Events
March 2023 / April 2023 / May 2023 / June 2023 / July 2023 / online + ongoing / current
DON’T MISS THIS WEEK
20 March 2023
Artificial Typography: Physical manifestation of a deeply digital process
What if Noguchi sculpted the letter N? Or Hilma af Klint painted her own initial? In this talk designers Andrea Trabucco-Campos and Martín Azambuja will take you on A visual journey of a conversation with cutting-edge AI engine, MidJourney. Letterforms were generated as if the artist themselves had done it, and re-imagining what a letterform can be in the process.
Admission: free / online / 6.30-8.30pm (EDT)
22 March 2023
Held at The Letterpress Collective in Bristol, the fifth edition of bi-monthly events, where likeminded designers share the love and passion for letterforms. The speakers include letterpress printer, graphic designer and educator Ellen Bills, independent typeface designer Sophia Tai, and creative director, musician and writer Elliot J Stocks.
Admission is free / pre-booking essential / 6.30pm
The Letterpress Collective, Centrespace 6 Leonard Lane Bristol BS1 1EA
23-25 March 2023
The 22nd in-person edition of OFFF Festival will feature a three day programme of conferences, workshops, masterclasses, installations, and creative sessions. Covering a variety of design disciplines, the event will explore projects in graphic design, art direction, photography, branding, illustration, UX design and typography among others. The line-up includes James Victore (see ‘Writing on the wall’ in Eye 30), someform, Studio Blup (see ‘Remixing the here and now’ in Eye 100), Rubén Alvarez, and Gab Bois , with more speakers to be announced.
Admission: €281.88
Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
24 March — 12 May 2023
Another Reading: Contemporary Book Design from China
The exhibition creates a unique platform for pioneers of contemporary book design from China here in Berlin. Nearly 150 outstanding books with the finest Chinese printing and binding techniques can be explored up close. Topics range from traditional crafts and Chinese character design to modern Chinese literature and contemporary art.
Admission: €3-5
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
to 26 March 2023
Grand Stuff: Label Art from Ireland
Exhibition of Irish label art from the 1890s to the 1990s, including vibrant examples of labels for minerals, beers, whiskies, hotels, linens, groceries, and pharmacies. ‘Grand stuff’ also explores the social, cultural, political and technological changes that influenced production and proliferation of labels at that time.
Admission: free of charge
National Print Museum, Old Garrison Chapel, Beggars Bush Barracks, D04 E0C9 Dublin, Ireland
to 26 March 2023
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to 26 March 2023
Sasha Marshani: Nevermore Nevertheless
Sasha Marshani is an artist but also a publisher, founder of Samopal Books, an independent zine and art publication platform, as well as a researcher of European underground publications and in particular Soviet Samizdats. On display in this exhibition are her large-scale drawings that mix personal memories and collective trauma, echoing of the past grafted with dystopian visions of the future.
Admission: free
Archivio Viafarini DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, via C. Procaccini 4, 20154 Milano
to 28 March 2023
Objects Made of Letters: Concrete Poetry in Britain, 1963-75
Based on material from the collection of the late Andrew Belsey, philosophy lecturer, concrete poet and MA graduate from Typography & Graphic Communication, ‘Objects made of letters’ explores and illustrates concrete poetry in its heyday. The experience of a concrete poem is always visual, the meaning – in the absence of conventional poetic imagery and syntax – often elusive. The exhibition provides a survey of key publications and illuminating examples, and focuses on the output of three significant figures: Dom Sylvester Houédard (Eye 20), Bob Cobbing (Eye 93) and John Furnival. Curated by Rick Poynor (see Rick’s regular ‘Critique’ column in Eye).
Admission free by appointment. Contact Emma Minns.
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, RG6 6BZ
to 30 March 2023
Spiegel Mirror: Monika Jäger and the Klingspor Museum
In her drawings and texts, Monika Jäger is a detailed observer of her environment. In this exhibition, the museum collection enters into a dialogue with the artist's works, featuring a bundle of works that combine art and science.
