Review
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…
Let the system do the work
Martin Lorenz’s Flexible Visual Systems: The Design Manual for Contemporary Visual Identities is a proposal for…
The purpose is what it does
What happens to a design after it has entered the world? What new meanings are generated…
A celebration of sans
If, by setting out its content on its cover, a book could be said to wear…
Attack of the book jackets
Tupigrafia A-Z is the book of the Brazilian magazine Tupigrafia published by Claudio Rocha and Tony…
The narrator is present
Kenneth FitzGerald has been writing about design since 1996, when his first commissioned piece – a…
Magic and logic
How do you tell the story of the way graphic design actually gets done? Two books…