12 June 2025

Blood lines

Blood lines

John Warwicker

John Warwicker reviews a poetic exhibition in Melbourne by designer Catherine Griffiths

It is always interesting to see a designer transcend the constraints of commercial practice …

21 May 2025

Serendipity and self-discovery

Serendipity and self-discovery

Amy Henry

A new book covers Briar Levit’s multi-faceted practice and the lessons she learned along the way. Reviewed by Amy Henry

The publication includes Levit’s journey through a multi-faceted practice of designing, writing, teaching, editing, directing and archiving …

9 May 2025

Graphic design live #20

Graphic design live #20

Eye editors

Type Tuesday, Barbara Kruger in Barcelona, Typographics Conference, Paulo de Cantos in Japan, Tirzah Garwood and Electric Dreams

Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops … and book for Type Tuesday

2 May 2025

Unbuilt environment

Unbuilt environment

Catherine Slessor

Exuding lavish production values, unimaginable back in the day, Archigram Ten picks up 50 years after the last one left off …

Exuding lavish production values, unimaginable back in the day, Archigram Ten picks up 50 years after the last one left off …

14 April 2025

Remembering Gerald Cinamon

Remembering Gerald Cinamon

Geoff Duffield

Geoff Duffield recalls meeting Gerald (Jerry) Cinamon for the first time at Penguin Books.
I first met Jerry in early 1981, where we both worked at Penguin Books, writes…

17 March 2025

Lost in the wash

Lost in the wash

Patrick Baglee

Patrick Baglee reviews Nick Asbury’s book The Road to Hell

For Asbury, purpose is the opposite of creativity: ‘Purpose is a closed mindset: it decides the goal in advance.’

10 March 2025

Digging out the roots

Digging out the roots

Quentin Newark

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

4 March 2025

Graphic design live #19

Graphic design live #19

Eye editors

Anette Lenz at L’Onde Théâtre; With a Bird and Typography Conference in the Netherlands; Splash!; and Outlaws in London; Women’s Rights Posters in Milwaukee

The team at Eye has curated a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting …

26 February 2025

Shifts and glyphs in Istanbul

Shifts and glyphs in Istanbul

Gülizar Çepoğlu

At ‘Critical Shifts’, a group exhibition in Istanbul, Türkiye, Gülizar Çepoğlu unfolds the materiality of writing

Three-dimensional letterforms blur the boundaries between text, image, architecture and sculpture …

19 February 2025

Supergraphics in Newhaven

Supergraphics in Newhaven

Amy Henry

Seventeen specially commissioned supergraphics breathe new life into the port town of Newhaven for the Look Again festival

Newhaven recently received a bright splash of paint and colour with the addition of seventeen specially commissioned murals

 
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