Tickets: €1-2.5 / under-18 admission is free
Klingspor Museum, Herrnstrasse 80, 63065 Offenbach, Germany
to 9 April 2023
With over 250 years of print history represented on display, this exhibition explores the monochromatic prints in Japan. Despite their limited palette, these works have a presence and immediacy rarely seen again in Japanese printmaking until the 20th century.
Admission: free
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, US
to 9 April 2023
Taking you deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the immersive video installation is the result of three years filming in the world's largest rainforest. Seeking to overcome the inherent challenges of representing climate change, this is Mosse’s most ambitious project to date. A selection of the artist’s photographs from the project will be displayed alongside the installation, including large-scale photographs that have not been exhibited in the UK before.
Admission: £15/20
180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA, UK
to 10 April 2023
Lee Miller – Man Ray: Fashion, Love, War
Lee Miller was a model, photographer, muse, the first female war correspondent to report the horrors of the concentration camps liberated by American troops, and a twentieth-century icon. The exhibition Lee Miller – Man Ray : Fashion, Love, War presents approximately 140 photographs, ‘taking Miller out of Man Ray’s shadow’, to reveal their deep but complicated relationship more objectively.
See ‘The joy and sadness of dust’ photo critique by Rick Poynor on Eye blog.
Palazzo Franchetti, S. Marco, 2847, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
to 10 April 2023
Weird Sensations Feel Good: The World of ASMR
ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a physical sensation of euphoria or deep calm, sometimes a tingling in the body, triggered through sound, touch, and movement. This exhibition moves ASMR out from your screen and into physical space, presenting acoustically tuned environments and exploring the emerging field of creativity where designers and content creators try to trigger this sensation in their viewers.
Admission: £7.20–10.90
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG, UK
to 16 April 2023
Felix Beltran: Visual Intelligence
This exhibition is the first anthological survey of Félix Juan Alberto Beltrán Concepción’s work, featuring hundreds of his logos, posters and book covers, and offers an in-depth insight into the conceptual and creative mind of the most universal Ibero-American graphic designer.
Admission is free.
c arte c (Complutense Art Centre), Avda, Juan de Herrera 2, 28040 Madrid
to 16 April 2023
‘Protest! gestalten’ Shaping Protest: Symbols, Gestures, Signals
An exhibition of works, photo campaigns, video and light installations, billboards, and other media that engage in protest. The topics of environment, peace, democracy, consumption, health, human rights, equality and diversity are explored in contemporary and historical contexts. Featuring works by Otl Aicher (see ‘Time after time’ in Eye 63); Noma Bar (see ‘Brief encounters and the pleasures of ambiguity’ on Eye blog); Oliviero Toscani (see ‘Dreaming in colours’ in Eye 91), Mitsuo Katsui (see ‘All we lack now are the clients’ in Eye 14), Barbara Kruger (see ‘Reputations’ in Eye 5), and many more.
Admission: €6-8
Museum Ulm, Marktplatz 9, Ulm 89073, Germany
to 16 April 2023
With My Little Eye: Warnings for the Homefront
Espionage for military purposes has been practiced for millennia, however ‘spy fever’ first became a recorded issue during the First World War. In the febrile atmosphere of the Second World War, where espionage was rife even among allies, and covert activities were vital, there was a booming, government inspired demand for propaganda posters warning of such risks. This small exhibition examines some of the most powerful images produced by Allied countries from this period.
General admission from $8
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
to 16 April 2023
Schoolgirls at War: French Propaganda Posters from World War I
In the final year of the First World War, the French government announced a student poster competition on the theme of voluntary rationing. While hundreds of images were submitted, only sixteen posters were printed – all drawn by young women between the ages of 13 and 16. At a time when a tiny percentage of professional poster designers were women, this collection stands as the largest representation of female voices in the field and one of France’s most widely circulated pieces of propaganda.
