Events
DON’T MISS
12-13 June 2025
Birmingham Design Festival returns for 2025 in its popular conference format. BDF Conference will be two days packed with workshops and talks exploring the theme of PLAY.
Taking to the stage this year is is a specially-curated speaker list including Merlin Crossingham (Aardman), Kelli Anderson, Bryony Gomez-Palacio & Armin Vit (UnderConsideration), TEMPLO, Malika Favre (see Eye 100), George Wu, Javier Jaén, Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar)(see Eye 100) and Chris Clarke (The Guardian)(see Eye 93). These design pros have been chosen for the influential, inspiring and playful nature of their work.
Thursday 12 June and Friday
13 June.
Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3DQ
Tickets £75, Students £50
12 June – 21 August 2025
Intro to Modern Type Design
with Kel Troughton
During this ten-week online workshop, you'll learn what it takes to create your own original typefaces and gain an understanding of the methodologies and software used to produce high-quality digital type.
Registration: $1090
Dates / Times: 10 online sessions, 3 hours each on Thursdays, 5 to 8pm PST
Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, US
Read about Letterform Archive in Eye 108.
14-15 June 2025
This is the first conference fully dedicated to the business of running a foundry, the complexities of the font industry, and the shifting trends seen in licensing and business models. The conference will be held exclusively online, with breakout rooms to allow people to discuss the topics raised during breaks. Font Business 2025 will bring together industry leaders, reaching out to both veteran practitioners and trailblazing newcomers who are changing the industry as we know it.
The conference includes several panel discussions called Vision 2040, with speakers such as John Hudson from Tiro Typeworks (see ‘Beyond Latin’ from Eye 90), Flavia Zimbardi from Women in Type, Omaima Dajani from Arabic Design Archive and Design Repository, Lisa Huang from Words of Type, and many more.
Admission: See here for pricing.
This is an online event.
CURRENTLY ON
to 15 June 2025
Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the twentieth century. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with Leeds. He has chronicled the people and the changing fortunes of the city with warmth and familiarity for over forty years. Described as ‘a narrator of who we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’, Mitchell continues to photograph his home town today.
Admission: General £10 / £7 concession, Advance: £8.50 / £6 concession
The Photographers’ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 26 June 2025
One-off magazine and photo exhibition. ‘For the past 9 months,’ writes Rankin, ‘I’ve been deep in the machine, using AI to create FAIK Magazine and the exhibition “FAIK OFF”. Not to jump on a trend, but to interrogate it. What does it mean when creativity is outsourced? What do we lose when we stop noticing the difference between human and synthetic?’
Annroy, 110-114 Grafton Rd, London NW5 4BA
12-7pm daily. Free entry and free copy of FAIK.
See also ‘Ultra process’ in Eye 107, which includes extracts from a conversation with Rankin, and an image from his Fairies project with Heidi Klum.
Above: Cosmic Canine, FAIK Magazine, 2025 © For All I Know Ltd.
to 29 June 2025
London Design Biennale returns to Somerset House from 05-29 June 2025 for its 5th edition. Featuring world-leading design, innovation, creativity and research by exhibitors from across the globe, London Design Biennale showcases today’s designers and ideas that will change our world. The three-week international exhibition features curated installations accompanied by a programme of events, thought-leadership talks, performances and workshops. This year’s theme ‘Surface Reflections’, by Artistic Director Dr Samuel Ross MBE, Founder of A COLD-WALL* and SR_A SR_A, explores how ideas are fuelled by both our internal experiences and external influences. Tickets available here.
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
to 29 June 2025
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
Throughout her career, Catherine Griffiths has used language, light and sound as both a material and conceptual force. Through typographic installations, time-based media, and site-specific interventions, Griffiths encourages the viewer to read between the lines, engage in spatial dialogues and consider the alternative.
Featuring a commissioned site-specific installation, this exhibition – the largest exhibition of Griffiths’ work presented in Australia to date – offers a unique chance to experience the provocations and physical qualities of Griffiths’ practice.
Exhibition open daily: Now extended to Sunday 29 June 2025, 10am - 4pm
Venue: The Design Gallery (formerly the Dulux Gallery), Ground Floor, Glyn Davis Building, Masson Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line is curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty and presented by the Melbourne School of Design, with the support of the Melbourne Art Book Fair and the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.
