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20 February 2024
‘We love books’, the first Type Tuesday of 2024, will be on 5 March at St Bride Library. We’ll be joined in person by two Italian-born designers – Luca Pitoni and Astrid Stavro – talking about the late Anita Klinz (below) …
24 January 2024
Eye 105 is out (and about) now
Dear friends
Happy New Year to all our newsletter subscribers – especially those of you who also subscribe to the magazine. The latest issue – Eye no. 105 vol. 27 – is now available at local newsagents and independent bookstores in the UK and Europe and has been making its way around the rest of the world, as we can see from the many social media posts from happy readers (see below).
14 December 2023
The latest Eye – no. 105 vol. 27 – is now available at local newsagents and independent bookstores in the UK and Europe and is currently going out to North America and the rest of the world. If you are not already reading Eye regularly, please consider buying a subscription. You can also buy single copies of the latest issue and / or classic back issues from the Eye shop. |
AI-generated fish picture from ‘Artificial Idiot’, a feature by Marian Bantjes in Eye 105. |
25 November 2023
Roll up, roll up … book for Type Tuesday
Dear friends
Please don’t forget to book your tickets to Type Tuesday: All the fonts of the fair on November 28 with Joby Carter. As usual, it will be held at St Bride Printing Library in London and ticket sales (from £8.50 to £13) support the St Bride Foundation. Click here to buy yours. …
17 November 2023
The latest Eye – issue 105 – has now been printed and will be mailed to subscribers next week. If you haven’t yet renewed or started your subscription, please click here.
8 November 2023
We are excited to announce that Joby Carter, signwriter, fairground artist and owner of Carters Steam Fair, will be the speaker at our next Type Tuesday on 28 November …
20 October 2023
Book your tickets for Type Tuesday!
There's still time to book for our special Type Tuesday to hear all about Rick Poynor’s new book Why Graphic Culture Matters …
11 October 2023
There are lots of exciting events coming up this Autumn. Not only our special Type Tuesday but a new issue of Eye (105) …
13 September 2023
Thank you to everyone who came to our last Type Tuesday on 5 September for an anecdote-packed chat with Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and a comprehensively illustrated talk about the Album Cover Album series by Christopher Wilson …
22 August 2023
Book for Type Tuesday: Sound and vision
This is to let you know about our next Type Tuesday, from 7 to 9:30pm on 5 September at St Bride Library, with Christopher Wilson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell. If you can get to London that evening, please book your tickets via Billetto and support the St Bride Foundation.
5 June 2023
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s Type Tuesday, ‘Cover to cover’. Tickets are selling really well, so if you would like to come (and you are within striking distance of St Bride Library) we seriously recommend you book your tickets now before they sell out …
31 May 2023
Book for Type Tuesday: Cover to cover
Please come to our next Type Tuesday, from 7 to 9:30pm on 6 June at St Bride Library. 'Cover to Cover' will be all about books and we have some terrific speakers for you …
3 May 2023
Eye 104 has been printed, with a Peter Knapp interview, motion graphics, Matrix, Telegraf (Ukraine) and Christopher Wilson on the Album Cover Albums …
11 April 2023
Eye 104 is about to go to press (subscribe here), with articles about motion graphics, music design, Ukrainian magazine Telegraf, John Randle’s Matrix and much more.
18 February 2023
Great news – Sara De Bondt will be our speaker for the first Type Tuesday of 2023.
In a talk entitled ‘On and off the grid’, she will speak about her experiences in designing, editing, writing, publishing and distributing books today. The whole evening will be devoted to publishing and research as part of design practice, a subject close to our own hearts.
13 December 2022
Our warmest thanks go out to all of you who attended Type Tuesday last week at St Bride Library in London, and an especially big thank-you to our three speakers: Jim Sutherland, Jahnavi Innis and Richard Ardagh, each of whom delivered fascinating presentations under the theme ‘Stories worth telling’.
