17 March 2025

Lost in the wash

Lost in the wash

Patrick Baglee

Patrick Baglee reviews Nick Asbury’s book The Road to Hell

For Asbury, purpose is the opposite of creativity: ‘Purpose is a closed mindset: it decides the goal in advance.’

10 March 2025

Digging out the roots

Digging out the roots

Quentin Newark

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

The Swiss Style is the dominant style in modern graphic design. It is so shorn-down, it has little to date it …

4 March 2025

Graphic design live #19

Graphic design live #19

Eye editors

Anette Lenz at L’Onde Théâtre; With a Bird and Typography Conference in the Netherlands; Splash!; and Outlaws in London; Women’s Rights Posters in Milwaukee

The team at Eye has curated a selection of current and upcoming events worth noting …

26 February 2025

Shifts and glyphs in Istanbul

Shifts and glyphs in Istanbul

Gülizar Çepoğlu

At ‘Critical Shifts’, a group exhibition in Istanbul, Türkiye, Gülizar Çepoğlu unfolds the materiality of writing

Three-dimensional letterforms blur the boundaries between text, image, architecture and sculpture …

19 February 2025

Supergraphics in Newhaven

Supergraphics in Newhaven

Amy Henry

Seventeen specially commissioned supergraphics breathe new life into the port town of Newhaven for the Look Again festival

Newhaven recently received a bright splash of paint and colour with the addition of seventeen specially commissioned murals

14 February 2025

Relationships on show

Relationships on show

Jane Connory, Claire Fisher, Fanny Suhendra

Jane Connory, Fanny Suhendra and Claire Fisher collaborate to flip the script on graphic design exhibitions and visually narrate the history of relationship agencies in Australia.

An installation in the National Gallery of Australia used design ephemera to explore 75 years of Relationships Australia …

10 February 2025

The real thing

The real thing

Eye editors

For three days only – a London exhibition of Dafi Kühne’s extraordinary posters

The venue for ‘The real thing’ is 12 Bride Lane. All posters are for sale and admission is free.

7 February 2025

Graphic design live #18

Graphic design live #18

Tim Burton, Czech Graphic Design and Looks Delicious! in London; American Photography at Rijksmuseum; Muovo 2025 in Prague; Sports Posters in New York City.

The Eye team curates a selection of current and upcoming events. Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops.

1 February 2025

Sparking fear

Sparking fear

Christopher Brawn

Joy and Fear offers a snapshot of modernity … [it] functions as a manual and audit on how the world works now …

Joy and Fear offers a snapshot of modernity … [it] functions as a manual and audit on how the world works now …

15 January 2025

Pure design play

Pure design play

Andrew Howard

Two of Ken Garland’s games for Galt Toys are back in circulation. By Andrew Howard

Ken Garland started working for Galt Toys in 1961, and later conceived and designed toys and games for them.

 
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