Above. Light Weight O (2018), Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Photo: David Straight.
Read ‘Blood lines’, John Warwicker’s review of ‘Out of Line’, on the Eye blog.
to 30 June 2025
Alan Kitching: London’s Building Blocks
Alan Kitching: London’s Building Blocks serves as a tribute not only to Kitching's renowned career but also to the history of London’s typographic printing. This is an exhibition about the transmission of heritage and the craft of the printer. Alongside work by Alan Kitching (see ‘Marks on paper’ in Eye 15 and ‘The show must go on’ in Eye 74), the exhibition will also feature pieces by three designers whom Kitching has mentored and influenced throughout his career: Michelle Dwyer, Theo Hersey and Christian Granados (see ‘Noted #77’ on the Eye blog).
Admission is free.
GRAGRA Gallery & Letterpress Studio, Carnicer 18, Tetuán, 28039 Madrid, Spain
See ‘In Mr Kitching’s footsteps’ on the Pulp website.
to 30 June 2025
IDENTITA – The Story of Czech Graphic Design
A new exhibition devoted to the legacy of Czech graphic design at Notting Hill’s Vitrínka and Bouda galleries. The exhibition showcases an extensive collection of Czech graphic design from the early twentieth century to the present day, highlighting significant achievements as well as the evolution of graphic design and its effects on society.
Curated by Filip Blažek and Linda Kudrnovská, in collaboration with commissioner David Korecký.
The exhibition is part of a comprehensive multi-genre project Identita - The Story of Czech Graphic Design (projektidentita.cz) which also includes a TV series, a feature film and a book. This London show is accompanied by events throughout the spring and summer.
Venue: Czech Centre’s Vitrínka and Bouda galleries, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens, W8 4QY. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10am – 5pm or by appointment.
Above: Prague Metro orientation system designed by Jiří Rathouský.
to 13 July 2025
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
Over the last four decades, image-editing software has radically transformed our visual world. The ease with which images and text can be digitally generated and altered has enabled new forms of creative experimentation, while also sparking philosophical debates about the very nature of representation. Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to the present, for the first time assessing simultaneous developments and debates in the fields of photography, graphic design, and visual effects. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism, and storytelling modes. The nearly 200 artists, designers, and makers, including Zuzana Licko (see Eye 43) illuminate today's visual culture where digital editing tools are easier to access than ever before.
Ticket info and hours on website.
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
to 27 July 2025
Remembering is the first solo exhibition of Arpita Singh outside India, featuring key works selected in close collaboration with the artist from her prolific career spanning more than six decades. Singh’s paintings centre on her emotional and psychological state, drawing from Bengali folk art and Indian stories, interwoven with experiences of social upheaval and global conflict.
Admission is free.
Serpentine North, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
to 30 July 2025
180 Studios will present the largest exhibition to date of photographer and filmmaker Gabriel Moses, bringing together over 70 photographs and 10 films showcasing his work across the worlds of fashion, music and sport, including the premiere of new work.
180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12 midday - 7pm
Tickets £20 - pre-booking recommended
to 17 August 2025
Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style
A major exhibition celebrating our enduring love of the water over the last 100 years. Explore the full spectrum of the design of swimming — from sports performance and fashion, to architecture.
Admission ranges from £7 - £15. The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
to 31 August 2025
Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home
Drawing on a rich range of visual and aural material, this exhibition explores the early years of radio. Focusing on the first two decades of radio, the exhibition is brought to life with newly uncovered first-hand accounts, giving a voice to the listeners who lived through this huge social and technological change.
Venue Treasury, Weston Library, Monday – Friday: 10am–5pm; Saturday: 10am–5pm; Sunday: 11am–4pm. Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
Curated by Beaty Rubens, former BBC radio producer, writer and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow 2023–24.
to 31 Aug 2025
This bold new multi-sensory exhibition experience explores our relationship to sound and embraces a world of listening. Frequencies, sound, rhythms and vibrations define everything around us. From the soundtrack of our environments to the rhythm of our heart, frequencies are constantly creating and changing how we see, hear and feel the world. Feel the Sound invites you to awaken your senses, embrace our sonic world and discover personal frequencies in a series of unique installations.
