Bonne Année!. Here is my 2012 New Year Quiz! (I haven’t pulled any crackers this year, so you’ll have to indulge me…)
Q: From the images included in this article, choose which is
a) Art
b) Vandalism
Did you guess right?! Check out the answers below!
A few years ago, there was a new manager at the art...
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Over the last few days there has been much discussion in the OCA office about a web experience commissioned by Channel 4 called Dreams of Your Life. The experience (or game if you like) was commissioned to support the release of a documentary fun
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There was a time when comics were just for kids and artists made images for grown ups. I’m not sure if that many artists have been able to make the switch to working for a younger audience, but certainly illustrators and other narrative based artis
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Love it? Hate it?
As a designer, you can’t avoid it. Indeed, you wouldn’t want to – your love affair with typography will prove to be one of the most enduring and intense. Sounds dramatic? Perhaps, but as any aspiring graphic designer will t
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Back in the 1960s, Penguin Modern Poets brought out a poetry collection called 'The Mersey Sound'. Its cover design soon became a classic and a generation were introduced to the poetry of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. Beat poetry had
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Award winning cartoonist Steve Bell has a long relationship with the Guardian newspaper, not least with his regular IF cartoon strip that has featured in the newspaper since 1981. It’s a sharp and irreverent narrative of those in power, often po
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Fotografiska, the Swedish photography museum, has self censored images on its Facebook pages to avoid them being deleted by Facebook for contravening its rules on nudity. The museum currently has a show of around 200 Robert Mapplethorpe images. Th
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Almost eight months into the four year part time masters degree in Fine Art, James Kowacz, one of OCA's current MA students, is embarking on a fascinating participative project, ‘A Seat in the Memory’. He is looking for people to contribute t
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One day, Elizabeth reads David Nicolls' novel 'One day'. The next, she goes to see the film of the book. It's an experiment in comparison she's been meaning to indulge in for years: fiction versus film.
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Portugal has a strong decorative tradition in its streets. Ever since the Moors introduced the vibrant tile tradition of the azulejos, houses have been faced in ceramic patterns. As a first time visitor to Lisbon I was struck by the visual quality of
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