Review
Ecological literacy
The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s Design…
Going off brand
Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb’s uncompromising handbook of theory and action ends slyly with a ‘Brandspeak’…
Graphic friction
This new book oozes friction. It has been produced to be enjoyed as a visual experience beyond a mere taxonomy of work.
Bad but good but …
‘Wave: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts’ is a collection of ‘graphic arts’ with no typography. Tanaami…
Hockney asks the scientific question: ‘How?’
‘The Great Wall’, four-page gatefold from Secret Knowledge. After all the rhetoric expended upon new collaborations…
Read this space
Catherine Griffiths: Solo in [ ] Space by Zhihua Duan with Catherine Griffiths is ostensibly the…
Fontstand 2022
It was a Dutch train strike, rather than Covid-19, that threatened to disrupt Fontstand’s in-real-life event…
Ramp up the key strokes
Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) was a poet, artist, film-maker, musician (under the name ‘ruhuman’) and activist who…
Another world is possible
Design’s unsettled relationship to capitalism is nothing new. From the ‘First Things First’ (see Eye 33)…
Subterranean looks back
Before Steven Heller was the graphic design commentator, historian and educator Eye readers know well, he…