Blog: Graphic design
3 April 2013
Music design eye candy
Rich in reproductions and spanning a wide range of musical genres, Classic Rock Posters is…
28 March 2013
Tween zine
The Loop is a newsprint magazine that brings the news to life for children aged eight to thirteen
Children’s magazine The Loop has a deceptive strapline: ‘The magazine that thinks it’s a newspaper’…
24 March 2013
AGI Open – the ‘graphic design World Cup’?
The Alliance Graphique Internationale pulls out the stops for a two-day, student-oriented event at London’s Barbican this autumn
Last Wednesday saw a rare gathering of some of the UK’s most senior designers (David…
14 March 2013
Don’t write off the poster
Visual Communication students from the Royal College of Art reveal a glimpse of their recent collaboration with the V&A museum
Earlier this month, a collaboration between the V&A and Visual Communication students from the Royal…
11 March 2013
More platforms for editorial design
Art director Mark Porter is the main speaker at ‘The magazine now arriving at platform 15’ at St Bride
The Type Tuesday event at St Bride Library in London is a chance to hear…
8 March 2013
Good works … creak
‘Goodvertising’ is one of those hard to love, cut’n’shut words that the advertising industry seems…
7 March 2013
Wanted: space for posters
In the wake of last week’s V&A symposium, two attendees make an impassioned plea for the foundation of a British poster museum.
For more than two centuries the poster has occupied public space on hoardings, building sites…
4 March 2013
Node weaving
The Design Museum highlights a fair trade collaboration between Western illustrators, designers and craftspeople from Nepal
On 5 March 2013, the Design Museum shop will launch a collection of illustrated rugs…
28 February 2013
Objects of desire
Designers have been engaged in sex since neolithic times. Well, maybe those neolithics were not…
27 February 2013
Noted #50
Bastard chairs and other Works that Work; geometric rugs at the Design Museum; Strike!, posters, a standards manual & the first live Type Tuesday at St Bride in London
Last week we spoke to graphic artist Clayton Junior about his fair trade rug, launching…