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	Eye

	Summer 2010

OPINION

Critique
Left out of the frame
by Rick Poynor

Contents Eye 76
by the editor

Editorial
Editorial Eye 76
by the editor, John L. Walters

FEATURES

Icons
Music design special issue
by the editor

Limited-edition music releases
Pack shots
by Andrew Robertson

Overview
Formal lawlessness [EXTRACT]
by Eric Heiman

Sleeve style
Design + music = magic
by Fred Deakin

ECM label
One man brand?
by Adrian Shaughnessy

Isomorph
Every shop is a gallery
by Kate Moross

Laurie Anderson
All her own invention
by John L. Walters

Metal umlauts
Dot dot rock
by Zoë Street Howe

Reputations / interview
Alex Steinweiss [EXTRACT]
by Steven Heller

Music magazines
Scribble and strum
by Andrew Losowsky

Limited edition release
Unkle’s erotic box
by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Limited edition release
Vaughan Oliver’s Minotaur
by the editors, Vaughan Oliver

Wood type
Yin and yang
by Matthew Carter

Young Monster
Grab the hook
by Jane Cheng

REVIEWS

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations

Wine Labels

Calligraffiti: The graphic art of Niels Shoe Meulman

Uncorporate Identity

Magnificent Maps

TYPO Berlin 2010, ‘Passion’

Roman Cieslewicz



		MUSIC COMMUNICATION SYMBOLISM GRAPHIC DESIGN PACKAGE DESIGN POSTER ART ALTERNATIVE CULTURE CULTURE Concept index hide concept words

This collection of short COI films is full of fascinating details, but short on context

Music design special issue

Introducing Eye’s first-ever music design special …

Record sleeves are dead – long live music design!

Form swamping content? Or a welcome new wave of graphical expression?

Fragmentation in the music industry has aided the rise of rock posters – personal, ‘unbranded’, cool – sold directly to fans.

The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?

Manfred Eicher’s uncompromising artistic vision has always defined the look and feel of ECM.

Kate Moross, whirlwind force behind vinyl-only label Isomorph, explains her mission to ‘make music look good’

Graphic design’s recent concerns have for decades been at the heart of Laurie Anderson’s practice

Zoë Street Howe on the black art of ‘metal umlauts’

Steven Heller interviews Alex Steinweiss, the designer who invented the album sleeve.

The layout and art direction of music magazines reflect and champion a wide spectrum of tastes and genres.

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones create an identity for James Lavelle’s ‘faceless’ project

This Pixies box set was a chance to make brand new artwork with a student team from UCA

Matthew Carter, co-founder of the first major digital foundry, explains how he came to design his first wood type

‘Musicians are cooler than normal people, even if they’re flakey and poor!’ – Chattanooga’s Young Monster


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