Admission from $8
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
to 24 April 2023
The Adana printing press is 100 years old and to mark the centenary of the company St Bride Library is launching a new exhibition in January. The display will bring together for the first time a unique collection of material, including early drawings for the company’s first flatbed press, working examples of some popular 1920s models and photographs and documents from the Aspinall family archives.
On 31 January, there will be a talk with Bob Richardson who will present the story of Adana.
Admission is free (call first to ensure access).
See ‘James Mosley: A life in objects’ in Eye 90, ‘Escape from nostalgia’ and ‘Why we ♥ St Bride’ on the Eye blog.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, EC4Y 8EQ, UK
to 30 April 2023
During the Cold War, an ‘Iron Curtain’ ran through Europe, but even the borders between ‘friendly Socialist countries’ were politically sensitive and only allowed limited international movement. In the 1960s, rules became more relaxed, and millions of people took advantage of the new regulations, going on holidays, day trips and shopping tours to neighbouring countries. The exhibition highlights these diverse travel experiences, presenting travel catalogues, posters, maps, holiday souvenirs, postcards, photo albums and 35 mm films.
Admission: €2-4
Museum Utopie und Alltag, Standort Eisenhüttenstadt, Erich-Weinert-Allee 3, 15890 Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
Above: ČSSR, Malá Fatra-Gebirge 1974. Foto: Werner Großmann (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0215-41)
to 30 April 2023
Ink and Brush: The beauty and spirit of Japanese calligraphy
Explore the rich history of Japanese calligraphy, from traditional forms to contemporary interpretations. This installation features works from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, showcasing the many varieties of calligraphy as an art form.
Admission: $14-25
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130, US
Above: Ike Taiga (1723–1776), Calligraphy and Chinese Figures
to 1 May 2023
This exhibition presents almost five decades of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and designs. Hepworth expanded the possibilities for sculpture and art’s purpose within modern society. Working in both abstraction and figuration, much of her art expresses our relationships with each other and our surroundings, and how art can reflect and alter our perceptions of the world.
Admission: £10.50
Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG, UK
Above: Barbara Hepworth, Disc with Strings (Moon), 1969.
to 1 May 2023
Who are you staring at? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s
No wave was a new artistic scene that appeared in the low-rent areas of Lower Manhattan, in New York in 1978. The exhibition reveals many works that emerged from the scene often using DIY methods of production and aesthetics, including posters, cassettes and audio records, film and video. A series of screenings and performances run alongside the exhibition.
Open Mon and Wed-Sun 11-9pm; late opening every Thu, 11-23pm. Closed Tue. Tickets €14-17, booking recommended.
Galerie 1, niveau 6, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France
Above: Beth B, Scott B, Letters to Dad, 1979, video (still)
to 14 May 2023
Sincerely, Valentines: from Postcards to Greetings Cards
The exhibition tells the story of Scotland’s most pioneering and successful commercial photographers, James Valentine (1815-1879), best known for popularising the holiday postcard on a global scale. It features rare photographs, historic postcards, promotional company magazines, booklets and greetings cards.
Admission is free.
V&A Dundee, Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ, UK
to 14 May 2023
Exhibition presenting commercial works of German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton, who did not differentiate between magazine editorials and brand assignments when it came to composition and style. With over 200 photographs, the show features many unknown motifs from Newton’s collaboration with international brands.
Admission is free.
Helmut Newton Foundation, Museum für Fotografie, Jebensstrasse 2, D – 10623 Berlin, Germany
to 14 May 2023
Alberto Venzago: Stylist of Reality
For more than five decades, Alberto Venzago has been using his Leica to capture a great diversity of subjects, exploring a wide range of photographic genres from documentary to staged scenes and everything in between. With this presentation of some 150 photographs, this retrospective exhibition provides insight into Venzago’s rich and varied body of work.
