Blog: Design history

9 November 2011

Why we ♥ St Bride

Why we ♥ St Bride

becky chilcott, ben weiner, rob banham

Reasons for loving London’s printing and graphics library
In anticipation of ‘Critical Tensions’, the St Bride annual conference taking place tomorrow and Friday…

4 November 2011

Noted #18

Noted #18

noted

Magazine covers, fashion illustration and the world’s worst fonts
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

3 November 2011

From flat plan to flat pack

From flat plan to flat pack

the promotion department

Eye 81, the ‘designers and clients’ special issue, on your doorstep.
The new Eye has been commissioned, written, edited, laid out, flat-planned, repro’d, printed, and bound…

1 November 2011

Blurred boundaries

Blurred boundaries

steven mccarthy

The hybrid state of ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’
The typeface Union, a synthesis of Helvetica and Arial, is ‘intended for situations where Helvetica…

27 October 2011

Who cares about the LDF?

Who cares about the LDF?

alex cameron

Will graphics ever become more than 3% of the London Design Festival?
As the dust settles after the ninth London Design Festival (LDF), thoughts are now turning…

25 October 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

christian schwartz, paul barnes, type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Venus 1907-27
With each new development in typesetting, huge numbers of typefaces get left behind. You can…

22 October 2011

Noted #16

Noted #16

noted

The CBS Eye, Maus, points of type and designer trivia from Kevin Finn
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…

20 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

adrian shaughnessy, historical digital

Adrian Shaughnessey on the rise of laptop aesthetics … from 2003
What are the major stylistic trends in current graphic design? wrote Adrian Shaughnessey in Eye…

18 October 2011

Type Tuesday: Private Eye

Type Tuesday: Private Eye

john l. walters, type tuesday

Matthew Carter’s timeless typographic masthead for Private Eye magazine
Tony Rushton has been art director of satirical magazine Private Eye for 49 of its…

13 October 2011

California dreams

California dreams

jessica jenkins

Exhibition charts the sunny design aesthetic of the Golden State
I have developed a habit, when travelling, of making a mental snapshot of what strikes…
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