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Recent articles about Pentagram

Design by numbersIssue 106, Summer 2024
Review

                                                Digital images on the Mahanakhon Cube, a venue in Bangkok, design by Pentagram partner Eddie…                        
Philadelphia freedomIssue 104, Spring 2023
Feature

                                            Pentagram’s Luke Hayman has given The Philadelphia Inquirer an overhaul. By Steven Heller [EXTRACT]            
Jump cuts: Matt WilleyIssue 104, Spring 2023
Feature

                                            ‘Light gets turned into graphic dots – I thought this might be a nice way of capturing that feeling without being too literal or cheesy’             
Michael Bierut: The designer’s designerIssue 100, Summer 2020
Feature

                                            
	‘Online, everything arrives with equal weight … everything can have a logo, everything can have an identity, everyone can do it in an untutored way.’            
Design odysseyIssue 99, Autumn 2019
Review

                                                Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) has long been the ultimate designers’ director, a man who presided over…                        
Traces of a drifterIssue 93, Winter 2016
Opinion

                                            
	Camera in hand, Harry Pearce dives into the urban underbelly in search of the unfathomable. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor            
The book of MichaelIssue 92, Summer 2016
Review

                                                It is a pleasure to read a book that is honest, accessible and direct about…                        
AutomonographyIssue 92, Summer 2016
Review

                                                Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…                        
Dance on the spotIssue 89, Winter 2014
Feature

                                            
	Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming together of code, choreography, music and design – bring playful, digital interaction to loops and layers of physical performance            
Design history disciplinedIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

                                                What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…                        
The rules of the gameIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with exactitude            
Head TripIssue 78, Winter 2010
Feature

                                            Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure            
Shouting from the shelvesIssue 73, Autumn 2009
Review

                                                Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber (there was…                        
Trust in ModernismIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Feature

                                            The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.            
Reputations: Bob GillIssue 33, Autumn 1999
Feature

                                            
	‘I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There’s no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.’ Interview by Patrick Baglee            
Reputations: Peter SavilleIssue 17, Summer 1995
Feature

                                            
	‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised in the 1980s and are now exhausted.’ Interview by Rick Poynor            
Reputations: Michael BierutIssue 24, Spring 1997
Feature

                                            
	‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with the fact that much of what we do has little content’            
Reputations: J. Abbott MillerIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Feature

                                            'We could be more aware of the civility of design, of how it can be constructive in a poetic sense, not just like a sneeze of capitalist excess’            
Self-control. self-raisingIssue 38, Winter 2000
Feature

                                            
	Pentagram are ‘time-rich’. Browns are the young establishment.            
Naked wordsIssue 82, Winter 2011
Feature

                                            
	Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves – have always had a place in publication design.            
Controlled passion: the art of Fernando GutiérrezIssue 36, Summer 2000
Feature

                                            In post-Franco Spain, a cool Catalan breeze blows through the often humid, overheated world of professional magazine design and art direction            
Changing of the guardIssue 8, Autumn 1992
Opinion

                                            
	American graphic design is divided. The once rebellious avant-garde has become the status quo, while the new guard shun their elders’ example and adhere to few of the old ‘isms’            
I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who canIssue 13, Summer 1994
Opinion

                                            
	British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the computer a new ‘language’ or simply a tool?
	By Michael Horsham            

Recent blog posts about Pentagram

The collaboration games

20 June 2023
Graphic design, Reviews, Technology, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

London Design Biennale 2023 positions design as a tool for global collaboration. By Gabriela Matuszyk

The biennale theme, ‘The Global Game’, responds to the current cultural climate by referencing Buckminster Fuller’s World Game …

Colin Forbes 1928-2022

7 January 2023

The death of Colin Forbes closes a significant chapter in the history of British graphic design. Obituary by Patrick Baglee

Thoughtful and methodical, serious about the work, Forbes’s diffidence was belied by the confidence and thoroughness of his output.

Type Tuesday: Show and tell

27 February 2020
Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Join us at St Bride Library for Eye’s quarterly Type Tuesday event on 3 March 2020, to hear Marina Willer, Anthony Pearson and Dinah Casson talk about exhibition design

Eye magazine’s next Type Tuesday on 3 March 2020 will focus on exhibition design. STOP…

(Dance) Noted #93

19 June 2019
Graphic design, Illustration, New media, Technology, Typography, Visual culture

2wice Arts Foundation; Tanec Praha; identity for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; flamenco magazine El Canon; illustrated campaign for Texas Ballet Theater

Here is a selection of dance-related things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Two…

Graphic days out

10 October 2018
Graphic design, Illustration, Typography, Visual culture

The third edition of Torino Graphic Days, a ‘visual design festival’, shows the playful side of visual communication

In just two years, Torino Graphic Days (TGD) has developed into an ambitious and wide-ranging…

Noted #79

6 January 2017
Book design, Illustration, Magazines, New media, Photography, Reviews

Graffiti removal, Circular #19, The Phonografik Collectivo, Optimology° and Fermata

Here are a few things – graffiti removal, a Phoenician alphabet project, a media wall…

Offset Sheffield 2016: day one

6 November 2016
Book design, Brand madness, Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Offset’s first Sheffield conference bought together artists and designers for two days of engaging presentations and lively panel discussions

Last month, a host of speakers from across the design industry came to present their…

Type on the campaign trail

30 October 2016
Graphic design, Illustration, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

US designers contribute type, posters, badges and branding to the Hillary Clinton cause

From the outset, the Hillary Clinton campaign has enlisted the help of some of the…

What design didn’t do

30 June 2016
Critical path, Graphic design, Information design, Posters

As a designer I feel guilty, says Marina Willer. Could we have done more to stop Brexit?

Twenty years ago, I chose to move from Brazil to London because it is the…

Books received #18

11 April 2016
Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Visual culture

A Smile in the Mind, London A to Z, Jean Tinguely, Bad Bonn Song Book and Eating With The Eyes

Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … all reviewed…

Books received #12

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…

Books received #8

7 May 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Typography

Adventures in Letterpress, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbook, Ant Colony, Fritz Kahn and Other People’s Dogs

Here is a quick look at some titles that have recently arrived at Eye’s Shoreditch…

Letterpress firecracker in Tribeca

7 May 2013
Graphic design, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Eye magazine presents an evening with typographer, designer and letterpress practitioner Alan Kitching in Tribeca on Wednesday

On Wednesday evening there’s an opportunity to see designer and typographer Alan Kitching (of The…

Offset 2013: day one

9 April 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews

Bob Gill, Louise Fili and Ben Bos explain why design is ‘not a profession but a way of life.’ Pam Bowman reports from the Dublin conference.

Starting at 10am on Friday 5 April and finishing at 7pm the following Sunday, Offset…

Type in Wapping

13 November 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Pencil to Pixel opens up Monotype’s archive of typographic history, from artwork to artefacts

The ‘Pencil to Pixel’ exhibition, which opens this Friday at Metropolitan Wharf in London, gives…

Every which way

9 July 2012
Music design, New media, Photography, Technology, Visual culture

Abbott Miller’s iPad app gives a new framework to contemporary dance

Fifth Wall, an iPad app designed by Abbott Miller for 2wice Arts Foundation, presents an…