Blog: Design history

1 October 2008

Anxious utopianism

Anxious utopianism

david crowley

How photomontage created the architectural mirages of the 1960s
Top: Altar for the Temple of the Spirit (Sketch for the creation of an altar…

28 September 2008

Q&A with Adrien Pelletier

Q&A with Adrien Pelletier

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Now see this! Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Adrien Pelletier on the Eye site…

25 September 2008

Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge

Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Fresh content! Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge on the Eye site. Top…

22 September 2008

Record design framed

Record design framed

john l. walters

Does ‘Spin’ reduce graphic design to the level of art on a wall?
The Spin exhibition is small, free, easy to find (if you’re in or near London)…

18 September 2008

Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor

mike kippenhan

Re: Afterword to ‘Googling the design canon’ – don’t diss the digital
From Mike Kippenhan The idea of inviting a variety of people associated with design to…

15 September 2008

Q&A with Strange Attractors

Q&A with Strange Attractors

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop of Strange…

12 September 2008

Up against the wall

Up against the wall

andrew howard

The Poster-Film Collective. Beyond the designer-client relationship
The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, went ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and…

5 September 2008

Two degrees of (colour) separation

Two degrees of (colour) separation

john l. walters

Graphic Rolling Stones artefacts are saved for the nation
It began with a letter – addressed to the designer at the Royal College of…

5 August 2008

A raid on sacred cows

A raid on sacred cows

mary ann bolger

The Táin demonstrates how design can contribute to a nation’s sense of itself
Graphic design heroes might be, as Martha Scotford noted, Western white men, but they’re a…

4 August 2008

Not fade away

Not fade away

graphic design history, kenneth fitzgerald, mit, posters

Jacqueline Casey: the foremost US practitioner of the International Style
By selecting Jacqueline Casey as her most underappreciated graphic designer in Eye’s ‘Beyond the canon’…
 
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