Blog: Typography
4 December 2013
Type Tuesday – 10 December 2013
Archive night with Lucienne Roberts, Rathna Ramanathan, Fraser Muggeridge, Gerry Leonidas, Ken Garland, Simon Esterson and Martin Andrews
Next week we’ll be hosting another Type Tuesday event at St Bride Library in London…
2 December 2013
Books received #5
Alphabet postcards, type geeks as ‘birders’, post-digital letterpress, understanding type basics and calligraphy
Here is a brief look at some type-oriented titles that recently arrived at Eye’s Shoreditch…
22 November 2013
The power of type
Unit Editions’ book Type Only documents graphic design – from the late 1990s to the…
11 October 2013
Chat show
Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from day one of the AGI Open conference in London, where the theme was ‘dialogue’
London’s AGI Open set out to shun the standard conference show-and-tell format, and to bring…
10 October 2013
A graphic tree-hug
Pulp!, a 1989 newspaper devoted to trees, drew attention to green issues through art, illustration, writing and photography
Pulp! was a one-off, large-format newspaper published in 1989 to raise awareness of pressing green…
30 September 2013
Eye 86 in transit
Fresh off the rollers and over to the mailing house
The new issue, Eye 86, has been printed and is ready to be sent out…
13 September 2013
London Design Festival preview 2013
The LDF gets bigger each year, but graphic design, despite the presence of Circular, Anthony Burrill and others, still plays a minor role
Missing things is an unavoidable part of the London Design Festival (LDF) experience, no matter…
10 September 2013
Letraset Tuesday at St Bride
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Come to St Bride tonight to hear Dan ‘Ultrasparky’ Rhatigan, Tony Rushton (Private Eye) and Letraset designers Dave Farey & Colin Brignall.
Tonight’s Type Tuesday at St Bride Library in London features Dan ‘Ultrasparky’ Rhatigan, Tony Rushton…
12 August 2013
In your face
Right now, 3D cinema is enjoying a second flush of activity, with immersive, fantastical movies…
29 July 2013
From cave to code
Designer Scott W. Santoro writes about the lessons he learned while producing a textbook for graphic design students
My young son once asked, ‘Why are we here?’, writes Scott W. Santoro. When the…