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Between Books 2025

After two successful editions in 2023 and 2024, Between Books will take place for a third time at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Bringing together 80 exhibitors over three days, Between Books is a dynamic platform for independent art book publishers, artists, collectives, zines, and organisations from across Germany and Europe. With a strong focus on the local and regional scene, the fair also welcomes voices from beyond to celebrate the diversity and vitality of contemporary publishing. Admission is free.

Hours: Friday 19 September: 3-9pm; Saturday 20 September: 11am-7pm; Sunday 21 September: 11am-5pm

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Grabbepl. 4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany

Type Tuesday: My favourite logo

Following our hugely popular ‘My favourite font’ last year, the Eye team will be asking designers to talk about their favourite logo. We already have some familiar names scratching their heads and we’ll be asking you to make a choice, too. The panel includes Michael Johnson, Kate Marlow (Here), Bryan Edmondson (SEA), Andy Cowles, Rejane Dal Bello, Kellenberger-White and Dines, plus more to be announced.

Tickets £14, £12 members / concessions, £9 students

Doors: 6:30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 108, plus bargain back issues. All proceeds support St Bride Foundation.

Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).

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St Bride Printing Library, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ

Final weeks

Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén

As head of several major artistic institutions across the world, Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) revolutionised the art world and its place in society. This exhibition presents around 100 printed documents produced under his leadership, testifying to his playful sense of free-spirited and profoundly inventive anarchy.

Hultén helped establish several major museums including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which he headed from 1958 to 1973, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Centre, whose first director he was between 1973 and 1981. Some exhibitions presented at the Moderna Museet in the 1960s were groundbreaking, featuring work by Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultvedt, through whose ‘giant vagina’ visitors thronged to enter.

Exhibition design: Mayckel Hanania & Stinsensqueeze

Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12-7pm. Late opening Thursdays, until 9pm.

Institut suédois, 11 rue Payenne, F-75003 Paris

Novo Typo Offgrid from Amsterdam to Shenzhen

This exhibition is an exploration of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and experimental graphic design at the Novo Typo Offgrid D.I.Y. Expo. It is part of Novo Typo Offgrid, an ongoing research project redefining graphic design through sustainable production techniques, alternative colour systems, and hands-on experimentation. The project started in 2020 and was originally designed and produced within close proximity to Novo Typo’s Amsterdam studio.

See ‘Colour is the new black’, Jan Middendorp’s Eye 94 article about Novo Typo.

SWCAC Sea World Culture and Art Center, 1187 Wanghai Rd, 蛇口 Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Cyan. Work 1990-2025

The graphic design studio Cyan was founded in (East) Berlin in the early 1990s by Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler. Over the past 35 years, they have won many awards, and their work promoted and published worldwide. Cyan featured at The Poster House in New York in 2019 (‘Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s’), but this Berlin exhibition is the most comprehensive presentation of the studio’s work since its foundation.

Monday – Friday: 9am-5pm; Saturday: 12pm-6pm; closed Sunday.

Admission: €3-5

Closing event on Fri 17 October with a live dance performance by Toula Limnaios, free entry.

See ‘Rigorous play’, a 2021 Eye article, also by the late Jan Middendorp.

Venue: Center for Visual Arts, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin

KAREL MARTENS: UNBOUND

the first major retrospective of Karel Martens (b. 1939, see Eye nos. 11, 69, 106, etc.), one of the Netherlands’ most influential postwar graphic designers, renowned for his inventiveness, and for his playful and experimental approach. Karel Martens trained and inspired younger generations of designers in the Netherlands and internationally. The exhibition is a journey of discovery through the oeuvre that Martens created over 65 years – from his adventurous lettering on buildings, to books, typography, postage stamps, telephone cards and wallpaper.

Martens is also resourceful, able to do a lot with very little; his inventiveness and economy are apparent in his work. Keen to avoid waste, he repurposes newsprint, and the Stedelijk’s old archive cards. The architecture magazine OASE exemplifies his most ambitious experiments; no two issues are the same. Martens began designing OASE in collaboration with students from the Werkplaats Typografie, which he co-founded; today, he designs it with his daughter, Aagje Martens.

Since Karel Martens began collaborating with his children Klaartje and Diederik in 2019 under the name Martens & Martens, the scope of his work has broadened to include textiles. Martens’ designs have also been incorporated into textile designs for Liberty London, Maharam, Hermès, DUM, Pop Trading Company, and Pentagram, among others.

Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam, Netherlands

Open daily: 10am to 6pm; No entrance after 5:45 pm.

There will be a review of the Martens exhibition in the forthcoming Eye 109.

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