Events
DON’T MISS
to 27 July 2024
Visionary artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda presents new outcomes from his groundbreaking data-verse trilogy at Almine Rech Brussels. This ever-evolving exhibition, the culmination of over two decades of tireless research and technical prowess, merges art, music, and science into a cornucopia of light and sound, inviting viewers on a journey from the infinitesimal to the infinite - from quantum mechanics to cosmology and astrophysics.
Admission is free and no reservation required. Tuesday — Saturday, from 11:00 to 19:00.
Almine Rech, Abdijstraat 20 / Rue de l’Abbaye, 1050 Brussels BE
See ‘Clicks and sparks’, John L. Walters’ review of Ikeda’s data.autonomy in Berlin.
27 July — 8 September 2024
Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail
Thirteen installations celebrate the creative process and career of fourteen-time Grammy Award winning artist, Taylor Swift. Each theatrical display will include a selection of objects on loan from the artist presented in the galleries of V&A South Kensington, celebrating Swift’s creativity through costumes, songwriting and music videos.
This free display takes between 60 and 90 minutes to complete. To reduce the likelihood of queueing it is recommended that visitors avoid peak times – 12.00-15.00 weekdays & weekends. Last admission - 16.00 daily and 20.15 on Fridays. No flash photography, selfie sticks or tripods.
Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
25 July — 7 September 2024
Face the Music: The Legacy of Music Photography
This exhibition of music photography features work by David Bailey, Janette Beckman, Harry Benson, Brad Branson, William Claxton, Patrick Demarchelier, Timothy Duffy, Greg Gorman, Nadav Kander, Daniel Kramer, Herman Leonard, Christopher Makos, Jim Marshall, Fred W. McDarrah, Alasdair McLellan, Frank Ockenfels 3, Estevan Oriol, Lyle Owerko, Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston, Steve Schapiro, Norman Seeff, Mark Seliger, Randee St. Nicholas, Phil Stern, Alex Stoddard, Art Streiber, Bruce Talamon, Albert Watson, Bruce Weber, Alfred Wertheimer, Dan Winters, Ernest C. Withers, and Magdalena Wosinska.
Fahey / Klein Gallery, 148 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036, US
Above: Diana Ross, Los Angeles, 1986 © Greg Gorman.
25 July — 10 August 2024
These new paintings depict Noir’s characteristic figures engaged in athletic matches, races and disciplines, the culmination of a worldwide multimedia project that encompasses paintings, digital animation and ukiyo-e.
See ‘The freedom principle’ on the Eye blog.
Phillips, 432 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022
23 July 2024 — 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.
CURRENTLY ON
to 28 September 2024
Curated by John Maeda (see Eye 38) and Robert Norton, the exhibition features works by Robbie Barrat, Joshua Davis, Golan Levin, LIA, Lauren Lee McCarthy, John Maeda and Helena Sarin.
Gazelli Art House, 39 Dover St., London W1S 4NN
to 20 Oct 2024
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 3 August 2024
IdentificarX:
Celebrating ArtCenter’s Latina/e/o/x Alumni Community
The exhibition features over 100 artists and designers, representing the broad spectrum of disciplines at the College. Presenting artists across multiple disciplines, IdentificarX provides a thoughtful look at the pathways and strategies that members of the Latinx community undertake to become part of the culture making field.
See site for exhibition hours. Admission is free.
Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, 1111 S Arroyo Pkwy, 1st Floor, Pasadena, CA 91105
to 4 August 2024
Arab Design Now presents a survey of local and regional design talent across disciplines, from architectural and material innovations to contemporary crafts, furniture, fashion, graphic, and object design.
Various venues, Doha, Qatar. Tickets.
to 10 August 2024
Stefan Sagmeister’s latest series of works combines design and data to convey an uplifting message for our current times. This exhibition arrives at a critical juncture, the world is facing ongoing challenges, including the aftermath of a global pandemic, natural disasters and political turmoil. Amid this reality, the ‘Besser’ series shows that when viewed from a long-term perspective, most aspects of human development have improved.
Open Thursday-Friday 16:00-18:00, Saturday 10:00am-12:00 noon.
Galerie Maximilian Hutz, In der Wirke 4, 6971 Hard, Austria
to 11 August 2024
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
to 11 August 2024
The Argentinian conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache (1940–2012) produced many enigmatic publications – from books, newspapers and postcards to letters, comics, posters and bulletins – that contain marks resembling writing in both handwritten and typographic forms. Visitors to the exhibition can enjoy a hands-on experience and browse copies of her books and journals.
Special Events:
11 August 15:00 Finissage and guided tour with Regine Ehleiter and Anja Lutz
to 11 Aug Satellite exhibition at oxfordberlin (below) display open to the public.
