Opinion
Commitment to content
Criterion’s DVD covers show that seduction by packaging remains a fiendishly irresistible (and difficult) art. Critique by Rick Poynor
Stop sitting around and start reading
Postmodern typography sees the reader as an idler in need of short sharp shocks. But is reading really so passive a process?
Editorial Eye 79
One of the fascinating things about type is its dynamic nature. Take any era and there…
Kiki in graphic detail
Catel’s quick-fire sketches illustrate the life of the young model who became a Surrealist icon and Man Ray’s muse. Critique by Rick Poynor
French connections
Slender and serious, Back Cover is emerging as a Gallic platform for a resolutely non-American view of design
A soul drifting in neon limbo
The stroboscopic credits of Noé’s movie suck the viewer into an immersive maelstrom of lettering. Critique by Rick Poynor
Editorial Eye 78
Information design, the main focus of this issue of Eye, has given rise to some soul-searching…
Contents
Eye 78 Winter 2010Features 8 Critique: A soul adrift in neon limbo The credits of Gaspar…
Understand, visualise, survive
Max Gadney argues that information design should be a compulsory part of every graphic design course