8 August 2008

Pushing the envelope

Pushing the envelope

simon esterson

Great British design, deliveredin a plain brown wrapper
Great British Editorial (Barcelona: Index Book, €40), writes Simon Esterson, is a simple idea carried…

7 August 2008

Propaganda on cheap paper

Propaganda on cheap paper

steven heller

In Eye no. 67, Steven Heller reviewed Paper Tigers (Chronicle) the Cushing and Tompkins book…

5 August 2008

A raid on sacred cows

A raid on sacred cows

mary ann bolger

The Táin demonstrates how design can contribute to a nation’s sense of itself
Graphic design heroes might be, as Martha Scotford noted, Western white men, but they’re a…

4 August 2008

Not fade away

Not fade away

graphic design history, kenneth fitzgerald, mit, posters

Jacqueline Casey: the foremost US practitioner of the International Style
By selecting Jacqueline Casey as her most underappreciated graphic designer in Eye’s ‘Beyond the canon’…

2 August 2008

Good at needlework?

Good at needlework?

the research department

Stock seeks your views on the meaning of success for women designers
Jennifer Campbell-Colquhoun and Selina Swayne want to know what you think about graphic design and…

31 July 2008

Feel like a beer?

Feel like a beer?

cherriss firbank

Royal College graduates take to the bottles – 27m of them
Artists are often reluctant to be labelled, except perhaps when it comes to seeing their…

30 July 2008

Commercial modernism

Commercial modernism

steven heller

Teague’s modernistic gem gave Kodak a distinct visual personality
The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, goes ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and…

30 July 2008

Blinded by the light

Blinded by the light

david thompson

When I asked a member of Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery staff where I’d find the Advanced…

29 July 2008

Googling the canon

Googling the canon

martha scotford

For this special issue of Eye, we put 93 designers into the search engine
Nearly two decades ago, historian Martha Scotford analysed five key books (including Meggs’ History) to…

28 July 2008

Don’t blame the Zippos

Don’t blame the Zippos

david barringer

During the 1965-73 Vietnam war, writes David Barringer, American soldiers etched slogans and images on…
 
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