Eye Magazine

Embroidered space travel patches, collected and appreciated by Eugene Dorr

An idealistic experiment to help children read with an augmented, phonetically consistent alphabet

Description of the slave ship Brookes 1788

‘By wanting to be intelligent, it usually gets simpler and simpler. The creative process is paring back all the time. If you can’t defend it, get rid of it.That’s what turns me on. How simple can you make it? Usually, “creativity” means showing off to your peer group, and creativity without intelligence is as dumb as it comes.’

The relationship between art directors and photography has developed in myriad ways alongside changes in fashion, taste and technology. Here we profile four very different practitioners: editorial designer Kuchar Swara, who collaborates regularly with photographers such as Nigel Shafran and Coppi Barbieri; Jens Gehlhaar (of directors’ collective Brand New School), who moves effortlessly between moving image campaigns, still photography and CGI; Thomas Lenthal, creative director for luxury fashion brands and his own magazine Paradis; and Daniel Eatock, whose approach to photography provides a provocative link between conceptual art and an objective, ‘vernacular’ approach to snapshot culture. All four have plenty to say about the place of photography and photographers in their working lives.

Optically sized fonts are the ‘slow food’ trend of typography, appreciated by a minority but with far-reaching influence

India’s boom economy is shaking up the local communication industry like there’s no tomorrow

For ten days in March, the billboards of Hobart were given over to the voices of its inhabitants

Richard Pare’s photographs of Russian architecture strike up a dialogue with a time of energy and optimism.