Eye Magazine

6 March 2023
Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Visual culture

Weisbeck’s experiments; working class Covid-19 diaries; Connew’s vocabulary of colonisation; Shore’s photographic craft.

We have compiled a list of intriguing titles that have piqued our interest in recent months…

8 March 2019
Awards madness, Graphic design, Information design, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

In Aotearoa New Zealand, Designers Speak (Up) is challenging the male-dominated awards system. By Catherine Griffiths

A new campaign aims to address the gender imbalance in New Zealand design, writes Catherine…

15 May 2017
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Typography

When the world is in flux, book design offers ‘a refuge of certainty’. Andrew Howard explains why he founded the Porto Design Summer School

There is a particularity about the education system which we take as given – that…

13 June 2016
Book design, Photography, Reviews, Visual culture

Wallace’s Road Wallah, Claridge’s East End, Graham’s The Whiteness of the Whale and Connew’s Body of Work

Here are a few photobooks that have recently caught our attention … each reviewed in…

8 August 2013
Brand madness, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Posters, Visual culture

You’ve seen that face before. But why is Jeanne Moreau (as seen in La Notte) staring soulfully from the cover of Eye 85?

The cover of the current issue, Eye 85, has attracted lots of (largely welcome) attention…

10 December 2008
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

New Zealand is geared up for its first international typography symposium

‘Small, perplexed post-colonial democracy seeking in-depth typographical conversation.’ Some want ads are made to go…

Catherine Griffiths