Journal tagged by Exhibitions/events

Confirmation of the fist two EDO events for 2009, plus news of proposed events later in the year. Full details on the website.

Before handing over to me as Chair of EDO, Paul Harpin came up with a great idea for celebrating what we editorial designers do day in, day out. Then he left me to organise it (only joking Paul). The EDO...

Publishing Expo is a strange event. Despite being billed as the ‘must attend event for anyone working in the changing world of publishing’, I’ve found previous Expos to be anything but that. It’s actually a rather dull trade show at...

Bill Douglas in Toronto has just sent me issue 19 of Coupe, their annual International Design and Image Awards Annual. Always a strong issue, this one contains design work from the big and the small in the graphic design world....

Last week German magazine distributor Motto opened their first retail store, in Berlin, and celebrated with a week of events featuring a magazine a day: Mono.Kultur, Spike Art, Piktogram, Gagarin and Kilimanjaro all made presentations. Sounds like a great series...

Things I’ve done recently: Listened to eighties design business guru Michael Peters explain during a D&AD lecture that designers need to understand and work with words. That is, they must get involved in Content. Peters’ words for more interesting than...