Blog: Graphic design

24 May 2012

Home-made heavy metal

Home-made heavy metal

gareth hague

With no need to be cool, bands happily riff on the visual vocabulary of the 70s
Heavy metal culture has always been on the outside, writes Gareth Hague. Outside cool, outside…

15 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

eric kindel, type tuesday

Stencils, stencil letters, tools and new fonts on display in Antwerp
The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 1…

10 May 2012

Wanda and Ken

Wanda and Ken

the picture department

Riverside pictures & mystery photos in the Garlands’ first joint show.
Tomorrow sees the opening of a new joint exhibition by painter Wanda Garland and designer…

10 May 2012

Grey matter ... in living colour

Grey matter ... in living colour

rosie walters

The Wellcome Collection slices through the beauty and terror of brains
The Wellcome Collection asks: ‘not what brains do for us, but what we have done…

8 May 2012

Type Tuesday: space exploration

Type Tuesday: space exploration

gerry leonidas, type tuesday

Some reflections upon typography & layout (and why palettes are evil)
In ‘Lost in flatlands’ in Eye 80, as part of our special ‘20 years of change’…

7 May 2012

Gonzo graphic design

Gonzo graphic design

robert newman

America’s ‘altweeklies’ are a hotbed of zero-budget cover art direction.
‘The alternative weekly newspapers of the United States are a hotbed of creative cover design,’…

3 May 2012

Break out of the cloisters

Break out of the cloisters

jessica jenkins

Explore ‘Socialist Modernity’ at a forthcoming RCA symposium
Venture outside the world of blogs and back-slapping designer conferences, writes Jessica Jenkins. Everyday academic life…

1 May 2012

Modern games

Modern games

alex cameron

Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set design advances a ‘Bauhaus reality’ check
Form follows function. The oft-quoted, much misunderstood dictum associated with the Bauhaus finds few better expressions…

1 May 2012

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

Type Tuesday: Text, pixel, pen and fen

alex cameron

Tankard’s new type family Fenland questions the ‘calligraphic metaphor’
The launch party for Jeremy Tankard’s new type family Fenland, at London’s Kemistry Gallery, was packed…

24 April 2012

Signature typeface

Signature typeface

the type department

Gill Sans test proofs and original drawings from the Monotype archive
Here are some more examples of Eric Gill’s sketches for the Gill Sans family, courtesy of…
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