Opinion: Visual culture
Browsing, or reading?
A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor
Depth and ambiguity
Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic…
Cold War culture-jammer
Design history, Visual culture
Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist…
Online rhetoric
Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble.…
Against the flow
As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual…
Energy and emotion
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious…
Readymade format
Design history, Visual culture
An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider audience.…
Photographer as page maker
Design history, Magazines, Reviews, Visual culture, Web Critique
David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune, Architectural…
Occupation hazardous
Visual culture, Critique / Photography
For ‘place hackers’, subversive and daredevil urban explorers, photography validates a search for the…
Identity crisis
Rebranding ITV was meant to generate a warm glow – not the heated reaction it received from viewers.…