Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Clever chameleon (Web only)
Rick Poynor examines Mono-Kultur, a smart and ‘exquisitely scaled’ independent publication
Framing the evidence of war
By incorporating reportage of Russia’s Afghan war, this hybrid takes the graphic novel and…
The pleasures of browsing
Rick Poynor plays ‘hotel inspector’ to find a bookshop that understands its books and readers:…
Bad timing
In a new Obama-led world order, Omega’s lust for luxury seems as misplaced as a licence to kill.
The canon, aimed at your back (Web only)
GenPrag’s T-shirts celebrate the most emblematic of twentieth-century graphic design heroes. So let’s…
In passing: Obit
This American blog-mag reminds us that obituaries are about lives lived
Riches and embarrassment
A book of Swiss competition winners makes a virtue of its cold and awkward design. Yet if the jury seeks…
Too gaudy for words (Web only)
Independent’s new clothes do nothing to establish a once elegant paper as a vital force
Revelations in style
Gallimard’s Découvertes series secures readers’ loyalty by showing respect for their curiosity and…
A persuasive chancer
On the basis of its first issue The Happy Hypocrite is small, quietly experimental and just a bit…