Feature

 

Rietveld’s children

Hughes Boekraad, Gerard Hadders

New work from graduates of Amsterdam’s famous academy.
 

In search of Barney Bubbles

Julia Thrift

He was a pioneer of British graphics, but he refused to sign his own work
 

Reputations: Neville Brody

Rick Poynor

‘People are using the computer in a very rigid, pseudo-religious way and we are trying to say that the technology is simply a tool of communication and should be treated as organically as any other tool.’
 

American Gothic

Rick Poynor

Barry Deck’s Template Gothic is vernacular in inspiration and futuristic in effect. Is it a bizarre one-off, or the shape of typefaces to come?
 

Gran Fury

Liz Farrelly

How AIDS activists use design to hammer home their message.
 

Visual aids

Simon Watney

Poster campaigns have an important role to play in AIDS health education. But what makes an effective poster? Eye analyses international approaches and looks at the work of the New York activist group Gran Fury.
 

One from the heart

Liz Farrelly

Four years ago, Rick Valicenti said goodbye to his corporate clients and set out to reinvent himself. Now his company, Thirst, makes art with a function.
 

Oil and water

Eye editors

Two Dutch books take the form of elegant visual essays on liquid themes.
 
Commercial Surrealist

Commercial Surrealist

Steven Heller

Are the pictures of Dallas photographer Geof Kern postmodern retro or authentic art?
 
Astro boy and the sex wars

Astro boy and the sex wars

Liz Farrelly

Curious comics: why the Japanese love their manga