Eye Magazine

Opinion: Graphic design

What are we saying?

Letter from Andrew Howard in response to Ian Goodyer’s letter ‘Design is a ghetto’ in Eye 15

Words and pictures talking

Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Photography, Typography, Critique / Photography

Canongate has reissued John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, about Gloucestershire doctor John Sassall. How does it compare with the 1967 original? Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Editorial Eye 89

Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, New media, Photography

Photography and illustration may be separate disciplines, but they are interwoven with design. The photo…

Against the flow

Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Visual culture

As editorial design becomes more predictable, Swedish feminist quarterly Bang kicks against visual norms. Critique by Rick Poynor

Photographer as page maker

Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture, Web Critique

David Campany’s examination of Walker Evans’ freewheeling magazine work – for Fortune, Architectural Forum, Life, and others – is a revelation. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Why we should talk to our neighbours

Design education, Graphic design

Design education faces some important decisions. To what extent should it be about the study of the subject as well as its practice?

Fits, starts and fads

Graphic design, Agenda

Eras cannot be neatly sliced up according to decades or even generations. Graphic design keeps changing while somehow staying the same.

Editorial Eye 83

Graphic design, Typography, Editorial

Several recent issues of Eye have focused on type design, but this special puts the…

Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

An image-led journal marries the serendipitous collisions of image-sharing sites with the physicality of print. Critique by Rick Poynor

A persuasive chancer