French New Wave: A Revolution in Design – Reviewed
Much has been written about the French New Wave, but what of the posters created in response to the movement? Mike Pinnington investigates a new book dedicated to designs as innovative as the...
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening
An exhibition and book celebrate the legacy of They Live, director John Carpenter’s Reaganism allegory, but how does it stand up in our supposedly satire-proof times? Mike Pinnington investigates… When I first watched...
Dreams and Ideologies – Architecture: Fashion and Folly
With the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture announced this evening, Kenn Taylor reflects on how the passage of time tends to weigh heavily on the popularity – or otherwise – of a building… I once...
“It simply doesn’t live up to this esoteric promise.” In Character – Reviewed
Ashley McGovern reviews In Character, an exhibition exploring architecture’s communicative powers… How did Studio MUTT arrive at their name? The first part is standard, they are a RIBA Chartered Practice after all, though...
“I guess I’m just a bit of a geek. I just love listening to music.”
Interview: Dorothy
Combining a love of music and graphic design, we spoke to Dorothy’s Jim Quail about his creative process, wordplay and “falling down holes of research”… Coming together in 2010 after stints in the...
“It’s a luxury and a privilege…” Introducing: Rare Mags, Stockport
Magazine fan Jacob Charles Wilson heads home to Stockport to check out a beautiful new shop for the printed word… It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Greater Manchester has a vibrant culture...
The Geopolitics Of The Humble Christmas Pud & Other Highlights From Design & Empire [Working Title]
We take a look at four artists converging this weekend for an ambitious Liverpool Biennial-led programme: people whose ideas jab and nudge at the power structures and politics left over from the former...
“The design object should also be a piece of art”: Architecture Meets Ceramics At RIBA North
Liam Peacock speaks to two of the designers testing the limits of pottery, porcelain and glass in RIBA North’s new exhibition Cerámica – and discovers how their cutting-edge production techniques could bring about a more sustainable future… RIBA North,...
“Anxiety as captured in concrete”: A New Cathedral, 1960 – Reviewed
Ed Montana-Williams finds that the competition to design a new cathedral for Liverpool in 1960 received architectural ideas not of veneration, but of commemoration; referencing Cold War anxiety, rocket-like structures and concrete bunkers…...