What's new in Visual Communication?
41.9K views | +0 today
Follow
 
Scooped by ECAL Library
onto What's new in Visual Communication?
Scoop.it!

On Intimacy and Self-Doubt: Paul Mescal and Andrew Haigh in Conversation

On Intimacy and Self-Doubt: Paul Mescal and Andrew Haigh in Conversation | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
From the set of Gladiator II, Paul Mescal joins director Andrew Haigh for a conversation about their heart-rending film All of Us Strangers. “I’ve tried to capture intimacy a lot, but there is something special going on here,” says Haigh
No comment yet.
What's new in Visual Communication?
Selected news about graphic design, photography, film studies and media & interaction design for CV students at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Curated by ECAL Library
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

A new era of pageants: Jack Kenyon photographs Miss Ramsgate

A new era of pageants: Jack Kenyon photographs Miss Ramsgate | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Mixing pictures of the event in action with classic school photo-like portraits, the photographer demonstrates how this pageant is more about community than perfection.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

The marble patterns and bubble type of this menstruation campaign website are inspired by period blood

The marble patterns and bubble type of this menstruation campaign website are inspired by period blood | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
From Nice and Serious and in collaboration with Bloody Good Period, the website aims to make conversations about periods “flow” in workplaces.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

The Gourmand gives lemons their time in the limelight

The Gourmand gives lemons their time in the limelight | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The second book in The Gourmand’s ingredient-focused series sees the legacy of the citrus fruit examined across art, culture and history.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Keerthana Kunnath aims to help women in her hometown shed the “shackles of social expectation”

Keerthana Kunnath aims to help women in her hometown shed the “shackles of social expectation” | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Focusing on the women and young girls in Beypore, India, the photographer's ongoing series Naadu grapples with limitations of small-town tradition.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

The View From Mumbai: Indian packaging design fusing heritage and contemporary culture

The View From Mumbai: Indian packaging design fusing heritage and contemporary culture | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
In her first column, our Mumbai correspondent Payal Khandelwal cherry picks some standout Indian food and drink packaging designs that craft modern stories with cultural nuance.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Sasha Elage doesn’t edit his technicolour portraits of horses, he “paints with light”

Sasha Elage doesn’t edit his technicolour portraits of horses, he “paints with light” | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
It might be hard to believe, but Sasha Elage’s photographs of horses aren’t edited – the effect is a fine balance of coloured paper, manipulated light and stunning landscapes.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Celebrities Kissing Themselves shows us just what AI and celebrity have in common – imperfection

Celebrities Kissing Themselves shows us just what AI and celebrity have in common – imperfection | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
On the surface, Bård Edlund’s series is an indictment of the cult of personality, but it is actually a showcasing of the standoff between the artist and the machine.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding

PAC, the performing arts centre at ground zero, debuts its branding | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
“We needed to radiate mass appeal,” says Porto Rocha, the graphic design studio tasked with encouraging visitors to the World Trade Centre site.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Peter Hujar’s Delicate, Devastating Portraits of Life and Death

Peter Hujar’s Delicate, Devastating Portraits of Life and Death | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition combines his intimate portraits of the 1970s Lower East Side artistic milieu with haunting images of embalmed bodies in Palermo’s catacombs
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Elizabeth Goodspeed on how signs remind us of design beyond the screen

On a recent trip to Italy, our US editor-at-large became fascinated by the myriad forms of “folk” signage on display. Here, she asks why designers find it so easy to fall in love with mundane design abroad, but not closer to home.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Justine Kurland’s Intimate New Book Captures Life on the Road With Her Son

Justine Kurland’s Intimate New Book Captures Life on the Road With Her Son | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
As This Train is published by Mack, the photographer behind Girl Pictures talks about road-tripping through America with her son, motherhood, and why “images don’t have fixed meanings”
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper

Artist Daria Chernyshova lays out extremely organised works on paper | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Grids and tight graphic systems provide comfort and safety to this artist working in Berlin.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility

The identity for the New York Times’ staff conference balances motion and legibility | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The branding for the State of the Times event, created by CC Studio in London, aims to celebrate the breadth of content and media that the newspaper produces.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Flyers, magazines and counterculture: How Phase Zero captures New York’s creative scene

The target audience for this letter-sized magazine is “anyone who stops and reads things on the street”.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Jack Lueders-Booth’s Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison

Jack Lueders-Booth’s Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
As his new book of Polaroids is published, Jack Lueders-Booth talks about creating a humane portrait of inmates at a women’s prison in Boston during the 1970s
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Ida Lissner takes us behind the scenes of her otherwordly digital creations

Ida Lissner takes us behind the scenes of her otherwordly digital creations | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Sprawling plants, unfamiliar insects and creatures from another planet: here, the digital artist tells us how she goes about making her ethereal snapshots.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Carly Jean Andrews’ collage self-portraits are like an archive of 80s magazine covers

Carly Jean Andrews’ collage self-portraits are like an archive of 80s magazine covers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
The Los Angeles-based artist does self-portraiture on her own terms and in her own name.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Kartik Tuli is dismantling graphic design perfection, one project at a time

Kartik Tuli is dismantling graphic design perfection, one project at a time | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Sculpture, web design, typography – whatever Kartik turns his hand to, there is an urge to let real world influences mess with standardisation.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Toaster-Typewriter – An investigation of humor in design –

Toaster-Typewriter – An investigation of humor in design – | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
Toaster-Typewriter is the first iteration of what technology made with humor can do. A custom made machine that lets one burn letters onto bread, this hybrid appliance nudges users to exercise their imaginations while performing a mundane task like making toast in the morning.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers

Type knitter Rüdiger Schlömer makes fonts for screens and jumpers | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
An old project on soccer fan scarves opened Rüdiger’s eyes to the possibilities of textiles. Now he prototypes typefaces on screen and fabric.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Katrien De Blauwer Interprets Le Labo’s Musk in a Series of Collages

Katrien De Blauwer Interprets Le Labo’s Musk in a Series of Collages | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
In 2010, AnOther collaborated with Le Labo on a fragrance that juxtaposed clean architectural lines with sensual ambroxyde to addictive effect. Here, artist Katrien De Blauwer celebrates the intoxicating power of the scent in a series of collages
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers

Leo Burnett Dubai agency has partnered with Omantel telecom network to create the Maqroo font, which translates to “readable”.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

Raúl Cañibano is not a surrealist but rather a “documentarian with my own vision”

Raúl Cañibano is not a surrealist but rather a “documentarian with my own vision” | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
At the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, just two years after becoming a professional photographer, Raúl Cañibano joined a generation primed to document Cuba’s present-day struggles. He’s stuck with the mission for his whole career, and now offers a look into the islands future.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

gr1dflow – Exploring recursive ontologies –

gr1dflow – Exploring recursive ontologies – | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
gr1dflow is a collection of artworks created through code, delving into the world of computational space. While the flowing cells and clusters showcase the real-time and dynamic nature of the medium, the colours and the initial configuration of the complex shapes are derived from blockchain specific metadata associated with the collection.
No comment yet.
Scooped by ECAL Library
Scoop.it!

“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys

“A love letter to the football shirt”: The book commemorating 50 years of Admiral replica jerseys | What's new in Visual Communication? | Scoop.it
A new publication looks into the impact and legacy of Admiral, the brand that pioneered fan football shirts in the UK.
No comment yet.