Blog: Design history

10 October 2008

Q&A with Giampietro+Smith

Q&A with Giampietro+Smith

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‘Teaching history as a set of facts is only half the story’
More questions and answers about design history. Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Giampietro+Smith on…

8 October 2008

How Mexico went for gold

How Mexico went for gold

A glorious rerun of the 1968 Olympics identity . . . with one omission
I had no idea until a friend mentioned it, writes Daoud Sarhandi. ‘Congratulations,’ he said, ‘the…

6 October 2008

Q&A with Sara De Bondt

Q&A with Sara De Bondt

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‘I don’t believe in the myth of design geniuses, working on their own’
Above: Signage for Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, made using traditional road sign printing techniques…

1 October 2008

Anxious utopianism

Anxious utopianism

david crowley

How photomontage created the architectural mirages of the 1960s
Top: Altar for the Temple of the Spirit (Sketch for the creation of an altar…

28 September 2008

Q&A with Adrien Pelletier

Q&A with Adrien Pelletier

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Now see this! Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Adrien Pelletier on the Eye site…

25 September 2008

Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge

Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Fresh content! Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Fraser Muggeridge on the Eye site. Top…

22 September 2008

Record design framed

Record design framed

john l. walters

Does ‘Spin’ reduce graphic design to the level of art on a wall?
The Spin exhibition is small, free, easy to find (if you’re in or near London)…

18 September 2008

Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor

mike kippenhan

Re: Afterword to ‘Googling the design canon’ – don’t diss the digital
From Mike Kippenhan The idea of inviting a variety of people associated with design to…

15 September 2008

Q&A with Strange Attractors

Q&A with Strange Attractors

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Who cares about graphic design history?
Read our Eye 68 Q&A with Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop of Strange…

12 September 2008

Up against the wall

Up against the wall

andrew howard

The Poster-Film Collective. Beyond the designer-client relationship
The Summer 2008 issue of Eye, no. 68, went ‘Beyond the canon’ to question and…
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