Barbara Kruger

Recent articles about Barbara Kruger

Way with words

Issue 109, Winter 2026

Review

Barbara Kruger’s career began in magazines, but for the past four or more decades she’s identified as an artist …

Tight focus

Issue 109, Winter 2026

Review

The first page of the introduction to Typophoto lets us know what a daunting but exhilarating book faces the reader.

A serious book, brilliant with experience and discretion

Issue 41, Autumn 2001

Review

Maud Lavin has written a book for designers who wonder what became of the revolutionaries…

Word art

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet

Reputations: Barbara Kruger

Issue 5, Winter 1991

Feature

‘I’m someone who works with pictures and words, and people can take that to mean anything they like.’ Eye talks to the American magazine designer turned media artist who uses the tools of advertising and graphic design to confront and question her audience

Recent blog posts about Barbara Kruger

Graphic design live #20

9 May 2025
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Type Tuesday, Typography

Type Tuesday, Barbara Kruger in Barcelona, Typographics Conference, Paulo de Cantos in Japan, Tirzah Garwood and Electric Dreams

Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops … and book for Type Tuesday

Graphic design live #15

27 February 2024
Graphic design, Events and exhibitions

Paula Scher in Munich; Type Tuesday with Astrid Stavro and Luca Pitoni; Ellen Lupton in New York and online; Futuress and Brand New Life in Basel; UVA and Barbara Kruger in London.

Current and upcoming events that have piqued our interest: exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops …

Exhibition ephemera

26 June 2015
Book design, Graphic design, Reviews, Visual culture

Graphic designers collect all kinds of ephemera, from boxes crammed with flyers to pinboards covered…

Of monumental proportions

30 May 2014
Graphic design, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture

Lettering Large is a graphic designer’s coffee table book, easily read in one sitting but…