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Blog: Graphic design

11 May 2010

Revalue the dollar

the picture department

How art director Herb Lubalin got his illustrator friends to make money

The third issue of Avant-Garde, May 1968, ran an attention-grabbing feature entitled ‘Revaluation of the…

6 May 2010

The cover that never was

john l. walters

Is Chris Ware’s rejected cover for Fortune 500 right on the money?

The world of graphic design is full of images that never were, writes John L…

5 May 2010

Diagrams of delight

An exhibition by Seoul’s Zero Per Zero at Kemistry Gallery

Zero Per Zero’s first UK exhibition opened last week at Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch, writes Sara…

4 May 2010

Shoe’s Calligraffiti

jane cheng

Ancient craft meets visceral scrawl on the streets of Amsterdam

Niels Shoe Meulman, who practises ‘calligraffiti’ is one of many designers featured in ‘Make each…

28 April 2010

House of the Risograph

liz farrelly

Landfill Editions: instant art and design with repurposed technology

Meanwhile, over at the ‘Pick Me Up’ event currently rocking Somerset House, in one of…

27 April 2010

Schweizer Reize

Swiss travel books and posters at the National Library in Bern

An exhibition of historic Swiss travel books and posters at the Swiss National Library in Bern…

23 April 2010

West End girls and boys

‘Pick Me Up’ puts graphic art and illustration on the London gallery map

‘The west shall shake the east awake … while ye have the night for morn …’…

22 April 2010

Mechanical brides and grooms

Read about Fritz Kahn’s surreal pedagogical vision in the latest Eye

In ‘Machine head’, his Eye 75 feature article, Rick Poynor points out the fascination and contradiction…

20 April 2010

Street art for the suburbs

john ridpath

Black Rat gallery’s ‘Now’s the Time’ to open with Fairey, Banksy, Swoon, etc.

Despite decades of critical and mainstream acceptance, street art still occupies an uneasy place in…

19 April 2010

Formats for books