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Sound and vision
Given the visceral feelings stirred by music, it’s time we found new, meaningful associations between music and design.
Design + music = magic
The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?
The shape of the century
How 1960s Op Art and cut-up culture informed the cover designs of Fontana Modern Masters in the 1970s.
Not all black and white
Changes in South African photobooks reveal a nation now free to explore its self-image
Depth of field
chezweitz & roseapple are the new scenographers, who persuade museum curators to take the integrated approach.
Getting better all the time…
Self-styled ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge shot to fame in the mid-1960s with his work for The Sunday Times magazine, Penguin Books, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who. Aldridge regards The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (see Eye no. 57 vol. 15) as an ‘illustration of the 1960s’, and you could say the same for much of his new book The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (Thames & Hudson, £24.95), published to coincide with the Design Museum show of the same name. In this extract, Aldridge recounts his experiences after being fired from a job as a junior finished artist at Charlotte Studios – ‘supply your own steel rule and X-Acto knife’ – in a London that was just about to Swing.
Reputations: Phil Baines
‘I could never subscribe to a particular way of doing things – I was always more pick ’n’ mix. I’d want to take what was good and alter it a little, or, if I thought the ideology was stupid, drop the ideology.’
Excitable hexagonal
Do the covers to the D&AD’s annuals – full of pencils, food, and covered in tactile stuff – tell us anything about the past 45 years?
Prototype propagandist
Rivadulla’s revolutionary poster art avoids socialist cliché. By Jan Middendorp
Talking pictures (Isotype)
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.