Blog: Graphic design
21 January 2013
Noted #48
Illustration, music, life and death.
Here are a few links to exhibitions, illustrations and events that caught our attention in…
19 January 2013
The stars stare back in Scotland
The Edinburgh exhibition ‘From Death to Death’ looks at mortality, the body, dolls, guilt and other shadows of the mind.
The exhibition ‘From Death to Death and Other Small Tales’ hangs contemporary and historically significant…
17 January 2013
A dentist’s unerring eye
Dr Hans Sachs was the poster aficionado who launched Das Plakat. By Graham Twemlow
Graham Twemlow writes: A large part of the Hans Sachs poster collection is about to…
7 January 2013
The power of chess
Chess – the gymnasium of the mind – is a perennial source of inspiration for designers, film-makers and artists, says Jim Sutherland
It’s no wonder chess holds such a fascination for artists, film-makers and designers, writes Jim…
2 January 2013
Type at the core
Design students hope to acquire skills that are transferable and future-proof. In our new media world, letterpress and education need each other
If you’d blinked, you might have missed the 6x6 Collaborative Letterpress Project’s three-day exhibition at…
31 December 2012
Spiral-bound scratchpad
The 25th Anniversary edition of the Redstone diary assembles visual and verbal ephemera on the subject of ‘language’, from doctors’ private slang to erotic hand gestures.
The annual spiral-bound desk diary from Julian Rothenstein’s Redstone Press usually delivers a quirky collection…
24 December 2012
King’s Cross in Gotham
Typographic Christmas decorations cheer weary travellers between station and Central Saint Martins
Just outside the new entrance to King’s Cross station in London, the shiny red hoardings…
23 December 2012
While the city Tweets
Brendan Dawes’s digital portraits visualise data drawn from the online chatter of British city-dwellers
To mark the arrival of the 4G mobile network in eleven cities across the UK…
20 December 2012
Lay out – speak out
A letterpress conference at Fleet Street’s St Bride Library aimed to focus our attention on content
‘Something to say’, a letterpress conference organised by Catherine Dixon & Rose Gridneff at St…
20 December 2012
Design state of mind
Kemistry Gallery showcases Yokoland, a Norwegian design and illustration studio with its own flag …
Kemistry Gallery’s ‘84 projects from Yokoland’, which continues until Saturday 19 January 2013, displays work…