Blog: Design education

26 November 2012

Busy doing nothing

Busy doing nothing

Le Petit Néant, a new annual drawing magazine, is designed to heighten ambiguity and avoid categorisation.
Le Petit Néant is an earnest name for a drawing magazine. French for ‘The Small…

7 November 2012

Something to say

Something to say

The current vogue for letterpress is more than mere retro-nostalgia, writes Catherine Dixon in the run-up to Friday’s St Bride conference.
Letterpress is everywhere, writes Catherine Dixon (co-organiser of ‘Letterpress: Something to Say’). Once a boutique…

12 October 2012

Play to win

Play to win

What do design students get for their £9000 a year? Cascade is looking for ways to link education to an uncertain future in the world of work
A new academic year is an opportunity for anyone who works in education to re-assess…

7 September 2012

Slow hand

Slow hand

Three elective design courses at New Zealand’s CoCA demonstrate how the pace of physical printing helps the graphic design process.
The manual qualities of printing slow down the creative process, writes Nick Kapica, and provide…

20 July 2012

Gays, junkies & Africans: who cares?

Gays, junkies & Africans: who cares?

The international challenges of communicating AIDS awareness
Contemporary consumer society has particular features that present communication challenges for the social service sector…

17 July 2012

Best in show

Best in show

Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s TDC Awards in New York by Doug Clouse
Best in show http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3199/2924253970_b60afdf869_o.jpg Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s…

11 June 2012

Out of the box

Out of the box

the events department

Eye magazine curates an ‘archive night’ at St Bride Library in London
On Thursday 28 June 2012 we’re inviting a small panel of designers and writers to…

30 May 2012

Noted #37

Noted #37

noted

Brilliant (Four) Corners, St Jude’s in the City, GTF and Andy Cameron
More links and mentions for items recommended by friends and contacts of the Eye team…

29 May 2012

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts

john l. walters, type tuesday

This Emigre type specimen celebrates a lost era of LPs and recording studios
I once heard someone dismiss a former boyfriend with the put-down, ‘he’s the sort of…

28 May 2012

From scraping to chirping

From scraping to chirping

matt edgar, pamela bowman

Manchester’s Future Everything conference looks to everybody’s future
The sold-out ‘Future Everything’ conference was part of a large and wide-ranging programme of events, exhibitions…
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