Admission: €8
Ernst Leitz Museum, Am Leitz-Park 6, 35578 Wetzlar
Above: Alberto Venzago, Andy Warhol in front of the painting ‘Little Electric Chair’, Factory Union Square West, New York, 1984
to 28 May 2023
Adore presents a retrospective shuffling of Garry Fabian Millers’s old and new work alongside a scattering of some of the artists, makers and visionaries who have helped steer his course these past 40 years. It promises to be an unmissable glimpse into the mind and heart of one of photography's most innovative practitioners and will be the largest ever exhibition of his work.
Admission is free.
Arnolfini Arts, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Read more about Garry Fabian Miller’s work in ‘Reputations’ in Eye 103.
to 28 May 2023
Garry Fabian Miller: Môrwelion
Môrwelion is a rare opportunity to see the full sequence of Garry’s seminal 1976 project Sections of England: The Sea Horizons, exploring the meeting of sea and sky across the Severn Estuary, made at Clevedon, west of Bristol, looking towards the Welsh coast. As series of pictures which, with pleasing circularity, were first shown when newly made across the water at the Arnolfini, when Garry was only 19.
Admission is free.
National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
Read more about Garry Fabian Miller’s work in ‘Reputations’ in Eye 103.
Above: Garry Fabian Miller, The Sea Horizon, No. 18, 1976-77
to 29 May 2023
Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair
This exhibition highlights a series of data visualisations by W. E. B. Du Bois and his students at Atlanta University made for the installation, titled the ‘American Negro Exhibit’ at the 1900 World’s Fair. Through thematic groupings, the exhibition calls attention to how the progressive image of the fair was inequitable—reserved for the predominantly white, European artists, manufacturers, and audiences—and concealed the power mechanisms of nationalism and imperialism that drove this spectacle of progress.
Admission: $7-16
Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128, US
to 18 June 2023
Dafi Kühne: Book printing posters?
In the age of digital design and personalised online advertising, does it make sense to use letterpress printing to produce posters? The practice of the Swiss graphic designer and letterpress printer, Dafi Kühne (see Eye 100), responds to this question with a resounding yes.
In this exhibition, 100 letterpress posters will demonstrate the sheer variety of letterpress printing. In his process Kühne uses a wide variety of tools for printing; from computers to pantographs; lead, wooden or plastic type; clichés and linocuts; as well as experimental materials and techniques such as laser cuts, milled type, textile materials, cast surfaces or other objects.
Admission is free.
Museum for Printing Art Leipzig, Nonnenstraße 38, 04229 Leipzig
to 25 June 2023
Hallyu! The Korean Wave showcases the colourful and dynamic popular culture of South Korea, exploring the makings of the Korean Wave and its global impact on the creative industries of cinema, drama, music, fandom, beauty and fashion.
Admission: £20
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL, UK
to 24 June 2023
HELLO LA: Clive Piercy – Inside the Mind of a Designer
HELLO LA is a survey of works by designer, author and educator Clive Piercy (1955-2017). The exhibition will present Piercy’s 40 years of projects that include radical uses of typography and the humorous blending of British and American design.
Admission: free (reservations recommended) / Open Wednesday to Saturday, 12–5pm
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, California 91103, US
Above: Roxy advertising campaign, creative direction by Clive Piercy.
to 25 June 2023
Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness
Yinka Ilori is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage to convey new narratives. London’s Design Museum presents a vibrant display of Ilori’s work and his influences in 100 objects, ranging from artworks, photographs and furniture, to textiles, books and personal possessions.
Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG, UK
The free display will coincide with London Design Festival 2022.
