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It's all in the eyes for A Practice for Everyday Life's identity for the 59th Venice Biennale

Creative Boom

With the 59th Venice Biennale well underway, our attention turns to the Italian exhibition's graphic identity for 2022. Crafted by A Practice for Everyday Life , the London studio founded by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas in 2003, it's inspired by Surrealism and represented by eyes, which can be seen dotted around the Venetian city.

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

“Graphic design must be seen as a discipline capable of generating meaning on its own terms without undue reliance on commissions, prescriptive social functions, or specific media or styles,” wrote designer, curator, and writer Andrew Satake Blauvelt in 2003. . Exhibition Design: Andrew Blauvel. Graphic Design: Now in Production.

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Remembering Richard McConnell 1942-2020: the inimitable exhibition designer

Design Week

Exhibition design is the ultimate in multi-disciplinary design. There is nothing money can buy that you can’t put in an exhibition. “There is only one crime that an exhibition designer can commit – and that is to be boring! . It was a museum he would continue to visit for more than 50 years.

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Open Manifesto—the Quiet but Persistent Australian Design Journal—Was Ahead of Its Time

Eye on Design

You probably don’t need me to tell you that the publishing world is a tough business. While the internet — and social networks — have put the tools of publishing into the hands of anyone with a smartphone, they’ve also made questions of gaming algorithms, virality, and likes and shares integral to building an audience.

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These Uncanny ’80s Illustrations of Life After Humans Are More Relevant Today Than Ever

Eye on Design

Forty years after its original publication, the environmental and cultural context for the book has markedly shifted due to the climate crisis. Having studied paleontology and geology, Dixon started out his career working in publishing at Mitchell/Beazley Ltd. one of the major publishers of encyclopedias in the 1970s. . “I

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Sneakers, unboxed

UX Collective

Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street exhibition space For some people shoes are just something to wear to walk. link] I checked out the exhibition not long after its opening to see what the hype was all about as I am not a sneaker-obsessive to the level of crazy but I do appreciate the culture. You pick a colour you like.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

It was originally published on September 19, 2019. A procession of designers had made their way to the city over the course of the year to take part in a new workshop/exhibition space supported by KW Institute for Contemporary Art — Na Kim , Karel Martens, Esen Karol, Fikra ’s Salem Al-qassimi, among them.