am-5.30pm
to 15 October 2023
An exhibition that features a selection of existing FAQ adopted from established institutions. Typeset as found, with no grammatical corrections, in fonts designed by students at ArtCenter College of Design. This exhibition explores whether typefaces can influence – and be influenced by – the quotes they are set in.
Admission is free.
HMCT Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design South Campus, 950 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105
to 21 October 2023
Creative Super Market #1: Yellow
The Super Collective Market transforms A—Z into a temporary market space. For this first edition, the theme is YELLOW; showcasing a sunny selection of yellow items, including customised stamps, a kit to grow your own yellow pigment, limited edition prints, books and textiles.
The market features Novo Typo / Mark van Wageningen (see ‘Novo Typo goes off the grid’), Sarah Boris (see ‘Word play’ in Eye 101), Anja Lutz (see ‘Cultural chameleon’ in Eye 37), Aggie Toppins (see ‘Another world is possible’ in Eye 104), Carlos Navarro, Kui Soon Park, and many more.
Admission is free / Open Thursday to Saturday, 2-7pm.
A—Z, Torstr. 93, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
to 21 October 2023
Biennale Internationale de design graphique
Fourth edition of graphic design biennale organised by Le Signe in Chaumont, France. Along with a rich series of workshops, events, lectures, meetings and twelve exhibitions, the programme will announce and exhibit the winners of the thirtieth International Poster Competition.
Admissions: €6-9
Le Signe, Centre National Du Graphisme, 1, place Émile Goguenheim, 52000 Chaumont
to 22 October 2023
WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts
‘Wave’ explores the vibrant diversity of Japanese graphic arts in an exhibition which bridges the worlds of fine art, commercial illustration and counterculture. The work of a selection of 60 Japanese artists is presented, with late 20th-century innovators Tanaami Keiichi and Yumura Teruhiko featured alongside several emerging artists being exhibited for the first time in the UK.
Admission is free. Booking not essential but recommended.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
to 22 October 2023
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
This photographic biennale takes place in Ballarat near Melbourne. Across two months a series of talks, awards, performances, classes, and workshops, as well as exhibitions, portfolio reviews, talks and celebrations will take place in a rich programme of events.
Admission from $25.
The event hub is at Mining Exchange, 12 Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Australia.
to 29 October 2023
Visual Poetry: Contemporary Posters from Iran
Presented here is a new donation to the museum’s unparalleled collection of Iranian poster art with works from the past twenty years. While some of these affirm Western preconceptions of Islamic aesthetics, others radically undermine them in ways that take us by surprise. With their poetic, often symbolically coded visuals that cut through the cultural and political restrictions of the regime, the posters reflect the creative license that comes into play in times of political turmoil.
Admission: CHF 12/8
Museum für Gestaltung, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich
to 29 October 2023
Subscription to Mischief: Graffiti Zines of the 1990s
‘Subscription to Mischief’ explores 1990s graffiti zines with a special focus on the making of Skills zine. It highlights original works by prominent and lesser-known writers of the ’90s through the pieces, throwups and handstyles featured in letters, flick trade photos and magazine submissions.
Lectures, gallery tours, and other special events (both in-person and online) will accompany the exhibition throughout its run.
Admission: $5-10
Letterform Archive, 2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
to 5 November 2023
The Revolution Will Be Digitised: Typefaces from Emigre & FUSE
In 1984, the Apple Macintosh computer was introduced, ushering in a new era of digital type design. That same year, Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko founded Emigre Graphics in San Francisco. A few years later, in 1991, FUSE was founded by Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft as both a printed and digital publication, becoming a unique showcase for experimental digital-typeface designers and typographers. This show explores Emigre and FUSE through their posters announcing new, progressive digital typefaces.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
to 5 November 2023
Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design
Unlike general advertising posters, type specimen posters are targeted to graphic designers who are in the market to buy or use a typeface in a project. All of the posters in this exhibition advertise digital typefaces, showcasing the myriad women who are thriving and expanding the world of type design.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
to 26 November 2023
Eso es la Vida / This is Life: Graphic Design from Mexico
‘Eso es la vida/This is life’ assembles examples of graphic design from Mexico’s past and present to examine the field's development over the past century and its role in popular culture. The exhibition includes examples of posters, typography and sign painting, as well as video and digital media that reveal visual communication as a vital facet of everyday life.
