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13 June 2010

Stop, look, listen

john ridpath, the events department

A preview of Black Dog’s latest exhibition: ‘Modern British Posters’

A new exhibition showcasing the best of British poster design opens at Black Dog Space…

10 June 2010

Civil rights in New York

frederico duarte, the events department

Two current exhibitions with images that ‘steered a drive for freedom’

I learned about two exhibitions on the civil rights movement currently showing in New York…

26 May 2010

Typeface, the movie

sally jeffery

New designers test old methods at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

Typeface, screened last week at the London College of Communication, is billed by its makers…

22 May 2010

DIY design

rob banham

The 9th annual St Bride Library conference, 27-28 May 2010

A lot of design that’s interesting, different – worth talking about – has an element…

19 May 2010

Graphics and the uncanny

john ridpath, the events department

Rick Poynor revisits the surreal for a show at the Brno Biennial 2010

‘Let us not mince words: the marvellous is always beautiful, anything marvellous is beautiful, in…

18 May 2010

Five from the Eye Archive: Japan

john ridpath, the back issue department

Cute Culture, Motomichi Nakamura, Phonetic Characters, eye tests and JPG

Here, by popular request, are links to five articles, ‘fresh from the Eye archive’ with…

13 May 2010

Say the Word

john l. walters

‘Provocations’ prompt Camberwell students to think about type

Yesterday I spent some time at the Wilson Road annexe of University of the Arts…

27 April 2010

Schweizer Reize

Swiss travel books and posters at the National Library in Bern

An exhibition of historic Swiss travel books and posters at the Swiss National Library in Bern…

25 April 2010

New Aussie anthems

the technology department

‘And he leveraged his assets as he sat and liquidated by the billabong’

As part of a project at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brisbane…

22 April 2010

Mechanical brides and grooms

Read about Fritz Kahn’s surreal pedagogical vision in the latest Eye

In ‘Machine head’, his Eye 75 feature article, Rick Poynor points out the fascination and contradiction…

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