Above: Bank Street Basketball: Be The Best You Can Be. Photograph by Matt Alexander
to 2 July 2023
Coded: Art enters the computer age, 1952–1982
Launching at LACMA is Coded: Art enters the computer age exhibition, which examines the origins of what we now call digital art. The exhibition will feature artists, writers, musicians, choreographers, designers and filmmakers who work directly with computers, algorithms and other systems to produce their work,
Admission: $10-20
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
to 5 July 2023
Masterful unique pieces: 100 years of binding art
The exhibition gives an insight into the development of contemporary artistic binding in Germany. It features examples from the beginnings in the manual binding by Leipzig bookbinders in the early 20th century to the present day. Hand-bound books, varied paper stocks, tools, materials and workshop impressions document the continuous innovation of binding art, as well as influences from neighbouring European countries.
Admission is free.
Museum for Printing Art Leipzig, Nonnenstraße 38, 04229 Leipzig
to 8 July 2023
Signals: How Video Transformed the World
Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, Signals reveals the ways in which artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy. The exhibition highlights over 70 media works, featuring works of John Akomfrah, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Tony Cokes, Amar Kanwar, New Red Order, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Stan VanDerBeek, and Ming Wong among others.
Read about motion graphics in the upcoming issue of Eye 104.
Admission: $18-25
MoMA, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States
to 22 July 2023
Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany
Pressing Politics exhibition explores the shared subjects and visual strategies of two key moments in 20th century political printmaking: the revival of German Expressionist graphics in response to a nationwide revolution in 1918, and the formation of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Print Workshop) in Mexico City in the late 1930s. Although rooted in distinct social and historical contexts, artists in both countries responded to their respective upheavals in print to communicate to a mass audience in forceful visual terms.
Admission: $10-25
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, US
to 4 September 2023
Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. The exhibition features design projects from around the world that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions – from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.
Admission: $7-16
Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128, US
to 10 September 2023
Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party
The posters in this exhibition chronicle how the Black Panther Party devised a specific graphic language to reaffirm Black humanity and decommodify Black life. Its heroic images of party members, widespread distribution of printed materials like The Black Panther newspaper, and political campaign posters allowed the Black Panther Party to control its own narrative and brand Black nationalism to advance a communal revolution.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
Above: Designer Unknown, An Attack Against One Is An Attack Against All, 1968.
to 10 September 2023
Made in Japan: 20th Century Poster Art and Design
Japanese poster design reflects the country’s rich visual culture and printmaking tradition, and was used throughout the 20th century to represent the country to domestic and international audiences. This exhibition explores the cultural and political shifts within modern Japan that influenced the functions and messaging of its advertising posters, and how those posters were subsequently received by the public.
Admission: $8-12
Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US
Above: Kamekura Yūsaku, Japan, 1988.
17 September 2023
The F*Word: Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design
In this exhibition, the activist group Guerrilla Girls (see ‘The myth of genius’ in Eye 38) developed work that takes a critical look to MK&G collection. Starting off with sharing some of the posters designed by the collective, the show includes some 400 works dating from 1870 to the present day. Alongside the exhibition, Rimini Berlin studio designed a display focusing on women type designers and Distaff Studio devised ‘art education’ stations.
Admission: €8-14
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg
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
MARCH 2023
20 March 2023
Artificial Typography: Physical manifestation of a deeply digital process
What if Noguchi sculpted the letter N? Or Hilma af Klint painted her own initial? In this talk designers Andrea Trabucco-Campos and Martín Azambuja will take you on A visual journey of a conversation with cutting-edge AI engine, MidJourney. Letterforms were generated as if the artist themselves had done it, and re-imagining what a letterform can be in the process.
Admission: free / online / 6.30-8.30pm (EDT)
22 March 2023
Held at The Letterpress Collective in Bristol, the fifth edition of bi-monthly events, where likeminded designers share the love and passion for letterforms. The speakers include letterpress printer, graphic designer and educator Ellen Bills, independent typeface designer Sophia Tai, and creative director, musician and writer Elliot J Stocks.
