Communicate at the Barbican, LDN.
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- gradiate
Went to this last night and this show is everything you'd want it to be. Some amazing pieces from the 60's onwards. Lots of it seen before in books etc but seeing it in the flesh as always is a lot better. Almost too much to look at so 2 trips for me I think. The highlight is the 60's economic book covers, blow your head off.
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http://www.barbican.org.uk/galle…
- soda0
going to see it at the weekend, that and the saul bass show. Sounds excellent
- gradiate0
That and saul bass in a day is going to be visual overload! i spent 3 hours at the saul bass show, just awesome.
- soda0
heh...yeah, am going to get up early and cleanse myself with graphics!
- soda0
Finally got down to see it and I have to say I was pretty underwhelmed. Maybe it's because I had seen a lot of it already, but it didn't engage me at all?
I think because of the lack of context about each piece (if you compare it to the saul bass/peter saville show at the design museum) it seemed like there was almost too much?
I did love the old book designs and the political work posters section. I just wanted to know more...