Blog: Design education

8 October 2025

Graphic design live #22

Graphic design live #22

Futuress Pressing Issues online, ‘Doing the Work’ at St Bride, Young Graphic Design Switzerland!, Typography Theory Practice, Systém Rathouský Metro, Blitz Kids at the Design Museum

Read the Eye Events page to hear about exhibitions, conferences, workshops and talks … and mark your diaries for the next Type Tuesday on 25 November

11 September 2024

All the fun of the Conclave

All the fun of the Conclave

A heady mix of design talent is due to swamp the St Bride Foundation stage on Saturday 28 September in ‘Outside the Lines’

‘Outside the Lines’, the St Bride Foundation Design Conclave 2024, takes place on Saturday 28 September.

15 August 2024

Lettering in the landscape

Lettering in the landscape

Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK
Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…

22 May 2024

BIG in Milan

BIG in Milan

The first Biennale Internazionale Grafica takes place from 23-26 May 2024

The Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG) opens this week, with four days of exhibitions, talks, etc. across Milan.

9 May 2024

Birmingham Design Festival 2024

Birmingham Design Festival 2024

Get ready for BDF 2024 (6-8 June) as the annual event focuses on ‘Process’ in graphic, digital and product design plus illustration

We are looking forward to Birmingham Design Festival next month, which Eye is supporting as a media sponsor.

31 December 2023

Women in the room

Women in the room

The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.

The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.

24 November 2023

Dotting the ‘i’

Dotting the ‘i’

‘Phil Baines shows us how to revel in the joy of graphic design.’ Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol’

Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol: Phil Baines Celebrating Letters’ at CSM’s Lethaby Gallery

16 June 2023

Best in class

Best in class

The ISTD’s Student Assessment Scheme crosses borders through typographic excellence. Barrie Tullett, who was on the jury, reports

The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) began in 1928 …

18 April 2023

Books received #53

Books received #53

Big Type; the nature of data; match boxes from Singapore; and posters by Niklaus Troxler
In our latest edition of books received, we look at titles featuring typographically driven graphic design…

7 September 2022

Graphic design live #5

Graphic design live #5

Air-India’s Maharaja in New York; Otl Aicher in Zurich; AGI Open in Trieste; BBC’s ‘Kingdom of Cardboard’ in London

Here are details of four of the many international events taking place during September 2022 …

 
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