Blog: Technology

8 December 2011

Metal on metal

Metal on metal

andrew haslam

Andrew Haslam on the way store lettering is ‘routed’ for public display
Profile-cut letters for public signage are usually ‘routed’ by machine, from a cutting guide based…

6 December 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Stevens Titling from Linotype offers an unexpected brush with wildlife
Typefaces that strive to emulate the idiosyncrasies of hand-crafted letterforms have a patchy success rate…

5 December 2011

Mind and eye ... science and design

Mind and eye ... science and design

henry stanley

CSM Design Science Research Group aims to bridge a gap in understanding
Scientists are often accused of making their work impenetrable. Anatomical slides bearing little resemblance to…

2 December 2011

The Sheffield connection

The Sheffield connection

eye editors

Discovering a diaspora of former TDR designers in Eye 81’s ‘The far side’
A reader has pointed out an unintended pattern in the latest issue of Eye magazine…

16 November 2011

The past is a foreign domain

The past is a foreign domain

john ridpath

Digital Archaeology remembers Antirom, Noodlebox, Word.com, etc.
Internet Week Europe (7–11 November 2011) was, as one might expect, obsessed with the future…

10 November 2011

Take a deep breath

Take a deep breath

dan burgess

Good for Nothing hits the St Brides delegates with a design challenge
In the spirit of the practice of ‘doing not talking’, Tom Farrand (below) from Good…

8 November 2011

Art by numbers

Art by numbers

eye editors

Sara De Bondt’s live data analysis for the Artissima art fair in Turin
At the heart of Sara De Bondt’s identity design for last weekend’s Artissima art fair…

26 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

david womack, historical digital

Tools to make or break: designers are redefining type and image at code level
The ability to make tools is what distinguishes designers and other humans from lower forms…

20 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

adrian shaughnessy, historical digital

Adrian Shaughnessey on the rise of laptop aesthetics … from 2003
What are the major stylistic trends in current graphic design? wrote Adrian Shaughnessey in Eye…

19 October 2011

Age shall not wither her

Age shall not wither her

nick bell

Patricia Moore and the fight for inclusivity in design. And robot carers
Patricia Moore’s talk last week at the Logan Hall in London, writes Nick Bell, was…
 
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