The Emperor’s New Clothes: Pick Me Up versus Sony World Photo Awards
Above: Post It comment board from Pick Me Up. Art for art’s sake Back in the 1940s and 50s the US government held up to the world as a […]
The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda
Above: All for the sake of peace; Nguyen Cong Do; Vietnam, 1972; Gouache on paper; by 1972 the tide had turned in the American-Vietnam war, this work shows tanks being transformed into tractors: military equipment converted for peaceful production © The Trustees of the British Museum After GDP’s recent post […]
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
James Montgomery Flagg (artist), I want You for U.S. army. c.1917. Loan courtesy of Anthony d’Offay, London The current exhibition at the British Library is one that all students of design and media should see for the simple reason that much of graphic design itself is simply about persuasion – whether […]
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 […]
