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Do-it-yourself
Activists were not interested in design sophistication, but their publishing tools imposed their own urgent aesthetics
Eyes on the world
They are obsolete now, but the picture magazines of the pre-TV era were breeding pens for today's visual narratives
Keep it simple
Mieke Gerritzen brings her visual language of graphic emblems and clear-cut lines, colours and type to the Web
Lost in the city
A CD-ROM may combine poetic imagery with virtuoso programming, but is it the right medium to convey meaning?
Website design for grown-ups
The five windows of GoLive CyberStudio 2.0 help Web designers and HTML programmers to get along better
Dell Books
An early form of info-graphics, Dell Books' lurid covers and 'Mapbacks' of the 1940s brought pulp crime fiction to life
New World order
Now that information management is a priority, the logical graphic style of Erik Nitsche has aquired a new relevance
Remote control
In a culture of interface, images become tactile: we feel with our eyes. The first in Eye's new series of visual essays
Best before
British supermarkets display packets and tins whose graphic design codes have a longer shelf life than the food inside