The School of Art
Teal Triggs, Associate Dean at the Royal College of Art, has teamed up with illustrator Daniel Frost to create a charming new children’s book which offers an illustrated introduction to art and design.
Paul Davis: pessimistic misanthrope
To coincide with a retrospective of his work in Tokyo, the artist and illustrator Paul Davis talks to writer Tim Rich
TDC: Judges’ Choices
Ahead of the announcement of the winners of this year’s Type Directors Club awards, we have the judges’ choices of their favourite projects this year
A poster a day for Earth Hour
Pentagram, WWF and environmental charity Do the Green Thing have launched a poster campaign to promote Earth Hour on March 29.
American Illustration Annual 32
Two hundred and eighty eight editions of the new American Illustration Annual have handmade covers, by 45 different artists and illustrators. Overseen by creative director Richard Turley, the project saw much ink, paint and several naked men
An image of San Francisco
Design association AIGA’s San Francisco arm has curated an exhibition of 100 posters by local and international creatives based on their interpretations of the city.
Designers celebrate 50 years of the National Theatre
The National Theatre in London is 50 this year. To help celebrate, it has launched a pop-up shop at its home in the South Bank in London, called Shopping and E•ting. The shop is selling a number of unique products related to the theatre, including a series of limited edition posters created especially by designers and artists including Paula Scher, David Carson, Graphic Thought Facility, Michael Craig-Martin and Jamie Reid…
AGI Opens Up
Formed in 1952 as an elite club of graphic designers, the Alliance Graphique Internationale aged with its membership. But as AGI brings its Open conference to London for the first time, an injection of new blood has reinvigorated the body
What would the designer say?
Suffering from designer’s block? Well, The Designer Says might be the answer – it’s a small book packed full of musings from some of the industry’s finest
The design experience
Cape Town’s Design Indaba shows that the scope for designers to make a difference to society is wider than ever
Design Indaba names starry line-up
David Adjaye, Matthew Carter, Jessica Hische, Sir John Hegarty and musician Spoek Mathambo are amongst an impressive line-up of speakers for this year’s Design Indaba conference in Cape Town