More information on tickets and hours here.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
to 31 August 2025
The late Leigh Bowery (1961-94) left a mark on the world of visual culture, taking on many roles, including performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician. This exhibition shows many of Bowery’s ‘Looks’ alongside his collaborations with Michael Clark, John Maybury, Baillie Walsh, Fergus Greer, Nick Knight, Lucian Freud and others.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00. Tickets from £5-18.00
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
to 1 September 2025
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
The 1940s witnessed major shifts in politics, science, economics, industry, the arts, and culture, which coincided with a time of scarcity, limitation, and the catastrophic global conflict of World War II. Throughout this tumultuous period, artists brought new ideas to their work across media, from fashion and textiles, craft and design, to printmaking, drawing, photography, painting, and sculpture. Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s will be a testament to the creative spirit that flourished despite the restrictions and adversity of the era. This exhibition will showcase art from across the decade, featuring works drawn entirely from the museum’s permanent collections.
Check site for admission pricing.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dorrance Galleries, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130
to 7 September 2025
Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace
This exhibition chronicles the global development of the nuclear industry, for peaceful and offensive means, examining posters that both promoted and protested its use throughout the second half of the 20th century. It features the entire General Dynamics series, long heralded as one of the finest examples of corporate propaganda ever created, as well as over 60 other posters criticising the proliferation of nuclear technology.
See site for more information.
This exhibition is rated PG-13 for images of violence.
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
Photo: Protect and Survive, 1980, Peter Kennard.
to 7 September 2025
Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America. This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history of Puerto Rico, encompassing elements of Taíno, Spanish, and African cultures as well as the rising tensions between tradition and modernity under the Luis Muñoz Marín government. His influence is so extensive that today he is known as the father of the Puerto Rican poster.
See site for more information.
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 21 September 2025
Novo Typo Offgrid from Amsterdam to Shenzhen
This exhibition is an exploration of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and experimental graphic design at the Novo Typo Offgrid D.I.Y. Expo. It is part of Novo Typo Offgrid, an ongoing research project redefining graphic design through sustainable production techniques, alternative color systems, and hands-on experimentation. The project started in 2020 and was originally designed and produced within close proximity to Novo Typo’s Amsterdam studio. From May to September 2025, Novo Typo studio will be fully operational in China.
The project explores the intersection of innovative typography and color systems through an exhibition, public workshops, and a series of publications. Visitors can engage with experimental typographic and color design, participate in hands-on D.I.Y. workshops, and access a selection of exclusive publications available for purchase.
SWCAC Sea World Culture and Art Center, 1187 Wanghai Rd, 蛇口 Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
to 2 November 2025
Copy/Paste/Print/Repeat: Mike King & the Art of the Gig Poster
Mike King is a prolific American gig poster artist. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows in the late 1970s gradually morphed into a full-time specialty in the art of the eye-catching concert poster. Today, there are few major venues or bands that have not worked with him—his imagery has saturated into the tapestry of American music culture, appearing on album covers, t-shirts, and, most importantly, posters. The posters in this exhibition are a mere slice of a much larger visual pie – a taste of some of King’s rarest posters from a thirty-year spread within his ongoing career.
See site for more information.
Poster House, Lower Level Hallways, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 2 November 2025
From the Bronx to the Battery: The Subway Sun
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) opened New York City’s original underground subway line in October 1904. While the city was one of the most diverse in the country, before the introduction of the subway, most New Yorkers were not in regular contact with people outside their own neighbourhoods. Initially extending from the Bronx to Lower Manhattan (with service to Brooklyn beginning in 1908) and forming part of the wider transit system, the convenient and affordable IRT encouraged riders to travel beyond their communities for both work and leisure.
In order to entice people to regularly use the subway, the IRT printed two in-car poster campaigns, The Elevated Express and The Subway Sun, that highlighted each borough’s unique attractions. Of these, The Subway Sun was especially successful.
See site for more information.
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 24 November 2025
Diagram
A project by AMO/OMA
This exhibition project, conceived by AMO/OMA (the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas) for the Venetian venue of Ca' Corner della Regina, analyses the visual communication of data as a powerful device for constructing meanings and as a pervasive tool for analysing, understanding and transforming the world. The aim is to promote dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena and the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
The project is based on in-depth research conducted by Fondazione Prada in collaboration with Koolhaas and Giulio Margheri, associate architect at OMA, and with the consultancy of Sietske Fransen, Max Planck Research Group Leader, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.
