Blog: Design history
20 July 2012
Gays, junkies & Africans: who cares?
The international challenges of communicating AIDS awareness
Contemporary consumer society has particular features that present communication challenges for the social service sector…
18 July 2012
Training the big guns
Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals, 1970s & 80s – from Eye 82
Peter Sullivan worked at The Sunday Times in the 1970s and 80s, an era when…
11 July 2012
Big business, big world
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953 – infodesign in Eye 82
Long before multinational corporations discovered the usefulness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in ameliorating a…
11 July 2012
Type Tuesday: Naked words
Type-only book covers: austere, functional … or shouting out loud
Once upon a time, book jackets were almost all pure typographic compositions: these were the…
6 July 2012
Otl Aicher’s interjections
The ‘Munich ’72’ Design Legacy exhibition & symposium in Canterbury
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Otl Aicher’s design work for the 1972 Munich…
5 July 2012
Taught from a new angle
Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847 – infodesign history in Eye 82
Euclid’s Elements has been the introductory text to geometry since it was compiled by the…
2 July 2012
The art of illumination
Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign, 1940s – from Eye 82
Born in 1908 in a working-class district of Cologne, nothing about Will Burtin’s childhood suggested…
25 June 2012
Lady with the diagram
anne-marie conway
Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82
The vision of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, doing ward rounds in…
19 June 2012
Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1
caroline roberts
Managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’
A thought-provoking evening at the Design Museum marked the launch of Page 1: Great Expectations, the…
18 June 2012
A circle that moved the earth
alexander ecob
Copernicus’s diagram of the planets, 1543 – infodesign history in Eye 82
With the spread of print and Protestantism dethroning old sources of certainty, sixteenth-century Germany was ripe…