John L. Walters
Recent articles by John L. Walters
Phil Baines remembered
Issue 106, Summer 2024
Archiving the archive
Issue 106, Summer 2024
Reputations: Sharp Type, Chantra Malee and Lucas Sharp
Issue 106, Summer 2024
Editorial Eye 106
Issue 106, Summer 2024
The film poster as freeze-frame
Issue 105, Autumn 2023
Connecting a collection
Issue 105, Autumn 2023
Editorial Eye 105
Issue 105, Autumn 2023
Hockney asks the scientific question: ‘How?’
Issue 42, Winter 2001
Form and feeling
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Read this space
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Ramp up the key strokes
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) aka ‘ruhuman’, earned a reputation for his typewriter art while still in his teens.
Attack of the book jackets
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Resistance is essential
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Dirk Koy
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Mitch Paone
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Saskia Marka
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Matt Willey
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Len Lye
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Editorial Eye 104
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Time stretched further out
Issue 103, Summer 2022
Witness
Issue 103, Summer 2022
Editorial Eye 103
Issue 103, Summer 2022
Design for a better world
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
Pop art before it was ‘Art’
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …
Type as art objet
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
Cool lists for dark days
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
Word play
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Crowd control
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Pictoglyphic time travel
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Drawn from the capital
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Captain litho
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Editorial Eye 101
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Extinction Rebellion: Truth works
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Malika Favre: Gridlocked
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Introduction Eye 100
Issue 100, Summer 2020
Editorial Eye 99
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Design odyssey
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Business at the centre
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Fritz Gottschalk and the Swiss-Canadian connection
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Art and ambiguity
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Walker’s riddles
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
They made Canada
Issue 98, Spring 2019
New bottle old wine
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Editorial Eye 98
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Adventures in the book trade
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Return to the square
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Waste not
Issue 98, Spring 2019
The heart and soul of Harlem
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Shock and oral history
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
This woman’s work
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
Anglo-Saxon latitudes
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
The art of small moments
Issue 96, Spring 2018
The reviews
Issue 96, Spring 2018
Anatomy of a magazine
Issue 96, Spring 2018
Editorial Eye 95
Issue 95, Winter 2017
Hidden treasure
Issue 95, Winter 2017
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
Issue 95, Winter 2017
Market forces
Issue 95, Winter 2017
The crew with no name
Issue 95, Winter 2017
Editorial Eye 94
Issue 94, Summer 2017
A house that type built
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Pleasure in the process
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Expressive geometry
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Grignani
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Editorial Eye 93
Issue 93, Winter 2016
Soothing deadlines
Issue 93, Winter 2016
Olivier Kugler: bearing witness
Issue 93, Winter 2016
‘Because, history’
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Time machine
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Editorial Eye 92
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Editorial Eye 91
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Scissor action
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Tightly cropped critique
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Colouring in the city
Issue 91, Spring 2016
The case of Romek Marber
Issue 91, Spring 2016
London Letters
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Editorial Eye 90
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Nested narratives
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Editorial Eye 89
Issue 89, Winter 2014
We made this: Dorothy and Otis
Issue 89, Winter 2014
Reputations: Mucho
Issue 89, Winter 2014
Powered flight
Issue 88, Summer 2014
A small ‘M’ modern master
Issue 88, Summer 2014
Editorial Eye 88
Issue 88, Summer 2014
Luxury of less is more
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Burger, fries, no logo
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Editorial Eye 87
Issue 87, Spring 2014
We made this: A life in artefacts
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Towering ambition
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Violently opposed to war
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Editorial Eye 86
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Reputations: Tony Brook
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Editorial Eye 85
Issue 85, Spring 2013
Man of letters
Issue 85, Spring 2013
Old school layout
Issue 82, Winter 2011
Better than the real thing
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Robin Nicholas
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Alphabetical jazz soup
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Dan Rhatigan: All about workflow
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Editorial Eye 84
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Psychedelic tract
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Devil in the detail
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Bible of babel
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Editorial Eye 83
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Resonating image-makers
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
Adventures in motion pictures. Narrative arc
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Adventures in motion pictures. Aerial ballet of upholstery
