13 February 2023

Graphic design live #10

Graphic design live #10

Eye editors

Sara De Bondt in London; Haettenschweiler in Zurich; Shaping Protest in Ulm; Polish poster and type design in California; and Extinction Rebellion in London.
Here is a selection of current and upcoming events – page to stay up to date…

6 February 2023

Covid visualisations: 2023 update

Covid visualisations: 2023 update

Paul Kahn

Paul Kahn reflects upon the way Covid-19 data visualisations and reporting have changed over the past three years

In 2021, when ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’ was published in Eye 101, there were hundreds of visualisations per week

23 January 2023

Books received #51

Books received #51

Eye editors

En-suites by the seaside; floating letters in Brazil; Harlow front porches; and Parisian type

Four books that caught our attention: on seaside en-suites, floating letters in Brazil, Harlow front porches and Parisian type.

15 January 2023

Graphic design live #9

Graphic design live #9

Eye editors

Adana in London; Marclay in Paris; revolutionary graphics from Mexico and Germany in Los Angeles; and label art from Ireland in Dublin
Here are some January 2023 events highlights for your diaries. To stay up to date with…

7 January 2023

Colin Forbes 1928-2022

Colin Forbes 1928-2022

Patrick Baglee

The death of Colin Forbes closes a significant chapter in the history of British graphic design. Obituary by Patrick Baglee

Thoughtful and methodical, serious about the work, Forbes’s diffidence was belied by the confidence and thoroughness of his output.

24 December 2022

Books received #50

Books received #50

Eye editors

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books; Topaff; AIAP Women in Design Award; and 10x1 54 (Contemporary African Art Fair)

To round up 2022, here are four reviews of award / anniversary books that caught Eye’s attention this year.

19 December 2022

Scenography and spectacle

Scenography and spectacle

Janet South

A new exhibition at the restored Battersea Power Station charts the site’s history, climaxing in a lift that takes visitors 109 metres high. By Janet South
There is a button in the great glass lift in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate…

12 December 2022

Access to the futures of type

Access to the futures of type

Gabriela Matuszyk

‘Inscript’, a five-day virtual type festival, provided a platform for new technologies and new approaches to typography. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The inaugural experimental type festival ‘Inscript’ took place online from 12-16 October 2022 ...

4 December 2022

Graphic design live #8

Graphic design live #8

Eye editors

W. E. B. Du Bois in New York, Piotr Szyhalski in Minneapolis, Dieter Roth in Iceland and motion graphics in Shenzhen

As we head towards the end of the year and into the holiday season, here’s a list of talks and exhibitions this December.

28 November 2022

Join us for ‘Stories worth telling’

Join us for ‘Stories worth telling’

Eye editors

Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday on 6 December – with Jim Sutherland, Jahnavi Inniss and Richard Ardagh – and help raise money for St Bride

An evening with Jim Sutherland (Studio Sutherl&), Jahnavi Inniss and Richard Ardagh from New North Press ...

 
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