Eye Magazine

Opinion: Visual culture

Graphic language of the wall

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti with handwritten typographic treatments made striking, almost punkish paperback covers for Le Livre de Poche

Elton John's new vision

Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography, Web Critique

‘The Radical Eye’, the superstar’s opulently framed collection of modernist photography, is a revelation. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Browsing, or reading?

Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

A new shop demonstrates the global resurgence of indie magazines. Critique by Rick Poynor

Depth and ambiguity

Book design, Photography, Visual culture

Another Way of Telling, by John Berger and Jean Mohr, extends the possibilities of the photographic narrative. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor

Cold War culture-jammer

Design history, Photography, Visual culture

Hispanic photomonteur Josep Renau aimed Technicolor jets of scorn at the mirage of US consumerist culture. By Rick Poynor

Online rhetoric

Visual culture

Though intended to make its contents ‘democratic’, art website The Space is a perplexing jumble. Critique by Rick Poynor

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

Energy and emotion

Book design, Photography, Visual culture, Critique / Photography

Aperture’s new series of photography books may prove to be an essential educational resource for serious smartphone snappers

Readymade format

Design history, Visual culture

An illustrated ‘gift book’ dictionary by Heretic brings Marcel Duchamp’s ideas to a wider audience. 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

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