Category Archives: Graffiti

Street type

By tim | Published: 22/04/2013

a lovely exercise that helps to sharpen your eye, and your thinking, about the designed world around you.

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WORDSTOCK – One Amazing Day

By tom | Published: 14/10/2011

WORDSTOCK began as a twinkle in our collective eyes at a 26 Board meeting: Could it be possible to attract 70 people who are mad about writing and communications to a wordstorming Saturday somewhere in central London? And if so, who so, where so, when so? Approaching likely punters was the easy bit because 26 [...]

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Postcards from Paradise

By tom | Published: 07/07/2011

Who needs the hassle of traffic jams, rammed airports, heaving ferries and bloated beaches when you can hang out at the Southbank. This glorious rolling festival has been the hit of the summer with thrilling exhibitions, ambush fountains, curious pavilions, an allotment in the sky, and an intriguing language installation that has set everyone talking [...]

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No real point

By tim | Published: 16/11/2010

Cheryl Cole and L’Oreal ads are common targets of mimicry, but this artist hasn’t done enough to move the narrative on.

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Sweetly mixed

By tim | Published: 13/09/2010

The need to ensure that museum visitors ‘get’ everything first time is corrosive and limiting. There’s nothing wrong with captions and catalogues that stretch our understanding, that is what the process of learning involves, after all

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Rabbits & Rats & Co Ltd

By tom | Published: 29/04/2010

I am amazed that Shoreditch and Hoxton are cursed with so much dismal graffiti. You have complete freedom to do whatever you want to do, but most can barely rub two ideas together. So all the more brilliant to discover works of bloody art which not only regurgitate the neighbourhood, but you love so much [...]

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