Feature: Graphic design
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
Art and ambiguity
The identity for Venice Biennale Arte 2019, designed by Melanie Mues, distorts type across a colourful three-dimensional grid
News cycle
Italian designer Francesco Franchi brings magazine finesse to the world of daily newspapers
The enigma of Thérèse Moll
This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT
Strategy of excess
Like a human algorithm, Hansje van Halem explores a huge number of variables until she finds the right ‘recipe’ for each project