Issue 48

Opinion

Editorial Eye 48
John L. Walters

Cooper Black
Devotion, Armin Vit

Getting it
Letter to the editor, correspondence

Letter from Tracy J. Forman, General Manager, Arkitip

The design is the product
Letter to the editor, Todd St. John

Letter from Todd St John

The problem we share
Letter to the editor, Michael Johnson

Letter from Michael Johnson

Fetish and fantasy
Letter to the editor, Quentin Newark

Letter from Quentin Newark

Dismissal or criticism?
Letter to the editor, Christopher Wilson

Letter from Christopher Wilson

A refreshing shock to the system [extract]
Monitor, Alice Twemlow

Jean Widmer, A Devotion to Modernism: Itinerary of a Designer from Zurich to Paris

Luxurious frugality (48)
Luxurious frugality (48)
Critique, Rick Poynor

An in-flight magazine for bored bourgeois bohemians

Features

826 Valencia
David Thompson

Chris Ware’s new mural tells the story of the human race

Protest banners
Jason Grant

Hand-made signs from an anti-war demo

Bring me the head of Nelson Mandela
Sean O’Toole

Activist; fugitive; prisoner; icon: the evolving face of a famous name

In any colour so long as it’s white
Daoud Sarhandi

Why does Mexican advertising look nothing like the Mexicans?

Punch cuts
Nick Shinn

The type and layout of a Victorian weekly anticipated Modernism

Retro-sexism [extract]
Judith Williamson

The bleak reality of sexism, however 1970s, or ‘cool’, demands a critique

Vector sex
Eye writers

Tracing the line from art for dummies to design for sexists

In my honey’s loving arms [extract]
Daniel Nadel

R. Crumb’s portraits reveal a tender side to the self-confessed misogynist

Reputations: David King
Christopher Wilson

‘You develop a visual style as you would a handwriting one . . . The content is what you concentrate…

Reviews

User Design Congress
Mad Art: A Visual Celebration of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create it
Writing Machines
Kafka goes to the Movies
The New Typography: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
The New Handmade Graphics: Beyond Digital Design
Typography today (new edition)
Design for Kids (DFK)
The Education of an Illustrator
Design Indaba 6
Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Colored Pictures:
ABZ: More Alphabets and
Edward Tufte: Escaping Flatland: Sculpture and Prints
JPG
informal
You look beautiful like that –
Emigre No. 64: Rant
The Underground Comix Revolution 1963–1975
Doors of Perception 7