Opening hours: Mon - Sun 10am - 6pm, Closed on Tuesdays
Admission is €9 - €12, Under 18s are free.
Fondazione Prada Venezia, Ca' Corner della Regina, Santa Croce
9 June 2025 — 15 February 2026
Both a celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.
Admission: £16.00, Free tickets are available for Disabled people and a companion
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Above: Rebirth Garments. Photo by Colectivo Multipolar.
to 22 February 2026
Systém Rathouský Metro • Typo • Info Design
Jiří Rathouský is one of the most important graphic designers and typographers of the Czech post-war generation; a hundred years have passed since his birth on 20 April 2024. With his designs, he shaped the public visual environment, and his book and magazine designs entered the intimate space of Czech homes. The upcoming exhibition will be accompanied by a professional publication that emphasises the author's design in the areas of poster design, book graphics and typography, type design, visual style, information design, orientation systems and graphic navigation. It will also contain interesting professional excursions focused on specific topics in Rathouský's life and work.
Admission: 50-190 Kč
Pražákův palác, Moravská galerie v Brně, Husova 18, 662 26 Brno
JUNE 2025
12-13 June 2025
Birmingham Design Festival returns for 2025 in its popular conference format. BDF Conference will be two days packed with workshops and talks exploring the theme of PLAY.
Taking to the stage this year is is a specially-curated speaker list including Merlin Crossingham (Aardman), Kelli Anderson, Bryony Gomez-Palacio & Armin Vit (UnderConsideration), TEMPLO, Malika Favre (see Eye 100), George Wu, Javier Jaén, Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar)(see Eye 100) and Chris Clarke (The Guardian)(see Eye 93). These design pros have been chosen for the influential, inspiring and playful nature of their work.
Thursday 12 June - Friday
13 June.
Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3DQ
Tickets £75, Students £50
14-15 June 2025
This is the first conference fully dedicated to the business of running a foundry, the complexities of the font industry, and the shifting trends seen in licensing and business models. The conference will be held exclusively online, with breakout rooms to allow people to discuss the topics raised during breaks. Font Business 2025 will bring together industry leaders, reaching out to both veteran practitioners and trailblazing newcomers who are changing the industry as we know it.
The conference includes several panel discussions called Vision 2040, with speakers such as John Hudson from Tiro Typeworks (see ‘Beyond Latin’ from Eye 90), Flavia Zimbardi from Women in Type, Omaima Dajani from Arabic Design Archive and Design Repository, Lisa Huang from Words of Type, and many more.
Admission: See here for pricing.
This is an online event.
14-15 June 2025
This June, Jealous is taking over St Michael’s Church on Leonard Street, Shoreditch for a two-day show with exclusive launches, brilliant artists, and freebies. The show will feature unmissable new print editions, exclusive releases, and original work from artists such as Helen Beard, Sue Arrowsmith, David Shrigley (see Eye 82), Jake Chapman, Lakwena, Noel Fielding and many more!
As always, the charities the event supports are The Big Issue and The Tottenham and Hornsey food banks for which Jealous is a food donation drop off point.
Entrance fee is £10 or FREE with a food donation on the door.
St Michael’s Church, 74-76 Leonard St, London EC2A 4QS
14 June − 30 July 2025
AGI France – Beyond Latitude
Contemporary Graphic Design from France
Discover the dynamic world of contemporary graphic design as AGI France presents ‘Beyond Latitude’, an inspiring exhibition showcasing the creative minds shaping the visual language of today.
Join us in Berlin for an exclusive exploration of works by renowned designers, including Erik Adigard, Philippe Apeloig (see ‘Typorama spectacular’ on the Eye blog), Antoine Audiau, Atelier ter Bekke & Behage, Anette Lenz (See Eye 101), Edo Smitshuijzen (See Eye 66) and many others. From typography to visual storytelling, this exhibition highlights the diversity and innovation of French graphic design. Curated by Alex Jordan, Anette Lenz, Toan Vu-Huu. Organized by AGI France & Center for Visual Arts Berlin. Co-organized by Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
Opening Event: 13 June 2025, 5 pm (Free Admission). Celebrate the launch with fellow enthusiasts and creatives.
