Foreign Correspondent
Designer and Vis Com person Gordon Carmichael is travelling through South America for the next few months, and has kindly agreed to be our foreign correspondent and ‘send back’ some posts and pictures...
View ArticleForeign Report: Pixacao
Pixacao is a form of graffiti that originated in Sao Paulo in the 1960s where people wrote political messages on the street using stolen tar (´piche´in Portugese). I came across this interesting...
View ArticleForeign Report: Symbols of Remembrance
The ‘Day of Rememberance for Truth and Justice’ is a public holiday in Argentina which takes place each year on the 24th of March. It commemorates the victims of the ‘Dirty War’; a period of...
View ArticleForeign Report: Santiago Stencil Graffiti
When I arrived in Santiago, the capital of Chile, I wasn´t aware of it having a distinctive visual culture, so was fascinated to discover a thriving stencil graffiti scene on it’s streets over the few...
View ArticleForeign Report: Kat Carter
A couple of weeks ago, in a bit of a small-world scenario, I found myself sharing a hostel in La Paz, the Bolivian capital, with another Vis Com graduate – Kat Carter. Kat graduated from GSA in 2004,...
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