Eye Magazine

Opinion: Graphic design

Fits, starts and fads

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

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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

Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture

On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit passive aggressive. Critique by Rick Poynor

The big picture

Critical path, Graphic design, Photography

The Guardian’s new Eyewitness page uses single images on a central spread for maximum impact. Critique by Rick Poynor

Inspiration

Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Inspiration

Designer Simon Esterson finds inspiration in Ken Briggs’s National Theatre programmes from the 1960s

Postcards from the edge

Graphic design, Visual culture

The ‘unpatriotic’ Sphere caught US designers at the worst moment. Critique by Rick Poynor

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Design history, Graphic design, Identity, Editorial

An old German saying claims that the Devil hides in the details. Most designers, aligning…

Why bother? Ask the Dutch

Graphic design, Agenda

When issues of quality, responsibility and professionalism are debated, the emerging graphic design organisations of Ireland should look to the example of the Dutch BNO

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Graphic design, Illustration

Whenever there is a burning issue, be it the end of illustration or the ethics of…

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