Max Bruinsma
Recent articles by Max Bruinsma
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Enigma variations
Issue 19, Winter 1995
Studio Dumbar uses its posters for the Zeebelt Theatre in the Hague for anarchic type experiments
The aesthetics of transience
Issue 25, Summer 1997
With computers as the means for limitless manipulations of signs, designers now exalt subjectivity…
Keep it simple
Issue 26, Autumn 1997
Mieke Gerritzen brings her visual language of graphic emblems and clear-cut lines, colours and type…
Best before
Issue 27, Spring 1998
British supermarkets display packets and tins whose graphic design codes have a longer shelf life…
Serious doodling
Issue 28, Summer 1998
Working in the crash-prone pre-history of multimedia, Post Tool has a brand of graphic design that…
The diaphanous machine
Issue 26, Autumn 1997
Designers can bring clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and find new ways to organise…
What you see is how you think
Issue 31, Spring 1999
A graduate student competition resulted in hybrids of browser and search engine that redraw and…
Design mirror
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
A reflection of Eye in the winning and commended entries for the 1998 D&AD Student Awards Publishing…
Commercial Art
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
Oliviero Toscani's monumental and confrontational art direction and photography has provoked many…
Reputations: Piet Schreuders
Issue 32, Summer 1999
‘I don’t want to know the canon, because it is completely irrelevant and transient. If you fight…
Style is content
Issue 32, Summer 1999
Is there any use in overturning the existing hierarchies between verbal and visual form?
Fuzzy logic for furry animals
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
Reason, sense and high-tech at the FUSE98 conference
Rescue meaning
Issue 28, Summer 1998
To communicate more than mere messages for a client, designers must adopt an editorial point of view…
Sampling the modern inheritance
Issue 31, Spring 1999
Critiques of Modernism often fail to acknowledge the movement’s marrying of poetry to structure
Push & pull
Issue 29, Autumn 1998
Graphic design and advertising are two of the great driving forces in today's visual culture.