Eye Magazine

From Mike Kippenhan The idea of inviting a variety of people associated with design to write about ‘neglected classics that take us “beyond the canon”’ resulted in an interesting and enjoyable issue of Eye (no. 68 vol. 17). It was refreshing to be introduced not only to some classics I was unaware of, but also to new contributors who have taken the time to share their ideas and interests.

Icon, the London-based architecture and design title labels its October edition ‘the redesign issue’,   writes Simon Esterson.

With the internet hailed as an effective force for political change, writes Liz Farrelly, as news, campaigns and petitions   circulate paper-free, does it follow that old-school paper manifestoes are dead as the dodo?

Two Lines Align is the catalogue for the exhibition of that name curated by Michael Worthington for REDCAT in LA.

Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop of Strange Attractors on the Eye site.

Last night it said ‘KAJAL’. The other night it said ‘DRUNK MAN’, and before that it was ‘SPUNK MAN’ (below).

The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, went ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and to enlarge the accepted pantheon of graphic design; here, designer Andrew Howard draws attention to the History Sets of posters produced by the Poster-Film Collective.

Books are never just books. They can be catalogues, toys, models, play centres, showcases for bindings, gatefolds, special papers and card and portfolios of design. Some of them might even be worth reading.

I thought I was going to be the warm-up man for Ian Anderson.