Blog: Visual culture

24 February 2011

Port of entry

Port of entry

john l. walters, the magazine department

Two art directors and an editor launch a brand new men’s magazine
You could be forgiven for thinking that the cold Spring of 2011, with its cutbacks…

23 February 2011

What’s ‘The Story’?

What’s ‘The Story’?

andrew losowsky

Miscellaneous ‘creatives’ re-imagine themselves as ‘storytellers’
Stories can be dangerous, writes Andrew Losowsky. ‘Don't become your story,’ warned The Dialogue Project’s…

17 February 2011

Words, windows, chaos

Words, windows, chaos

john ridpath, the technology department

Tim De Cort’s ongoing typographic experiments in code
The sheer scale of last year’s V&A show Decode: Digital Design Sensations, served to illustrate…

16 February 2011

Punching through the din

Punching through the din

jim northover

Jim Northover and an ‘inheritance’ of Saul Bass movie posters at Kemistry
It started in the 1960s, writes Jim Northover. It was then that John Lloyd, a…

15 February 2011

Stendhal moments

Stendhal moments

john ridpath, the events department

Overwhelming beauty in scientific research – at Boijmans in Rotterdam
An astonishing collection of images of great beauty from the natural sciences went on show…

14 February 2011

Billion-dollar brainteaser

Billion-dollar brainteaser

gill ross

Gill Ross on David McCandless’s ‘beautiful’ Billion-Dollar-O-Gram
Great moments in information design (continued). We have so much access to information now, writes…

9 February 2011

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

Phil Sayer and Robert Marsden

the picture department

‘Manhattan in Moscow’ and ‘Contradictions’ at the Marsden Woo
Phil Sayer’s photographs of Soviet architecture (below) go on show alongside the uncomprimisingly minimalist metal…

7 February 2011

Opening shots

Opening shots

archive, joel karamath, the movie department

Two classic movie title sequences from Saul Bass and Maurice Binder
The latest Eye Critique deals with the hallucinatory title sequence to Gaspar Noé’s Enter the…

4 February 2011

Check me out

Check me out

camilla grey

Social media has turned personality into a carefully curated ‘brand’
I recently wrote a post* about living in the era of the over-share, writes Camilla…

3 February 2011

And more again

And more again

eye editors

Information design and graphics in Eye 78, our biggest ever issue
It has been printed, packaged and delivered to subscribers and bookshops all over the world…
 
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