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17 January 2010

Critique: All mouth and trousers?

rick poynor

London designers show how little they care for the poster form

A few months ago, writes Rick Poynor, I was asked by the Design Museum to…

5 January 2010

Berlin snapshots: Alessio Leonardi

berlin snapshots, john ridpath

‘Germans are very nice, but they don’t have any idea about structure’

Smashing conventions of Germanic discipline and order, Alessio Leonardi speaks to Eye in the latest…

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…

3 January 2010

Video thrills – the letterpress star

the video department

Short Vimeo clips from Alan Kitching’s recent Eye talk at Advanced Graphics

We’ve compiled three short video clips from the recent talk at Advanced Graphics. More later…

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…

10 December 2009

Hat-Trick card trick

things we like

Typographic treats (or what Jim Sutherland did on his holidays)

You wouldn’t want to play poker or spit with a pack like this, but type-spotters…

9 December 2009

The art of mass market mags

the events department

How do you design a cover that sells? Andy Cowles reveals all on 16 Dec 09

With their multiple pictures, blocks of angled type and fluorescent Pantone colours, the covers of…

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…

3 December 2009

Stop press

the type department

Tickets available for an Eye evening with Alan Kitching & Celia Stothard

Next week, there’s a special opportunity to hear Alan and Celia talk about their prints…

2 December 2009

Sleeves we like

john l. walters, things we like

Robert Flynn’s covers for Impulse! expressed ideas more than sounds

The Impulse! label LP covers by Robert Flynn / Viceroy are among the best of…

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