New media
24 April 2012
#FontSunday … on #TypeTuesday
The Design Museum’s Twitter contest has type geeks living for the weekend
Ah, Sunday. Day of sleeping in late, padding around the house in your jammies, and generally striving to do as little as possible in anticipation of another working week's grind, writes John Moore Williams.
18 April 2012
Off the map
john ridpath
It may be a masterpiece but Google Maps is losing ground to its rivals
The graphic thought behind Google Maps is fascinating, and for most internet users it ranks alongside Google Search as an essential tool of everyday life, writes John Ridpath.
15 April 2012
Gumballs in Philadelphia
joan k. smith
Joan K. Smith reviews The Happy Show’s mix of art, design and science
So I didn’t eat one of the chocolates, or chew one of the happiness-rated yellow gumballs, writes Joan K. Smith. I most certainly didn’t ‘Do a booty dance in front of the spider web’ as my wall-dispensed card advised (below).
11 April 2012
A tasty spread
the events department
Looking ahead to the Facing Pages festival of indie magazines in Arnhem.
Next week, the ‘Facing Pages’ festival in Arnhem provides an opportunity to take part in three days of magazine-related events, ‘crowd-sourced’ exhibitions, workshops, parties and talks, from Fri 20 April to Sun 22 April 2012.
27 March 2012
Type Tuesday
robin kinross, type tuesday
Eye maps the landscape of digital typography … in 1992
This week we take a look at Eye no. 7 vol. 2, a typography special issue.
5 March 2012
Bells, book and blessings
john l. walters
Readers flock to Christ Church to celebrate the launch of Spitalfields Life
On Friday night I was invited to a book launch that was unlike any publishing event I’ve ever attended, writes John L. Walters.
17 February 2012
Making Magazines 2012, 16 March
the events department
Magaholics’ field day spans print, digital, indie, mainstream …
Exactly four weeks from today there will be a one-day magazine conference at St Bride Library in London, organised by Jeremy Leslie (of magCulture) and our own Simon Esterson.
31 January 2012
Type Tuesday
type tuesday
From sci-fi to Dickens: onscreen, animated typography by Momoco
In Eye 80, Anne-Marie Conway wrote about Momoco’s way with on-screen typography (see ‘Credits where due’).
27 January 2012
Greece, 2022
john ridpath
Athenian designers reflect on how they might shape their country’s future
When I visited Athens in February 2010, the Greek government’s spiralling debt crisis was just beginning, writes John Ridpath.
27 January 2012
Higher ground
noel douglas
Occupy Design is an opportunity to change design, and design for change.
We invited Noel Douglas, one of the organisers of ‘This Space Is Not For Hire’ to explain the thinking behind this two-day workshop at the Rag Factory in the last weekend of January.