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Blog: Design history

20 July 2026

No history to rule them all

The seventh edition retains Meggs’s descriptive approach … and … tasks readers with forming their own analyses.

11 March 2026

Shape shifters

Quentin Newark salutes ‘the most perfect compressions of visual metaphor, reference and formal strength’ in the short history of graphic design

The symbols of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv are the unquestionable peak of what symbols can be …

9 January 2026

Books received #62

Greensleeves, The Outdoor Archive, On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z, Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930, A Sign Is, Turning Revolt into Style

Here are half a dozen interesting books that landed on Eye’s desks and plan chests in recent months …

24 October 2025

Design history in Ankara

Jessica Jenkins reports from the Design History Society’s annual conference, held at Ankara Bilim University, 4-6 September 2025

The process of diversification is for each generation to re-define, but it is important to embrace the many ways of telling design history.

3 October 2025

Type Tuesday: My favourite logo

Eight designers gathered together at St Bride Library to share their knowledge and opinions about logo design

Last week audiences packed into St Bride Library for our sold-out Type Tuesday, ‘My favourite…

29 August 2025

James Mosley 1935-2025

Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley

Mosley was was rarely ‘centre stage’, yet his influence was significant … a popular speaker who wrote seminal texts on typographic history.

5 August 2025

This sporting myth

Who would dare update the Munich pictograms made by Otl Aicher and Gerhard Joksch? Mark Holt, that’s who. Quentin Newark reports

The sports event symbols for the 1972 Olympics are rightly regarded as one of graphic design’s undoubted high points, writes Quentin Newark …

14 April 2025

Remembering Gerald Cinamon

Geoff Duffield recalls meeting Gerald (Jerry) Cinamon for the first time at Penguin Books.

I first met Jerry in early 1981, where we both worked at Penguin Books, writes…

14 February 2025

Relationships on show

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 …

15 January 2025

Pure design play

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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