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16 March 2011

Tarnished idol

alexander ecob

British Museum presents the public and private art of Eric Gill

His eponymous typeface is frequently used to evoke a sense of unadulterated, stiff-upper-lipped Britishness, but…

15 March 2011

Doing the right thing

john ridpath, the events department

UCL seminar to discuss the ethics of graphic design

Back in the summer of 1994, Andrew Howard reminded Eye readers of ‘First Things First’…

1 March 2011

Critique: French connections

rick poynor, the magazine department

Back Cover signals an allegiance to graphic design as a serious endeavour

In his latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor looks at the French graphic design and typography…

22 February 2011

Big in Japan

the events department

Ronald Clyne’s covers for Folkways Records on show in Tokyo

Ronald Clyne’s LP covers for Folkways Records were recently exhibited at Gallery 5610 (below), a…

21 February 2011

God’s eye view

anne burdick

Anne Burdick navigates the hippy aesthetics of The Universal Traveler

Great moments in information design (continued). I was cleaning out my father’s studio library when…

16 February 2011

Punching through the din

jim northover

Jim Northover and an ‘inheritance’ of Saul Bass movie posters at Kemistry

It started in the 1960s, writes Jim Northover. It was then that John Lloyd, a…

7 February 2011

Opening shots

archive, joel karamath, the movie department

Two classic movie title sequences from Saul Bass and Maurice Binder

The latest Eye Critique deals with the hallucinatory title sequence to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the…

3 February 2011

And more again

eye editors

Information design and graphics in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue

It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world…

17 January 2011

Scarlet letter

alexander ecob, the post room

Lenticular stamps celebrate the work of Thunderbirds and Stingray creator

Generations of British children grew up enthralled by the puppet creations of Gerry Anderson (above)…

13 January 2011

Its name is Rio