MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
It's Not Very Nice That: Graphic Design And Politics is a slice through contemporary, politically engaged graphic design which highlights the way designers are currently exploring, documenting and responding to recent political events.
While it would be easy to connect much of what they're producing with recent political upheavals from Occupy Wall Street to Tahrir Square, a main focus of the exhibition is to look at the different ways in which graphic design engages with these situations and it does so through the social, economic, cultural and technological contexts within which designers themselves are working.
The exhibition came about in response to the graphic designers of the internet-based Deterritorial Support Group, named in "homage" to the London Metropolitan riot police unit the Territorial Support Group.
SIMON DUFF is thrilled by a visceral, no-holds-barred exploration of the expressive powers of raw material
KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new panorama of world cinema The Story of Documentary Film
KEVIN DONNELLY accepts the invitation to think speculatively in contemplation of representations of people of African descent in our cultural heritage



