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12 February 2010

Athenian walkways

john ridpath

Design Walk 2010 asks: where is this thing called ‘Greek design’?

Last week Eye was invited to take part in the fourth annual Design Walk in…

10 February 2010

Mining the graphic mother-lode

Read the latest Web-only Critique from Rick Poynor on the Eye website

Rick Poynor’s latest Critique is now live on the Eye site. It’s an article about the…

8 February 2010

Town of type

the events department

Revisiting the book designers of St Gallen, Switzerland

St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland is renowned for its Abbey Library, with its valuable medieval…

25 January 2010

Info design before designers

simon esterson, the type department

Could today’s professionals learn a thing or two from the Victorians?

Paul Stiff and his colleagues at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the…

13 January 2010

Where eagles dare

john ridpath

Büro Uebele rethinks the German Federal symbol for the Bundestag

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, writes John Ridpath. When Stuttgart–based studio Büro Uebele…

4 January 2010

Margaret Calvert on Top Gear

the video department

The co-designer of Britain’s road signs hits the open road with James May

Last night, UK television viewers were treated to a little piece of living graphic design…

25 December 2009

Christmas crackers

mr edwards

Enjoy a festive treat from the colourful world of Mr Edwards

It’s Christmas, and Mr Edwards is on cracking form with a seasonal card adapted from…

15 December 2009

The romance of chemicals

hamish thompson

A portrait of Swiss designer Max Schmid, father of ‘Geigy style’, by New Zealand typographer Hamish Thompson

Zurich is a long way from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, so I missed…

14 December 2009

Pan Am’s Helvetica dreamtime

How I unearthed a forgotten chapter in corporate design history

I came across six Pan Am posters while visiting the ‘Here Is Every. Four Decades…

7 December 2009

Cut and paste heroes

jeremy aynsley

Elaine Lustig Cohen pays homage to graphic design’s Modernist forbears

The recent New York exhibition ‘My Heroes: portraits of the avant-garde’ featured a set of…

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