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Cranbrook in close-up
Projects by David Frej, Katherine McCoy, Edward Fella and Allen Hori
The academy of deconstructed design
Students and graduates of Cranbrook Academy of Art are producing some of the world’s most challenging graphic design.
Technology, aesthetics and type
With a substantial body of work already completed, Gerard Unger’s designs are entering a new phase.
Paint it black
No one ran pictures bigger, cropped them tighter or had a darker vision than Willy Fleckhaus, the art director’s art director
Reputations: Pierre Bernard
‘I don’t believe in revolutionary design, but I do believe that reactionary designs exist. It’s always easier to perpetuate the same forms and contents rather than to search out new ones.’
Why Grapus had to disband. Eye talks to founder Pierre Bernard
The designer unmasked
Jan van Toorn has turned graphic agitation into a fine art. Profile by Gerald Forde
Signals in the street
Poster design is an instantaneous art. Eye looks at prize-winners from “Typography Germany ’90”
Temple of type
St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and typography. Now it is under threat
Maps and dreams
No printing method is too basic for Jake Tilson. Created with photocopiers, his books, magazines and objects are crammed with offbeat invention.