Blog: Design history

10 February 2012

A bigger splash

A bigger splash

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
A major exhibition opens today at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich: ‘100 Years of Swiss Graphic…

7 February 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Letters that sell: a typographic history of UK department store John Lewis
From store signing to ticketing, customer correspondence, leaflets, advertising and websites, typography plays a crucial…

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

26 January 2012

One day, all this will be ours

One day, all this will be ours

john l. walters

Getting ready for the hyperbolic new Design Museum in Albertopolis.
The new Design Museum, slated to open in 2014, is cause for celebration in London’s…

23 January 2012

Noted #27

Noted #27

noted

Generative type, wartime poster app, Lucid’s pink ‘paper’ and Paula’s maps
Below are some more links and ideas that caught our attention over the past few…

17 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday, yves peters

Review of the Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger
Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…

9 January 2012

Words in practice

Words in practice

jim northover

Writing and designing are part of a continuum of communication skills.
Graphic design has always been about words and images. Nowadays words play an even bigger…

19 December 2011

Noted #23

Noted #23

noted

Leiter’s fragments, animation, covers, ephemera and ‘comical’ wordmarks
Here are a few links to sites, articles and a video that grabbed our attention…

16 December 2011

Five from the archive

Five from the archive

eye editors

A handful of articles from Eye’s back pages. Kinross, Margolin, etc.
While we look forward to launching a new Eye website next year, we’ve been busily…

13 December 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

christian schwartz, paul barnes, type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Wilson, 1789
Some typefaces defy the classification of time and place. Wilson’s Roman of 1789 is a…
 
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