25 November 2022
The next Type Tuesday, our last of the year, has the title ‘Stories worth telling’ and it’s going to be terrific …
23 August 2022
How green is graphic design?
Our next Type Tuesday, ‘How green is graphic design?’ features Pureprint’s Richard Owers, Fedrigoni’s Annette Clayton and Eye art director Simon Esterson.
5 August 2022
We have been very heartened by the positive responses to our current issue and to our most recent Type Tuesday …
22 June 2022
Book now for Book night! Type Tuesday, 28 June 2022
We will have piles of the freshly printed Eye 103 to buy at the Eye stall at St Bride next Tuesday. Plus selected bargain back issues …
7 June 2022
Eye 103 has now been bound and boxed ready for dispatch to subscribers later this week …
26 May 2022
Subscribe to Eye in time for 103
As I write this, my colleague Simon Esterson is on press with the next issue of Eye magazine, packed full of great stories from the worlds of graphic design and visual culture …
17 May 2022
Subscribe to Eye and get something Extra
To celebrate the upcoming issue, Eye 103, we have just produced a little limited-edition publication we call Richard Turley: Eye Extra 01. This is an expanded version of the interview with Richard that first appeared in Eye 100, the ‘Talking about graphic design’ special issue, which came out during the pandemic and has now sold out.
2 April 2022
Catching up with Eye magazine |
After some problems with our old web hosting, we have finally been able to update the Eye website to include the last issue, Eye 102. Which is cause for a certain amount of celebration here in the Haggerston Riviera.
23 February 2022
Book your tickets for ‘Activists in Ink’, Type Tuesday
Please join us for our upcoming evening ‘Activists in Ink’, from 7-9.30pm on 8 March at St Bride Library in London. This will be our first in-person Type Tuesday since March 2020, and we’ll be joined by three special guests: reportage illustrator Lucinda Rogers; graphic designer Greg Bunbury; and poet, activist and letterpress artist Dennis Gould. Tickets cost £12.50, £10 members/concessions, £8 students, in support of the St Bride Foundation.
8 February 2022
Eye newsletter, early February
Greetings to all our newsletter readers. We’ve enjoyed paging through some back issues recently, and it has been nice to be reminded of some interesting articles from the past three decades …
15 January 2022
A very happy new year to all our friends and readers. We’re looking forward to a productive and eventful (in a good way) 2022, with lots of great articles and reviews in preparation for Eye 103 and beyond …
13 December 2021
Subscribers’ copies of Eye 102 have been mailed out, and we understand it reached independent magazine shops in the UK a few days ago. Some of you have even made Instagram stories to celebrate the new issue, which you can see in our highlights page.
3 December 2021
Eye 102 is on its way at last. Subscribers’ copies will be mailed out next week, and it should be in your favourite independent magazine shop a short while afterwards …
21 October 2021
Another month, another newsletter, with a few links we hope you’ll enjoy reading while you all wait patiently for the launch of Eye 102, our forthcoming type special.
24 September 2021
Greetings from the Eye studio, where we’re sorting out loose ends to do with crucial matters of sales and distribution – we are again able to take orders from the EU …
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17 September 2021
Email sent to everyone who purchased tickets for ‘Eye on type’
9 September 2021
Buy your tickets for ‘Eye on type’
Our next Type Tuesday, Eye on type, will take place at 6:30pm (BST) on 14 September 2021, with some great designers who will be featured in the forthcoming Type special issue (Eye 102 volume 26). Our guests are November (Shiva Nallaperumal and Juhi Vishnani) from Mumbai, Laura Meseguer from Barcelona and Thomas Huot-Marchand from Nancy. Tickets cost £5/£3.
28 August 2021
Save the date! Type Tuesday, 14 September
The next Type Tuesday is at 6:30pm on 14 September 2021, with several designers who will be featured in the next Type special issue of Eye: November (Mumbai), Laura Meseguer (Barcelona) and Thomas Huot-Marchand (Nancy). Please save the date and look out for further newsletters …
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