Admission is free / pre-booking essential / 6.30pm
The Letterpress Collective, Centrespace 6 Leonard Lane Bristol BS1 1EA
23-25 March 2023
The 22nd in-person edition of OFFF Festival will feature a three day programme of conferences, workshops, masterclasses, installations, and creative sessions. Covering a variety of design disciplines, the event will explore projects in graphic design, art direction, photography, branding, illustration, UX design and typography among others. The line-up includes James Victore (see ‘Writing on the wall’ in Eye 30), someform, Studio Blup (see ‘Remixing the here and now’ in Eye 100), Rubén Alvarez, and Gab Bois , with more speakers to be announced.
Admission: €281.88
Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
24 March — 12 May 2023
Another Reading: Contemporary Book Design from China
The exhibition creates a unique platform for pioneers of contemporary book design from China here in Berlin. Nearly 150 outstanding books with the finest Chinese printing and binding techniques can be explored up close. Topics range from traditional crafts and Chinese character design to modern Chinese literature and contemporary art.
Admission: €3-5
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
28 March 2023
Since 2018, Muk Monsalve has been hosting and curating type walks around Buenos Aires with her art and business partner, Lucía Soto. This project, called Letra Capital, allows them to highlight and share the love they feel while walking their city. When their type walks halted during the pandemic, they developed a souvenir for Letra Capital: a typographic scarf recreating the journey. In this talk, Monsalve will share more details about the project.
Admission is free / online / 12-1.30pm (PT)
30 March 2023
Following publication of their book Designing Type Revivals in May 2022, designers Riccardo Olocco and Michele Patanè, will provide their reflections on what is a type revival, how to analyse a historical model and how to approach the design from a contemporary perspective.
In-person admission: £8-12 / 7-8.30pm (BST) / door open at 6.15pm
Online admission: £4.50-6.50 / 7-8.30pm (BST)
See ‘The Nebiolo legacy’ in Eye 102 and ‘Letters from Italy’ in Eye 84.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, EC4Y 8EQ
30 March 2023
Recovering the Forgotten Women of Metal Type Design
For this Salon, Bethany Qualls takes us on a deep dive into these often-overlooked women and their contributions to type history. Even though others have researched early women type designers, no single, publicly accessible resource exists to synthesize all of what we do know.
Admission: $5-20 / online and in-person / 6-8pm (PT)
Letterform Archive, 2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
30 March — 13 April 2023
This year, the annual conference organised by International Assembly will take place online over two days. The line-up includes keynotes by Mirko Borsche (Eye 97), Patrick Thomas (see ‘Chat show’ on Eye blog), Shivani Parasnis, Annie Atkins (Eye 90), Ruben Pater (Eye 98 and Eye 103) and Zhongkai Li (see ‘Graphic design live #1’ in Eye blog), among many others.
The extended programme of digital workshops will follow across two weeks.
Conference tickets: £34-46
Workshops: £86 each
APRIL 2023
1 April — 16 July 2023
General Idea was a Canadian artist collective (1969 – 1994) that rose to international prominence with its theories of identity, appropriation of consumer imagery, and AIDS activism. This retrospective on the trio brings together more than 200 works, including major installations, publications, videos, drawings, paintings, sculptures and archival material.
Admission: €10/22.50
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Read Siân Cook’s ‘General Idea: Infiltrate, infect and mutate’ in Eye 30 (1998, back issue still available from ESco).
Annabel Moeller: Friends to frontiers
Annabel Moeller’s work spans over three decades of photography during a career defined by her sense of adventure, and one that has taken in an astonishingly diverse cast of characters. This exhibition is a retrospective collection of Annabel’s work to date presented in a series of chapters from her carefree beginnings creating with film in darkrooms in the 1990’s, to the fast-paced world of the infinite digital environment.
Admission: £10-22.50 / Open every Sunday and Thursday 10am – 4.30pm
Farleys House and Gallery, Muddles Green, Chiddingly, BN8 6HW, UK
7 April — 30 July 2023
Ai Weiwei's first exhibition focusing on design will mix recent works with commissioned pieces, inviting us into a meditation on value and humanity, art and activism. Through his engagement with material culture, Ai explores the tension between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.
