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|||||||||A few years ago, in part to advertise his gallery exhibition, artist Patrick Mimran put up billboards in strategic positions in New York City; one read "to express conceptual ideas write a book, dont paint" another stated "art is not always where you think you are going to find it" Although we do not claim to be in total accord with the artist,s critical intentions these slogans and their occupation of commercial spaces echo our aims.
From Art to Design and back again... a proposed lecture on theory and practice
Students of the School of Graphic Design at London College of Printing recently gave the theme of "Relay" to their graduation show. "Relay" acts as both a metaphor and an adjective for Graphic Design and its role in visual culture. The modern city is a matrix of information, mediated through sound, text and image. Graphic Design provides the syntax or visual language for relaying this information.
Graphic Design History - Unlisted
Discussion about graphic design so often oscillates between two poles: graphic design as an agent of consumerism or as an art object/subject. At any given moment its definition will be passing from one description to the next. At the moment, for many designers, and writers on design, the aspiration is clearly a move towards art as a legitimate mooring for graphic design history. Here, we are looking at how these particular history(s), polemics and representations materialise in (graphic) design discourse and importantly form a ?context? for the work of contemporary graphic designers.
Advertising transforms the world into a shopping list…graphic design’s role in visual culture is less concise. In its short history it has been certified ‘modern’, bowdlerized by artists for its pop culture frisson and challenged by the First Things First manifesto (twice!) for being reduced to serving the tills of commerce. So often, talk about graphic design oscillates between these two poles, graphic design as shopping basket or as art object/subject.
Shooting Images: Photographs from the war in Iraq
Susan Sontag, like the Italian writer Umberto Eco, is among the few present day cultural critics whose influence resonates, in part through their novels, beyond the intellectual press and university libraries. In 1977 Sontag published On Photography, an extended essay looking at the role of photography in the West, which went on to become her most celebrated book. Its publication came at the close of the Vietnam war, which brought documentary photography, via the media, to the breakfast tables and television screens of America and Europe.
Interact1 and Communicate - conflicting territory
Interact1 is a showcase of contemporary interactive work originally exhibited at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and designed to complement the Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design since the Sixties exhibition at the Barbican (16 Sep 04- 23 Jan 05).