Critique
Critique is the regular Eye column by Rick Poynor.
A soul drifting in neon limbo
The stroboscopic credits of Noé’s movie suck the viewer into an immersive maelstrom of lettering.…
California panorama
Emigre’s latest type catalogue uses historical sources to display wildly varied fonts with rollicking…
Survivor
Graphic designer Romek Marber bears witness to one of the great crimes of the past century. Critique by…
Left out of the frame
This collection of short COI films is full of fascinating details, but short on context. Critique by…
Poundtastic bombastic
Is there is a graphic mismatch between Poundland’s presentation and its ambitions? Critique by Rick…
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. Critique by…
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. Critique by…
Framing the evidence of war
By incorporating reportage of Russia’s Afghan war, this hybrid takes the graphic novel and…