Admission: $8-16
Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
to 7 January 2024
Claudia Caviezel: Caleidoscope
For more than twenty years, the trained textile designer has been working in the realm of fabrics and beyond. Caviezel lets herself be guided by her own creative intuition, working spontaneously, directly and experimentally – she interweaves traditional craftsmanship with digital tools, demonstrating a flair for colour and pattern. The exhibition features textile objects, large-format prints, sketches, and recent works.
Admission is CHF 8-12.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zurich
to 14 January 2024
After 35 years, the animated GIF remains prevalent. Following nearly three decades of evolving GIF culture, from their use in bulletin board systems and Netscape 2.0 to online communities like Surf Clubs, Tumblr, and GIPHY, a new generation of artists are now gaining acclaim for their work within the constraints of a 256-color palette. Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator, with added artist conversations on the topic.
Also see ‘Jump cuts’ by John L. Walters in Eye 104.
Tickets are $10–20. Open Thursday to Sunday.
Museum of Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106
to 29 January 2024
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Drawn from the Edward Bawden archive, see large linocuts of London's iconic stations and an array of wonderful vehicles from hot air balloon to jumbo jets and tall ships to cruise liners. This exhibition explores how trains, planes, automobiles and the occasional boat are in so much of his works including well-known prints, advertising campaigns and private commissions.
The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD, UK
to 7 July 2024
Exhibition examining socially driven ideas about living together, and exploring how Dutch society redesigned itself over the past 100 years. In a series of installations designers, researchers and curators select and (re)interpret pieces from archives to tell stories on social design.
Admission: €10.50
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam, Netherlands
to 8 September 2024
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
10 February — 11 May 2024
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
29 June — 8 September 2024
Oxfordshire Museum
to 22 September 2024
With ‘Type is Image’, Munich’s Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum – continues its tradition of inviting important contemporary designers to a site-specific installation. Paula Scher accepted this invitation with a walk-in exhibition that allows the public to immerse themselves in her world. From the floor to the walls to the hanging letters and posters, visitors are surrounded by Scher’s works.
See Reputations: Paula Scher in Eye 77.
Open daily 10-6pm, Thursday 10-8pm, closed on Mondays.
Die Neue Sammlung, Türkenstrasse 15, 80333 Munich
to 24 September 2024
Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols
From the STOP sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. As communication tools designed to break language barriers, symbols instruct, protect, entertain, connect, and communicate beliefs. This exhibition demonstrates how symbol design is a dynamic and collaborative effort through which individuals and communities have created, adopted, and redesigned symbols over time.
Admission: $7-16
Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
SEPTEMBER 2023
26 September 2023
Unexpected Baskerville: the Story of LoveFrom Serif
LoveFrom is a creative collective of designers, architects, musicians, filmmakers, writers, engineers and artists with studios in London and San Francisco. St Bride Foundation invites Antonio Cavedoni and Chris Wilson to present how LoveFrom Serif extended the dynamic range of the original Baskerville letterforms, providing the studio not just with an identity but with a voice, and a tool to use in selected projects with clients as well as self-initiated work.
Tickets: £8.50-13 (in-person only) / 7-8.30pm (GMT)
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London, EC4Y 8EQ, London
27-28 September 2023
Design Matters: Copenhagen 2023
Design Matters is a Copenhagen-based conference on digital design – made for designers, by designers. It is a place to gather together, share ideas and discuss experiences. Design Matters involves a knowledgeable community of creative and curious minds who share the same drive and passion for digital design, technology, art, and society.
Admission: from DKK 5,500 (in-person) / from DKK 1,500 (online)
Lokomotivværkstedet, OBV 232, OBV 037, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 København, Denmark
27 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda conducts sound, visuals, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.
For this exhibition Ikeda will create new pieces that work together with the unique architecture of Amos Rex. In addition, parts one and two of Ikeda’s massive audiovisual installation, the hypnotic video trilogy data-verse (2019) will be on view.
Tickets are €5-20
Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie 22–24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
28 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020
Every poster in this exhibition is a failure – not in the sense that they failed in their graphic intent of communicating a message, but rather that they failed to successfully modify behaviour. Nevertheless, these impactful images have shaped the bounds of public debate on environmental issues, drawing attention to distinct and particular concerns. This exhibition avoids these tropes, charting a global history of environmental activism through posters, ranging in style from whimsical to apocalyptic.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
28 September 2023 — 25 February 2024
Art Deco: Commercialising the Avant-Garde
Featuring over 50 posters, this exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavours to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
OCTOBER 2023
4-8 October 2023
A conference for sharing the wildest experiments or latest innovations, the ‘Inscript’ experimental type festival highlights industry experts across typography, creative coding, phygital media, and more. The second edition of the festival invites together more than 30 speakers and moderators in a five-day virtual-only and accessible-to-all gathering, with talks and workshops. Speakers include Hansje van Halem (see Eye 98), Emma Chapuis, Dinamo (see Eye blog), Studio Dumbar (see Eye 100), Rajshree Saraf, and Paul Elliman (see Eye 25) to name a few, with more to be announced.
