Exhibitions – Page 2

So long Shad Thames

Turn right down Bishopsgate, cross the road and go down Bevis Marks until you reach St Mary’s Axe. So started many walks with graphic design students from Liverpool Street Station to the Design Museum, always accompanied by a lecture on architecture. I initially learnt the route from a colleague, (thanks Lindsey), which I then honedContinue reading “So long Shad Thames”

PhotoEast

PhotoEast, Suffolk’s first festival of photography was launched this week in Ipswich and can claim to be a major success, even within its first few days of existence. The half-mile walk along Ipswich’s waterfront from DanceEast to Cult Cafe brings dramatic images from around the world to this small Suffolk town. Local history and Ipswich life areContinue reading “PhotoEast”

Brutal equations

In my teens in the 1980s, as I was becoming politically aware and active, (going on CND demonstrations and reading radical publications), it is difficult for me to not be very familiar with the work of Peter Kennard. I think I must have held several of his images in my hands as placards and certainly stuck some ofContinue reading “Brutal equations”

Shadow cabinet

Last week The Cabinet of Curiosities caravan pulled up outside University Campus Suffolk to coincide with an exhibition of the same project in UCS’s Waterfront Gallery. This visit and exhibition is the culmination of a year long project by UCS Fine Art Senior Lecturer Jane Watt. Jane and her bright blue caravan have visited various locations,Continue reading “Shadow cabinet”

Secret seven

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”

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.

A people’s (graphic) history

A highlight of a recent trip to Manchester was a visit to the People’s History Museum. Housed in a specially converted pump-house, the museum hosts an amazing visual display of artefacts relating to political history of ordinary people in this country, with an obvious bent towards Manchester related events and organisations, from the Peterloo Massacre to celebrating 150Continue reading “A people’s (graphic) history”

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.

Someday…

Someday All The Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971–1984, opened at the Hayward Gallery last week. To coincide with the opening private view, curator Johan Kugelberg hosted a panel discussion of some key designers involved in early punk graphics, along with cyberpunk author William Gibson. Apologising for co-curator Jon Savage’s absence—who was very punk byContinue reading “Someday…”