6 March 2023
Books received #52
Weisbeck’s experiments; working class Covid-19 diaries; Connew’s vocabulary of colonisation; Shore’s photographic craft.
We have compiled a list of intriguing titles that have piqued our interest in recent months…
13 February 2023
Graphic design live #10
Sara De Bondt in London; Haettenschweiler in Zurich; Shaping Protest in Ulm; Polish poster and type design in California; and Extinction Rebellion in London.
Here is a selection of current and upcoming events – page to stay up to date…
6 February 2023
Covid visualisations: 2023 update
Paul Kahn reflects upon the way Covid-19 data visualisations and reporting have changed over the past three years
In 2021, when ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’ was published in Eye 101, there were hundreds of visualisations per week
23 January 2023
Books received #51
En-suites by the seaside; floating letters in Brazil; Harlow front porches; and Parisian type
Four books that caught our attention: on seaside en-suites, floating letters in Brazil, Harlow front porches and Parisian type.
15 January 2023
Graphic design live #9
Adana in London; Marclay in Paris; revolutionary graphics from Mexico and Germany in Los Angeles; and label art from Ireland in Dublin
Here are some January 2023 events highlights for your diaries. To stay up to date with…
7 January 2023
Colin Forbes 1928-2022
The death of Colin Forbes closes a significant chapter in the history of British graphic design. Obituary by Patrick Baglee
Thoughtful and methodical, serious about the work, Forbes’s diffidence was belied by the confidence and thoroughness of his output.
24 December 2022
Books received #50
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books; Topaff; AIAP Women in Design Award; and 10x1 54 (Contemporary African Art Fair)
To round up 2022, here are four reviews of award / anniversary books that caught Eye’s attention this year.
19 December 2022
Scenography and spectacle
A new exhibition at the restored Battersea Power Station charts the site’s history, climaxing in a lift that takes visitors 109 metres high. By Janet South
There is a button in the great glass lift in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate…
12 December 2022
Access to the futures of type
‘Inscript’, a five-day virtual type festival, provided a platform for new technologies and new approaches to typography. By Gabriela Matuszyk
‘Inscript’, a five-day virtual type festival, provided a platform for new technologies and new approaches to typography.
4 December 2022
Graphic design live #8
W. E. B. Du Bois in New York, Piotr Szyhalski in Minneapolis, Dieter Roth in Iceland and motion graphics in Shenzhen
As we head towards the end of the year and into the holiday season, here’s a list of talks and exhibitions this December.