Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Review
David Carson is indelibly linked to the notion of the ‘end of print’, encapsulated by…
Issue 68, Summer 2008
Feature
Introduction to special issue by editor John L. Walters
Issue 68, Summer 2008
Feature
In the late 1980s, US designer and historian Martha Scotford set out on a mission to discover what might constitute a canon of graphic design …
Issue 27, Spring 1998
Feature
Does the current avalanche of glossy books constitute a genuine design history – or mere graphic ephemera? By Teal Triggs
Issue 20, Spring 1996
Feature
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
Issue 34, Winter 1999
Feature
Three books showing accidental collages of torn posters an other random marks revive interest in a style of image-making drawn from the city streets
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
Feature
Graphic designers are responsible for the communication of ideas through words, signs and pictures. Yet experimentation and new aesthetics cannot emerge without a thorough understanding of reading and writing: if we accept that language is important, we must be prepared to protect it
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
Opinion
If it has dotted lines, an arrow or two and it’s impossible to read, then it must be ‘postmodern’. Are we using the theory the way it was intended?
Issue 5, Winter 1991
Review
Twelve-hundred graphic designers from over 30 regional chapters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts…
Issue 4, Summer 1991
Feature
Some of the sharpest and most influential graphic design ideas come from the new magazines. Eye thumbs the pages of the international press and takes a close look at three of the most consistently creative titles: i-D, Interview, and Beach Culture