Admission: £7.50 / £15
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
Above: Ai Weiwei, 2022 © Rick Pushinsky
14-15 April 2023
Spanning two years, four locations, and a patchworked, online hub, the Post Design Tangle is a two day festival with a series of talks and workshops. The third chapter of the event centres around the theme of ‘community’, questioning what can we learn from collective design practices, cooperative business models and strategies of co-creation, as well as how might they help move us beyond narrow narratives of single authorship?
Admission: DKK 300-500
HUSET-KBH, Rådhusstræde 13, 1466 CPH K
19 April 2023
Many things can cause a change in design or working practice. These changes often have a positive influence on current and subsequent work. In this talk, lettercutter and sculptor Louise Tiplady will talk about her different commissions for individuals and families. She will discuss how collaborating with clients can lead to unexpected changes in direction that frequently spark new ideas and make the projects more rewarding in the process.
Admission: £5-10 / in-person and online / 6.30-8.30pm (GMT)
The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT, UK
Above: Louise Tiplady. Pebble carved from Portland limestone with incised lettering. Quote from 'Peter Grimes' by Benjamin Britten.
20 April 2023
Inventing the Alphabet: Origin Stories to Forensic Evidence
Accounts of the origins of the alphabet contribute to the broad history of ideas. Many vivid intellectual traditions have flourished, and some have been set aside, discredited by ‘modern’ scientific methods of archaeology and forensic science. Turning our attention to these varied lineages, we see not only a history of the alphabet, but also different modes of knowledge production and transmission. Talk by designer, typographer and professor, Johanna Drucker.
Admission is free / in-person / 6pm (PT)
Letterform Archive, 2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
20-21 April 2023
Running for 23 years now, Dehache is an international graphic design festival, taking place in Mexico across two days. For the 2023 edition, speakers include illustrator Malika Favre (see ‘Malika Favre: Gridlocked’ in Eye 100), designer Verónica Fuerte of Hey studio, designer Quique Ollervides, Pupila studio, and many more yet to be announced. Organised by Tipos Libres.
Admission: Mex$1,800
Querétaro, México
21-22 April 2023
Prague’s annual digital art conference, where graphic design, film, animation and technology intersect. Across two days a series of workshops and talks will take place under the theme ‘NEW.0’; exploring everything and anything new. The topic of newness and novelty will be your guide to creating compelling visual identities and storytelling in the ever changing 2020s.
Admission: CZK 1,800-2,000
UMPRUM Technology Center, Mikulandská 134/5, Prague
21 April 2023
This is the third event in an accidental trilogy of design talks. BCNMCR started in 2013, continued in 2014 and then took a 9 year break, until now. Speakers confirmed for the day are Lo Siento, Javier Jaén, Ingrid Picanyol, Pràctica and Cabeze Patata.
Admission: £25
Hallé St Peter, 40 Blossom St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6BF
27 April — 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
27 April — 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
MAY 2023
3 May 2023
Hard Work and Dumb Luck: 39 Years of Work and Play With Gail Anderson
Navigating (and surviving) design career that’s heading into its fourtieth year can be a challenge, but it’s not without its rewards. NYC-based designer, educator and writer, Gail Anderson, will talk about her move from book covers to magazines to Broadway theatre to education.
See ‘Fast track songlines for type’ by Steven Heller in Eye 75.
Admission: £4.50-6.50 / online / 7-8.30 (BST)
9-14 May 2023
The sixty-sixth annual conference of the Association Typographique Internationale, ATypI Paris 2023 is devoted to everything imaginable related to type design and typography. The conference will feature a programme of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, tours, demos, exhibitions, type walks, discussions, and opportunities for networking and socialising.
