Amy Hinckley

Getting any form of post is exciting but when it contains the invites for this summer’s student shows we can’t help but feel giddy and weirdly proud. So it’s time for The List to give a run down of some of this year’s most playful and inspiring invites and identities for this year’s graduates. The colours blue, red and orange are big this year, but the overall theme to these identities seems to be about creating something new and fresh, which can only be commended and celebrated.Like any sane person we love a good pun, so already Nottingham Trent University’s Graphic Design show is onto a winner with their show _About to Blow_. What sets them apart from the rest is the fact their invite is a fun little beach ball that you have to physically blow up. It’s a summery, memorable and unique take on the degree show invite that we think is genius. Their website is equally as entertaining and gives us just a glimmer of the work that’s been created.

The Difficulties of Nonsense, a book of Robert Cumming’s photography contains a conversation between Cumming and David Campany. Published by Aperture, edited with text by Sarah Bay Gachot. In the 1970s, from his base in Los Angeles, artist Robert Cumming (born 1943) made … Continue reading →

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