Eye Magazine

Many great projects would never exist without one person’s unreasonable obsession. Did any publisher ever think that what the world needs now is a book about the coffee houses of Wellington, 1939-79? Or commission a focus group to test it?

This weekend two newspaper magazines step out of their usual structures and remind us what is possible with their formats when you think about content in a different way, writes Simon Esterson.

Here are a few photobooks that have recently caught our attention … each reviewed in no more than 140 characters.

Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … each reviewed in no more than 140 characters.

Stepping across the threshold of David King’s North London house is like plunging into a history lesson, wrote Rick Poynor in 1998. King has devoted 30 years to amassing what may be the world’s largest private collection of photographs, books and magazines documenting the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Here is a small selection of graphic design for galleries and museums and magazines that caught our attention in recent weeks.

Here are a few items that caught our attention in recent weeks.

Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … all reviewed in no more than 140 characters.

Two current exhibitions in London’s museum district celebrate the work of pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, writes Maggie Malone. 

Occasionally you meet someone whose business card says ‘storyteller’ – which might prompt some of us to run to a bar several blocks away – but usually they have the grace to hand over the card with an ironic shrug. As one such person said to us the other day, ‘Yes, Nathan Barley has come true!’