We covered ‘Inscript 2022’ in ‘Access to the futures of type’ on Eye blog.
Tickets are $30. Online event.
5-7 October 2023
etceteras: feminist festival of design and publishing
Feminist literacies are collective fabulations. It is through the interlocking efforts of writers, editors, publishers, designers, artists, printers, booksellers, distributors, translators, researchers, librarians, smugglers—and so many others—that feminist ideas move around. ‘Etceteras’ programme offers lectures, workshops, moderated talks, performances, film screenings, a book fair and more. The festival was curated by Isabel Duarte (see ‘Rebalancing the canon’ in Eye 102), Maya Ober and Nina Paim (see ‘Designers are only human’ on Eye blog), featuring Loraine Furter, Susana Carvalho (see ‘Reputations: Commercial Type’ in Eye 82), Parasto Backman and many others.
Admission is free. All lectures, moderated talks, and performances are subject to room capacity. Workshop registrations from August 1.
Casa Comum, Porto, Portugal
5 October 2023 — 7 January 2024
Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today
Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today offers a critical survey of the achievements and the working conditions of women designers in the last century. The exhibition presents objects created by leading female protagonists in different areas of design ranging from furniture, interiors, graphic design and lighting, to textiles, ceramics and jewellery.
Tickets are €4-6
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38 08018 Barcelona
6 October 2023
What Design Can Do: Mexico City 2023
On 6 October 2023, What Design Can Do will return to Mexico City for a festival exploring the power of design and how it can transform our world. The conference will delve into climate and equality-related issues with a special focus on the links between ancestral knowledge, heritage and design. Programme includes a series of talks, workshops and events.
Admission is $250-350 MXN.
Julio Castillo Theater, Paseo de la Reforma y, P.º Campo Marte S/N, Polanco Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, 11560 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
10 October — 17 December 2023
An exhibition of London-based artist collective United Visual Artists (UVA), featuring seven large-scale immersive works, several newly commissioned pieces and collaborations that explore our perception of space and time and challenge the ways we attempt to make sense of the world.
Tickets from £20.
180, The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
from 14 October 2023
Young V&A’s very first exhibition presents an atmospheric trip through Japanese history, exploring how landscape and folklore have influenced Japan’s culture, technology and design.
Tickets: £10
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
19 October 2023
The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture: Writing with Type
The annual Beatrice Warde (see ‘The endless library at the end of print’ in Eye 27) Memorial Lecture organised by St Bride Foundation presents designer, writer and educator, Ellen Lupton. The focus of the talk will be writing as design and design as writing – as well as the people who make it happen.
Tickets are £8-12 in person or £4.50-6.50 for online access.
Doors: 6.15pm / Talk and online access: 7-8.30pm (BST)
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, EC4Y 8EQ
19 October — 3 December 2023
A global gathering on design issues, the ‘Porto Design Biennale’ takes the form of a series of exhibitions, conferences and workshops, highlighting the importance of this discipline in the production of culture and critical knowledge reflecting on the most pressing contemporary issues. The central theme of the third edition was announced as ‘Being water: How we flow together and shape each other’.
The event will take place across Porto and Matosinhos in Portugal.
More to be announced soon.
21-22 October 2023
Held at the International Printing Museum in California, The Los Angeles Printers Fair brings the best of letterpress, book arts and paper arts to the Los Angeles area. With the backdrop of the world’s largest collection of working antique presses, the Printers Fair annually brings together 80 artistic vendors and 1500 visitors to experience the creative worlds of beautiful printing and handmade books.
Admission is free.
International printing museum, 315 West Torrance Boulevard, Carson, CA, 90745
26-28 October 2023
In its sixteenth edition is ‘Typo Day’, an event featuring typographic and calligraphic workshops as well as a conference under the theme 'Sacred and Typography'. The international conference will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, industry professionals, research scholars and students. The event will also host an exhibition of selected posters from the poster design competition.
More information to follow.
