11 November 2010

Newport student snapshot

Newport student snapshot

john ridpath

Eye catches up with three photographic art graduates
For my Eye 77 education piece, ‘Out of the darkroom’, I spoke to course leaders…

9 November 2010

Sound and vision #1

Sound and vision #1

john l. walters

Time to find some new, meaningful associations between music + design.
Think about design for music, and record covers spring to mind, writes John Walters. (See…

5 November 2010

A sense of wonder

A sense of wonder

the type department

Video clips from Marian Bantjes’ Eye talk at St Bride Library in London
On 5 October, Marian Bantjes spoke to a sold-out audience at the St Bride Library…

4 November 2010

Symphonic scrawl

Symphonic scrawl

john l. walters

777 classical music album covers from the collection of Dr Horst Scherg
A copy of Classique: Cover Art for Classical Music arrived in the Eye office too…

3 November 2010

Touch of science

Touch of science

the science department

Will the Thunderer’s Eureka iPad app displace its printed supplement?
The Times’s Eureka app for the iPad went on sale from iTunes today, price 59p…

2 November 2010

Flatpack monuments

Flatpack monuments

sally jeffery

A cat’s-eye view of the art of architectural paper modelling
The maddest cardboard object in the Museum of Childhood’s ‘Cut It, Fold It’ exhibition is…

1 November 2010

Graphic cycle

Graphic cycle

john ridpath, the events department

An exhibition of artwork that takes the bicycle as its visual muse
The Art of Cycling, a new exhibition of bike-themed artwork, opened today at London’s Frameless…

31 October 2010

Blood and cleavage

Blood and cleavage

chris brawn

A new book of scary posters and super creeps from the house of Hammer
The upcoming release of Let Me In, an English-language remake of the Swedish horror Let…

28 October 2010

Penguins with attitude

Penguins with attitude

john l. walters

Illustrative wrecks and rescues at the publisher’s New York office.
Despite its celebratory title and retro cover design, Penguin 75 is actually a book about…

27 October 2010

Beatrice Warde lecture

Beatrice Warde lecture

simon esterson

Sébastien Morlighem’s gripping tale of Excoffon and the Fonderie Olive.
Tuesday night: to Bridewell Hall at the St Bride Library for the annual Beatrice Warde…