Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
Left out of the frame
This collection of short COI films is full of fascinating details, but short on context
Poundtastic bombastic
Is there is a graphic mismatch between Poundland’s presentation and its ambitions?
The future is ours to see
SpaceCollective’s innovative website, at once lucid and intoxicating, adds substance to techno-hippie…
Mining the graphic mother-lode
Rochester Institute of Technology opens its American design archive to the online world
All mouth and trousers?
Challenged to design a poster celebrating London, British designers show mostly how little they care for…
Clever chameleon
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
GenPrag’s T-shirts celebrate the most emblematic of twentieth-century graphic design heroes. So let’s…