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Recent articles about various designers
Thinking machine
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Where was Weimar?
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Yes we can change
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Encyclopedic ambitions
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Who cares if you read?
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Big idea, small footprint
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Two cheers for publishing
Issue 98, Spring 2019
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for…
Editorial Eye 98
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Originality and inspiration
Issue 98, Spring 2019
It may be unrealistic to expect that every new typeface will be unique and original, but giving up…
States of independence
Issue 98, Spring 2019
The fragmentation of the type market has lead to new ways of examining, acquiring and enjoying…
A century of no, No, NO
Issue 98, Spring 2019
Small is beautiful
Issue 96, Spring 2018
Estonian design education enjoys a culture of innovation and experimentation thanks to the…
Systematic play
Issue 95, Winter 2018
Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises…
Editorial Eye 94
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Design culture with constraints
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Unpicking the design process
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Tints and tones at the dawn of film
Issue 92, Summer 2016
A Roman legacy
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Mondo magazines
Issue 4, Summer 1991
Some of the sharpest and most influential graphic design ideas come from the new magazines. Eye…
Space for stories
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Visual Editions’ box of literary maps challenges authors to think differently about the structures…
Raw and radical
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
The accessible elite
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’
Paper tigers
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Deborah Burnstone describes Fedrigoni’s inspirational workshops for secondary school art and…
Glorious transit
Issue 85, Spring 2013
Source code for a design revolution
Issue 85, Spring 2013
A Monotype timeline
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Russian revolution
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Polly Corrigan meets the founder of a new graphic design school in Moscow.
Pictures on a page
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Turn of the Screw
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Every word in its place
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Deep in the Monotype archive
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
A wide selection of Monotype’s drawings, artworks, publications and vintage photographs spread…
On being well read
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Pages from the library of libraries
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Relentless information
Issue 83, Summer 2012
End of history? Graphic design hasn’t started
Issue 59, Spring 2006
Crash covers
Issue 52, Summer 2004
J. G. Ballard’s novel resists attempts to summarise it with a single image
Classical crossroads
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Design meets serious music: long programme notes, small budgets and ‘de-averaging’
Design + music = magic
Issue 76, Summer 2010
The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?
The mystery of frozen locomotion
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Letters from Bologna
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Lost in flatlands
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Will the next generation of page layout programs give us back our sense of space?
Physical display
Issue 67, Spring 2008
How lettering is made for public display: hand-cutting in wood and stone, & routing in metal and…
Back with a flourish
Issue 62, Winter 2006
A taste for ornamentation and 1970s kitsch has led to a revival in the swash, the ‘tea cosy’ of…
Culture compass
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Andrew Losowsky on the ‘nonsensical authority’ of the Approval Matrix
Modernism and me: a survivor’s tale
Issue 59, Spring 2006
Interview with Dan Fern
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Professor Dan Fern explains his pioneering ‘MAP / making’ course at the Royal College of Art…
Surface to space
Issue 67, Spring 2008
Maths, computers and the internet are bringing new life, form and purpose to a traditional paper art…
The decriminalisation of ornament
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Spurned and marginalised for more than a century, decoration is enjoying a guilt-free renaissance
Nameless thing
Issue 57, Autumn 2005
Tokyo’s TDC rewards work that transcends means, intention, content, context – and just ‘is’…
Adventures in motion pictures. The post-photographic age
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Do editors’ demands for both motion and stills mean that an era of still photography is coming to…
Recent Photobooks: a connoisseur’s guide
Issue 62, Winter 2006
The steamroller of branding
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
Art and culture are open to interpretation. Why must we give them fixed identities?
Propaganda for the pocket
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Czech matchbox labels form a miniature gallery of Czechoslovakian society under communism
The designer as author
Issue 20, Spring 1996
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within…
Reduction
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Is graphic design, with its allusions and clutter, fundamentally antithetical to minimalism?
Temple of type
Issue 2, Winter 1990
St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and…
Sticks in the mind
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Does anyone care about posters, or are they just an ego-trip for the designers who still make…
The Press Release
Issue 38, Winter 2000
The press release is one of the principal methods through which design companies, art directors…
The chair man dances
Issue 28, Summer 1998
This little red book is a capitalist keepsake – a testament to the corporate culture of a chair…
The far side
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
Clients can seem stubborn, ignorant, wilful and slow, yet some build a relationship of strong mutual…
Scribble and strum
Issue 76, Summer 2010
The layout and art direction of music magazines reflect and champion a wide spectrum of tastes and…
Conference madness
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Punk uncovered: an unofficial history of provincial opposition
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
British punk gave a sound, a voice and a visual currency to the disenfranchised and remote.…
Naked words
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the…
Messy medium
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Social media is shifting message-making away from mass media and into the hands of multiple users.