Admission: €3 to €5.
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
19 June 2025
Inspiration Everywhere: Stencil Screenprints
Led by East London based artist and designer Daniel Heath, this three-hour practical session invites you to draw creative inspiration from specially selected objects from the archive. Focussing on Memphis Design, you'll begin by exploring original objects chosen by Daniel, before creating your own design inspired by what you discover.
With expert guidance, you’ll learn the fundamentals of mono screenprinting using stencilling techniques to create a one-off print to take home, a unique piece inspired by your own interpretation of the objects. This workshop is ideal for complete beginners as well as those looking to refresh their skills. All materials provided, suitable for ages 18 and over.
Price is £40. Session is from 10:30am – 1:00pm.
V&A East Storehouse, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London
19 June 2025 — 8 February 2026
This exhibition of the American artist David Lynch (see ‘Caught snapping’ on the Eye blog), will for the first time present the artistic work of this icon of world cinema in the Czech Republic, focusing on drawings, photography, lithographs, watercolours, and short experimental and animated films. The exhibition will introduce visitors to works from all of the artist’s creative periods, meaning from the late 1960s to the present.
The exhibition is not designed chronologically, but will follow specific formal or thematic connections that, among other things, characterise David Lynch's work. A major part of the exhibition consists of works on loan directly from The David Lynch Estate in Los Angeles, but the project will also include many works (lithographs and photographs) created at Item éditions in Paris. Up in Flames will also offer a wide range of accompanying programmes focusing in particular on film, contemporary experimental music, and literature.
Admission from CZK 120 - CZK 330.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00am-7:00pm, closed on Mondays.
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Praha 7
23 June 2025
Jupiter to Japan
with David Heasty
A design studio must be able to pivot, even daily, between dramatically different projects. In this talk, Triboro partner David Heasty (see Eye 95) will unpack two of the studio’s latest works. The first is Jupiter—Triboro’s identity and artwork for a new restaurant located at one of the most iconic locations on earth—the skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza. The second project discussed is a new and greatly expanded visual identity for Japan Airlines. Throughout David will offer insights (and rants) on embracing intuition in the design process, finding original inspiration, and methods for infusing meaning into any brand, be it an icon or a startup.
Admission is free.
Time: 6:30–8:30 PM EST
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street), New York, NY 10003
23 June — 3 July 2025
Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 11th year, is focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. Various events are planned between June 23 and July 3, 2025, at The Cooper Union in New York City and online.
Eye magazine is a media sponsor of Typographics 2025.
See ‘Global type tour’, an extensive report from Typographics 2021.
25 June – 15 August 2025
Bringing together a selection of prints and polaroids, this show will explore the relationships between UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings, Artificial Intelligence, and the rise of disinformation in today’s media environment—which has all but obliterated the notion of ‘truth.’ As Paglen has said, we live in “a historical moment wherein our relationships to text, images, information, and media are being entirely upended,” and UFOs, deployed by the US military and intelligence agencies as psychological instruments since the 1950s, “blur lines between perception, imagination, and 'objective' reality, whatever that may or may not be.”
Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York
27 and 28 June 2025
The main conference will feature an international line-up of designers, with presentations about type and its use in graphic design, web design, publication design, book design, packaging, branding, corporate identities, advertising, motion graphics and more.
Speakers include Elizabeth Goodspeed, Sadie Red Wing, Matt Willey, Johannes Breyer, Elizabeth Karp‑Evans, Jon Key, Alan Bell, Robyn Kanner and many more.
Venues: Most of the Typographics festival will take place at The Cooper Union, in the East Village neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Tickets: $395-465
24 June — 9 November 2025
Barbara Kruger – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The first survey exhibition in Spain of work by Barbara Kruger, which showcases Kruger’s ability to transform architectural spaces into immersive, text-driven experiences. Visitors will step into powerful installations where language takes centre stage, enveloping entire environments with vinyl, soundscapes, and multichannel video works. Many of these pieces revisit and reimagine Kruger’s early works, brought to life anew through digitisation, large-scale LEDs and the integration of sound. Organised in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition invites visitors to engage with Kruger’s provocative explorations of language, media and meaning in the digital age. Curator: Lekha Hileman Waitoller
Galleries: 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 209, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm.