Opening times: Thursdays 14:00–19:00 and by appointment
A—Z
Torstr. 93, 10119 Berlin-Mitte, Germany
to 11 August
Opening Hours: Monday - Sunday, 0 - 12 PM, or by appointment
Oxfordberlin, Oxforder Straße 3-11, 13349 Berlin, Germany
to 11 August 2024
Biophilia: Nature Reimagined brings together more than 80 imaginative works, including architectural models and photographs, objects, fashion, digital installations, and immersive art experiences that collectively highlight the transformative power of nature.
Open daily from 10 am-5 pm, 10 am-8 pm on Tuesdays.
Exhibition included in general admission. 18 and younger free / General admission $15-$22
Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, Level 2, 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, Colorado.
Photograph by: Fernando Alda Fotografo
to 17 August 2024
Spinorama: An Exhibition of Interesting Spines
Curated by Aslak Gurholt & Fraser Muggeridge
Exhibition open Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–6pm. Admission free.
See ‘They showed backbone’, Simon Esterson’s review of ‘Spinorama’ on the Eye blog.
London Centre for Book Arts, Britannia Works, 56 Dace Road, London E3 2NQ
(Entrance is opposite Bream St.)
to 1 September 2024
Serpentine North
Serpentine presents Revelations, an exhibition of trailblazing artist, author, educator, cultural historian and feminist Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, USA). On view at Serpentine North from 23 May to 1 September 2024, this is the artist’s largest solo presentation in a London institution.
Free entry. Walk-ups are welcome. Tickets are available to book online for guaranteed timed entry.
Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR, UK
to 1 Sep 2024
Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970 – 2023
A retrospective of Oxfordshire-based South African painter and printmaker Gavin Jantjes (b.1948, South Africa) is his largest solo presentation in the UK to date.
Admission: £9.50-£12.50, Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–6pm
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
to 8 September 2024
The Biba Story explores how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped and how Biba earned its spot as the brand that epitomises 1960s and 1970s fashion.
The exhibition focuses on the years 1964, when the first Biba boutique opened, to 1975, when the legendary Big Biba closed its doors to the public. Displaying fantastic archival pieces of clothing, original photographs, film, and material all of which have been personally chosen by Barbara Hulanicki.
22 March 2024 – 8 September 2024, open Tue-Sat 11.00–18.00 (last entry 17.15)
Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Tickets £11.50, £10.50. £9.50 (with concessions)
Read ‘Mini, Midi, Maxi …’, Janet South’s review of the exhibition on the Eye blog.
See Reputations: John McConnell, an Eye 81 interview with the art director behind Biba’s original wordmark.
to 8 September 2024
Design Discoveries: Towards a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN
What does design mean to you? Join the conversation at Japan House London, where Japan’s leading creators share inspirational design that spans disciplines, regions and eras.
Admission free, booking recommended
Mon-Sat 10:00–20:00; Sundays & Bank Holidays: 12:00-18:00
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
See ‘Seven artefacts in search of a museum’ by Janet South on the Eye blog.
to 8 September 2024
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli, this major exhibition will celebrate the life and work of Enzo Mari, an Italian designer whose work have inspired generations of creatives around the world. This retrospective which debuted at Triennale Milano in 2020, will span Mari’s 60-year career and bring together hundreds of his projects, ranging from furniture, children’s books and games, product and graphic design, to more conceptual installation-based works.
Admission: £9-20
The Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
Above: Enzo Mari Exhibition, Photo by Eva Herzog
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 8 September 2024
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie highlights 34 iconic movie posters designed by Dawn Baillie which chronicle her pioneering 40-year career and showcases the evolution of the production and design of movie posters over the past 35 years, from paste-ups to the use of digital technology. Baillie’s designs stand out for their remarkable simplicity and unconventional execution, while being some of the most recognizable movie posters in cinematic history. She designed posters for blockbusters like Dirty Dancing, Silence of the Lambs, and Little Miss Sunshine, inspiring curiosity and, in many cases, creating instant icons.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Programs Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 8 September 2024
Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters
Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters highlights 80 works, which follow a timeline of how New York City was represented to travelers, immigrants, and tourists during several consequential decades beginning in the late 19th century. The phrase “Wonder City,” originally coined by marketers, appeared in dozens of newspaper and magazine advertisements, as well as articles, postcards, and souvenir booklets. New York’s explosive growth during this time ultimately led to the creation of more travel posters than were designed for any other city in the world. The images included scenes of the city as seen from the water, from the ground and, eventually, from the air.
