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Quentin Fiore: Massaging the message
The man who gave form to Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ designed books that were both for and ahead…
Your system sucks!
The flight from Modernism left a yearning for graphics that were rough, real, unaffected and believable.…
Prints of Islam
In Syria and Beirut, craftsmen make inexpensive devotional images for the workplace and home
Max Bittrof: visual engineer
Max Bittrof was one of the leading German designers of the 1920s. Unlike many exponents of the New…
Stop making sense
The best-loved children’s stories are for adults too. Five American illustrators push at the boundaries…
Video to go
Video packaging is an area of graphics both marginal and ubiquitous. Who decides how it looks?
Cult of the ugly
Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get…
Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics.
For the first in a new series, Eye revisits Richard Hollis’s innovatory design for a book on the French…
Bj
Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively…
Reputations: Wolfgang Weingart
‘My work is like a quarry. People see a stone they like, appropriate it and work it until there’s…