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Illuminated thought
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Abbott Miller in the driving seat
Issue 43, Spring 2002
Reputations: Commercial Type
Issue 82, Winter 2011
Reputations: Marian Bantjes
Issue 72, Summer 2009
Hands-on design and digital angst at the AIGA
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Reason and rhymes
Issue 63, Spring 2007
The United Nations of Type
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Reputations: John McConnell
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
Art and art direction – Kuchar Swara
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
The mystery of frozen locomotion
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Reputations: Karsten Schmidt
Issue 74, Winter 2009
All the flat boys
Issue 82, Winter 2011
Black gold
Issue 74, Winter 2009
Character studies
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
The digital reality of ‘emotional products’
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Branches and roots
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Letters from Bologna
Issue 64, Summer 2007
All her own invention
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Over the rainbow
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Polyphonic playground
Issue 68, Summer 2008
Food dye chromatography
Issue 57, Autumn 2005
What a genius
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Men behaving stylishly
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Make music visible
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Step and repeat
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Cage recast as eye candy
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
In the thick of it
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Adventures in motion pictures. ‘This is reality’
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
A certain smile
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Interview with Dan Fern
Issue 76, Summer 2010
He has ways of making you read
Issue 68, Summer 2008
10,000 one offs
Issue 80, Summer 2011
On message
Issue 74, Winter 2009
Fading away before the issues
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
David Pearson: inside out
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Shouting from the shelves
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Reputations: Paula Scher
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Slow print
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Wanted: self-images
Issue 66, Winter 2007
Eine's walls: notes from a vandal
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
Pin-sharp process
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Frank’s wild years
Issue 68, Summer 2008
The orderly chaos of James Joyce
Issue 72, Summer 2009
An Online Drift
Issue 64, Summer 2007
The book design complex
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Big ideas and giant turkeys
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Reputations: David Gentleman
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Power of two
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Art and art direction – Daniel Eatock
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Sound and vision
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Love letters
Issue 80, Summer 2011
The Monograph as Atlas
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Fanfare for the common man
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Type space
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Overprinting
Issue 47, Spring 2003
The Mechanical Bride
Issue 27, Spring 1998
Scoop
Issue 30, Winter 1998
Stephen Byram: art & design
Issue 42, Winter 2001
Reputations: Gerard Unger
Issue 40, Summer 2001
Reputations: Terry Jones
Issue 30, Winter 1998
Paper planet
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Sound, code, image
Issue 26, Autumn 1997
Another self-indulgent design monograph
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
Revealing images
Issue 82, Winter 2011
Reputations: Graphic Thought Facility
Issue 39, Spring 2001
Reputations: J. Abbott Miller
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Port: Prêt à porter
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Britain’s signature
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Self-aggrandising, self-satisfied
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Self-evident, self-motivated, self-perpetuating
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Editorial Eye 82
Issue 82, Winter 2011
Editorial Eye 80
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Editorial Eye 79
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Editorial Eye 78
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Editorial Eye 75
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Editorial Eye 73
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Editorial Eye 72
Issue 72, Summer 2009
Editorial Eye 70
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Eye Editorial 69
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Editorial Eye 67
Issue 67, Spring 2008
Editorial Eye 66
Issue 66, Winter 2007
Editorial Eye 65
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
Editorial Eye 63
Issue 63, Spring 2007
Editorial Eye 62
Issue 62, Winter 2006
Editorial Eye 61
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Editorial Eye 60
Issue 60, Summer 2006
The Vignellis: a thoroughly Modernist marriage
Issue 60, Summer 2006
Editorial Eye 59
Issue 59, Spring 2006
Editorial Eye 58
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Editorial Eye 57
Issue 57, Autumn 2005
Editorial Eye 56
Issue 56, Summer 2005
Editorial Eye 55
Issue 55, Spring 2005
Editorial Eye 53
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
Editorial Eye 52
Issue 52, Summer 2004
Editorial Eye 48
Issue 48, Summer 2003
Editorial Eye 47
Issue 47, Spring 2003
Editorial Eye 46
Issue 46, Winter 2002
Editorial Eye 39
Issue 39, Spring 2001
Editorial Eye 37
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
Editorial Eye 36
Issue 36, Summer 2000
Editorial Eye 35
Issue 35, Spring 2000
Editorial Eye 38
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Editorial Eye 34
Issue 34, Winter 1999
Editorial Eye 45
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Editorial Eye 49
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
Editorial Eye 71
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Editorial Eye 64
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Editorial Eye 42
Issue 42, Winter 2001
Editorial Eye no. 40, vol. 10 [full text]
Issue 40, Summer 2001
Recent blog posts about John L. Walters
The fantastic light trip
6 November 2023
Wheels of Light is about the light shows devised for gigs and discos in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
Book now for Book night!
