Opinion: Graphic design
Fits, starts and fads
Eras cannot be neatly sliced up according to decades or even generations. Graphic design keeps changing…
Editorial Eye 83
Several recent issues of Eye have focused on type design, but this special puts the…
Scarcity and silence: Amc2 Journal
An image-led journal marries the serendipitous collisions of image-sharing sites with the physicality of…
A persuasive chancer
On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit…
Inspiration
Designer Simon Esterson finds inspiration in Ken Briggs’s National Theatre programmes from the 1960s
Postcards from the edge
The ‘unpatriotic’ Sphere caught US designers at the worst moment. Critique by Rick Poynor
Why bother? Ask the Dutch
When issues of quality, responsibility and professionalism are debated, the emerging graphic design…
Inflated intangibles
The self-contratulatory message of a show about UK creativity was little more than…
What did you do in the design studio today, daddy?
Graphic designers are convinced of the profession’s importance. Now they have to convince everyone else…