Blog: Graphic design

19 August 2008

Confessions of an awards juror

Confessions of an awards juror

nick bell

Stop worrying about craft and seek the purpose of design, says Nick Bell
Despite being a British graphic designer (a species branded as ‘excessively mean’ by the editor…

18 August 2008

A persuasive chancer

A persuasive chancer

rick poynor

New Critique by Rick Poynor – exclusive to eyemagazine.com
What is it about the size and weight of the journal format that makes it…

15 August 2008

A party

A party

the magazine department

To celebrate Eye’s independence, our latest issue, and the new Eye blog
A few pictures from the Eye party at Kemistry. Thanks to Beck’s for the beer…

14 August 2008

Le Gun ‘sells out’

Le Gun ‘sells out’

luke pendrell

But are they cut out for mainstream publishing success?
Above: D&AD guest finds someone to take home. (Who is this? let us know!) Photograph…

8 August 2008

Pushing the envelope

Pushing the envelope

simon esterson

Great British design, deliveredin a plain brown wrapper
Great British Editorial (Barcelona: Index Book, €40), writes Simon Esterson, is a simple idea carried…

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’…

2 August 2008

Good at needlework?

Good at needlework?

the research department

Stock seeks your views on the meaning of success for women designers
Jennifer Campbell-Colquhoun and Selina Swayne want to know what you think about graphic design and…

31 July 2008

Feel like a beer?

Feel like a beer?

cherriss firbank

Royal College graduates take to the bottles – 27m of them
Artists are often reluctant to be labelled, except perhaps when it comes to seeing their…

30 July 2008

Commercial modernism

Commercial modernism

steven heller

Teague’s modernistic gem gave Kodak a distinct visual personality
The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, goes ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and…
 
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