23 June 2022
Book design, Graphic design, Type Tuesday, Typography, Events and exhibitions
Eye’s first Book night! will feature presentations by acclaimed designers Giles Dunn, Sonya Dyakova, Hugh Miller and Jim Sutherland, chaired by David Pearson and Eye editor John L. Walters
Silent sound
8 November 2021
Graphic design, Music design, Posters, Reviews, Visual culture
Chris Bigg has enjoyed a close relationship with many musicians and music labels over his substantial career …
Come to the Eye 101 launch
3 June 2021
Book design, Design education, Design history, Food design, Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday
The printed howl
20 February 2021
Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture
Type Tuesday: Happy Birthday St Bride!
26 November 2020
Design education, Graphic design, Type Tuesday, Typography
Twisted characters
1 October 2020
Design history, Graphic design
Sunday photo-painter
31 January 2020
Photography, Typography, Visual culture
MagCulture Live 2019
20 November 2019
Graphic design, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture
Being there
24 June 2019
Hacking Gutenberg
13 March 2019
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography
Search for a star (librarian)
20 November 2018
Critical path, Design education, Design history, Information design, Type Tuesday, Typography
New York state of mag
24 May 2018
Graphic design, Magazines, Visual culture
Independence day
10 April 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Magazines, Type Tuesday, Typography, Visual culture
Music deco
25 February 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Visual culture
Two tribes
27 November 2017
Awards madness, Critical path, Graphic design, Magazines
Sea levellers
18 September 2017
Visual culture
Books received #28 (music and visual culture)
6 September 2017
Book design, Graphic design, Music design, Photography, Visual culture
Felt-tip fundamentals
25 July 2017
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture
Brief encounters and the pleasures of ambiguity
16 June 2017
Design history, Food design, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, New media
Porto’s studio culture
1 June 2017
Awards madness, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Posters, Typography
Friendships and glue
30 May 2017
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture
Talented talent-spotter
17 January 2017
Book design, Graphic design, Magazines, Posters, Typography
Giancarlo Ilipriandi (1925-2016)
4 October 2016
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Posters, Typography
Roger Perry’s London letters
10 March 2016
Book design, Design history, Typography, Visual culture
The calm collector
24 February 2016
Book design, Brand madness, Design history, Graphic design
Pop justice
30 September 2015
Illustration, New media, Reviews, Visual culture
Illustrated gumbo
27 August 2015
Book design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture
The freedom principle
19 August 2015
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture
Was, is & will be
29 June 2015
Graphic design, Typography
Observer’s post
15 April 2015
Design history, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture
Full bleed
13 February 2015
Book design, Music design, Typography, Visual culture
AK and A23D on press
18 September 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Technology, Typography
Design for eating: Milton Glaser
15 July 2014
Food design, Graphic design, Illustration, Typography
Poster engineer
8 July 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews
Type on the tongue
20 December 2013
Food design, Typography, Visual culture
Comp up the volume
18 December 2013
Posters, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture
Insanely integrated, day one
12 November 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture
The gospel of Dave
30 October 2013
Book design, Food design, Illustration, Music design, Visual culture
Whodunnit?
