Feature
A grammar of ornament
Introducing the ultimate design award: GTF’s Paul Neale and Andy Stevens display the Owen Jones Memorial Trophy, photographed by Angela Moore
Lessons in printing trade journalism
For one issue, under Jan Tschichold’s stewardship, a monthly trade journal, Typographische Mitteilungen, became a beacon for radical typography.
What you see is how you think
A graduate student competition resulted in hybrids of browser and search engine that redraw and re-invent the fundamentals of “surfing the Web”
Travellers’ Tales
A global Esperanto of icons, warning signs on cardboard boxes speak a visual language that leaves no room for misunderstanding
Stories unfolding in time and space
With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming integral contributors to the editorial mix
In every home an architect
Two government booklets, Space in the Home and Metric House Shells, endorse Modernist concepts of good design for the public wellbeing
Scoop
A board game based on page layout, newspaper rivalry and editorial approval, who knows what strange ideas it gave to budding journalists and designers at an impressionable age
(In essence) pre-conceived
A cycle of consumption comes into view. Mute portraits of the hidden landscape by Eye's regular photographer
Design mirror
A reflection of Eye in the winning and commended entries for the 1998 D&AD Student Awards Publishing Design category
What your choice of font says about you
Susan Agre Waterman, Mark Kippenhan
Type has become a consumer product and foundries use carefully crafted images to sell it