Completed Netflix, binged through every single (free) series of Ex On the Beach on Amazon Prime? While we’re still sort of/mostly locked down, it’s about time we (by which I mean, I) consumed some decent, informative, or at least beautiful moving image, and what better way than on the incredible…
Somerset House has launched a free, interactive digital archive that celebrates Black British art, called DECENTRALISE. The platform is the first project to emerge from Somerset House’s Young Producers programme, which offers training, development and London Living Wage paid opportunities for emerging cultural producers aged 18-30 who are otherwise underrepresented…
Over the last few years, the work of civil rights activist, sociologist and early data visualisation pioneer W.E.B Du Bois is finally getting the recognition it deserves. During his lifetime, Du Bois was at the forefront of early 20th century Black protest movements, publishing his essay collection The Souls of…
Drum Machine Editions are excited to announce a call to submit photos, selfies, and screenshots for their upcoming publication SOUNDS GOOD: Portraits of People Enjoying Music at Home. The team are looking for images of people enjoying music at home, or wherever they’re spending the pandemic. You can make your…
Most people know a wee bit about Hunter S Thompson—even if it’s just through the lens of Johnny Depp’s portrayal of him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (or, better, Bill Murray’s in the 1980 movie, Where the Buffalo Roam.) Lots of people know that his ashes were fired…
Prints n Tha is a brand new artist run, not for profit online gallery championing emerging artists and illustrators based in Liverpool and the North West UK, set up by graphic artist JoMo in 2020. The gallery was set up with the intention to create a space for JoMo and her…
Join the fight against typographic pollution with Dafi Kühne‘s 2021 Typographic Summer Program. The program is an intense 2 week course taking place in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals. The project was initiated in 2016 by Dafi as he “…felt the need for a short intense workshop…
As with pretty much everything else we used to experience IRL, the current work in progress show from the Royal College of Art in London was forced to move online as a digital platform for the first time. But rather than see that as a problematic measure, the students and…
Sophie Fields, a screen printer, maker and textile designer based in Edinburgh worked Front of House for Capital Theatres until the lockdown of 2020. In October of last year the theatre put out a ‘call for submissions’ to come up with an idea to fill the festival theatre’s facade as…
With the uncertainty, fear and occasionally terminal-seeming boredom of ongoing lockdowns seemingly not packing in any time soon, we could all do with a few things to look forward to. In lieu of things like physical contact with friends, family and pubs, we’ve put together a list of national days…
The Dafi Kühne Printing Show is a series of free educational letterpress printing videos by poster designer, educator, and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne. Hot off the press, Dafi shares his most secret printing recipes so that you can start cooking up your own letterpress prints! Between 2018 and 2020 Dafi…
It’s pretty safe to say that graphic design today wouldn’t be graphic design today without one neat, seemingly simple invention: The Swiss Grid. The term encompasses both the grid itself, and a broader aesthetic also known as the International Typographic Style. Whether or not you love it, loathe it, or…
Over at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco—and online, wherever you are in the world with an internet connection—a new exhibition asks how the visual arts can help marginalised groups “survive and thrive.” The show, titled After Life (We Survive), is billed as “a multimedia…
In a year dominated by the ins and outs of a global pandemic (pangolins, 5G, Dominic Cummings’ eyesight, government-mandated-no-missionary positions, and so on and so forth), it’s pretty easy to forget that all the other Big News items haven’t conveniently sidled off behind flimsy blue masks and resolved themselves. Yup,…
House of Vans London and The Auction Collective are combining fine art and skate culture by holding a virtual 360° exhibition in House of Vans London’s gallery space, as well as a live fundraising auction for homelessness charity, Centrepoint. Objects of Art | The Skateboards comprises of 19 customised skateboards…
Taking place on the 18th and 19th November 2020, the eighth London edition of magCulture Live sees the event shift online. The two-day event special sees magazine goodness from some of the best magazine makers working today. The event has been split into two Zoom sessions, each with its own…
There’s no doubt that Berlin is home to the weirdest stories. So, it’s safe to say that; in Berlin, only animation beats reality. For the Festival of Animation Berlin, art director Bruno Oppido and his colleagues have brought to life some of Berlin’s craziest true stories. The team developed a…
Feminist Findings brings together twenty-three stories by womxn and non-binary people on unknown histories of feminist publishing. It’s the first project by Futuress, a new feminist publishing platform founded by Nina Paim and Corin Gisel (of the Basel-based design research practice common-interest), alongside journalist and editor Madeleine Morley. The authors…
Mary O’Connor is a visual artist living in Dublin. She studied Visual Communication and 3D Design at TU in Dublin, and prior to her artistic career she worked as an Interior Designer at Kilkenny Design Centre, Kilkenny, as well as in London and New Zealand. Whilst in New Zealand, Mary…
La conquête de l’espace (Space Conquest) is an ongoing project by designer and artist Florian Tripoteau. Through the use of space-related iconography, Florian expresses scepticism about the way in which the private occupies public space. His approach aims to produce various forms, essentially visual, in order to emphasise this conquest which…