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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
 
The meaning of money

The meaning of money

Michael Horsham

Bank notes change hands without so much as a second glace – a daily act of faith that says much about our belief in their value. Yet these intricate artefacts are complex carriers of meaning. What makes a banknote look like a banknote and how does the global graphic language of money communicate its message?
 

Russell Mills: Material and metaphor

Marco Livingstone

Russell Mills was the original punk illustrator. Now he makes images of delicate abstraction.
 

After the wall

Michèle-Anne Dauppe

Unlimited horizons? East Berlin design group Grappa come to terms with the new Germany
 
Reputations: Barbara Kruger

Reputations: Barbara Kruger

Karrie Jacobs

‘I’m someone who works with pictures and words, and people can take that to mean anything they like.’ Eye talks to the American magazine designer turned media artist who uses the tools of advertising and graphic design to confront and question her audience
 
Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart

Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart

Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin

‘My work is like a quarry. People see a stone they like, appropriate it and work it until there’s nothing left.’ Eye talks to the father of New Wave typography.
 

Typo Photo

Julia Thrift

London’s most progressive designers are working with a small group of photographers highly sympathetic to their aims
 
BJ

BJ

Katy Homans

Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively short career of remarkable promise, he pushed graphics, advertising and film to their conceptual limits