Eye Magazine

9 January 2020
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Giovanni Anceschi, Shopfronts of London, Polish Design ABCs and a Swiss design manual by Müller-Brockmann

Here is a selection of four titles that caught our attention in recent months. Published…

22 February 2019
Book design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

Three books – all crowd-funded – from Spitalfields Life, offer complementary, clear-eyed observations of the history of London’s East End

The anonymous ‘Gentle Author’, best known for his popular daily blog Spitalfields Life, has built…

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…

18 December 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

Cut & Paste: 21st Century Collage, Spitalfields Nippers, A Field Guide to East London Wildlife, Shoreditch Wildlife and Eduardo Paolozzi.

Here are a few books that provided a little relief from Eye’s seasonal hangovers in…

Friederike Huber