Eye Magazine

17 September 2025
Graphic design, Posters, Events and exhibitions

Rush to see this London exhibition of superlative posters by Otl Aicher, urges Quentin Newark

To say that Otl Aicher’s work is the best you can see anywhere is an understatement, writes Quentin Newark.

5 August 2025
Design history, Graphic design, Information design

Who would dare update the Munich pictograms made by Otl Aicher and Gerhard Joksch? Mark Holt, that’s who. Quentin Newark reports

The sports event symbols for the 1972 Olympics are rightly regarded as one of graphic design’s undoubted high points, writes Quentin Newark …

10 March 2025

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

24 November 2023
Design education, Typography

‘Phil Baines shows us how to revel in the joy of graphic design.’ Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol’

Quentin Newark reviews ‘Extol: Phil Baines Celebrating Letters’ at CSM’s Lethaby Gallery

17 July 2023
Illustration, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Bad is the new good. Quentin Newark descends into Japan House for ‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’.

Visiting, you descend stairs, like going into the Underworld …

29 October 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

While others struggle with ‘personal expression’, the Vignellis prove that a simple approach and focus makes great design, writes Quentin Newark.

Quentin Newark writes: As I was designing the catalogue for the Tate Modern exhibition ‘Albers…

Quentin Newark