Read Reputations: Barbara Kruger by Karrie Jacobs in Eye 5.
30 June 2025
Information is Beautiful Live
Join David McCandless, best-selling author, TED-speaker and founder of Information is Beautiful, for a data-driven, hyper-visual tour of the universe as he shares revealing, amazing and funny stories about the world using the graphics and data at the heart of Information is Beautiful.
Mon 7:30 to 9:00pm
The Royal Geographic Society, London SW7 2AR
JULY 2025
11-26 July 2025
Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975
at UltraSuperNew
This exhibition is an accompaniment to the book Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975, a profusely illustrated, dynamically designed, and easy-to-read survey of the history of Japanese graphic design.
Designer, educator, critic, and historian Ian Lynam explores graphic design in Japan from its foundations in the graphic arts to the immediate pre-digital design era. Fracture is grounded by a number of essays that help readers understand the tremendous cultural shifts that have happened in Japan since it re-opened to the West, exploring modernity, imperialism, gender, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.
This exhibition invites audiences to see an exploded view of the design of the book, as well as take in firsthand a curated selection of designed artifacts, ephemera and objects which are featured within.
Opening: 11 July 2025 6:00pm
UltraSuperNew, 2-16-8 Higashi, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0011
11 July – 5 October 2025
This exhibition will bring together international designers, architects, and artists who are embracing the concept of ‘more-than-human’ design. This growing movement shifts away from the human-centric view that marked Western design and embraces the idea that the flourishing of all species is interconnected.
Featuring over 140 works spanning contemporary and traditional creative practices, the exhibition will explore how humans can relearn to design in collaboration with the natural world in the face of ecological emergencies and work towards a hopeful future.
Admission: £5-£16
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
Design Museum, 224 – 238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
14-26 July 2025
Participants from around the world, aged between 20 and 50+, have gathered in Porto every year since 2013 to take part in a two-week course that focuses on editorial design. They bring with them different cultural perspectives, experience and skills. Some at the beginning of their design careers, want to expand their knowledge, while others, as professionals, want to break their routines and refresh. Whatever the reason, this coming together in new surroundings, establishes a group dynamic in which each participant is able to extract relevance and meaning while being guided through a common set of course tasks by a team of established international designers.
Tutors will include a team of experienced designers and educators Ana Resende, André Cruz and Andrew Howard from Porto, and Hamish Muir (see Eye 94 and ‘Pleasure in the poster’ from the Eye blog) from London. To complement the team is designer and assistant tutor Miguel Howard.
Applications due by 15 June 2025. Apply here.
Course fee: 1950€ (including accommodation)
Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore, located at Rua do Dr. Barbosa de Castro 51, 4050-091, Porto, Portugal
from 30 July 2025
Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs
Pictograms are simple and easy-to-understand symbols – they help us all find our way around without the need for written signs. Japan has played an important role in the development of pictograms. Japanese designers created the first fully comprehensive set of pictograms for sports and services for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games so that people from all around the world who spoke different languages could understand what to see and where to go. Later, Japan also helped shape the way we communicate online with the first set of emoji created by Kurita Shigetaka, now used by people all over the world.
Japan House London, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
AUGUST 2025
30-31 August
In an industry where just 3% of designers identify as Black, Where Are The Black Designers? is out to change things.
The collective's first ever in-person festival will be held at the Art-Deco cinema turned multi-use events venue, EartH in Hackney. Bringing together visual artists, musicians, designers, creative directors, leaders of prominent cultural organisations and more, the lineup will speak to ideas of inclusion, designing spaces to cultivate community, centering collectivity and the importance of curiosity.
Saturday 30–31 August 2025, EartH in Hackney.
Tickets now available (from £71.80)
SEPTEMBER 2025
OCTOBER 2025
9—11 October, 2025
18-26 October 2025
Dutch Design Week (DDW) is all about the design of the future and the future of design. DDW opens up, inspires, shares and connects. During the nine-day event, Eindhoven is bursting with creativity and mind-blowing ideas. Discover how designers shape our future, covering a wide range of topics.
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.
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
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
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.