Musing
A good place for a cup of tea and a think. Here
Ambient Addition
Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. Here
Apple Film Trailers
An excellent site to see trailers for up and coming films. Here
The Arts Council. Here
Downs School
The rather fun website of my daughter’s school. Here
Eggschipsandbeans
From the guy who brought you ‘a good place for a cup of tea and a drink (see above) comes eggbaconchipsandbeans! Here
The Electronic Fishcake
OK, so the odds are you’re not a life long fan of Grimsby Town F.C. But, hey, this site might make you want to be...or maybe not. Here
Get Your War On Here
I Like!
Excellent site. As the author says: ‘‘I like’ has come about from a love of all the things you see here. The only subject I could think of to write about was things I like, hence the name. ’Here
John Cassavetes
‘The John Cassavetes Page’ is dedicated to the work of one of the most important film directors of the 20th century. Here
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organisation that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. All of this is free! Here
Modern Living
Truly inspired (if also slightly disturbing) website. Here
Patterns on bus and train seats! Here
Portable Palace.
Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch create interdisciplinary art works that integrate physics, chemistry and computer science with...Here
The Museum of Modern Art Here
Screen Archive South East
Excellent collection of amateur films from the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s. Here
The Submarine Channel. Here
The Tate Here
Victoria & Albert Museum Here
The Visual Dictionary
The Visual Dictionary is a collaborative project to collect as many photographs of words as possible. Here
Warp Records
Highly influential Sheffield based record label. Here
Written on the City
‘Someone is trying to tell you something’ Here
You Tube. Here
Design
AIGA
AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice. This is their website. Here
Andrés Sandoval. Here
Baseline Magazine
Baseline sets out to reflect all aspects of type, including its design, history, use, and links to the graphic, art and craft scenes. A key magazine in graphic design history. Here
Clipstampfold
The radical architecture of little magazines 196X-197X. Here
Covers
Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. Here
Danny Gregory. Here
The Design Encyclopedia
The Design Encyclopedia is a user-built source of reference material with the sole intention of defining, describing, chronicling and documenting the world through design in all its implications and manifestations from the visual to the tactile, from the communicative to the evocative, from the cultural to the commercial. Here
The Design Institute
The Design Institute operates at the intersections between the various fields of design theory and practice, makes fresh links with non-design disciplines, and scans the horizon to understand how 'design' is being redefined in response to social and technological changes. Here
Design Observer
Design Observer was founded in October 2003 by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand & Rick Poynor. A good resource for journalistic style essays on contemporary design. Here
The Designers Republic
The Designers Republic is a group of graphic designers...Here
DesignWritingResearch
DesignWritingResearch.org is the personal and professional Web site of Ellen Lupton. This self-service storefront provides essays, teaching materials, links, free advice, and more. Here
Eye Magazine
The Eye website, an index of the quarterly print magazine for everyone involved in graphic design and visual culture. Here
Forget the film, watch the titles.
You know what they say about first impressions. Here
HDR. Here
Hyphen Press
Hyphen Press publishes books about design, especially typography. Here
Icograda
The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) is the world body for professional graphic design and visual communication. Here
Josef Muller-Brockmann film
Wonderful homage to the posters of Muller-Brockmann. Here
Ladislav Sutnar
Wonderful site on the wonderful Czech designer! Here
Lessons on Life from Milton
Ten things Milton can teach you.’ Here
Miroslav Sasek
This site is devoted to the life and works of Miroslav Sasek, the Czech artist, illustrator and author of the This is series of children's books. Here
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press is an international publisher of books on the visual arts with offices in New York, London, Paris and Berlin, and distributors worldwide. Here
Posterwire.com
Posterwire.com is a movie poster weblog. Here
Print Magazine
PRINT is a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design. Covering a field as broad as communication itself, PRINT documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle. This the website. Here
Saul Bass
The Saul Bass Archive. A javascript collection of the man’s iconic film title sequences. Here
SpeakUp
Born on-line in September of 2002, Speak Up is an author-based, reader-supported community devoted to graphic design open to conversation and dialogue. Here
Steven Heller Here
Yugop.com
Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environments. His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC. This is his site. Wonderful! Here
Ideas
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. Here
Arts & Letter Daily
Excellent resource that summarises the most worthwhile essays and articles on the internet. Here
John Berger Here
British Humanist Society
The BHA is the largest organisation in the UK supporting and representing the non-religious and campaigning for a secular society. Help us to strengthen the voice of the millions of non-religious people in the UK by joining online today. Here
Corporate Watch
Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. Corporate Watch are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. Here
The Drawbridge
The Drawbridge is an independent quarterly delivering thought, wit and reflection through words, photography and drawing. It is in turn critically nonsensical and radically serious. Here
English Pen
English Pen promotes Literature and its understanding, while upholding writers’ freedoms around the World. It campaigns against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views. Here
Everyone forever
Everyoneforever.com, an expanding report of exploratory thinking and doing from the edges of every discipline; from Aerobics to Zoology and everything in-between. Here
The International Labour Organisation (ILO)
The ILO is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. Here
Lacan Dot Com
Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of psychoanalysis worldwide. He considered his work to be an authentic "return to Freud", in opposition to ego psychology. This entailed a renewed concentration upon the Freudian concepts of the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego conceptualised as a mosaic of identifications, and the centrality of language to any psychoanalytic work. This website reveals the continuing legacy of his work. Here
London Review of Books
Bimonthly publication that includes articles, essays, and reviews, covering a broad range of subject areas. Here
The Marxist Internet Archive
The Marxists Internet Archive are a volunteer based non-profit organisation, with the purpose of educating people around the world about Marxism. Here
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein became famous as a pioneering child psychoanalyst whose work from the 1920s until her death in 1960 shed vivid new light on the emotional life of infants and children. Here
Militant Esthetix
MILITANT ESTHETIX has advanced the quivering tip of the visual pyramid into Esemplastic Heraclitean Infinity. With our floating upright lyric (blue and sparkling) and plagiarist communism (Trotskoid and betusked) we burst through the indigo (possibly of coal-tarred synthetic origin) lampshade of the firmament, slog beyond, abandonning the petty purple (mauveine?) mortality of the merely individual to the bruised condition of a historical-non-historical life. Let spill the fire! Sizzle. Drip. Drip. Arrows, speak. Here
The New Scientist
Keep engaged with new developments and important debates in modern science. Here
The Onion
Sharp, subversive, black, joyous…American humour at its best. Here
OpenDemocracy
OpenDemocracy is an online global magazine of politics and culture. A vitally important resource which allows the reader to make up their own mind. Here
Radical Philosophy
Radical Philosophy provides a forum for debate and discussion of theoretical issues on the left. It encourages the serious and informed discussion of such issues in clear and non-technical language, aimed to reach a wide audience. Here
Sign and Sight
Signandsight.com is the English version of the German online culture magazine Perlentaucher.. It is one of the few independent online magazines in Germany. Here
UNPO
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them. Here
Vertigo Magazine
Vertigo is a unique project which champions innovation and diversity in form and culture for independent film and the moving image. Here
Walter Benjamin
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Here
Zizek The Movie!
"Zizek!" is a feature documentary exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of the "wild man of theory": the eminent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Here
Kerry William Purcell 2007 ©
