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Blog: Graphic design

6 April 2009

Golden Age of type? Or the dark ages?

the type department

Eye’s type special nominates the faces of the moment. Now name yours

In ‘Golden age?’ (Eye no. 71 vol. 18), we asked twelve practitioners – art directors…

4 April 2009

Q&A with Stefanie Schwarz

q&a

‘OpenType makes typographic subtleties easier to apply now’

Online exclusive. For other interviews on the theme of ‘Who needs design history?' see Eye…

3 April 2009

MadeThought / Typographic Circle

simon esterson

Taking the rough with the smooth off the grid

‘New designers come to work with us and I see them spending half a day…

1 April 2009

These letters are so wrong

jan middendorp

But sometimes, as Playful Type shows, ‘any old shape’ really will do

‘A typically moral and conscientious Englishman’, Eric Gill once said, finds himself inclined to think…

31 March 2009

Type, Metahaven and TDR

the promotion department

Get your hands on a copy of Eye 71. Plus Type Week on the blog

The new issue of Eye 71 is out. And to celebrate, we are having our…

29 March 2009

Jan van Toorn at the Mermaid

simon esterson

‘Collecting images is not enough. How democratic is it?’

In a very polite, and very Dutch way, writes Simon Esterson, Jan van Toorn used…

25 March 2009

The Form of the Book 4

sean murphy

If you don’t like the stock you can print yourself

I recall from my college years, writes Sean Murphy, in the mid-1990s the oft-discussed scenario…

20 March 2009

Design auction

the picture department

Were you there? How much did you drink? What did you buy?

Photographs: Julian Anderson, juliananderson.co.uk The Design Auction took place at London’s St Bride Printing Library…

19 March 2009

Eye 71 on press

john l. walters

This is it: time to get physical with paper and ink

Since we took ownership of Eye last April, writes Eye editor John L. Walters, my…

18 March 2009

The Form of the Book 3

william hall

When misunderstandings could be fatal – Mushrooms by Roger Phillips

‘Death cap Amanita phalloides: prolonged and violent vomiting and diarrhoea accompanied by severe abdominal pains…

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