Feature: Graphic design
Malika Favre: Gridlocked
A love of mathematics and geometry underpins the immaculate illustrations of Malika Favre
Studio Blup: Remixing the here and now
Dines’s Studio Blup represents a radical challenge to the monoculture that still dominates current design
Sophie Thomas: Campaigner
‘You need a creative or design-oriented brain to figure out what the system is and how to shift it. Designers are good at this.’
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’
Milton Glaser: Design eminence
‘Buttons, flyers, posters, postcards, T-shirts and books. How primitive are the means we have to dissent. And yet I believe these modest tools can help change history.’
Michael Bierut: The designer’s designer
‘Online, everything arrives with equal weight … everything can have a logo, everything can have an identity, everyone can do it in an untutored way.’
Everyday people
Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world, and makes design an art
Business at the centre
An interview with Sascha Lötscher, managing partner of G+A
Fritz Gottschalk and the Swiss-Canadian connection
Gottschalk + Ash International spans more than five decades, a Swiss design studio with Modernist roots in Northern Europe and North America. Eye went to Zürich to meet the people behind the practice
Designing with urgency
From politics to culture to business, Dutch studio Thonik strikes a balance between adventurous concepts and pragmatic resolutions