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Visual rhetoric
What we mean when we talk about form, by Leslie Atzmon
Like the late American comedian Rodney Dangerfield, aesthetic form ‘don’t get no respect’, writes Leslie…
Power vacuum, part one
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Victor Margolin on design and sustainability
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a…
Power vacuum, part two
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More on design and sustainability. Eye blog interview with Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a…
Dimensional typography
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The unbearable flatness of being, by Leslie Atzmon
‘One evening Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight. But there wasn’t…
The plight of Tibet – in typography
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Interview with DAHRA’s Rishi Sodha about 3 Minutes
3 minutes is an elaborate graphic design project, a black slipcase containing eleven sixteen-page booklets…
The romance of chemicals
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A portrait of Swiss designer Max Schmid, father of ‘Geigy style’, by New Zealand typographer Hamish Thompson
Zurich is a long way from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, so I missed…
Green USP?
Greenwashing and design in the age of ethical consumption
In the contemporary era of heightened green awareness and ‘ethical consumption’, major companies have quickly…
Wake up Brazil!
Brazilian designers discuss the perils of following trends
GOT MERZ was an attempt to send a wake up call to Brazil, an attempt…
Handmade tales
The waste cardboard of Buenos Aires is being turned into storybooks
The Cardboard Book Project was launched in London last night – a series of ‘grown-up…
Lavina
Alpine avalanches: adrenaline, artifice and abstraction by Yann Gross
Lavina [Avalanches], by Swiss photographer Yann Gross, falls neatly between genres: part document, part pun…