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5 December 2009

The form of the book

jane cheng

Fifteenth-century book-making – white space by design and default

It is usually argued by incunabulists (specialists in works printed prior to 1501) that the…

26 November 2009

Ms C’s sketchbook

the picture department

Margaret Calvert pays tribute to typographer Phyllis Pearsall

Mrs P’s Journey by Margaret Calvert is an A2, seven-colour screen-print, available from the Design…

23 November 2009

Designing for Dieter Rams

bibliothèque, mason wells

Bibliothèque on the graphic roots of product design

There are important designers and then there are the really important designers, writes Mason Wells…

18 November 2009

Bigger is better

sara martin

Paula Scher relates ‘A series of strange circumstances’ for her D&AD talk

Paula Scher started her talk in London last week with examples of her work from…

4 November 2009

Early adopter: Desmond Jeffery

simon esterson

St Bride hails the ‘non-designer’ who’s an unsung hero of British Modernism

The most exciting graphic design exhibition I’ve seen in London recently is at the St Bride…

29 October 2009

The seventh Python

john l. walters

Storm Thorgerson’s iconic album art at Integrated2009

To designers of a certain vintage, Storm Thorgerson, one of the founders (with Aubrey Powell)…

15 October 2009

On your bike

ben brookbanks

Andrew Ritchie wins UK’s longest-running design prize for the Brompton

The UK’s longest-running design prize has been awarded to Andrew Ritchie, the designer of the…

7 October 2009

It’s an Issuu

the marketing department

Another way to get an idea of the real, printed, physical Eye before you buy

It’s all very good having a beautifully printed magazine and an extensive archive and a…

28 September 2009

Super flexible, Super contemporary

simon esterson

Last call for the Design Museum’s timeline of London design

This is the last week of the Super Contemporary show at London’s Design Museum, writes…

27 September 2009

Neon lights

sebastian schmidt-tomczak

A review of ‘Cold War Neons’, the final show at Glasgow’s Lighthouse

Curation is a highly context-sensitive undertaking, writes Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak. Though Glasgow’s Lighthouse is about to…

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