Admission: $250–575
11-12 May 2023
All Flows is a new creative, digital and technology conference taking place in Milton Keyes, UK, across two days. The programme includes speakers from across the worlds of graphic design, animation and motion graphics, game design, sound art, photography and digital innovation, as well as film screenings and tours. Speaking at the conference will be Claire Cook and Joel Gethin Lewis from Universal Everything, motion designer Kate Dawkins, designer Ian Anderson (see ‘Reputations’ in Eye 71), designer Stefanie Pasavec (see ‘Designing MyFry’ at Eye blog), among many others.
Admission: £150
MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA, UK
12-14 May 2023
Leipzig Typotage 2023: Writing and desire
Typotage in Leipzig was originally launched in 1995, providing a platform for type professionals but also focusing on graphic design, art, production techniques in the print sector and related topics. The twenty-eight edition of the conference titled ‘Writing and desire’ will feature a series of typo-centric talks. Speakers include Petra Woehrmann, Ann Bessemans, Birgit Alabowitz, Moritz Schefers, Celine Hurka, Stefanie Vogel, and more to be announced soon. The talks will take place in German language.
In part of the programme, participants will also have an opportunity to join a guided tour of ‘Dafi Kühne: Book Printing Posters?’ exhibition.
In person admission: €75-150
Online admission: €19-80
Museum for Printing Art Leipzig, Nonnenstraße 38, 04229 Leipzig
13 May — 24 September 2023
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
17 May 2023
Andreu Balius: Type design as a tool for transformation
Type design is an activity that goes beyond the mere creation of new forms to provide an increasingly saturated market of typefaces. As a specialized activity, it can contribute to a more inclusive dialogue within the framework of our global society. Type designer Andreu Balius will discuss how Typecraft Initiative organises and develops type design workshops in which communities of artisans (mainly women) link their skills and expertise in drawing letters. A strategic aspect of these workshops is to introduce design methodologies to local communities in India.
Admission: £5-10 / in-person and online / 6.30-8.30pm (GMT)
The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT, UK
18-28 May 2023
Melbourne Design Week celebrates design in an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations and workshops across Australia’s design capital. The themes for 2023 edition are transparency, currency and legacy, asking participants to think over time and scale to design the world they want. The programme includes a Design Fair, Melbourne Design Week Award, as well as Art Book Fair with over 70 stalls of leading and emerging artists and publishers. More information about the programme will be published soon.
JUNE 2023
2-3 June 2023
Design Matters Tokyo is a hybrid conference on digital design – made for designers, by designers. Across two days a series of talks will explore the most relevant topics for digital designers today and practical workshops will dive deep into design methods and processes. All the talks and workshops will revolve around three themes, which aim at defining and leading the agenda on the most important issues concerning UX/UI, innovation, tech, and sustainability.
Admission: from ¥25,000 (in-person) / from ¥10,000 (online)
Japan, 〒106-6224 Tokyo, Minato City, Roppongi, 3 Chome−2−1
3 June 2023
TypeParis brings together typography enthusiasts, graphic designers, art directors and type designers who seek to explain how typography has a visible impact on the world around us. Now23 is the first annual conference organised by TypeParis hosting talks by international speakers around graphic design, web design, motion design, publishing, visual identity, communication and type design. The programme includes talks by Sarah Boris (Eye 101), Erik Spiekermann (Eye 74), Irene Vlachou, LaTigre, Tilman Solé from Mucho studio (Eye 80), Ulrike Rausch, David Pearson (Eye 77), Camille Baudelaire, Fred Smeijers (Eye 90) and more to be announced soon.
Admission: €170-220
Now23, Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, 257 rue de Vaugirard , 75015 Paris, France
JULY 2023
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
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
A new exhibition featuring more than 100 objects, including broadsheets, buttons, signs, T-shirts, posters, and ephemera spanning the 1800s to today. In sections exploring the many ways to voice dissent, the show and catalogue will chart a typographic chant of resistance across more than a century of protest graphics and showcase typographic anger and agency as it is seen in the streets, on the printed page, and even on the bodies of demonstrators.
Admission: $10
Letterform Archive, 2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, US
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.