Give Me Tomorrow
It’s a rainy day in south east England so it would be nice to head inside the Turner Contempory Gallery in Margate, Kent to see their latest show – Alex Katz Give Me Tomorrow. Here are images of stylish and elegant young things […]
Cape Dorset Prints
“Co-operative enterprises build a better world” is the 2012 theme for the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. Cape Dorset, in Canada’s north, is a co-operative of thirty-one communities which produce and sell art works to help the local economy and community. The results are beautiful and full of character. […]
V&A Illustration Award 2012
Over the summer and until the end of the year, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London is show-casing the yearly illustration awards. The range and variety of the imagery is immense and one of the reasons that design and illustration learners should go take a look is that […]
Wim Crouwel re-visited
The recent release of an App that cataolgues the major Wim Crouwel exhibition at the Design Museum last year gives us an excuse to celebrate the great designer. The App for iPad has been designed by Spin and is released by Unit Editions as a digital partner to the printed […]
Shakespeare: Staging the World
As part of the overall London 2012 Festival, the British Museum is hosting a major exhibition about the great English playwrite, William Shakespeare. However, this show has a focus on how the plays of Shakespeare and the theatre in general helped to shape Londoners’ emotional and political view of themselves as firstly […]
All shows Designed to Win
The Design Museum in London has a current exhibition that ties in with the Olympics, called Designed to Win. This features objects to do with sport, from equipment to clothing. Design and sport, it is remarked, share their drive to better human endeavour. Announced this week is the fact that […]
Gormley to Gaga: Transformation and Revelation
Last week I went to the Theatre and Performance rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum to research for a new G.D.P. project based around set and costume design. I was delighted to find that as well as the permanent collection they had on display a temporary exhibition called Gormley […]
Christian Louboutin and Design Factory
This week, as part of the Design Museum’s Design Factory brief launch I had the chance to go round the much-hyped Christian Louboutin exhibition. This has been the museum’s most popular show ever! Which just shows how fashionable shoes can be. The show was cleverly staged as a steamy, red […]
Graphic Design – Now in Production
An exciting and dynamic current exhibition in New York is Graphic Design – Now in Production being held at Governors Island on weekends and holiday Mondays. This is part of the Cooper Hewitt Museum’s summer timetable while the main building is being renovated. The exhibition covers the last decade of graphic […]
Ansel Adams: At the Water’s Edge
One of the oldest – and we at G.D.P. think finest – museums in America is the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The combination of the very old buildings with the bright glass atrium give the place a really friendly feel and their permanent collection is great, including maritime […]
the graphic design project 