Feature: Graphic design
The accessible elite
Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’
Milan’s anarchic Modernist
Alessandro Colizzi explores the Futurist past of Bruno Munari, the eclectic, prolific designer-illustrator of Mussolini’s Italy.
Screen prints
Recently discovered posters for the RCA Film Society provide fresh perspective on the intimate relationship between graphics and cinema in the 1950s and 60s.
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
Design’s wayward cousins
Humble and often vulgar, chapbooks offer an illuminating window into the medieval world.
They work with words: 3
As an exercise in cross-Channel translation, OK-RM has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 2
Modern Toss has devised a typographic spread about the perils and pleasures of punctuation – exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 1
Fraser Muggeridge has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
Miss Fixit
Tina Roth Eisenberg never had a business plan. But all the things she dreams up – the Swissmiss blog, ‘creative mornings’, stick-on tattoos – pay off. By Steven Heller