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Blog: Information design

18 July 2012

Training the big guns

Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals, 1970s & 80s – from Eye 82

Peter Sullivan worked at The Sunday Times in the 1970s and 80s, an era when…

11 July 2012

Big business, big world

Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953 – infodesign in Eye 82

Long before multinational corporations discovered the usefulness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in ameliorating a…

5 July 2012

Taught from a new angle

Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid, 1847 – infodesign history in Eye 82

Euclid’s Elements has been the introductory text to geometry since it was compiled by the…

2 July 2012

The art of illumination

Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign, 1940s – from Eye 82

Born in 1908 in a working-class district of Cologne, nothing about Will Burtin’s childhood suggested…

29 June 2012

Graphic and grotesque

Hidden Treasure shows the human body in all its pathos and horror.

Hidden Treasure is a deceptively innocuous title for a book devoted to pictures of skin…

25 June 2012

Lady with the diagram

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Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858 – infodesign in Eye 82

The vision of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, doing ward rounds in…

18 June 2012

A circle that moved the earth

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Copernicus’s diagram of the planets, 1543 – infodesign history in Eye 82

With the spread of print and Protestantism dethroning old sources of certainty, sixteenth-century Germany was ripe…

13 June 2012

Charts change minds

anne-marie conway

Description of the slave ship Brookes, 1788 – infodesign history in Eye 82

Eighteenth-century abolitionists used every propaganda tool in the book, but one of their most widely circulated…

11 June 2012

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…

8 June 2012

Time after time

mason wells

Mason Wells examines an Olympic Games schedule from Munich 1972

Only after the viewer has folded back the discreet cover featuring the beautiful ‘Wreath of…

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