A large corner of my loft is stacked with vinyl records, mostly 12″ LPs, but there is a smaller pile of 7″ singles. They are going to stay there, save for the odd time I want to change the artwork in my three album-art frames that deck our landing. It is fair to say IContinue reading “Secret seven”
Category Archives: Art
Ditchling Museum of Art+Craft
I’d read about Ditchling Museum of Art+Craft on the Design Week blog last year when it reopened after being refurbished. It made the design press largely because of the rebranding by Phil Baines, in which he re-drew Gill Sans for all accompanying graphics. In truth, what Baines had done more than help advise on the dressing of the museum wasContinue reading “Ditchling Museum of Art+Craft”
Ivan Chermayeff: cut and paste
I was lucky enough recently that a holiday to the South Sussex coast coincided with the opening day of the Ivan Chermayeff: Cut & Paste exhibition at Bexhill-On-Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion, and it was truly inspirational.
Graphic obscura
Earlier last month few could have escaped the surprise announcement of a new David Bowie album, scheduled for a March release, titled The Next Day. The artwork dropped with almost as much of a shock, to some, as the album. The artwork places a white square over the original iconic cover of “Heroes”, Bowie’s 1977 collaborationContinue reading “Graphic obscura”
Keen works
It is always rewarding to come across an artist who has previously been completely off your radar. This was the case when Claire and I stumbled across Jeff Keen’s Shoot The WRX retrospective at Brighton Museum this weekend.
Nigel Ball 