Admission: Adults $12, students $8, seniors $8, children under 18 free
Poster House, Main Gallery, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 8 September
Rheim Alkadhi: Templates for Liberation
This is the UK’s first exhibition of artist Rheim Alkadhi, which addresses ongoing consequences of war and colonialism in present-day Iraq and the region at large, this exhibition presents sculptures, archival documentation, and emancipatory counter-histories. The ICA’s main gallery will feature a series of sculptures fabricated from the heavy-duty transport tarpaulins of cross-border industrial vehicles.
Admission: £6 / Tue – Thu: 4pm – 11pm, Fri – Sun: 12pm – 11pm
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
to 19 September 2024
Since 2005, the Fedrigoni Top Award has stood as our ultimate celebration of beauty and creativity. It serves as a tribute to the dedication of hard work, innovative design, and creative expression, all achieved through the exceptional use of Fedrigoni papers and self-adhesive materials.
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.
Application deadline in 19 September 2024.
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 and ‘Graphic design live #15’ on the Eye blog.
Open daily 10-6pm, Thursday 10-8pm, closed on Mondays.
Die Neue Sammlung, Türkenstrasse 15, 80333 Munich
to 22 September 2024
‘A Tree,’ showcases research and works where artists explore the relationship between people and trees and ways in which we can relate more closely to their time span.
Artists: Sanne Vaassen, Gerbrand Burger, Hira Nabi, Manjot Kaur, Ingela Ihrman, Goldin+Senneby, Alice Ladenburg + Ollie Palmer, Roderick Hietbrink.
Admission is free. Open every Friday and Saturday between 12-5pm.
Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB, Eindhoven
Photo credit: Manjot Kaur - The Portrait of a Tree in a Jharokha
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
to 24 September 2024
Solar: Design Researchers in Residence
London’s Design Museum unveils a display that ‘rethinks our relationship with the sun’. Four researchers – April Barrett, Eliza Collin, Jamie Gatty Irving and Freya Spencer-Wood – offer new insights into the way the sun shapes landscapes, homes and communication in the context of the climate emergency.
The Design Researchers in Residence programme is an annual programme that supports a group of thinkers to spend a year at the museum developing responses to the climate emergency. Curated by George Kafka, it forms part of the Design Museum’s Future Observatory initiative launched in partnership with AHRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
to 28 September 2024
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 30 September 2024
(Leave) Space for Space – Morag Myerscough
What makes you feel at home somewhere? That question lies at the heart of the work of London-based artist Morag Myerscough. This summer, Stichting NDSM-werf unveils her location-specific installation, (Leave) Space for Space - a temporary gathering place at NDSM, enriched with colorful signage inspired by and reflecting Amsterdam-Noord.
NDSM – Load out (at the waterside next to Pllek), Amsterdam North
to 12 October 2024
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
to 13 October 2024
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
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 27 Oct 2024
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 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 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 5 January 2025
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 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
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 23 February 2025
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.
AUGUST 2024
6 August 2024
The Fedrigoni London Studio hosts a launch for the new paper stock Arena High Definition, with contributions from photographer Julian Anderson, illustrator Lucinda Rogers (see Eye 103) and Eye’s Simon Esterson. Attendees will receive a copy of Arena Portfolio, showcasing works from Anderson and Rogers printed on Arena, as well as posters and postcards. (The latest edition of Pulp, art directed by Esterson, includes 32 pages printed on Arena HD.
Book to reserve a spot via Eventbrite.
6-9:30pm, Fedrigoni UK, Clerkenwell Rd., London EC1R 5BL
15-22 August 2024
Michelle Dwyer, founder and designer at London-based Nice & Graphic, will be hosting a community art exhibition celebrating the voices of Peckham. Through gathering responses from the Peckham community, Dwyer has transformed these responses into over 300 letterpress posters for a collaborative exhibition.
See 'Merry and type'.
Admission is free.
Peckham Arches, Blenheim Grove, London SE15 4QN
19 August 2024
Join David McCandless (see Eye 82), best-selling author, TED-speaker and founder of Information is Beautiful, for a data-driven, hyper-visual tour of the universe as he shares stories about the world using the graphics and data at the heart of Information is Beautiful. David will free-range across many subjects - nature, power, money, movies, psychology - to reveal the unseen & often hilarious stories lurking in the data around us (see Eye blog).
Tickets: General admission $30, Student $15, Under 18 $7.50 / 7:30-9:00pm
Cinelounge Sunset, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028
27-28 August 2024
The Conference is a two-day gathering in Malmö, Sweden, delving into the promises and pitfalls of human-machine-nature-and-more relationships. Guided by weavers, builders, visionaries, caregivers, and creative leaders from across disciplines, The Conference will sift through complexity and make connections across analog and digital worlds.
