Archive for September 2001

Potent Print at St Luke’s

Next week the radical London agency St Luke’s begins Think Print, a series of public talks in praise of print as an advertising medium.

Top-name speakers have been invited to talk about their thought-provoking, conceptual work in graphic design, photography and fine art. They include Stefan Sagmeister, Barbara Kruger, Norbert Schoener and David [...]

The elusive Hy Hirsh is revived by iotaCenter

The remarkable experimental films of American Hy Hirsh (1911-1961) are largely unseen.

Hirsh started as a camera operator and advertising photographer, then in the early ‘50s began to make his own abstract animation through an inventive range of techniques and apparatus, including oil wipe machines, oscilloscopes, stereoscopy and Beat jazz. He moved to Europe and continued [...]