Blog: Design history

21 April 2011

Documents of the marvellous

Documents of the marvellous

rick poynor

The spirit of Surrealism lives on – in projects based on curious collections
Surrealism’s assumptions and attitudes, its embrace of individual desire and celebration of the obsessional, fantastic…

20 April 2011

Dark tools of desire

Dark tools of desire

rick poynor

Surrealism’s relationship with graphic design is still strangely unfulfilled
Surrealism is often described as the most influential of all twentieth-century art movements, writes Rick…

19 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Antique Olive
Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive (1962-66) is a perfect example of a typeface that has suffered…

2 April 2011

Cover story

Cover story

New trade version of monograph celebrating the inventor of LP design
The first illustrated album cover – for ‘albums’ of 78rpm records – was designed in 194…

29 March 2011

Posters on sticks

Posters on sticks

sally jeffery

A vast river of banner-bearing humanity with something to say
Here is a postscript to Eye’s poster debate, writes Sally Jeffery (see ‘Help! Poster initiatives…

20 March 2011

Fixed compass

Fixed compass

the history department

David Gentleman talks about his identity design for British Steel
The most recent issue of Eye includes a Reputations interview with David Gentleman, whose career…

16 March 2011

Tarnished idol

Tarnished idol

alexander ecob

British Museum presents the public and private art of Eric Gill
His eponymous typeface is frequently used to evoke a sense of unadulterated, stiff-upper-lipped Britishness, but…

15 March 2011

Doing the right thing

Doing the right thing

john ridpath, the events department

UCL seminar to discuss the ethics of graphic design
Back in the summer of 1994, Andrew Howard reminded Eye readers of ‘First Things First’…

1 March 2011

Critique: French connections

Critique: French connections

rick poynor, the magazine department

Back Cover signals an allegiance to graphic design as a serious endeavour
In his latest Web-only Critique, Rick Poynor looks at the French graphic design and typography…

22 February 2011

Big in Japan

Big in Japan

the events department

Ronald Clyne’s covers for Folkways Records on show in Tokyo
Ronald Clyne’s LP covers for Folkways Records were recently exhibited at Gallery 5610 (below), a…
 
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