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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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Ekow Eshun curates an exhibition inspired by activism and agency

Creative Review

The Fund for Global Human Rights is a charity working with activists across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Southeast Asia – four regions of the world that it is spotlighting in Face to Face, a new public exhibition in King’s Cross Tunnel and the surrounding Outside Art Project space, which launched earlier this year.

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

Eye on Design

There are more people talking about design — and especially graphic design — than ever before but that doesn’t make starting and running a design publication any easier. This makes the legacy of Open Manifesto , the quiet but persistent Australian print journal that published eight issues between 2003 and 2018, all the more remarkable.

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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”

Eye on Design

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. Over those five years, the exhibitions at P!

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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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