NOVEMBER 2023
1-3 November 2023
The Kernference is an online conference featuring talks, workshops and panels from the industry’s experts and rising talent. Organised by Better Type foundry, the event features designers such as Annie Atkins (see ‘Nested narratives’ in Eye 90), Huyen Dinh, Jessica Korthuis, Nubia Navarro, Sam Roberts (see ‘Fading into significance’ in Eye 103), Ndubisi Okoye, Eso Tolson, Elizabeth Godspeed, and many more.
Admission from $249
2-17 November 2023
A series of workshops and conferences welcoming creatives from across the world. The programme features designers such as Yuri Suzuki from Pentagram, Zach Lieberman (see ‘Type in Toronto’ on Eye blog), Studio Dumbar (see Eye 100 and Eye 1), Pangram Pangram, Johanna Burai, The Royal Studio, OMSE, and many others.
3 November 2023 — 3 March 2024
The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time
Since the dawn of cinema, posters have played a key role in publicising films. Posters put a movie on the streets and captivate the imagination. The exhibition The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time presents three hundred original film posters dating from the early 1900s to the 2020s, all chosen from the Graphic Design Collection of the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with the help of international guests from the film world.
Admission is free.
Kulturforum, Exhibition Hall, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin
Above: detail from Solo Sunny by Gerda Dassing, 1979 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Dietmar Katz
3 November 2023 — 25 February 2024
Talking Bodies: Body Images in the Poster
Ever since the advent of the modern illustrated poster around 1900, the human body has been a popular subject. In the context of current debates on gender and race, as well as on body optimisation and media self-staging, the exhibition questions the body images propagated by our visual culture. Posters from the museum collection meet up with artworks and everyday objects to prompt a multifaceted examination of the body in its cultural, social and political dimensions.
Admission: CHF 12/8
Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zurich
9 November 2023
Pentawards Festival: Does your design have purpose?
Talks and workshops with speakers including Stefan Sagmeister, podcaster Steven Bartlett and Hanna Kops (Transport For London).
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
9-11 November 2023
This online conference will focus on writing and typography for native languages from Latin America, with a wide group of representatives from the Chatino, Mixe, Ngiba, Nahua and Zapotec nations, as well as Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. In a series of talks, they will discuss the challenges and achievements related to design and work with native languages.
The congress will be held in Spanish, Portuguese and English, with simultaneous translation.
Admission is $25-60.
11 November 2023
St Bride Foundation Conference 2023: Innovation. Inspiration. Imagination. Invention.
Following a 12 year hiatus, the annual St Bride Foundation Conference is back (see ‘The “Ziggy Stardust” Moment’ on Eye blog). As well as hearing from a range of speakers from the fields of graphic design, illustration, product design, type design and more, attendees will be able to try their hand at letterpress printing on the historic presses and find out more about some of the treasures in the St Bride Library collections. Speakers include Neville Brody (‘Reputations’ in Eye 6), Bob Richardson (‘Analogue survivors’ on Eye blog), Alicia Martin, Naïma Ben Ayed, and Naomi Kent (‘Fading away before the issues’ in Eye 41), among others.
In-person tickets: £80, £70, £60
Online tickets: £50, £45, £35
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, EC4Y 8EQ, London
16 November 2023 — 14 April 2024
Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry
Since 1971, a printer known as Ramachandraiah has been running a small shop in Bangalore with his son, Raju, the shop’s resident artist. Using a lithographic press built in 1901, they create striking movie posters for single-screen cinemas across the city, often copied directly from the movie’s official promotional material. Featuring bold colours and charming hand-drawn images of the film’s stars, these posters encapsulate the essence of South Indian Kannada cinema.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
16 November 2023 — 14 April 2024
Creating Community: Event Posters for AIGA NY
This exhibition highlights the full range of events hosted by AIGA NY from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. It chronicles the evolving state of the graphic design field, from the analogue to the dawn of the digital age and beyond.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
22 November 2023
The Hyphen is a Dagger: Poets and Printers in Collaboration
Celebrating the possibilities of collaboration between printers and poets, this special event sees the launch of a remarkable new publication – The Hyphen is a Dagger – from Nomad Letterpress and AB Press. Following a performance to the mark the release, a moderated discussion will explore the unique process that led to the book’s conception and creation. In addition, five guest performers will open the night, all sharing work in kind.
Admission is £8.50-13 (in-person) and £5.50-6.50 (online) / 7-8.30pm (GMT)
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, London, EC4Y 8EQ, London
ONLINE + ONGOING
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.
Ongoing
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
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
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
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
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 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)
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
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.