Tickets: 2-day €891, 1-day €534
Slagthuset, Carlsgatan 12E, 211 20 Malmö Sweden
29 August – 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 where Sagmeister’s The Happy Film will screen on a loop, interactive installations and take-home posters for visitors.
SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York City, US
29-30 August 2024
This 2-day festival will be on 3 stages with 40+ top creatives from around the world that will host talks, featuring Stefan Sagmeister (see Eye 83), Gavin Strange (see Eye blog) and Pitch Studios, among others, as well as hands-on workshops and interactive formats. Explore immersive installations and join exclusive side events, happenings & parties, while connecting with creatives.
Tickets: Regular €240.00, Student €130.00
HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
SEPTEMBER 2024
TBC
5 September 2024
Process Events 003 – Manchester
Process Events focus on elevating all voices and sharing creative processes that explore the good, bad and ugly of design. Oskar Walin, who is a muralist and designer based in Manchester, will be speaking. He began creating large-scale work in his early–teens as a graffiti writer. Decades on, and this passion for producing public art has blossomed into a full-time creative career.
Admission: £6-£10, Event is from 18:30 - 21:30 BST.
Joshua Brooks, 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6NG
7 September 2024
Graf Conf 2024 is the biggest Polish-language conference of the creative industry. Now in it's fifth year, the conference features the opportunity to listen to industry-recognized creators during lectures, develop practical skills during workshops and make industry contacts during breaks and at the afterparty.
Tickets: Regular PLN 259, Lazy Bird PLN 319
The Cultural and Congress Centre Jordanki, aleja Solidarności 1/3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
14-15 September 2024
Celebrating the ninth edition of the Drawing Festival, this year is inspired by the imagination of the illustrator and mural artist Luogo Comune. The Festival invites everyone to become explorers of creativity. A tour of the world in three colours, red, yellow and blue, without borders, without barriers of language, origin or age. There will be workshops, talks and performances to celebrate drawing.
Admission is free.
Castello Sforzesco, Milan
19-20 September 2024
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!
Tickets: 2-Day Early Bird €75, 2-Day Education €60, 1-Day Early Bird €49, 1-Day Education €35
Maassilo Rotterdam, Maashaven Zuidzijde 1-2, 3081 AE Rotterdam, Netherlands
20-21 September 2024
In its 5th edition, Eastern is a two-day, international, design conference held annually in Košice. They explore the world of design from various perspectives, emphasising the context in which it arises. Their goal is to present the best stories, solutions, and creators from Central and Eastern Europe, connect communities in the region, and reveal the importance of local context in this global craft.
Ticket: Regular €169
Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Gorkého 2, 040 01 Staré Mesto, Slovakia
23-25 September 2024
HOW Design Live is a 3-day event that offers the creative inspiration combined with the practical knowledge to advance in your career through breakout sessions, keynotes, and workshops. Hear powerful keynotes such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Simon Sinek, Malcolm Gladwell and Brené Brown, that represent some of the best creative minds in the world.
Register here.
Denver Performing Arts Center, Denver, CO
14-22 September 2024
London Design Festival celebrates and promotes the city as a design capital on the global stage. London Design Festival was launched by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver an unmissable celebration of design. Every year, the Festival highlights topical issues and ideas that are shaping the industry at large. With sustainability, AI and inclusivity continuing to take centre stage, the notion of play has also emerged as a growing global trend within the creative sector - its multifaceted nature leading designers to examine the integrity of play as concept and celebrate its manifestations across different areas of our lives.
Find the most up-to-date information here.
28 September 2024
St Bride Foundation Design Conclave 2024
This year’s theme is ‘Outside the Lines’ and we are being joined by speakers including Malcom Garrett, Kate Dawkins, Micaela Alcaino, Kelli Anderson, Tudinh Duong and many more. As well as hearing from a fantastic range of speakers from the fields of graphic design, illustration, branding, digital media and more, attendees of the conference will be able to try their hand at letterpress printing on the historic presses in the St Bride Foundation's printing workshop on the day.
In-person tickets: £80, £70, £60 / Online tickets: £50, £45, £35
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London / Online via Zoom
OCTOBER 2024
3-4 October 2024
The Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) announces the 2024
AGI Open: Perspectives, which will take place in the renowned Stadtcasino Basel, and engage in mutual dialogue with global design leaders who will share their views on the evolution of communication design in light of contemporary challenges and opportunities.
Tickets: Two-day student admission CHF 90, One-day student admission CHF 50, Two-day professionals admission CHF 200.
Stadtcasino Basel, Konzertgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
10-11 October 2024
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 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
19 October 2024
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
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
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.