Beer: the real thing
Beer labels promise authenticity and reliability. But what about taste? Critique by Rick Poynor
Chewing it over: issues of style and content
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
Editorial Eye 34
Issue 34, Winter 1999
Your system sucks!
Issue 8, Autumn 1993
The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and…
White space, silent thoughts
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Visual data is often all we need: sound can divert the mind from interpretation, from completing…
Recent blog posts by various designers
Typographic hints for the next generation
26 November 2019
MagCulture Live 2019
20 November 2019
Work in progress in Rotterdam
20 September 2019
Corporate folk art
16 September 2019
Books received #40 (education)
27 August 2019
(Typographic) Noted #94
19 August 2019
Access all areas
25 July 2019
(Dance) Noted #93
19 June 2019
(Typographic) Noted #92
11 June 2019
Three design days in June
30 May 2019
Type now: Eye 98 live
28 May 2019
More mags in Manhattan
22 May 2019
Letters from Tokyo
20 May 2019
Not at your service
13 May 2019
Eye 98 out now
26 April 2019
Noted #91
20 March 2019
(Typographic) Noted #90
15 February 2019
Books received #36
5 February 2019
Books received #34
23 November 2018
Search for a star (librarian)
20 November 2018
If you know where to look …
9 November 2018
Collecting and connecting
9 October 2018
Noted #88
14 September 2018
New York state of mag
24 May 2018
Great display in Harlem
21 March 2018
Vertical hold
6 December 2017
ModMag17: Part one
10 November 2017
Noted #84
18 October 2017
And then there were six …
14 October 2017
Books received #29
9 October 2017
Noted #83
20 September 2017
Sea levellers
18 September 2017
Zines with superpowers
22 August 2017
Books received #27 (type books)
26 June 2017
(Typographic) Noted #82
7 June 2017
Porto’s studio culture
1 June 2017
Noted #80
3 March 2017
Information is everywhere
23 January 2017
Noted #79
6 January 2017
Ghosts of designbots yet to come
21 December 2016
Books received #24
7 December 2016
Loud, proud and animated
2 December 2016
Type on the campaign trail
30 October 2016
Human rights by any other name
24 October 2016
Noted #78
18 October 2016
Books received #23
10 October 2016
Books received #22 (EDA special)
15 September 2016
Noted #77
7 September 2016
Optimistic tales and theories
2 September 2016
The ultimate Ultrabold
27 August 2016
Image-making beyond style
17 August 2016
Encore for Curtain Call
11 August 2016
Noted #76
27 July 2016
Fileteado Porteño – past and present
7 July 2016
What design didn’t do
30 June 2016
Typeset in concrete
21 June 2016
Noted #75
13 May 2016
Offset 2016: day three
29 April 2016
Remediation in Warsaw
4 April 2016
Relocation to Albertopolis
19 March 2016
The calm collector
24 February 2016
Classic Collections – Back to the 90s
11 February 2016
Picture an orphan
7 February 2016
Gutter press
21 January 2016
Warning cries
14 January 2016
More design for eating
7 January 2016
Classic Collections – On and Off the Wall
31 December 2015
Illustration as anthropology
4 December 2015
West End mags and East End zines
18 November 2015
Noted #71
3 November 2015
Books received #16
26 October 2015
Disappearing act
24 September 2015
Books received #15
9 August 2015
Beyond selfish
13 May 2015
Noted #67
11 May 2015
Noted #66
24 March 2015
Offset 2015: day two
20 March 2015
Kemistry’s greatest hits
13 March 2015
Mounted, not sprayed
5 February 2015
Mirror on the wall
21 January 2015
Stepping into stories
16 January 2015
Noted #65
31 December 2014
Books received #11
7 November 2014
Type Tuesday: No end of print?
1 September 2014
Shouting from the library
31 July 2014
Learning from L’Automàtica
24 July 2014
C for century
1 May 2014
Noted #59
14 April 2014
Typographic freak-out
25 March 2014
Books received #7
17 March 2014
With a gun
20 January 2014
Books Received #5
2 December 2013
Design city in a hurry
18 November 2013
Books received #4
1 November 2013
Beasts and alphabets
16 October 2013
Collaboratively speaking
14 October 2013
A graphic tree-hug
10 October 2013
Eye 86 in transit
30 September 2013
Books received #3
5 September 2013
Of mice and moquette
27 August 2013