Blog: Illustration

3 November 2025

Action is stronger than feeling

Action is stronger than feeling

‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground. Report by Anoushka Khandwala

During a year in which the UK has seen far-right rallies, the conference was a renewed call to stand in solidarity with people of colour.

22 September 2025

Graphic matters during wartime

Graphic matters during wartime

Despite Russian drone and missile attacks, the third FEED festival went ahead in Kyiv

Despite many challenges, Kyiv’s first big international festival of design and illustration went ahead without serious disruption.

9 May 2025

Graphic design live #20

Graphic design live #20

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

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.

19 October 2023

Picturebook people

Picturebook people

Illustrator Michael Kirkham pays tribute to the Provensens
Authors, illustrators and designers Alice and Martin Provensen were a wife-and-husband team who made children’s picturebooks…

24 July 2023

Badges of Britain

Badges of Britain

Martyn Routledge’s The Beautiful History is a sporting ode to the history of Britain, writes Daniel Shannon.

The visual culture around football is a subject Martyn Routledge knows more about than most …

17 July 2023

Nothing is real

Nothing is real

Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.

Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …

15 January 2023

Graphic design live #9

Graphic design live #9

Adana in London; Marclay in Paris; revolutionary graphics from Mexico and Germany in Los Angeles; and label art from Ireland in Dublin
Here are some January 2023 events highlights for your diaries. To stay up to date with…

26 October 2022

Books received #49

Books received #49

Marylou Faure; Karel Martens in space; Olimpia Zagnoli; and HELL: The People and Places by Chwast and Heller
It has been a while since we posted a handful of book releases. This month’s eclectic…
 
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