23 October 2013
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines
See and hear
22 August 2013
Music design, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture
Cover story
8 August 2013
Brand madness, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Posters, Visual culture
Babylon aan ’t IJ
12 July 2013
Illustration, Music design, New media, Reviews
Chair man
19 June 2013
Magazines, Photography, Reviews
Jazz in print
14 November 2012
Graphic design, Music design, Photography, Typography
The purpose of posters
3 October 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Posters, Visual culture
The Olympic press gang
26 July 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Magazines, Photography
Type Tuesday: Reputations
3 July 2012
Graphic design, Magazines, Technology, Typography
Music, flesh and fantasy
21 June 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Reviews, Visual culture
Sonorama panorama
12 June 2012
Magazines, Music design, New media, Technology
Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts
29 May 2012
Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Music design, Typography, Visual culture
Full tilt
11 May 2012
Music design, New media, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture
Clicks and sparks
27 April 2012
Information design, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture
Blue notebook
19 April 2012
Book design, Music design, Photography, Reviews
Javier & Fernando & Bebo
25 February 2012
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Technology, Visual culture
Getting away with murder
2 February 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Photography, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture
One day, all this will be ours
26 January 2012
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Information design, New media, Technology
The ‘Ziggy Stardust’ moment
14 November 2011
Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Visual culture
Type Tuesday: Private Eye
18 October 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Technology, Typography
Who’s who
4 October 2011
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Posters
Awesomely awesome FOTB
16 September 2011
Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, New media, Reviews, Technology
Crowded house of animation
15 June 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture
Canapés, alcohol and tea in Iran
7 June 2011
Awards madness, Book design, Graphic design, Illustration
Fixed compass
20 March 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture
Port of entry
24 February 2011
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture
The app of A Humument
16 November 2010
Book design, Illustration, New media, Technology, Typography, Visual culture
Sound and vision #1
9 November 2010
Music design, New media, Visual culture
Music tech mags from 1930
20 September 2010
Illustration, Magazines, Music design, Visual culture
The cover that never was
6 May 2010
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines
Text without type
3 February 2010
Graphic design, New media, Typography
Fine words for Kitching / Stothard
19 November 2009
Design education, Graphic design, Posters, Technology, Typography, Visual culture
Never mind the music
11 November 2009
Awards madness, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Photography, Visual culture
The right lines
30 October 2009
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Posters
Frontline’s big, bold newsprint
27 July 2009
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture
Barack, Marvin and John. And Miles
27 January 2009
Music design, Photography, Posters, Visual culture
Reasons to be cheerful, part 2
18 December 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Technology, Typography, Visual culture
I received an exciting package through the post the other day, a mint copy of Ian Dury’s ‘What A Waste’
Happy go lucky local goes out in style
4 December 2008
Graphic design, Photography, Typography, Visual culture
MAP/making’s acid test
28 November 2008
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Music design, New media, Photography, Reviews, Technology, Typography, Visual culture
Guy Le Querrec in Africa
19 November 2008
Music design, New media, Photography, Typography, Visual culture
Quantum of Croydon
31 October 2008
Design history, Magazines, Visual culture
The hero of Flight 404
24 October 2008
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Technology, Visual culture
Kyle Cooper
15 October 2008
Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture
‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?’
11 October 2008
Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Visual culture
The 40th anniversary issue of New York has all the ingredients that non-New Yorkers expect.
Showbiz kids
7 October 2008
Graphic design, Reviews, Visual culture
Record design framed
22 September 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture
The internet loves kittens
9 September 2008
New media, Technology, Visual culture
Cutting crew
8 September 2008
Graphic design, Magazines, New media, Technology
Two degrees of (colour) separation
5 September 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Posters
Chalk and talk
26 August 2008
Graphic design, New media, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture