MADRID.- PHotoEspaña awards nine prizes every edition which recognise the Festival’s best exhibitions, the year’s most outstanding publications and the professional path of Spanish and international photographers, both well-known and emergin…
A Graphic Odyssey through Wim Crouwel’s Career at the Design Museum in London
LONDON.- The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typog…
A Graphic Odyssey through Wim Crouwel’s Career at the Design Museum in London
LONDON.- The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typog…
Stefan Sagmeister, the "Enfant Terrible" of Graphic Design, Opens Exhibition at MUDAC
LAUSANNE.- “Stefan Sagmeister is a pop star”… exalts Mieke Gerritzen, an Austrian graphic designer who is Sagmeister’s friend and opposite number, when describing him in an article appearing in the exhibition catalogue. Indeed, best known for hi…
Iconic Barack Obama Change Poster by Shepard Fairy to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A pencil screen print of the iconic Barack Obama Change poster designed by American contemporary artist and graphic designer, Shepard Fairey, in support of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, is to be sold at Bonhams as part of its Urban …
Exhibition at Bauhaus Dessau Marks the 100th Birthday of Bauhaus Student Kurt Kranz
DESSAU.- The Bauhaus Dessau dedicates a comprehensive exhibition to the painter, graphic designer and photographer Kurt Kranz to mark his 100th birthday. In 1930, the then twenty-year-old lithographer came from Bielefeld to study at the Bauhaus Dessau,…
Libraries Launch Apps to Sync with iPod Generation
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, OH (AP).- Libraries are tweeting, texting and launching smart-phone apps as they try to keep up with the biblio-techs — a computer-savvy class of people who consider card catalogs as vintage as typewriters. And they seem to be p…
The Anti Design Festival: Anarchy, Art and Design to Hit the Streets of London
LONDON.- Directed by world renowned graphic designer Neville Brody, the Anti Design Festival is London’s most hotly anticipated design and art event. Running along Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, it will incorporate everything from exhibitions and s…