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Blog: Design history

17 September 2009

British designers, ca. 1963

the picture department

The spread everyone’s been asking about, from Typographica

OK, here’s a better view of that famous feature: photographs of British designers from Typographica…

11 September 2009

Birth of the Modern

Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Herbert Spencer’s Typographica

What unites 1960s Modernist graphic designers, the editors of Wallpaper* magazine and Hoxton bloggers? Last…

8 September 2009

Dimensional typography

leslie atzmon

The unbearable flatness of being, by Leslie Atzmon

‘One evening Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight. But there wasn’t…

7 September 2009

X-ray flix (MTV #2)

liz farrelly, paul ayre

The ingredients that went into Rotterdam’s Fantastic Voyage

Following his previous MTV blog, ‘Hands on’, Paul Ayre describes his work on the motion…

4 September 2009

In the pink

Paolozzi and Foreman and Bax and Ballard: the ‘jet age’ family of Ambit

Art, fiction, sex, science and politics: artist Eduardo Paolozzi’s contributions to Ambit are the subject of…

1 September 2009

Hands on

liz farrelly, paul ayre

Adding soul (and soil) to the television test card, MTV EMA part 1

‘Fired up and hired’, Liz Farrelly’s Eye 72 article about MTV includes several examples of…

27 August 2009

Sam Haskins and other stories

wayne ford

The South African photographer with a graphic edge

‘Sam Haskins is an important photographer. There, I’ve said it!’ This is the first line…

11 August 2009

The pleasures of browsing

rick poynor

An exclusive, Web-only Critique by Rick Poynor for the Eye site and blog

In Australia, Rick Poynor plays ‘hotel inspector’ to explore a bookshop that understands its books…

5 August 2009

Visual rhetoric

leslie atzmon

What we mean when we talk about form, by Leslie Atzmon

Like the late American comedian Rodney Dangerfield, aesthetic form ‘don’t get no respect’, writes Leslie…

2 August 2009

Sampling the modern

liz farrelly

Bill Mackay’s designs for paper company GF Smith

From Eye 72. Opening spread to ‘Sampling the Modern’, an article about two eras of…

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