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Eye 68
Special issue: Beyond the canon
2 Editorial By John L. Walters
Special issue: Beyond the canon
12 History is vital – nostalgia is death Introduction
14 Googling the design canon. Infographic, with afterword by Martha Scotford
16 Forgotten, neglected, overlooked or undervalued . . . Design’s wayward cousins
Chapbooks. By Steve Rigley
18 Modernism and monograms
Hermann Eidenbenz. By Paul Barnes
21 Prototype propagandist
Eladio Rivadulla. By Jan Middendorp
22 Iguana stew
Ko Sliggers poster. By Nick Bell
24 Talking pictures
Otto Neurath. By Christopher Burke
26 Woman at the edge of technology
Jacqueline Casey. By Elizabeth Resnick
29 The digital essence
Lexicon. By Mario Feliciano
30 Typographic tango
Néon. By Krzysztof Fijalkowski
33 The new, weird America
Early R.E.M. sleeves. By Eric Heiman
34 Going the distance
Roundel’s Railfreight identity. By Matt Soar
38 Gender rendition
Das Black Moonlight. By Stuart McKee
39 The right stuff
The Open University. By Jonathan Baldwin
40 Voice control
Fahrenheit 451 titles. By Michael Worthington
42 Beneath the radar
Katy Keene. By Teal Triggs
44 Terms of reference
The Printer’s Terms. By Catherine Dixon
46 On the nose
Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. By Roger Sabin
48 The test of time
Colour deficiency plates. By Eric Kindel
49 New frontier
Art Paul’s Playboy. By Steven Heller
52 Home Counties surrealism
Keef. By Matthew Cornford and John Beck
56 Polyphonic playground
The world’s first graphic design museum in Breda, Holland plus the ‘European Championship of Graphic Design’. Report by John L. Walters
58 Who cares about graphic design history?
With contributions from: Strange Attractors (US and Holland), Adrien Pelletier (France and UK), Fraser Muggeridge Studio (UK), Giampietro+Smith (US), Filip Blazek (Czech Republic), Pedro Inoue (Brazil), Sara De Bondt, (UK and Belgium), William Hall (UK), Craig Oldham (UK), Adam + Sébastien (Switzerland), Barbara Ehrbar, Superbüro (Switzerland), Vicente Tigre (US, Holland and Brazil), Dieter Wiechmann (US and UK), Nod Young (China), Oliver Knight, OK-RM (UK), Kurnal Rawat (India) James Lambert (UK), Redouane Oumahi (France and Sweden), Motomichi Nakamura (Japan and US), Matt Dent (UK).
72 Absolutely the ‘worst’ How does a graphic work claim its place in history?
Notoriety and originality helps, but nothing beats repeated publication.
Critique by Rick Poynor
81 Uncoated.
Twelve pages of reviews, Books received, colophon. See Uncoated contents, p.81
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